Beyond "Understanding Canada"
Transnational Perspectives on Canadian Literature
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- The University of Alberta Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2017
- Category
- Canadian, Cultural Policy
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- 9781772122695
- Publish Date
- Mar 2017
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- $54.99
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- 9781772123258
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- Apr 2017
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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. Twenty scholars speak to the government’s diplomatic and economic about-face and its implications for representations of Canadian writing within and outside Canada’s borders. The contributors to this volume remind us of the obstacles facing transnational intellectual exchange, but also salute scholars’ persistence despite these obstacles. Beyond “Understanding Canada” is a timely, trenchant volume for students and scholars of Canadian literature and anyone seeking to understand how Canadian literature circulates in a transnational world.
Contributors: Michael A. Bucknor, Daniel Coleman, Anne Collett, Pilar Cuder-Domínguez, Ana María Fraile-Marcos, Jeremy Haynes, Cristina Ivanovici, Milena Kaličanin, Smaro Kamboureli, Katalin Kürtösi, Vesna Lopičić, Belén Martín-Lucas, Claire Omhovère, Lucia Otrísalová, Don Sparling, Melissa Tanti, Christl Verduyn, Elizabeth Yeoman, Lorraine York
About the authors
Melissa Tanti is a PhD candidate in English at McMaster University. Her area of specialization is contemporary women’s literature and feminist critical theory.
Jeremy Haynes is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University where he studies Canadian, Indigenous, and diasporic literatures with an interest in Indigenous methodologies.
After finishing high school in Ethiopia, Daniel Coleman earned university degrees at the University of Regina and the University of Alberta. He now holds the Canada Research Chair in Critical Ethnicity and Race Study in the English department of McMaster University. Daniel Coleman is a leading researcher in the depiction of immigrant men in Canadian literature. He has won the John Charles Polanyi Prize for his study of how literary texts produce and reinforce categories of cultural identification such as gender, ethnicity and nationality. His critically acclaimed book, Masculine Migrations: Reading the Postcolonial Male in "New Canadian" Narratives, published in 1998 by University of Toronto Press, is considered the foundational Canadian work in the field. While being a bahir-zaff throughout his childhood brought Daniel Coleman the pain of never fully belonging, it also gave him the immeasurable benefits and insights of an intercultural life. Several of his essays on his missionary childhood have appeared in magazines and journals. "The Babies in the Colonial Washtub," included in a revised form in The Scent of the Eucalyptus, won a Silver Medal in the National Magazine Awards.
Lorraine York is Senator William McMaster Chair in Canadian Literature and Culture in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Her most recent books are Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity (2013) and Literary Celebrity in Canada (2007). She is currently at work on a project on reluctant celebrity.
Michael Bucknor's profile page
Pilar Cuder-Domínguez's profile page
Ana María Fraile-Marcos' profile page
Cristina Ivanovici's profile page
Milena Kalicanin's profile page
Smaro Kamboureli is Canada Research Chair in Critical Studies in Canadian Literature at the University of Guelph. Her publications include Scandalous Bodies: Diasporic Literature in English Canada, which won the Gabrielle Roy Prize, and, with Roy Miki, Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature (WLU Press, 2007). She is currently completing a new edition of her anthology Making a Difference: Canadian Multicultural Literature.
Robert Zacharias is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. His research interests include migration literature, Canadian literature (with a focus on Mennonite literature), 18th-century studies, and critical pedagogy. His work has been published in Mosaic and Studies in Canadian Literature, as well as in the edited collections Embracing Otherness and Narratives of Citizenship.
Smaro Kamboureli's profile page
Katalin Kürtösi's profile page
Belén Martín-Lucas' profile page
Claire Omhovère's profile page
Lucia Otrísalová's profile page
Christl Verduyn is a professor of English and Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University, where she holds the Davidson Chair in Canadian Studies and is the director of the Centre for Canadian Studies. Publications include Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography, co-edited with Eleanor Ty (WLU Press, 2008), Archival Narratives for Canada: Re-Telling Stories in a Changing Landscape, co-edited with Kathleen Garay (2011), and Canadian Studies: Past, Present, Praxis, co-edited with Jane Koustas (2012).
