Kamboureli

Trans.Can.Lit

Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature
Herausgeber: Miki, Roy

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Produktbeschreibung

The study of Canadian literature-CanLit-has undergone dramatic changes since it became an area of specialization in the 1960s and '70s. As new global forces in the 1990s undermined its nation-based critical assumptions, its theoretical focus and research methods lost their immediacy. The contributors to Trans.Can.Lit address cultural policy, citizenship, white civility, and the celebrated status of diasporic writers, unabashedly recognizing the imperative to transfigure the disciplinary and institutional frameworks within which Canadian literature is produced, disseminated, studied, taught, and imagined.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780889205130
• ISBN-10: 0889205132
• Artikelnr.: 28254825

Autorenporträt

Smaro Kamboureli is a professor and the Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature in the English Department at the University of Toronto. She is the founder of the TransCanada series of books, published by WLU Press, originating from interdisciplinary conferences that initiated collaborative research on the methodologies and institutional structures and contexts that inform and shape the production, dissemination, teaching, and study of Canadian literature. Her most recent publications include Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies (WLU Press 2012), co-edited with Robert Zacharias and Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace (WLU Press, 2013), co-edited with Kit Dobson.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian
Literature, edited by Smaro Kamboureli and Roy Miki
Introduction Smaro Kamboureli
Acknowledgements
Metamorphoses of a Discipline: Rethinking Canadian Literature Within
Institutional Contexts Diana Brydon
Against Institution: Established Law, Custom, or Purpose Rinaldo Walcott
From Canadian Trance to TransCanada: White Civility to Wry Civility in the
CanLit Project Daniel Coleman
Subtitling CanLit: Keywords Peter Dickinson
Oratory on Oratory Lee Maracle
TransCanada, Literature: No Direction Home Stephen Slemon
World Famous Across Canada, or TransNational Localities Richard Cavell
Diasporic Citizenship: Contradictions and Possibilities for Canadian
Literature Lily Cho
Acts of Citizenship: Erin Mourés O Cidadán and the Limits of Worldliness
Lianne Moyes
Trans-Scan: Globalization, Literary Hemispheric Studies, Citizenship as
Project Winfried Siemerling
Transubracination: How Writers of Colour Became CanLit Ashok Mathur
Institutional Genealogies in the Global Net of Fundamentalisms, Families,
and Fantasies Julia Emberley
TransCanada Collectives: Social Imagination, the Cunning of Production, and
the Multilateral Sublime Len Findlay
Notes
Works Cited
Contributors
Index
Contributors' Bios
Diana Brydon is Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies
at the University of Manitoba, where she specializes in Australian,
Canadian, and Caribbean literary studies. Recent publications include a
five-volume anthology, Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts in Literary and
Cultural Studies and a co-edited book, Shakespeare in Canada (with Irena
Makaryk). Renegotiating Community: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global
Contexts (co-edited with William D.Coleman) is forthcoming from the
University of British Columbia Press.
Richard Cavell is the Founding Director of the International Canadian
Studies Centre at UBC, the author of McLuhan in Space: A Cultural Geography
(2002), the editor of Love, Hate and Fear in Canada's Cold War (2004), the
co-editor, with Peter Dickinson, of Sexing the Maple: A Canadian Sourcebook
(2006), and, with Imre Szeman, founding editor of the Cultural Spaces
series at the University of Toronto Press, and co-editor of the Review of
Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies (29.1/2 2007) on Cultural Studies
in Canada today.
Lily Cho is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Western
Ontario. Her research interests include work on diaspora, postcolonial
studies, cultural studies, food culture, citizenship, and affect. She is
currently completing a book-length study of diaspora and Chinese
restaurants in small-town Canada. She is also pursuing a project on Pacific
Genealogies, which examines the role of indenture and piracy in the
emergence of Asian diaspora subjectivity. Her recent publications include
"Asian Canadian Futures: Indenture Routes and Diasporic Passages," in
Essays in Canadian Writing 85 (2006) and "The Turn to Diaspora," in Topia
17 (2007).
Daniel Coleman is a Canada Research Chair in Diversity in Canadian
Literature and Culture who teaches in the Department of English and
Cultural Studies at McMaster University. His most recent publications
include White Civility (U of Toronto P, 2006) and Recalling Early Canada
(co-edited, U of Alberta P, 2005).
Peter Dickinson is Associate Professor in the Department of English at
Simon Fraser University. He is the author of Here is Queer: Nationalisms,
Sexualities, and the Literatures of Canada (U of Toronto P, 1999) and
Screening Gender, Framing Genre: Canadian Literature into Film (U of
Toronto P, 2007). With Richard Cavell, he has also co-edited Sexing the
Maple: A Canadian Sourcebook (Broadview, 2006).
Julia Emberley is Associate Professor of English at the University
ofWestern Ontario. She is the author of Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal:
Cultural Practices and Decolonization in Canada (University of Toronto
Press, 2007), The Cultural Politics of Fur (Cornell University Press,
1997), and Thresholds of Difference: Native Women's Writing, Feminist
Critique, and Postcolonial Theory (University of Toronto Press, 1993). She
has recently published articles in The Journal of Visual Culture, Topia,
and Fashion Theory, and contributed a book chapter on Gertrude Bell in
Literature, Empire and Travel: In the Margins of Anthropology (I.B. Tauris,
2007).
Len Findlay is Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Research
Unit at the University of Saskatchewan. Educated at Aberdeen and Oxford, he
came to Canada in 1974. Widely published in nineteenth-century European
