Comparative literature for the new century / edited by Giulia De Gasperi and Joseph Pivato.

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Book

Contributor:

De Gasperi, Giulia, editor.

Pivato, Joseph, editor.

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Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2018]

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Summary:

Since its beginning, Comparative Literature has been characterized as a discipline in crisis. But its shifting boundaries are its strength, allowing for collaboration and growth and illuminating a path forward. In Comparative Literature for the New Century a diverse group of scholars argue for a distinct North American approach to literary studies that includes the promotion of different languages. Chapters by senior scholars such as George Elliott Clarke, E.D. Blodgett, and Sneja Gunew are placed in dialogue with those by younger scholars, including Dominique Hétu, Maria Cristina Seccia, and Ndeye Fatou Ba. The writers, many of whom are multilingual, discuss problems with translation, identity and belonging, the modern epic, the role of tradition, minority writing, Francophone and Anglophone novels in Africa, and politics in literature. Engaging with theory, history, media studies, psychology, translation studies, post-colonial studies, and gender studies, chapters exemplify how the knowledge and tools offered by Comparative Literature can be applied in reading, exploring, and understanding not only literary productions but also the world at large. Presenting some of the most current work being carried out by academics and scholars actively engaged in the field in Canada and abroad, Comparative Literature for the New Century promotes the value of Comparative Literature as an interdisciplinary study and assesses future directions it might take. Contributors include George Elliott Clarke (University of Toronto), Dominique Hétu (Alberta & Montreal), Monique Tschofen (Ryerson), Jolene Armstrong (Athabasca), E.D. Blodgett (Alberta), Ndeye Fatou Ba (Ryerson), Maria Cristina Seccia (Hull), Sneja Gunew (UBC), Deborah Saidero (Udine), Elizabeth Dahab (CSULB), Gaetano Rando (Wollongong), Anna Pia De Luca (Udine), Mark A. McCutcheon (Athabasca), Giulia De Gasperi (PEI), and Joseph Pivato (Athabasca).

Contents:

Cover; Comparative LITERATURE for the NEW CENTURY; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The State of the Art; SECTION ONE Comparative Arguments; Anonymous: Animating Ecologies of Belonging; The Languages of Comparative Literature; SECTION TWO Future Directions in Comparative Literature; Dialogue between Francophone and Anglophone Literatures in Africa; "What a Caring Act": Geographies of Care and the Posthuman in Canadian Dystopian Fiction; Why Not an "African-Canadian" Epic? Lessons from Pratt andWalcott, Etc.

Reading Literature through Translation: The Case of Antonio D'Alfonso into ItalianExile, Media, Capital: Calendar's System of Exchange; SECTION THREE International Comparative Studies; A Many-Tongued Babel: Translingualism in Canadian Multicultural Writing; "Like a Dancing Gypsy": A Close Reading of Cockroach; The Power to Narrate: Representing Italian Migrant Working-Class Experiences in Two Steel Cities in Australia and Canada; Gunn, Edwards, and di Michele: Nomadic Spaces

Peasant Boots, Dancing Boots: Assimilation and Hyphenation in Vera Lysenko's Yellow Boots and Hiromi Goto's Chorus of MushroomsSECTION FOUR Looking Back at Traditions; Comparative Literature in Canada: A Case Study; Haunting Tradition Properly: Studies in Ethnic Minority Writing; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

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ISBN:

9780773555365

0773555366

Publisher Number:

40028513013

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