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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154702703321

Titolo

Trans.can.lit : resituating the study of Canadian literature / / Smaro Kamboureli, Roy Miki, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-55458-718-2

1-282-16707-3

9786613810144

1-55458-103-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

TransCanada

Altri autori (Persone)

KamboureliSmaro

MikiRoy

Disciplina

810.9

810.90054

Soggetti

Canadian literature - Minority authors - History and criticism

Canadian literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Canadian literature - 21st century - History and criticism

Literature and globalization - Canada

Literature and state - Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Initially presented as plenary talks at the inaugural event of the TransCanada project"--P. xv.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-222) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Metamorphoses of a Discipline: Rethinking Canadian Literature within Institutional Contexts; Against Institution: Established Law, Custom, or Purpose; From Canadian Trance to TransCanada: White Civility to Wry Civility in the CanLit Project; Subtitling CanLit: Keywords; Oratory on Oratory; TransCanada, Literature: No Direction Home; World Famous across Canada, or TransNational Localities; Diasporic Citizenship: Contradictions and Possibilities for Canadian Literature; Acts of Citizenship: Erin Mouré's O Cidadán and the Limits of Worldliness

Trans-Scan: Globalization, Literary Hemispheric Studies, Citizenship as ProjectTransubracination: How Writers of Colour Became CanLit; Institutional Genealogies in the Global Net of Fundamentalisms, Families, and Fantasies; TransCanada Collectives: Social Imagination,



the Cunning of Production, and the Multilateral Sublime; Notes; Works Cited; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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,