Multicultural Representation in Margaret Laurence’s This Side Jordan

Abstract

Margaret Laurence has respectfully been considered as one of the leading writers of twentieth century Canadian Literature. She has played a pivotal role in the process of presenting Canadian identity as Multicultural in literary and academic field. She has endeavored to portray the picture of cultural turmoil in Canada on the wake of colonization, post-colonization and modernization. Her African writing speaks of the imperial rule of European countries in Africa and its repercussions on the cultural development of colonizer and colonized people. Unlike other colonial writers, Margaret Laurence strongly asserts the changing scenario of age old cultural homogeneity. No nation will stand culturally homogenous but has to accept multiculturalism as the policy of nation.