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The Resource Trans.can.lit : resituating the study of Canadian literature, Smaro Kamboureli, Roy Miki, editors

Trans.can.lit : resituating the study of Canadian literature, Smaro Kamboureli, Roy Miki, editors

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Summary
The study of Canadian literature-CanLit-has undergone dramatic changes since it became an area of specialization 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 recognizing the imperative to transfigure the disciplinary and institutional frameworks within which Canadian literature is produced, disseminated, studied, taught, an
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xviii, 233 pages)
Note
"Initially presented as plenary talks at the inaugural event of the TransCanada project"--Page xv
Contents
  • Metamorphoses of a discipline: Rethinking Canadian literature within institutional contexts / Diana Brydon
  • Against institution: Established law, custom, or purpose / Rinaldo Walcott
  • From Canadian trance to transCanada: White civility to wry civility in the CanLit projects / Daniel Coleman
  • Subtitling CanLit: Keywords / Peter Dickinson
  • Oratory on oratory / Lee Maracle
  • TransCanada, literature: No direction home / Stephen Slemon
  • World famous across Canada, or transnational localities / Richard Cavell
  • Diaportic citizenship: contradictions and possibilities for Canadian literature / Lily Cho
  • Acts of citizenship: Erin Mouré's O Cidadán and the limits of worldliness / Lianne Moyes
  • Trans-scan: globalization, literary hemispheric studies, citizenship as project / Winfried Siemerling
  • Transubracination: How writers of colour became CanLit / Ashok Mathur
  • Institutional genealogies in the global net of fundamentalisms, families, and fantasies / Julia Emberley
  • TransCanada collectives: social imagination, the cunning of production, and the multilateral sublime / Len Findlay
Isbn
9781554581030
Instance
Label
Trans.can.lit : resituating the study of Canadian literature
Title
Trans.can.lit
Title remainder
resituating the study of Canadian literature
Statement of responsibility
Smaro Kamboureli, Roy Miki, editors
Title variation
Resituating the study of Canadian literature
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
The study of Canadian literature-CanLit-has undergone dramatic changes since it became an area of specialization 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 recognizing the imperative to transfigure the disciplinary and institutional frameworks within which Canadian literature is produced, disseminated, studied, taught, an
Member of
Action
digitized
Cataloging source
CaOONL
Dewey number
810.9971
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Language note
English
LC call number
PR9189.6
LC item number
.T73 2007eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1942-
  • 2005
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Kamboureli, Smaro
  • Miki, Roy
  • TransCanada: Literature, Institutions, Citizenship Conference
Series statement
TransCanada
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Canadian literature
  • Canadian literature
  • Literature and globalization
  • Canadian literature
  • Literature and state
  • LITERARY CRITICISM
  • Canadian literature
  • Canadian literature
  • Literature and globalization
  • Literature and state
  • Canada
Label
Trans.can.lit : resituating the study of Canadian literature, Smaro Kamboureli, Roy Miki, editors
Instantiates
Publication
Note
"Initially presented as plenary talks at the inaugural event of the TransCanada project"--Page xv
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Metamorphoses of a discipline: Rethinking Canadian literature within institutional contexts / Diana Brydon -- Against institution: Established law, custom, or purpose / Rinaldo Walcott -- From Canadian trance to transCanada: White civility to wry civility in the CanLit projects / Daniel Coleman -- Subtitling CanLit: Keywords / Peter Dickinson -- Oratory on oratory / Lee Maracle -- TransCanada, literature: No direction home / Stephen Slemon -- World famous across Canada, or transnational localities / Richard Cavell -- Diaportic citizenship: contradictions and possibilities for Canadian literature / Lily Cho -- Acts of citizenship: Erin Mouré's O Cidadán and the limits of worldliness / Lianne Moyes -- Trans-scan: globalization, literary hemispheric studies, citizenship as project / Winfried Siemerling -- Transubracination: How writers of colour became CanLit / Ashok Mathur -- Institutional genealogies in the global net of fundamentalisms, families, and fantasies / Julia Emberley -- TransCanada collectives: social imagination, the cunning of production, and the multilateral sublime / Len Findlay
Control code
236362585
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xviii, 233 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781554581030
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations
Publisher number
420970
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction.
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)236362585
System details
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Label
Trans.can.lit : resituating the study of Canadian literature, Smaro Kamboureli, Roy Miki, editors
Publication
Note
"Initially presented as plenary talks at the inaugural event of the TransCanada project"--Page xv
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Metamorphoses of a discipline: Rethinking Canadian literature within institutional contexts / Diana Brydon -- Against institution: Established law, custom, or purpose / Rinaldo Walcott -- From Canadian trance to transCanada: White civility to wry civility in the CanLit projects / Daniel Coleman -- Subtitling CanLit: Keywords / Peter Dickinson -- Oratory on oratory / Lee Maracle -- TransCanada, literature: No direction home / Stephen Slemon -- World famous across Canada, or transnational localities / Richard Cavell -- Diaportic citizenship: contradictions and possibilities for Canadian literature / Lily Cho -- Acts of citizenship: Erin Mouré's O Cidadán and the limits of worldliness / Lianne Moyes -- Trans-scan: globalization, literary hemispheric studies, citizenship as project / Winfried Siemerling -- Transubracination: How writers of colour became CanLit / Ashok Mathur -- Institutional genealogies in the global net of fundamentalisms, families, and fantasies / Julia Emberley -- TransCanada collectives: social imagination, the cunning of production, and the multilateral sublime / Len Findlay
Control code
236362585
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xviii, 233 pages)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781554581030
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations
Publisher number
420970
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction.
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)236362585
System details
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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