Pages: 178 pages
Publisher: Véhicule Press
Date: 1998
Putting Down Roots: Montreal's Immigrant Writers
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Awards
Winner: 1999 QSPELL Mavis Gallant Prize
for Non-FictionImmigrant writers who have made their homes in Montreal grapple with difficult questions like reconciling loyalty to their origins and to their own most private selves with the need to find a readership, and their desire to belong to the society where they live. Putting Down Roots follows the author's exploratory journeys among writers of Italian, Haitian, Arab, South Asian, and Chinese origin, as well as those writing in Yiddish, Spanish, and Hungarian.
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From the Introduction:
“Writers from around the world who have made their homes in Montreal grapple with questions of reconciling loyalty to their origins and to their most private selves with the need to find a readership and the desire to belong to the society where they live. They address the difficulties of adjusting to not one but two new languages in a host society itself feuding over language.”
