Wider Boundaries of Daring

The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry
Herausgeber: Brandt; Godard

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Produktbeschreibung

Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry announces a bold revision of the genealogy of Canadian literary modernism by foregrounding the originary and exemplary contribution of women poets, critics, cultural activists, and experimental prose writers Dorothy Livesay, P.K. Page, Miriam Waddington, Phyllis Webb, Elizabeth Brewster, Jay Macpherson, Anne Wilkinson, Anne Marriott, and Elizabeth Smart. In the introduction, editor Di Brandt champions particularly the achievements of Livesay, Page, and Webb in setting the visionary parameters of Canadian and international literary modernism. The writers profiled in Wider Boundaries of Daring are the real founders of Canadian modernism, the contributors of this volume argue, both for their innovative aesthetic and literary experiments and for their extensive cultural activism. They founded literary magazines and writers' groups, wrote newspaper columns, and created a new forum for intellectual debate on public radio. At the same time, they led busy lives as wives and mothers, social workers and teachers, editors and critics, and competed successfully with their male contemporaries in the public arena in an era when women were not generally encouraged to hold professional positions or pursue public careers. The acknowledgement of these writers' formidable contribution to the development of modernism in Canada, and along with it "wider boundaries of daring" for women and other people previously disadvantaged by racial, ethnic, or religious identifications, has profound implications for the way we read and understand Canadian literary and cultural history and for the shape of both national and international modernisms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781554580323
• ISBN-10: 1554580323
• Artikelnr.: 27012623

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in
Canadian Women's Poetry, edited by Di Brandt and Barbara Godard
A New Genealogy of Canadian Literary Modernism Di Brandt
The Making of Canadian Literary Modernism
The Writing Livesays: Connecting Generations of Canadian Modernism Ann
Martin
Feminist and Regionalist Modernisms in Contemporary Verse, CV1 and CV2
Christine Kim
P.K. Page: Discovering a Modern Sensibility Sandra Djwa
Tradition, Individual Talent, and "a young woman / From backwoods New
Brunswick": Modernism and Elizabeth Brewster's (Auto)Poetics of the Subject
Bina Toledo Freiwald
"And we are homesick still": Home, the Unhomely, and the Everyday Anne
Wilkinson Kathy Mezei
Anne Marriott: Modernist on the Periphery Marilyn J. Rose
Discontinuity, Intertextuality, and Literary History: Gail Scott's Reading
of Gertrude Stein Lianne Moyes
Literary Modernism as Cultural Act
"They cut him down": Race, Class, and Cultural Memory in Dorothy Livesay's
";Day and Night" Pamela McCallum
Dorothy Livesay and CBC Radio: The Politics of Modernist Aesthetics,
Gender, and Regionalism Peggy Lynn Kelly
Phyllis Webb as Public Intellectual Pauline Butling
"A Collection of Solitary Fragments": Miriam Waddington as Critic Candida
Rifkind
"Our hearts both leapt / in love with metaphor": P.K. Page's Professional
Elegies Sara Jamieson
The Passionate and Sublime Modernism of Elizabeth Smart Anna Quéma
Jay Macpherson's Modernism Miriam Nichols
Word, I, and Other in Margaret Avison's Poetry Katherine Quinsey
Reading P.K. Page in English/Italian; or, On the Politics of Translating
Modernist Gender Elena Basile
Contributors
Index
Contributors' Bios
Elena Basile teaches in the English department at York University, where
she is completing her dissertationon questions of translation and
experimental poetic practices. Recent publications include "Responding to
the Enigmatic Address of the Other: A Psychoanalytical Approach to the
Translator's Labour," New Voices in Translation Studies (2005), and "Itchy
Language Scars:Thoughts on Translation as a Poetics of Cultural Healing,"
in Traducciòn, Género y Postcolonialismo:De Signis; Publicaciòn de la
Federaciòn Latinoamericana de Semitiòca (Spring 2008).
Di Brandt is the award-winning author and editor of more than a dozen
books. Her poetry titles include questions i asked my mother (1987), Agnes
in the sky (1990), Jerusalem, beloved (1995), Now You Care (2003), and
Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandt (2006). Her prose titles include
Wild Mother Dancing: Maternal Narrative in Canadian Literature (1993) and
So this is the world & here I am in it (2007). Her libretto for Emily, the
Way You Are, a one-woman opera about the life and work of Emily Carr,
composed by Jana Skarecky, premiered at the McMichael Gallery, Kleinburg,
Ontario, in April 2008. Her website address is www.dibrandt.ca. Di Brandt
holds a Canada Research Chair at Brandon University, Manitoba.