Christl Verduyn's profile page
Translator, editor and educator Elizabeth Yeoman is the author of books, articles and documentaries about language, culture, translation, walking, land and memory. Most recently, she co-translated and co-edited Nitinikiau Innusi: I Keep the Land Alive (University of Manitoba Press) with its author, Innu elder and environmental activist Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue. She lives in St. John’s NL.
Editorial Reviews
"The editors draw a number of important conclusions from the collection: that the popularity of Canadian women writers abroad must be linked to their power politics; that Canada has a set of ‘less laudable links’ (Collett) that need to be examined too; that indigenous writing needs to be more visibly worked into transnational contexts, that ‘transing [as in ‘transnational’] provides an opportunity to unsettle the profitability of any singular notion of national identity’."
Oxford University Press Journals, Volume 98, Issue 1
"Beyond 'Understanding Canada' takes its name and impetus from the Canadian government’s 2012 cancellation of the “Understanding Canada” program, which ended nearly forty years of financial support for interdisciplinary studies of Canada around the world. As the title suggests, the collection quickly moves beyond the Understanding Canada program to examine a broader range of questions regarding the transnational circulation of Canadian literature.... [The collection] succeeds admirably, overcoming the 'material challenges' of international scholarship not only to argue for but also to demonstrate convincingly the transnational nature of Canadian literary studies." Canadian Literature 235, Winter 2017 [Full article at http://canlit.ca/article/transnational-nationalism]
Robert Zacharias
Other titles by Daniel Coleman
Yardwork
A Biography of an Urban Place
The Foreigner
A Tale of Saskatchewan
Retooling the Humanities
The Culture of Research in Canadian Universities
Countering Displacements
The Creativity and Resilience of Indigenous and Refugee-ed Peoples
Narratives of Citizenship
Indigenous and Diasporic Peoples Unsettle the Nation-State
In Bed with the Word
Reading, Spirituality, and Cultural Politics
White Civility
The Literary Project of English Canada
ReCalling Early Canada
Reading the Political in Literary and Cultural Production
Scent of Eucalyptus
A Missionary Childhood in Ethiopia
Other titles by Lorraine York
Literary Celebrity in Canada
Celebrity Cultures in Canada
ReCalling Early Canada
Reading the Political in Literary and Cultural Production
Rethinking Women's Collaborative Writing
Power, Difference, Property
Front Lines
The Fiction of Timothy Findley
Introducing Timothy Findley's The Wars
The Other Side of Dailiness
Photography in the Works of Alice Munro, Timothy Findley, Michael Ondaatje, and Margaret Laurence
Other titles by Pilar Cuder-Domínguez
Other titles by Ana María Fraile-Marcos
Other titles by Smaro Kamboureli
Land/Relations
Possibilities of Justice in Canadian Literatures
All the Feels / Tous les sens
Affect and Writing in Canada / Affect et écriture au Canada
Inhabiting Memory in Canadian Literature / Habiter la mémoire dans la littérature canadienne
Editing as Cultural Practice in Canada
Critical Collaborations
Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies
Producing Canadian Literature
Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace
Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies
Nation-State, Indigeneity, Culture
Retooling the Humanities
The Culture of Research in Canadian Universities
My Beloved Wager
Essays from a Writing Practice
Scandalous Bodies
Diasporic Literature in English Canada
Other titles by Belén Martín-Lucas
Other titles by Christl Verduyn
The Creative City of Saint John
Public Poetics
Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics
Critical Collaborations
Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies
Marian and the Major
Engel's "Elizabeth and the Golden City"
Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography
Marian Engel’s Notebooks
“Ah, mon cahier, écoute...”
Must Write
Edna Staebler’s Diaries
Marian Engel
Life in Letters
Silt
