Introduction: "Land to light on? / Sherry Simon -- The construction of minority subjectivities at the end of the twentieth century / Amaryll Chanady -- Ethics and the imaginary / Lucie Lequin -- Cracking the boundaries: Icelandic-Canadian challenges to Canadian literature / Daisy Neijmann -- Representations of the "Native condition" in Watson's The Double hook and Deep Hollow Creek / Samara Walbohm -- This tormenting time of indecision : performative metaphors in Austin Clarke's The Origin of waves / Heike Harting -- Ondaatje goes to Hollywood : the costs of mainstream arrival for the representation of cultural difference / Don Randall -- The clash of languages in the Italian-Canadian novel / Licia Canton -- Tongue in cheek : Dutch in Aritha van Herk's writing / Christl Verduyn -- Unexpected adjacencies : Robert Majzel's City of Forgetting / Lianne Moyes -- The third solitude : Francophone writing in the Canadian west / Pamela V. Sing -- Ethnic heterotopias : the construction of "place" in Italian-Canadian writing / Domenic A. Beneventi -- One hybrid discourse of Doukhobor identity : the freedomite diary from Agassiz Prison / Julie Rak.