This course will introduce students to Canadian multicultural literatures, and it will address the complexities of and intersections between culture and language. The course will begin by considering the Canadian Multiculturalism Act, and will address how and why the Act emerged int he context of the Biculturalism and Bilingualism Act. With these state implemented documents in mind, we will examine representative works of literature by and about immigrants and Aboriginal peoples. We will focus on writing in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, but we will also consider the history if immigration policy, and we will address Canada's cultural representations of the immigrant in relation to its representations of Aboriginal peoples.