Abstract
Despite being exceptionally rich in land, resources and
developmental indexes, Canada has been struggling since long
for establishing its due social and cultural identity. The
challenge primarily comes from the engulfing influence of
Canada’s southern neighbor i.e. The United States of America,
in the guise of Pan-Americanism or North-American
continentalism. Literary authors and critics have been at the
fore-front in feeling and resisting this adverse and
overshadowing influence, and have launched from time to time
powerful movements to assert their literary selfhood as a nation.
Critically evaluating the aesthetic and literary endeavours of
enlightened Canadians for this purpose, this paper focuses on
the contribution made for achieving that goal during roughly the
last half century. It contends that despite having distinct creative
and imaginative identities, literary and artistic movements are
inherently influenced by broader contexts — social and political
phenomena in particular. The contexts that have most
substantially influenced the above-mentioned quest for literary
selfhood include multiculturalism, Trans-Canadianism, political
egalitarianism and literary liberalism.
Abdus Salam Khalis. (2017) Quest for Literary Selfhood in Contemporary Canadian English Literature , The Dialogue, Volume 12, Issue 2.
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