Long a topic of intricate political and social debate, Canadian identity has come to be understood asfragmented, amorphous, and unstable, a multifacetedand contested space only tenuously linked to traditionalconcepts of the nation. As Canadians, we are endlesslydefining ourselves, seeking to locate our sense of self inrelation to some Other. By examining how writers andperformers have conceptualized and negotiated issuesof personal identity in their work, the essays collected inSelves and Subjectivities investigate emerging representations of self and other in contemporary Canadian...

Despite the Iranian government's determined pursuance of anti-Western policies and strict conformity to religious principles, the film and literature of Iran reflect the clash between a nostalgic pride in Persian tradition and an apparent infatuation with a more Eurocentric modernity. In Familiar and Foreign, Mannani and Thompson set out to explore the tensions surrounding the ongoing formulation of Iranian identity by bringing together essays on poetry, novels, memoir, and films. These include both canonical and less widely theorized texts, as well as works of literature written in...