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 subordination of Indian women; the exploitation of Afro-Caribbean immigrants; the “nowarianism” of Indo-Caribbean Canadians; the legacy of Japanese internment during World War II; historical Black experience and meaningful aesthetics; Chinatown as geography, repository, and inspiration–this new body of writing collectively redefines and challenges the idea of Canadian Literature.

Included in this volume are:

“‘This dock is my dock’: Dionne Brand’s Room of Light” –Franca Bernabei
“Between (Hi)Story and Space: Wayson Choy’s Postmodern Chinatown” –Jason Wang
“Landscape and Diasporic Citizenship(s) in Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge and Nuclear Seasons” –Dannabang Kuwabong
“Cecil Foster’s Sleep on, Beloved: Reflections on Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Existence in Toronto” –H Nigel Thomas
“Dismantled Domestics, Loneliness, and Creative Coping in Rabindranath Maharaj’s The Amazing Absorbing Boy” –Shoilee Khan
“‘The Multinational’s Song’: M G Vassanji’s Work in Canadian Context” –Laura Moss
“A Long Journey to Mercy: Joy Kogawa’s Gently to Nagasaki” –Irene Sywenky
“Gendered Violence and Feminist Interventions in Shauna Singh Baldwin’s The Selector of Souls” –Asma Sayed