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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155221603321

Autore

Dobson Kit <1979->

Titolo

Transnational Canadas [[electronic resource] ] : Anglo-Canadian Literature and Globalization / / Kit Dobson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-55458-668-2

1-282-53428-9

9786612534287

1-55458-165-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

TransCanada series

Disciplina

810.9/358

Soggetti

Litterature canadienne-anglaise - Auteurs issus des minorites - Histoire et critique

Transnationalisme dans la litterature

Litterature et mondialisation - Canada

Litterature canadienne-anglaise - 21e siecle - Histoire et critique

Litterature canadienne-anglaise - 20e siecle - Histoire et critique

Canadian literature (English) - Minority authors - History and criticism

Transnationalism in literature

Literature and globalization - Canada

Canadian literature (English) - 21st century - History and criticism

Canadian literature (English) - 20th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-223) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Spectres of Derrida and theory's legacy -- Ambiguous resistance in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing -- Nationalism and the void in Dennis Lee's Civil Elegies -- Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers and the crisis of Canadian modernity -- Critique of Spivakian reason and Canadian postcolonialisms -- Multiculturalism and reconciliation in Joy Kogawa's Obasan -- Multicultural postmodernities in Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion -- Dismissing Canada in Jeannette Armstrong's Slash -- Transnational multitudes -- Mainstreaming multiculturalism? The Giller



Prize -- Global subjectivities in Roy Miki's Surrender -- Writing past belonging in Dionne Brand's What We All Long For -- Transnational Canadas.

Sommario/riassunto

Transnational Canadas marks the first sustained inquiry into the relationship between globalization and Canadian literature written in English. Tracking developments in the literature and its study from the centennial period to the present, it shows how current work in transnational studies can provide new insights for researchers and students.     Arguing first that the dichotomy of Canadian nationalism and globalization is no longer valid in today's economic climate, Transnational Canadas explores the legacy of leftist nationalism in Canadian literature. It examines th