Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature
Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Canadian, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Minority Studies, Political Science, Government, Civics
| Author: | Smaro Kamboureli, Roy Miki | ISBN: | 9781554587186 |
| Publisher: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press | Publication: | October 22, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Smaro Kamboureli, Roy Miki |
| ISBN: | 9781554587186 |
| Publisher: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
| Publication: | October 22, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
| Language: | English |
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, and imagined.
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, and imagined.
