Changing Representation of Minorities East and West: Selected Conference Papers Book

	Introduction
I	Black and White in the United States
	Talking B(l)ack: Parrots, Terrorists, and the Function of "Niggerizing" in America	3
	'Making the Faces Black': The African-American Detective Novel	26
	Decoding for Race: Toni Morrison's 'Recitatif' and Being White, Teaching Black	41
	Sentimental Racism in Recent Films	47
II	East and West in the United States
	Exorcism Repositioned: Old and New World Pleasures in Wang's Joy Luck Club and Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman	59
	Film and Multiculturalism: Erasing Race in Nancy Kelly's Thousand Pieces of Gold	75
	Those Unsettling Slavs, or There's No Place Like Home	98
III	Canadian Multiculturalism
	Reading Between the Poles: The "English" French-Canadian Canon	113
	Minorities of the Canadian West in the Work of Gabrielle Roy	131
	Nanabush's Return: Cultural Messianism in Tomson Highway's Plays	143
IV	Asian and Pacific Minorities
	Stigma, Stigmata: Apotheosis of the Hibakusha	159
	Objectivity or Objectification?	168
	Balance and Bias in Racial and Ethnic Imagery in Philippine Literature	173
	Representations of the Isan, an Important Minority in Thailand	188
	Changing Representations of Minorities East and West: The Aborigine in the Novels of Patricia Wrightson	197
	(Dis)articulating Identity, Language, Culture, and Territory in Six Contemporary Anglo-Quebec Short Stories	212
	Conjuring the Native in Redemptive Filipino Memoirs	233
	About the Contributors	253
	About the Editors	257