Crosstalk : Canadian & global imaginatiories in dialogue / edited by Diana Brydon, Marta Dvorak.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brydon, Diana.

Dvorak, Marta.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, Canadian.

Intellectual life.

Canada--Intellectual life--21st century.

Canada.

Physical Description:

viii, 321 p ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press ; Lancaster : Gazelle [distributor], 2011.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Negotiating Meaning in Changing Times / Diana Brydon Brydon, Diana, Marta Dvorák Dvorák, Marta 1

2 "Whirlwinds Coiled at My Heart": Voice and Vision in a Writer's Practices / Olive Senior Senior, Olive 21

Section 1 Collaboration, Crosstalk, Improvisation

3 Voicing the Unforeseeable: Improvisation, Social Practice, Collaborative Research / Ajay Heble Heble, Ajay, Winfries Siemerling Siemerling, Winfries 39

4 Epistemological Crosstalk: Between Melancholia and Spiritual Cosmology in David Chariandy's Soucouyant and Lee Maracle's Daughters Are Forever / Daniel Coleman Coleman, Daniel 53

5 Native Performance Culture, Moniques Mojica, and the Chocolate Woman Workshops / Ric Knowles Knowles, Ric 73

6 Collaboration and Convention in the Poetry of Pain Not Bread / Alison Calder Calder, Alison 95

Section 2 Dialogism, Polyphony, Voice

7 Rejoinders in a Planetary Dialogue: J. M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, Lloyd Jones, et al. in Dialogue with Absent Texts / Marta Dvoràk Dvoràk, Marta 111

8 Not Just Representation: The Sound and Concrete Poetries of The Four Horsemen / Frank Davey Davey, Frank 135

9 Portraits of the Artist in Dionne Brand's What We All Long For and Madeleine Thien's Certainty / Pilar Cuder-Domínguez Cuder-Domínguez, Pilar 151

10 Unsettling Voices: Dionne Brand's Cosmopolitan Cities / Sandra Regina Regina, Sandra, Goulart Almeida Almeida, Goulart 169

11 Questions if Voice, Race, and the Body in Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms and Larissa Lai's When Fox Is a Thousand / Charlotte Sturgess Sturgess, Charlotte 185

Section 3 Space, Place, and Circulation

12 The Artialisation of Landscape in Jane Urquhart's The Whirlpool / Claire Omhovère Omhovère, Claire 199

13 Ghostly Voices and Arctic Blanks: From Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights to Jane Urquhart's Changing Heaven / Catherine Lanone Lanone, Catherine 215

14 "You must see to understand...": Orientalist Clichés and Transformation in Robert Lepage's The Dragons' Trilogy / Christine Lorre-Johnston Lorre-Johnston, Christine 225

15 Diasporic Appropriations: Exporting South Asian Culture from Canada / Chelva Kanaganayakam Kanaganayakam, Chelva 241

16 Negotiating Belonging in Global Times: The Hérouxville Debates / Diana Brydon Brydon, Diana 253.

ISBN:

9781554582648

1554582644

OCLC:

750949918