Trans/acting culture, writing, and memory : essays in honour of Barbara Godard / editors, Eva C. Karpinski ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Godard, Barbara.

Karpinski, Eva C.

Series:

TransCanada series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian literature--History and criticism.

Canadian literature.

French-Canadian literature--History and criticism.

French-Canadian literature.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xxix, 363 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press ; Lancaster : Gazelle [distributor], [2013]

Summary:

Trans/acting Culture, Writing and Memory is a collection of essays written in honour of Barbara Godard, one of the most original and wide-ranging literary critics, theorists, teachers, translators, and public intellectuals Canada has ever produced. The contributors, both established and emerging scholars, extend Godard's work through engagements with her published texts in the spirit of creative interchange and intergenerational relay of ideas. Their essays resonate with Godard's innovative scholarship situated at the intersection of such fields as literary studies, cultural studies, translation studies, feminist theory, arts criticism, social activism, institutional analysis, and public memory. In pursuit of unexpected linkages and connections, the essays venture beyond generic and disciplinary borders, zeroing in on Godard's transdisciplinary practice, which has been extremely influential in the way it framed questions and modelled interventions for the study of Canadian, Québécois, and Acadian literatures and cultures. Contributors work with archival materials that range from Canadian government policies and documents to publications concerning white supremacist organizations in southern Ontario, online materials from a Toronto-based transgender arts festival, a photographic mural installation commemorating the Montreal Massacre, and the works of such writers and artists as Marie Clements, Nicole Brossard, France Daigle, Nancy Huston, Yvette Nolan, Gail Scott, Denise Desautels, Louise Warren, Rebecca Belmore, Vera Frenkel, Robert Lepage, and Janet Cardiff. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Textual/Visual Production: Critical Interventions

1 Incisive Literary Critic, Brilliant Theorist, Engaged Teacher, Inspired. Translator, Public Intellectual, and Committed Activist-All in the Femimine: The Early Barbara Godard / Louise H. Forsyth Forsyth, Louise H. 23

2 Cultural Memory and Tragic Affect in Nancy Huston's The Mark of the Angel / Pamela McCallum McCallum, Pamela 41

3 Language and Interdisciplinarity: (Re-)contextualizing Nicole Brossard's Picture Theory / Karl E. Jirgens Jirgens, Karl E. 59

4 Writing the Museum: "visual Art and Literature: Denise Desautels and Louise Warren / Claudine Potvin Potvin, Claudine 77

Part 2 Culture/Policy/Institutions

5 Negotiating Literatures in Contiguity: France Daigle in/and Québec / Lianne Moyes Moyes, Lianne, Catherine Leclerc Leclerc, Catherine 95

6 A Lack of Public Memory, a Public Memory of Lack / Phanuel Antwi Antwi, Phanuel 119

7 "The Toil and Spoil of Translation": A Godardian Reading of the Study-Guide: Discover Canada/Guide d'étude: Découvrir le Canada (2010) / Len M. Findlay Findlay, Len M. 149

8 Notes toward Thinking Transsexual Institutional Poetics / Trish Salah Salah, Trish 167

Part 3 Translation/Transculturation

9 Voyage autour de la traduction: The Translator as Writer and Theorist / Alessandra Capperdoni Capperdoni, Alessandra 193

10 Taking Deleuze in the Middle, or Doing Intellectual History by the Letter / Jason Demers Demers, Jason 211

11 Gail Scott and Barbara Godard on "The Main": Borders, Sutures, Micro-cosmopolitan Interconnectivity, and Translation Studies / Gillian Lane-Mercier Lane-Mercier, Gillian 225

Part 4 Public Memory and the Archive

12 Linked Histories and Radio-Activity in Marie Clements's Burning Vision / Sophie McCall McCall, Sophie 245

13 Memory as Fracture: French Mnemotechniques in the Erasure of the Holocaust / Michael Dorland Dorland, Michael 267

14 Gender in the Shaping of Public Memory: Arms (Monumental) for Montreal / Sue Lloyd Lloyd, Sue 287

15 Contested Memories: Canadian Women Writers in and out of the Archive / Barbara Godard Godard, Barbara 297.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781554588398

1554588391

OCLC:

818461858