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Prizing Literature: The Celebration and Circulation of National Culture by Gillian Roberts (Hardback, 2011)

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When Canadian authors win prestigious literary prizes, from the Goverr General's Literary Award to the Man Booker Prize, they are celebrated t only for their achievements, but also for contributing to this country's cultural capital. Discussions about culture, national identity, and citizenship are particularly complicated when the horees are immigrants, like Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields, or Rohinton Mistry. Then there is the case of Yann Martel, who is identified both as Canadian and as rootlessly cosmopolitan. How have these writers' identities been recalibrated in order to claim them as 'representative' Canadians? Prizing Literature is the first extended study of contemporary award winning Canadian literature and the ways in which we celebrate its authors. Gillian Roberts uses theories of hospitality to examine how prize-winning authors are variously received and houred depending on their citizenship and the extent to which they represent 'Canadianness.' Prizing Literature sheds light on popular and media understandings of what it means to be part of a multicultural nation.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
ISBN-10
1442642718
ISBN-13
9781442642713
eBay Product ID (ePID)
104164728

Product Key Features

Author
Gillian Roberts
Format
With Dust Jacket, Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Literary Criticism

Dimensions

Weight
560g
Height
236mm
Width
160mm

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
Toronto
Spine
22mm
Series Title
Cultural Spaces
Author Biography
Gillian Roberts is a lecturer in the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.
Date of Publication
30/05/2011
Imprint
University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication
CA
Genre
Literary Criticism

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