The development of literature in Canada with an eye to its multicultural, multiethnic, multilingual nature.

Introduction: Writing a History of Literature in Canada - Reingard M. NischikAboriginal Oral Traditions - Eva GruberThe Whites Arrive: White Writing before Canada, 1000-1600 - Ian M. HigginsHistorical Background - Guy LaflècheLiterature on New France - Guy LaflècheColonial Literature in New France - Guy LaflècheHistorical Overview - Dorothee SchollEnglish-Canadian Colonial Literature - Gwendolyn DaviesFrench-Canadian Colonial Literature under the Union Jack - Dorothee SchollEnglish-Canadian Literature, 1867-1918: The Making of a Nation - Tracy WareFrench-Canadian Literature from National Soladarity to the École littéraire de Montréal - Fritz Peter KirschPolitics and Literature between Nationalism and Internationalism - Julia BreitbachEnglish-Canadian Poetry, 1920-1960 - Lorraine YorkThe English-Canadian Novel and the Displacement of the Romance - Marta DvorakThe Modernist English-Canadian Short Story - Reingard M. NischikEarly English-Canadian Theater and Drama - Jerry WassermanFrench Canada from the First World War to 1967: Historical Overview - Ursula Mathis-MoserFrench-Canadian Poetry up to the 1960s - Ursula Mathis-MoserThe French-Canadian Novel between Tradition and Modernism - Doris G. EiblThe French-Canadian Short Story - Doris G. EiblFrench-Canadian Drama from the 1930s to the Révolution tranquille - Dorothee SchollSocio-Political and Cultural Developments from 1967 to the Present - Sherrill GraceEnglish-Canadian Literary Theory and Literary Criticism - Caroline RosenthalThe English-Canadian Novel from Modernism to Postmodernism - Martin KuesterThe English-Canadian Short Story since 1967: Between (Post)Modernism and (Neo)Realism - Reingard M. NischikEnglish-Canadian Poetry from 1967 to the Present - Nicholas BradleyContemporary English-Canadian Drama and Theater - Anne NothofCanons of Diversity in Contemporary English-Canadian Literature - Georgiana BanitaLiterature of the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis - Eva GruberThe Quebec Novel - Doris G. EiblThe French-Canadian Short Prose Narrative - Doris G. EiblFrench-Canadian Poetry from 1967 to the Present - Ursula Mathis-MoserOrality and the French-Canadian Chanson - Ursula Mathis-MoserDrama and Theater from the Révolution tranquille to the Present - Dorothee SchollTransculturalism and écritures migrantes - Gilles DupuisThe Institutionalization of Literature in Quebec - Andrea Oberhuber