Pauline Butling taught Canadian Literature at Selkirk College in Castelgar,
BC, David Thompson University Centre in Nelson, BC, and at the Alberta
College of Art in Calgary. She currently lives in Vancouver, where she is
writing a family history/memoir. Her publications include Seeing in the
Dark: The Poetry of Phyllis Webb (1997), Poets Talk, with Susan Rudy
(2005), and Writing in Our Time: Canada's Radical Poetries, with Susan Rudy
(2005).
Sandra Djwa, Professor Emerita of Simon Fraser University, has written
extensively on Canadian poetry and Canadian poets. Her books include E.J.
Pratt: The Evolutionary Vision (1974), the Complete Poems of E.J. Pratt, 2
vols. (1989), and the Selected Poems of E.J. Pratt (1999), co-edited with
Zailig Pollock and W.J. Keith. Her biographies include F.R. Scott: The
Politics of the Imagination (1987), F.R. Scott: Une vie (translation 2001),
and Professing English: A Life of Roy Daniells (2002), a mini-history of
the discipline of English and the development of a Canadian literature. She
is working on a biography of P.K. Page.
Bina Toledo Freiwald, graduate program director and professor of English at
Concordia University, teaches and researches on critical theory,
contemporary womens writing across genres and national literatures,
autobiographical practices, and identity discourses of gender, sexuality,
and nation. Recent publications include chapters in Identity, Community,
Nation (2002), Postmodernism and the Ethical Subject (2004), Tracing the
Autobiographical (2005), Unfitting Stories: Narrative Approaches to
Disease, Disability, and Trauma (2007), and The Jewish Diaspora as a
Paradigm (2008). Her current research project is "Gender, Nation, and
Self-Narration: The Construction of National and Diasporic Identities in
Jewish Womens Life Narratives in Palestine/Israel and Canada."
Barbara Godard, Historical Chair of Canadian Literature at York University,
has published widely on Canadian and Québec literatures and on feminist and
literary theory. Her translations and essays on translation theory have
contributed to the "cultural turn" in translation studies. Among her
publications are the edited volumes Gynocritics/Gynocritiques: Feminist
Approaches to the Writing of Canadian and Québec Women (1987);
Collaboration in the Feminine: Writings on Women and Culture from Tessera
(1994); Intersexions: Issues of Race and Gender in Canadian Women's Writing
(1996); and Re:Generations: Canadian Women Poets in Conversation, with Di
Brandt (2005). Canadian Literature at the Crossroads of Language and
Culture, a volume of her essays, appeared in 2008. For more information,
see her website at www.yorku.ca/bgodard/.
Sara Jamieson is an assistant professor in the Department of English at
Carleton University where her research interests include intersections of
Victorian and modernist poetic practice in the work of twentieth-century
Canadian women poets, as well as representations of aging in Canadian
writing. She has published articles in Canadian Literature, Canadian
Poetry, and Studies in Canadian Literature. She is currently working on a
book manuscript entitled Soundless Grieving: Women Poets, Mourning, and
Modernism in Canada.
Peggy Lynn Kelly specializes in Canadian women's writing. She has published
in Atlantis, Open Letter, Canadian Poetry, Studies in Canadian Literature,
Literary Encyclopedia Online, The History of the Book in Canada, Framing
Our Past: Canadian Women's History in the Twentieth Century, and Limited
Edition: Voices of Feminism, Voices of Women. She is editor of the second
edition of Shackles by Madge Macbeth (2005), and associate general editor
for Tecumseh Press's Early Canadian Women Writers Series. Peggy Kelly
teaches English literature and composition at Algonquin College and the
University of Ottawa.
Christine Kim is an assistant professor in the Department of English at
Simon Fraser University. Her teaching and research focus on Asian North
American literature and theory, contemporary Canadian literature, and
diasporic writing. She has published articles in Mosaic, Open Letter, and
Studies in Canadian Literature. She is currently working on a book-length
project titled From Multiculturalism to Globalization: The Cultural
Politics of Asian North American Writing.
Ann Martin is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the
University of Saskatchewan, where she teaches twentieth-century British
literature. She is the author of Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in Bed:
Modernism's Fairy Tales (2006), and is currently researching the role of
the automobile in the fiction of Dorothy L. Sayers.
