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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300040503321

Autore

Sarkowsky Katja

Titolo

Narrating Citizenship and Belonging in Anglophone Canadian Literature / / by Katja Sarkowsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319969350

3319969358

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 pages)

Disciplina

810.90054

Soggetti

America - Literatures

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literature, Modern - 21st century

Political sociology

North American Literature

Contemporary Literature

Political Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Recognition, Citizenship, and Canadian Literature -- 2. "This is my own!": Negotiating Canadian Citizenship in Joy Kogawa's Novels -- 3. "Dismissing Canada"? AlterNative Citizenship and Indigenous Literatures -- 4. Writing Lives: Cartographies of Citizenship and Belonging -- 5. Cityzenship? Writing Immigrant and Diasporic Toronto -- 6. Cultural Citizenship and Beyond.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines how concepts of citizenship have been negotiated in Anglophone Canadian literature since the 1970s. Katja Sarkowsky argues that literary texts conceptualize citizenship as political "co-actorship" and as cultural "co-authorship" (Boele van Hensbroek), using citizenship as a metaphor of ambivalent affiliations within and beyond Canada. In its exploration of urban, indigenous, environmental, and diasporic citizenship as well as of citizenship's growing entanglement with questions of human rights, Canadian literature reflects and feeds into the term's conceptual diversification. Exploring the works of



Guillermo Verdecchia, Joy Kogawa, Jeannette Armstrong, Maria Campbell, Cheryl Foggo, Fred Wah, Michael Ondaatje, and Dionne Brand, this text investigates how citizenship functions to denote emplaced practices of participation in multiple collectives that are not restricted to the framework of the nation-state.