Cultural Circulation : Dialogues Between Canada and the American South / Waldemar Zacharasiewicz and Christoph Irmscher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar, author.

Irmscher, Christoph, author.

Series:

Sitzungsberichte (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Canada.

South America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Cultural Circulation

Place of Publication:

2013

Wien, Austria : Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The present volume is based on an international colloquium convened in 2010 to which scholars from North America and Europe contributed papers dealing with the historical, cultural, and literary connections between Canada and the American South. The essays on this broad but under-researched topic are arranged in four sections reflecting the multiple ties and the cultural circulation between the two large North American regions. They illuminate demographic facts and developments, and their literary representations, such as the enforced displacement of the 18th century Acadiens, who later reassembled in Louisiana (Cajun culture), and the flight of thousands of fugitive (African American) slaves to the safe haven of Canada. Special attention is focused on the intertextual links between Southern writers and their Canadian counterparts, with William Faulkner and Eudora Welty especially providing inspiration for Canadian authors such as Alice Munro, Jack Hodgins, and Margaret Atwood.

Contents:

Front MatterFront Matter(pp. 1-4)

Table of Contents(pp. 5-8)

Acknowledgements(pp. 9-10)

Introduction(pp. 11-20)

Ouverture

My Love Affair with Shrevlin McCannon(pp. 23-34)

I. Acadians and Canadians

"Beyond the Bayou": Sociocultural Spaces in Kate Chopin's Louisiana Short Stories(pp. 51-66)

Northeast by South: Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha and Antonine Maillet's Acadia(pp. 67-74)

II. Transmigrations

Audubon Goes North(pp. 77-98)

Stowe, the South, Canada, and Sadism(pp. 99-118)

From Roots to Routes: The Dialogic Relation between Alex Haley's Roots (1976) and Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes (2007)(pp. 119-134)

Flights to Canada: Jacob Lawrence, Ishmael Reed, and Lawrence Hill(pp. 135-154)

The Bridge from Mississippi's Freedom Summer to Canada: Pearl Cleage's Bourbon at the Border(pp. 155-170)

Metropolis and Hinterland: Faulkner and MacLeod(pp. 171-180)

III. Rewritings and Influences

Re-writing the Grimms: Eudora Welty and Margaret Atwood(pp. 183-190)

Hard Beauty. The Confluence of Eudora Welty and Alice Munro: Mississippi-South and Ontario-South Portraits of the 1930s(pp. 191-200)

Parallel Spiritual Worlds: Alice Munro Country and the American South(pp. 201-214)

"A Wordless Unease": Some Aspects of the Relationship between Art and Politics in the Works of Southern and Canadian Writers(pp. 215-230)

An Open Field of Possibility: Reading Jack Hodgins' The Invention of the World in Dialogue with the American South(pp. 231-254)

Crisscrossing the Continent: From Black Mountain to Vancouver(pp. 255-274)

IV. Circulating Genres and the Emergence of a Transcontinental Postmodern

Two Nations, One Genre? The Beginnings of the Modernist Short Story in the United States and Canada(pp. 277-290)

Canada/American South in the Short Story: Flannery O'Connor - Jack Hodgins - Leon Rooke(pp. 291-306)

Voice Not Place: Leon Rooke Makes a Success in Canada(pp. 307-316)

I, Canadian: Elizabeth Spencer's Montreal(pp. 317-332)

Michael Ondaatje's New Orleans in Coming Through Slaughter(pp. 333-350)

Culinary Transgressions: Food Practices and Constructions of Female Identity in Gail Anderson-Dargatz's The Cure for Death by Lightning and Fanny Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café(pp. 351-364)

South by Northwest(pp. 367-380)

List of Contributors(pp. 381-386)

Index(pp. 387-398).

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9783700175681

370017568X

OCLC:

1249170416

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access