Gained Ground (eBook, PDF)

Perspectives on Canadian and Comparative North American Studies
Redaktion: Gruber, Eva; Rosenthal, Caroline

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Produktbeschreibung

Compares the cultural productions of Canada and the US - literature, but also film, opera, and even theme parks - providing a reassessment of Canadian Studies within a comparative framework.



Since the elections of Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau, unprecedented international attention is being drawn to the differences between the United States and Canada. This timely volume takes a close comparative look at the national imaginaries of the two countries. In its analyses of the two countries' cultural productions - literature, but also film, opera, and even theme parks - it follows the approach of Comparative North American Studies, which has been significantly advanced by Reingard M. Nischik's work over recent decades. Featuring such illustrious contributors as Linda Hutcheon, Sherrill Grace, and Aritha van Herk, the volume considers the works of writers such as MargaretAtwood, whose concern with both countries' identities is well known, but also offers surprising new insights, for example by comparing writing by Edgar Allan Poe with Canadian Yann Martel's novel Life of Pi and Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro's work with that of the American graphic novelist Alison Bechdel.

Contributors: Margaret Atwood, Shuli Barzilai, Julia Breitbach, Jutta Ernst, Florian Freitag, Marlene Goldman, Sherrill Grace, Michael and Linda Hutcheon, Bettina Mack, Silvia Mergenthal, Claire Omhovère, Katja Sarkowsky, Aritha van Herk.

Eva Gruber is Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of Konstanz. Caroline Rosenthal is Professor of American Literature at the University of Jena.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787443921
• Artikelnr.: 56393455

Autorenporträt

Eva Gruber, Caroline Rosenthal

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Eva Gruber and Caroline Rosenthal PART I. THE GENESIS OF
CANADIAN AND COMPARATIVE NORTH AMERICAN STUDIES Mapping North America:
Comparative North American Literature and Its Contexts - Bettina Mack The
Scottish Invention of Canadian Literature? John Buchan in Canada - Silvia
Mergenthal PART II. COMPARATIVE NORTH AMERICAN STUDIES: LITERARY CASE
STUDIES "Poetics of the Potent": Yann Martel's Life of Pi, Edgar Allan
Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and Modes of
Transcreation - Jutta Ernst "Wanting to Light out for Tender Tenantless
Territories": Reading Landscape in Robert Kroetsch's The Hornbooks of Rita
K (2001) and Mark Anthony Jarman's 19 Knives (2000) - Claire Omhovère
"Landscape-of-the-Heart": Transgenerational Memory and Relationality in Roy
Kiyooka's Mothertalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka - Katja
Sarkowsky Performing Shame: Theatrical Motifs in the Works of Alice Munro
and Alison Bechdel - Marlene Goldman Timothy Findley's "Stones": Names,
Symbols, and Stories - Sherrill Grace PART III. COMPARATIVE NORTH AMERICAN
STUDIES BEYOND PRINT Comparative North American Opera: Individualism and
National Identity - Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon "Who Really Lives
There?": (Meta-)Tourism and the Canada Pavilion at Epcot - Florian Freitag
Contact Prints: Reading Margaret Atwood's The Door and the MaddAddam
Trilogy through the Lens of Photography - Julia Breitbach Cup-idity, or
Poetic Larceny in Transatlantic Contexts: Margaret Atwood's "Stealing the
Hummingbird Cup" - Shuli Barzilai PART IV. CODA: REINGARD NISCHIK AND
TRANSATLANTIC CANADIAN CRITICISM Across the "Ocean of the Page": Nischik
and Kroetsch Gaining Ground - Aritha van Herk Reingard, Queen of the Night
- Margaret Atwood Photo Log: 30 Years of Working in Canadian Criticism in
Pictures