Preface to the Routledge Volume on Asian Canadian Literature
Part 1: Field Formations
Chapter 1. “A Humble First Step”: Inalienable Rice and the Beginning of Asian Canadian Literature
Chapter 2. Breathing Life into Old Bones: The Figure of Bone Collector in Chinese Canadian Historiographic Fiction
Chapter 3. Shining a Light on Dark Memories: The Figure of the Activist in Japanese Canadian Historiographic Fiction
Chapter 4. Remembering the Broken Passage: The Figure of the Hopeful Passenger in South Asian Canadian Historiographic Fiction
Part 2: Developing Directions
Chapter 5. Finding a Common Ground in the Borderlands: Stories about Asian-Indigenous Relations
Chapter 6. Navigating Transnational Flows: Asian Canadian Literature Beyond the National Frame
Biography
Lindsay Diehl is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Manitoba. She is the author of Reading with My Grandmother: Chinese Canadian Literature, History, and Family (WLUP, 2026). Her work has also appeared in such journals as Canadian Literature, Canada & Beyond, English Studies in Canada, Postcolonial Text.