Pamela McCallum is professor of English at the University of Calgary. She
recently co-edited, with Wendy Faith, Linked Histories: Postcolonial
Studies in a Global World (2005) and published an edited and annotated
edition of Raymond Williams's Modern Tragedy (2006). Her research interests
are focussed on representations of history, materiality, and globalization
in literature and other cultural texts.
Kathy Mezei teaches in the Department of Humanities at Simon Fraser
University. She has published articles on translation studies, Canadian
literature, narrative theory, and modern British women writers, and has
edited special issues on domestic space for Signs (2002) and BC Studies
(2003-2004). Her translations of French and Quebec poets have appeared in
ellipse and La Traductiére. Her most recent book, co-written with Chiara
Briganti, is Domestic Modernism, the Inter-war Novel, and E.H. Young
(2006). She runs a website on domestic space at www.sfu.ca/domestic-space.
She is a participant in the project Bibliography of Comparative Studies in
Canadian, Quebec and Foreign Literatures, based at the Université de
Sherbrooke (www.compcanlit.ca).
Lianne Moyes, associate professor of English at Université de Montréal,
specializes in Canadian and Quebec literature. She is editor of Gail Scott:
Essays on Her Works (2002); co-editor, with Domenic A. Beneventi and Licia
Canton, of Adjacencies: Minority Writing in Canada (2004); 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 l'écriture (2007), Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the
21st Century (2007), and Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian
Literature (2007).
Miriam Nichols teaches contemporary literature and literary theory at the
University College of the Fraser Valley. She has published numerous
articles on Canadian and American poets and is the editor of Even on
Sunday: Essays, Readings and Archival Materials on the Poetry and Poetics
of Robin Blaser (2002). Recently she edited The Fire: The Collected Essays
of Robin Blaser (2006) and The Holy Forest: The Collected Poems of Robin
Blaser (2006). She is working on Radical Affections, a book that re-reads
the poetry of Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer,
Robin Blaser and Susan Howe.
Anne Quéma teaches at Acadia University. A specialist of theories of
criticism and twentieth-century British literature, she has published The
Agon of Modernism: Wyndham Lewis's Allegories, Aesthetics, and Politics
(1999), as well as articles in Contemporary Literary Criticism, English
Studies in Canada, The Canadian Modernists Meet, Studies in Canadian
Literature, Philosophy and Literature, West Coast Line, Gothic Studies, and
the International Journal of Law in Context. The recipient of a SSHRC
grant, she is currently working on a project on contemporary
twentieth-century Gothic fiction and English family law.
Katherine Quinsey teaches at the University of Windsor, where she was the
2007 Humanities Research Fellow. She has published widely on seventeenth-
and eighteenth-century poets, Canadian poet Margaret Avison, and Biblical
tradition in English literature. She is editor of Broken Boundaries: Women
and Feminism in Restoration Drama (1996) and Lumen: Selected Proceedings of
the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (1998), and co-editor,
with David Kent, of an issue of Canadian Poetry devoted to the work of
Margaret Avison. Following her SSHRC-funded project, Tempting Grace: The
Religious Imagination of Alexander Pope, and a related project, Rhyme and
Print: Pope, Poetry, and the Material Text, she will research women and
religion in England 1640-1740 for Under the Veil: Faith, Freedom, and
Feminism in Early Modern Britain.
Candida Rifkind is an assistant professor in the Department of English at
the University of Winnipeg, where she specializes in modernism, women
writers, and Canadian popular culture. She has published articles in
Studies in Canadian Literature, Essays on Canadian Writing, the Journal of
Canadian Studies, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies / Revue
d'études canadiennes, Open Letter, and in the critical anthology, The
Canadian Modernists Meet (2005). Her book Comrades and Critics: Women,
Literature, and the Left in 1930s Canada appeared in 2009. She is currently
conducting a major research project into popular and pulp fictions written
in and about Canada in the twenties and thirties.
Marilyn Rose is a professor in the Department of English Language and
Literature and dean of Graduate Studies at Brock University. A specialist
in Canadian literature, she has published and presented numerous conference
papers on the work of Canadian women poets, including Anne Marriott, Lorna
Crozier, P.K. Page, Florence Livesay, and Pauline Johnson, as well as on
Canadian novelists such as Joy Kogawa and Sinclair Ross. With graduate
student Erica Kelly, she developed and maintains a website on Canadian
women poets at www.brocku.ca/canadianwomenpoets. In addition, she
participates in Brock's MA program in Popular Culture and, with Professor
Jeannette Sloniowski, undertakes research in and maintains a scholarly
website on the study of detective fiction at
www.brocku.ca/crimefictioncanada.