Beyond "Understanding Canada" : transnational perspectives on Canadian literature / Melissa Tanti [and three others], editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tanti, Melissa, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian literature--History and criticism.

Canadian literature.

Literature and transnationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edmonton, Alberta : The University of Alberta Press, 2017.

Summary:

The dismantling of "Understanding Canada"-an international program eliminated by Canada's Conservative government in 2012-posed a tremendous potential setback for Canadianists. Yet Canadian writers continue to be celebrated globally by popular and academic audiences alike. Twenty scholars speak to the government's diplomatic and economic about-face and its implications for representations of Canadian writing within and outside Canada's borders. The contributors to this volume remind us of the obstacles facing transnational intellectual exchange, but also salute scholars' persistence despite these obstacles. Beyond "Understanding Canada" is a timely, trenchant volume for students and scholars of Canadian literature and anyone seeking to understand how Canadian literature circulates in a transnational world. Contributors: Michael A. Bucknor, Daniel Coleman, Anne Collett, Pilar Cuder-Domínguez, Ana María Fraile-Marcos, Jeremy Haynes, Cristina Ivanovici, Milena Kaličanin, Smaro Kamboureli, Katalin Kürtösi, Vesna Lopičić, Belén Martín-Lucas, Claire Omhovère, Lucia Otrísalová, Don Sparling, Melissa Tanti, Christl Verduyn, Elizabeth Yeoman, Lorraine York

Contents:

Front cover

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction | Haynes, Tanti, Coleman, York

I Contexts, Provocations, and Knowledge Territories

1 Beyond Understanding Canada | Kambourelli

2 The Understanding Canada Program and International Canadian Literary Studies | Verduyn

3 Indigenous Writing in Indigenous Languages | Yeoman

II Roots and Routes

4 Canada in Black Transnational Studies | Bucknor

5 "Why Don't You Write about Canada?" | Collett

6 Canada and the Black Atlantic | Cuder-Domínguez

III Mapping Bodies, Place, and Time

7 "Off the Highway" | Kürtösi

8 Canadian Photography and the Exhaustion of Landscape | Omhovère

9 Posthuman Affect in the Global Empire | Martín-Lucas

IV Border Zones

10 Unexpected Dialogical Space in David Albahari's Immigrant Writing | Lopičić and Kaličanin

11 The Politics of Art and Affect in Michael Helm's "Cities of Refuge" | Fraile-Marcos

V Reading Publics

12 Canada through the Lens of the Communist Censor | Otrísalová

13 Economies of Export | Ivanovici

14 Canadian Literature and Canadian Studies in the Czech Republic | Sparling

Works Cited

Contributors

Index

Other Titles from The University of Alberta Press.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 11, 2017).

ISBN:

1-77212-327-7

OCLC:

967788001