Critical Collaborations
Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies
- Publisher
- Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2014
- Category
- Canadian
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- ISBN
- 9781554589135
- Publish Date
- May 2014
- List Price
- $29.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781554589111
- Publish Date
- May 2014
- List Price
- $42.99
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Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies is the third volume of essays produced as part of the TransCanada conferences project. The essays gathered in Critical Collaborations constitute a call for collaboration and kinship across disciplinary, political, institutional, and community borders. They are tied together through a simultaneous call for resistance—to Eurocentrism, corporatization, rationalism, and the fantasy of total systems of knowledge—and a call for critical collaborations. These collaborations seek to forge connections without perceived identity—linking concepts and communities without violating the differences that constitute them, seeking epistemic kinships while maintaining a willingness to not-know. In this way, they form a critical conversation between seemingly distinct areas and demonstrate fundamental allegiances between diasporic and indigenous scholarship, transnational and local knowledges, legal and eco-critical methodologies. Links are forged between Indigenous knowledge and ecological and social justice, creative critical reading, and ambidextrous epistemologies, unmaking the nation through translocalism and unsettling histories of colonial complicity through a poetics of relation. Together, these essays reveal how the critical methodologies brought to bear on literary studies can both challenge and exceed disciplinary structures, presenting new forms of strategic transdisciplinarity that expand the possibilities of Canadian literary studies while also emphasizing humility, complicity, and the limits of knowledge.
About the authors
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
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).
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
Beyond "Understanding Canada"
Transnational Perspectives on Canadian Literature
Editing as Cultural Practice in Canada
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 Christl Verduyn
The Creative City of Saint John
Beyond "Understanding Canada"
Transnational Perspectives on Canadian Literature
Public Poetics
Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics
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
