The Canadian Alternative

Edited by Klaus Martens.

12 contributions by scholars and writers from Canada and Germany address ideas regarding multidisciplinary approaches and solutions, developed in Canada, and their possible usefulness elsewhere. Contents: R. Knetsch: Saarbrücken Days: The Canadian Alternative - R. M. Hébert: Some Fundamental Canadian Values - J. C. Lehr: Ethnicity, Space and Place in Canada's Cultural Archipelago: The Construction of Identity - H. Lutz: Canadian Multicultural Literatures: Ethnic Minorities and "AlterNatives" - P. Morris: From "Stalwart Peasant" to Canadian Citizen. Immigrant Identity in Early Twentiweth-Century Canadian Fiction - R. Heidenreich: Masks of Fiction: Two Canadian "Autobiographies" - K. Martens: Canada's First Bohemian: Frederick Philipp Grove - D. Lucking: "A second Eden just emerged from the waters of chaos": Making Things New in 'Roughing It in the Bush' - D. McCance: Editing a Literary Journal in Canada: the Mosaic Experience - H. Reichenbächer: The Canadian Alternative in Public Broadcasting - A. Warken: "Other Canadas": Alternative Futures in Contemporary Canadian Science Fiction Stories - K. Beeler: Visualizing Difference: Tattoos and Cultural Alternatives. 145 Seiten, broschiert (Saarbrücker Beiträge zur vergleichenden Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft; Band 28/Königshausen & Neumann 2003) leichte Lagerspuren/near mint