This book charts the significant changes in contemporary Canada's
literary profile since the mid-1990s, within a context of the new
national rhetoric of multiculturalism. By looking closely at a
representative range of fictions in English by women from a variety of
ethnocultural backgrounds, Howells examines the complexities embedded
within Canadian identity. What does 'Refiguring Identities' mean for
these writers, given their individual agendas and the multiple
affiliation of any woman's identity construction? All these writers are
engaged in rewriting history across generation, and Howells argues that
woman's fiction negotiates new possibilities for cultural change,
introducing more heterogeneous narratives of identity in multi-cultural
Canada.