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Immigrant Voices from India15. Nicholas B. Dirks, “History as a Sign of the Modern,” Public Culture : 2-2 (Sept. 1990): 25-3216. Walter Benjamin, “Thesis on the Philosophy of History,” Fulminations (Fontana/Collins,1968). Qtd. by Dirks.17. Arun Prabha Mukherjee. (With specific reference to the poetry of Cyril Dabydeen). For thispoint of view as well as for others mentioned in the paper, I am indebted to Arun PrabhaMukherjee’s Towards an aesthetic of Opposition. Essays on Literature, Criticism, andCultural Imperialism (Canada: Williams Wallace, 1989).18. Mentioned by Mistry at a reading of Such a Long Journey, held by the PEN, Bombay, August1991.19. M.G. Vassanji, No New Land (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1991.)20. Nazneen Sadiq, Ice Bangles (Toronto: Lorimer, 1988).21. While the poetry of Indian male immigrants might also reflect their sense of otherness, thereason they have not been included is because of a lack of access to their work.22. Qtd. in Introduction to Shakti’s Words ed. Diane McGifford & Judith Kearns (Toronto:TSAR, 1990). The poems quoted in the paper, apart from those of Himani Bannerji, havebeen taken from this anthology. The poems by Bannerji have been taken from doing time.See entry 13.23. “Shakti” meaning strength, a quality attributed to the goddess Shakti in Hindu mythology.24. Barbara Harlowe, Resistance Literature (London:1987) cited by Gugeberger. See entry 11.25. George Gugelberger. See entry 11.26. Views expressed in “The Remaking of the Canon”, Partisan Review: (Sept. 1991) : 351-387.27. Robert Lecker, “The Canonization of Canadian Literature : An Inquiry into Value,” CriticalInquiry : 16 (Spring 1990): 631-681.28. Stanislaw Baranczak, “The Confusion of Tongues,” 18. See entry 3.97