 First edition | |
| Author | Neil Bissoondath |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Penguin Group |
| Publication place | Canada |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 978-0-14-100676-5 |
Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada is a non-fiction book by Canadian author Neil Bissoondath, first published in 1994. The book puts forward an assessment of Canada's Multiculturalism Act (1988) and how the bi-cultural nature of the country is to be willfully refashioned into a multicultural "mosaic". Bissoondath argues that the policy of multiculturalism, with its emphasis on the former or ancestral homeland and its insistence that "there is more important than Here", discourages the full loyalty of Canada's citizens.
The book won the Writers' Trust of Canada's Gordon Montador Award in 1995.
References
- "Multiculturalism", New Internationalist magazine, Issue 305, September 1998.
- Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada - revised edition 2002, Penguin Canada.
- "Debated book wins Montador". Halifax Daily News, May 5, 1995.
Further reading
- Jean-François Fourny, "In Defense of the State: On Neil Bissoondath's Selling Illusions, Michael Lind's The Next American Nation, and Tzvetan Todorov's Morals of History", Research in African Literatures, Vol. 28, No. 4, Multiculturalism (Winter, 1997), pp. 142-153.