Nurjehan Aziz: 3 books
Confluences 2
Essays on the New Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
The essays in this volume continue the examination, begun in Confluences 1, of the exciting new writing that has emerged in Canada in the past few decades. Employing a variety of approaches and addressing the many concerns engaging their author-subjects—memory, history, and concentric identities;...
The Relevance of Islamic Identity in Canada
Culture, Politics, and Self
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
This volume examines, from diverse perspectives, what it means to be a Muslim in Canada. Is it a public or a private identity, and as an identity is it compatible with a secular democracy such as Canada? What relation does it bear to historical, cultural, and ethnic identities? Is a total agnostic...
by Nurjehan Aziz
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
These essays by accomplished literary critics begin an examination of some of the most exciting new writing to emerge in Canada in the last four decades, following the postcolonial wave of immigration of the 1960s and 70s. Employing a variety of approaches and bringing together multiple concerns—ranging...