Trans.can.lit : resituating the study of Canadian literature

Kamboureli, Smaro. (Added Author). Miki, Roy (Added Author).

Summary: The study of Canadian literature — CanLit — has undergone dramatic changes since it became an area of specialization in the 1960s and ’70s. As new global forces in the 1990s undermined its nation-based critical assumptions, its theoretical focus and research methods lost their immediacy. The contributors to Trans.Can.Lit address cultural policy, citizenship, white civility, and the celebrated status of diasporic writers, unabashedly recognizing the imperative to transfigure the disciplinary and institutional frameworks within which Canadian literature is produced, disseminated, studied, taught, and imagined.

Record details

ISBN: 9780889205130 :
Physical Description: print
Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Metamorphoses of a discipline: Rethinking Canadian literature within institutional contexts/Diana Brydon -- Against institution: Established law, custom, or purpose/Rinaldo Walcott -- From Canadian trance to TransCanada: White civility to wry civility in the CanLit project/Daniel Coleman -- Subtitling CanLit: Keywords/Peter Dickinson -- Oratory on oratory/Lee Maracle -- TransCanada, Literature: No direction home/Stephen Slemon -- World famous across Canada, or TransNational Localities/Richard Cavell -- Diasporic citizenship: Contradictions and possibilities for Canadian literature/Lily Cho -- Acts of citizenship: Erin Moure's O Cidadan and the limits of worldliness/Lianne Moyes -- Trans-Scan: Globalization, literary hemispheric studies, citizenship as a project/Winfried Siemerling -- Transubracination: How writers of color became CanLit/Ashok Mathur -- Institutional geneologies in the global net of fundamentalism, families and fantasies/Julia Emberley -- TransCanada collectives: Social imagination, the cunning of production, and the multilateral sublime/Lee Findlay.