LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 8 August 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Theorising Canadian Literature: A Reading of Margaret Atwood’s Survival

B. C. Anish Krishnan Nayar, Ph.D. Scholar
J. G. Duresh, Ph.D.

Distinctive Canadian Multiculturalism

Canada’s emergence as an independent nation took place during the last century. In spite of the fact that it became literally independent even before that, for long Canada was overshadowed by the United States. Only during the second half of the twentieth century, Canada started establishing its identity. Canada consists of three major ethnic groups, namely, various aboriginal peoples of Canada, called First Nations, and French Canadians and English Canadians who are the successors of immigrants from France and England respectively. In addition to this, there are a good number of expatriates from other nations around the world too. All these lead to a multicultural scenario.

The term multi-culturalism is common in the American continent. But the multicultural aspect of Canada has certain uniqueness. Its neighbouring USA is often called as a melting pot where people representing various cultural groups mingle together which result in acculturation and inter-marriages creating uniformity. Canadian society prefers to be called as a mosaic community. Unlike the members of the melting pot, members of the mosaic community manage to preserve their own cultural traits in the midst of the mingling.

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B. C. Anish Krishnan Nayar, M.A. (English), M.A. (Linguistics), M.Phil. (English)
Ph.D. Scholar
English Research Centre
Scott Christian College (Autonomous)
Nagercoil-629003
Tamilnadu
India
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J. G. Duresh, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Head of the Department of English & Research Centre
Scott Christian College (Autonomous)
Nagercoil 629003
Tamilnadu, India
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