Critical collaborations : indigeneity, diaspora, and ecology in Canadian literary studies / Smaro Kamboureli and Christl Verduyn, editors.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Verduyn, Christl, 1953- author, editor.

Contributor:

Kamboureli, Smaro, writer of introduction, editor.

Conference Name:

TransCanada: Literature, Institutions, Citizenship Conference (3rd : 2009 : Sackville, N.B.), author.

Series:

TransCanada series.

TransCanada series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc--Congresses.

Canadian literature.

Criticism--Canada--Congresses.

Criticism.

Literature and society--Canada--Congresses.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2014

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2014]

Summary:

Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies is the third volume of essays produced as part of the TransCanada conferences project. The essays gathered in Critical Collaborations constitute a call for collaboration and kinship across disciplinary, political, institutional, and community borders. They are tied together through a simultaneous call for resistance--to Eurocentrism, corporatization, rationalism, and the fantasy of total systems of knowledge--and a call for critical collaborations. These collaborations seek to forge connections without perceived identity--linking concepts and communities without violating the differences that constitute them, seeking epistemic kinships while maintaining a willingness to not-know. In this way, they form a critical conversation between seemingly distinct areas and demonstrate fundamental allegiances between diasporic and indigenous scholarship, transnational and local knowledges, legal and eco-critical methodologies. Links are forged between Indigenous knowledge and ecological and social justice, creative critical reading, and ambidextrous epistemologies, unmaking the nation through translocalism and unsettling histories of colonial complicity through a poetics of relation. Together, these essays reveal how the critical methodologies brought to bear on literary studies can both challenge and exceed disciplinary structures, presenting new forms of strategic transdisciplinarity that expand the possibilities of Canadian literary studies while also emphasizing humility, complicity, and the limits of knowledge.

Contents:

Introduction

Belief as/in Methodology as/in Form: Doing Justice to CanLit Studies

Trans-Systemic Constitutionalism in Indigenous Law and Knowledge

The Accidental Witness: Indigenous Epistemologies and Spirituality as Resistance in Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach

Ambidextrous Epistemologies: Indigenous Knowledge within the Indigenous Renaissance

Epistemologies of Respect: A Poetics of Asian/Indigenous Relation

Acts of Nature: Literature, Excess, and Environmental Politics

Ecocriticism in the Unregulated Zone

Disturbance-Loving Species: Habitat Studies, Ecocritical Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature

Translocal Representation: Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, Nello "Tex" Vernon-Wood, and CanLit

Jazz, Diaspora, and the History and Writing of Black Anglophone Montreal

Tradition and Pluralism in Contemporary Acadia

Critical Allegiances

Notes

Works Cited

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Based on the third conference, TransCanada: Literature, Institutions, Citizenship Conference, held at Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, on July 16-19, 2009.

Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-268) and index.

ISBN:

9781554589135

1554589134

9781554589128

1554589126

OCLC:

881552346