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As a result of its colonial past, Canadian culture has been shaped by French, British and other European influences, since the second half of the twentieth century, however, large-scale immigration from Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East, as well as economic and cultural globalization and the recognition of the cultural significance of the country's First Nations have transformed Canadian society, and this transform...

Migration is a factor which has played a central role in the construction of a Canadian identity. Concepts such as multiculturalism, interculturalism and transculturalism are inextricably linked with phenomena pertaining to migration, and the effects of these phenomena have made themselves felt in Canada's cultural System. The question therefore arises as to which processes and channels of communication have been instrumental in transmitting t...

The essays investigate how Canada has pursued the construction of its national identity through symbolic cultural expressions. Analysing manifestations of Canada's cultural memory, the essays therefore engage in a search for the Canada of the mind. In particular, they turn to the fields of cultural and of literary studies to show how writers have projected an image of Canada as a desired space and have rendered the search for meaning within th...

At the turn of the millennium, cultural pluralism has come to be regarded as an essential factor in any discussions about Canadian identity. The Canadian model of multi-culturalism lies behind the present proliferation of Canadian literature, a literature which is more polyphonic and varied than ever, resisting limiting definitions just as the concept of Canadian identity proves to be multi-facetted. The essays collected in this volume approac...