This book effects a radical re-adjustment in the interpretation of a representative selection of ethnic minority women novelists from Canada and Britain. The argument put forward constitutes a significant critique of an extensive mode of criticism in the academy, and of reception in the public sphere at large, that reads contemporary fiction by writers of immigrant or ethnic background primarily through the prism of politically motivated discourses against forms of silencing, racism and oppression. Without dissenting from this general account, the author argues that readings focused in this...
This book effects a radical re-adjustment in the interpretation of a representative selection of ethnic minority women novelists from Canada and Brita...