Minority literatures in North America

Dealing with recent developments in the literatures of minority peoples in the USA and Canada, the introductory survey and individual essays are concerned with questions of multiculturalism and intercultural relations. Contributors discuss aspects of ethnicity, gender, class and ecology in Asian American autobiographical writing, Black Fiction, autobiography and feminist fiction by Chicana and Chicano authors, fiction, poetry and criticism by contemporary Native Americans as well as the literary development of Inuit and Mdevelopment of Inuit and Métis writing in Canada. Among the authors whose works are dealt with are: Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, Estella Portillo, N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, Markoosie, Maria Campbell, Beatrice Culleton. The introduction places these minority literatures in a broader cultural, political and social context, and extensive bibliographies make this an indispensable source of reference for scholars, teachers and students interested in multicultural aspects of literature.