topics and increasingly in Canadian Studies, his recent work includes a new
edition of The Communist Manifesto (Broadview, 2004), "Spectres of Canada:
Image, Text, Aura, Nation" (UTQ, 2006), "Towards Canada as Aesthetic State:
François-Xavier Garneau's Canadien Poetics" (ECW, 2006), and collaborative
projects for the Australian Journal of Aboriginal Education (special issue
on Thinking Place) and for the Office of the Treaty Commission of
Saskatchewan. He is currently writing a polemic in the vein of George
Grant's, entitled Intent for a Nation, and an intellectual biography of
Alexander Morris.
Smaro Kamboureli is the founder and Director of TransCanada Institute and
Canada Research Chair in Critical Studies in Canadian Literature at the
University of Guelph,where she specializes in Canadian literature and
diaspora studies. Her recent publications include Scandalous Bodies:
Diasporic Literature in English Canada (Oxford, 2000), which received the
Gabrielle Roy prize for Canadian criticism, a second edition of her earlier
anthology, Making a Difference: Multicultural Literatures in English Canada
(Oxford, 2006), and Roy Kiyooka's Pacific Rim Letters (NeWest Press), which
she edited, with an afterword. The Editor of the TransCanada Series
(Wilfrid Laurier UP) and of the Writer as Critic Series (NeWest Press), she
is currently co-editing, with Daniel Coleman, The Culture of Research:
Retooling the Humanities.
Lee Maracle was born in North Vancouver and is the author of seven novels,
a collection of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction works. She has
published widely in scholarly journals and fiction/poetry anthologies.
Maracle is currently teaching at the University of Toronto. Her awards
include the J. T. Stewart Voices of Change Award, the American Book Award
from the Before Columbus Foundation, and the Wordcraft Circle Writer of the
Year Award.
Ashok Mathur is a Canada Research Chair in Cultural and Artistic Inquiry at
Thompson Rivers University (Kamloops, BC). He directs the Centre for
Innovation in Culture and the Arts in Canada,working with
artist-researchers on projects and explorations surrounding the
intersection of artistic practice and social/political engagement. His
creative and critical work includes fiction, poetry, essays, and cultural
organizing around art, performance, and writing.
Roy Miki is a writer, poet, and editor who teaches contemporary literature
at Simon Fraser University. He was born in Winnipeg but relocated to the
West Coast in the late 1960s. He is the author of Justice in Our Time
(co-authored with Cassandra Kobayashi) (Talonbooks, 1991), a documentary
history of the Japanese Canadian redress movement in which he actively
participated, two books of poems, Saving Face (Turnstone, 1991) and Random
Access File (Red Deer College Press, 1995), and a collection of critical
essays, Broken Entries: Race, Subjectivity, Writing (Mercury Press, 1998).
His third book of poems, Surrender (Mercury Press 2001), received the
Governor General's Award for Poetry. His two most recent publications are
Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice (Raincoast, 2004), a
work that explores the Japanese Canadian redress movement through a
creative blend of personal reflection, documentary history, and critical
examination, and There (New Star Books, 2006), a book of poems. He received
the Order of Canada in 2006.
Lianne Moyes is Associate Professor of English at Université de Montréal,
where she specializes in Canadian and Quebec literatures. She is editor of
Gail Scott: Essays on Her Works, co-editor of Adjacencies: Minority Writing
in Canada, and, from 1993 to 2003, was co-editor of the bilingual feminist
journal Tessera. Her work on Anglo-Montreal writing has appeared in Études
canadiennes, Voix et images, and Canadian Literature as well as in the
collections Un certain genre malgré tout, Pour une réflexion sur la
différence sexuelle à l'oeuvre dans lécriture (Nota Bene), and Language
Acts: Anglo-Qu&233;bec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century (Véhicule).
Winfried Siemerling is Professor of English and Comparative Literature in
the Graduate Programs in Comparative Canadian Literature at the Université
de Sherbrooke and affiliated with the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for
African and African American Research at Harvard University. His books
include The New North American Studies: Culture, Writing, and the Politics
of Re/Cognition (Routledge, 2005), the Bibliography of Comparative Studies
in Canadian, Québec, and Foreign Literatures, 1930-1995 (2001, co-author),
Cultural Difference and the Literary Text: Pluralism and the Limits of
Authenticity in North American Literatures (1996/97, co-editor), Writing
Ethnicity: Cross-Cultural Consciousness in Canadian and Québécois
Literature (1996, editor), and Discoveries of the Other: Alterity in the
Work of Leonard Cohen, Hubert Aquin, Michael Ondaatje, and Nicole Brossard
(1994). He is currently co-editing Canada and Its Americas: Transnational
Navigations, and working on African- and Asian-Canadian writing in the
context of a SSHRC-funded project on transculturalism and double
consciousness.
Stephen Slemon is Professor in English and Film Studies at the University
of Alberta and a student of imperial and postcolonial representations. His
current research focuses on how social understandings of "criminality"
circulated in British India from the mid-nineteenth century onwards, and on
the literature of mountaineering, through which he attempts to understand
some parts of the cross-cultural and gendered politics of the colonial past
and the globalizing present.
Rinaldo Walcott is an Associate Professor of Black Diaspora Cultural
Studies at OISE/UT and the editor of New Dawn: The Journal of Black
Canadian Studies, an online open-access journal. Recent essays include
"Black Men in Frocks: Sexing Race in a Gay Ghetto (Toronto)" in Claiming
Space: Racialization in Canadian Cities (Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
2006), and "Homopoetics: Queer Space and the Black Queer Diaspora" in Black
Geographics and the Politics of Place (Between the Lines/South End Press,
2007). He is working on a book called Black Diasporic Faggotry: Frames,
Readings, Limits.