Writing ethnicity : introduction / Winfried Siemerling -- States of belonging : pluralism, migrancy, literature / Ranu Samantrai -- Technologies of ethnicity / Dawn Thompson -- Reading ethnicity into life writing : out of "Under the ribs of death" and into the "Light of chaos"--Bela Szabados's narrator rewrites Sandor Hunyadi / MarleneKadar -- Coming across bones : historiographic ethnofiction / Janice Kulyk Keefer -- La passion du detour: ecritures italiennes au Quebec / Pierre Nepveu -- Exoticism and ethnicity in Michael Ondaatje's Running in the family / Graham Huggan -- Quelques mouvements de transculture / Lucie Lequin -- Anthologizing the collective : the epic struggles to establish Canadian Chinese literature in English / Lien Chao -- West Indian Canadian writing : crossing the border from exile to immigration / Monika Kaup -- I am blackening in my way : identity and place in Dionne Brandt's No language is neutral / Teresa Zackodnik -- Signifying contamination : on Austin Clarke's Nine men who laughed / Smaro Kambourelli