Beyond "understanding Canada" : transnational perspectives on Canadian literature

Beyond "understanding Canada" : transnational perspectives on Canadian literature / Melissa Tanti, Jeremy Haynes, Daniel Coleman, and Lorraine York, editors.

"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. Twe...

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Other Authors: York, Lorraine M. (Lorraine Mary), 1958- (Editor), Coleman, Daniel, 1961- (Editor), Tanti, Melissa, 1975- (Editor), Haynes, Jeremy, 1990- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press, 2017.
Edition:First electronic edition, 2017.
Subjects:
Canadian literature > History and criticism.
National characteristics, Canadian, in literature.
Literature and transnationalism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Canadian literature
Literature and transnationalism
National characteristics, Canadian, in literature
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I Contexts, Provocations, and Knowledge Territories; 1 Beyond Understanding Canada; 2 The Understanding Canada Program and International Canadian Literary Studies; 3 Indigenous Writing in Indigenous Languages; II Roots and Routes; 4 Canada in Black Transnational Studies; 5 "Why Don't You Write about Canada?"; 6 Canada and the Black Atlantic; III Mapping Bodies, Place, and Time; 7 "Off the Highway"; 8 Canadian Photography and the Exhaustion of Landscape; 9 Posthuman Affect in the Global Empire; IV Border Zones.
  • 10 Unexpected Dialogical Space in David Albahari's Immigrant Writing11 The Politics of Art and Affect in Michael Helm's; V Reading Publics; 12 Canada through the Lens of the Communist Censor; 13 Economies of Export; 14 Canadian Literature and Canadian Studies in the Czech Republic; Works Cited; Contributors; Index; Other Titles from The University of Alberta Press.

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