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| Title: | Trans.Can.Lit
: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature |
| Author: | Smaro Kamboureli & Roy Miki (eds) |
| ISBN: | 0889205132 : 9780889205130 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 233 |
| Weight: | .386 Kg. |
| Published: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press - March 2007 |
| List Price: | 21.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: general: Canada |
The study of Canadian literature -- CanLit -- has undergone dramatic changes since it became an area of specialisation 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 recognising the imperative to transfigure the disciplinary and institutional frameworks within which Canadian literature is produced, disseminated, studied, taught, and imagined.
Preface; Metamorphoses of a Discipline: Rethinking Canadian Literature within Institutional Contexts; Against Institution: Established Law, Custom, or Purpose; From Canadian Trance to TransCanada: White Civility to Wry Civility in the CanLit Project; Oratory on Oratory; TransCanada, Literature: No Direction Home; World Famous across Canada, or TransNational Localities; Diasporic Citizenship: Contradictions and Possibilities for Canadian Literature; Acts of Citizenship: Erin Mouré's 0 Cidadán and the Limits of Worldliness; Trans-Scan: Globalisation, Literary Hemispheric Studies, Citizenship as Project; Transubracination: How Writers of Colour Became CanLit; Institutional Genealogies in the Global Net of Fundamentalisms, Families, and Fantasies; TransCanada Collectives: Social Imagination, the Cunning of Production, and the Multilateral Sublime; Notes; Index.
