| Description |
The study of Canadian literature - CanLit - has undergone dramatic changes since it became an area of specialisation in the 1960s and '70s. This book addresses cultural policy, citizenship, white civility, and the celebrated status of diasporic writers.
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| Key Features |
| Publisher | Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
| Date of Publication | 01/03/2007 |
| Language | English |
| Format | Paperback |
| ISBN-10 | 0889205132 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780889205130 |
| Subject | Literary Criticism |
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| Publication Data |
| Place of Publication | Waterloo, Ontario |
| Country of Publication | Canada |
| Imprint | Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
| Content Note | b/w photos |
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| Dimensions |
| Weight | 386 g |
| Width | 230 mm |
| Height | 155 mm |
| Spine | 18 mm |
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| Credits |
| Edited by | Roy Miki, Smaro Kamboureli |
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| Description |
| Table Of Contents | 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 Moure's 0 Cidadan 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. |
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