Crosstalk : Canadian and global imaginaries in dialogue / Diana Brydon and Marta Dvorak, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brydon, Diana.

Dvorak, Marta.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian literature--History and criticism.

Canadian literature.

Literature and globalization--Canada.

Literature and globalization.

Culture and globalization--Canada.

Culture and globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2012 (Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2012).

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"What are the fictions that shape Canadian engagements with the global? What frictions emerge from these encounters? In negotiating aesthetic and political approaches to Canadian cultural production within contexts of global circulation, this collection argues for the value of attending to narratorial, lyric, and theatrical conventions in dialogue with questions of epistemological and social justice. Using the twinned framing devices of crosstalk and cross-sighting, the contributing authors attend to how the interplay of the verbal and the visual maps public spheres of creative engagement today. Individual chapters present a range of methodological approaches to understanding national culture and creative labour in global contexts. Through their collective enactment of methodological crosstalk, they demonstrate the productivity of scholarly debate across differences of outlook, culture, and training. In highlighting convergences and disagreements, the book sharpens our understanding of how literary and critical conventions and theories operate within and across cultures." -- Publisher's website.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1. Introduction: Negotiating Meaning in Changing Times""; ""2. “Whirlwinds Coiled at My Heart�: Voice and Vision in a Writer�s Practice""; ""SECTION ONE: COLLABORATION, CROSSTALK, IMPROVISATION""; ""3. Voicing the Unforeseeable: Improvisation, Social Practice, Collaborative Research""; ""4. Epistemological Crosstalk: Between Melancholia and Spiritual Cosmology in David Chariandy�s Soucouyant and Lee Maracle�s Daughters Are Forever""; ""5. Native Performance Culture, Monique Mojica, and the Chocolate Woman Workshops""

""6. Collaboration and Convention in the Poetry of Pain Not Bread""""SECTION TWO: DIALOGISM, POLYPHONY, VOICE""; ""7. Rejoinders in a Planetary Dialogue: J.M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, Lloyd Jones, et al. in Dialogue with Absent Texts""; ""8. Not Just Representation: The Sound and Concrete Poetries of The Four Horsemen""; ""9. Portraits of the Artist in Dionne Brand�s What We All Long For and Madeleine Thien�s Certainty""; ""10. Unsettling Voices: Dionne Brand�s Cosmopolitan Cities""

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613863133

9781554580149

1554580145

9781283550680

1283550687

9781554583096

1554583098

OCLC:

809995789