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STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN LITERATURE EDITED BY K. V. DOMINIC SARUP BOOK PUBLISHERS PVT. LTD. NEW DELHI-110002 Contents • Preface (v) Contributors (xi) 1. The Stone Angel: The Story of a Woman with a Will 1 —Basavaraj Naikar 2. Postmodernism as Feminist Text: A Reading of the Short Text of Canadian Women Writers 25 —Jameela Begum A 3. Assertion of the Female Self through Motherhood in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing 44 —Rajeshwar Mittapalli & A Aravind Reddy 4. "Alone Alone All All Alone": The Loneliness of Almeda Roth in Alice Munro's "Meneseteung" 56 —KRadha 5. E. J. Pratt's Historic Canadian Perception of Mankind in Select Poems 66 —G. Baskaran 6. Aboriginality and Rita's Sisters: A Cursory Glance at the Native Theatre in Canada —B. Chandrika 73 7. From Society through Sex to Selfhood: Attainment of Identity in Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God 80 —Rajeshwar Mittapalli & A. Aravind Reddy (xiv) 8. Rohinton Mistry*s Tales from Firozsha Baag: A Vista of Memories and Fantasies 93 —Evangeline Shanti Roy 9. Indian Diasporic Writers in Canada: A Bird's Eye View 104 —Satendra Kumar 10. "The Marginal Men" in Stephen Gill's Immigrant and Uma Parameswaran's Rootless But Green are the Boulevard Trees 117 —G. Dominic Savio & S. J. Kala 11. Interview with Dr. Stephen Gill 126 —K. V. Dominic 12. The Mega Text in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale 140 —Hema Nair R. 13. Bending Time and Space: Margaret Laurence's A Bird in the House and Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye 153 —Dolors Collellmir 14. What Man has Made of Man: Portrayal of the Marginalised 'Red Children' and Subversion of the Deceptive Myths in Sharon Pollock's Docudrama Walsh 162 —S. Chandralekha 15. The Schizophrenic World of Jewish-Canadian Poetry 169 —Rajasekhar Patteti 16. Margaret Atwood's Weltanschauung 175 —Mariamma Chacko 17. Margaret Atwood: Twenty-Five years of Gothic Tales 181 —Behzad Pourgharib 18. John Ralston Saul, Cultural Globalization and Canadian Realities 202 —Motaleb Azari (xv ) 19. Sexual Power Politics: A Post-Modern Reading of Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman and Toni Morrison's Sula 209 —W. S. Kottiswari 20. In Defiance of the Plague of Perfection: Timothy Findley's The Butterfly Plague 217 —Achamma Alex 21. Postmodernist Narrative Strategies in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace 235 —Lata Mishra 22. Economic Hardships and Exploitation of Lower Caste Woman in the Fiction of Rohinton Mistry 247 —Manoj Kumar 23. Inner Journey of the Immigrant Protagonist in Margaret Laurence's The Fire Dwellers: A Psychological Perspective 255 —Elizabeth Lucy INDEX 264.

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