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Trans.Can.Lit

Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature

By: Smaro Kamboureli

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Trans.Can.Lit

Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature

By: Smaro Kamboureli

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.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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1554587182

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Scandalous Bodies

Diasporic Literature in English Canada

By: Smaro Kamboureli

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Scandalous Bodies

Diasporic Literature in English Canada

By: Smaro Kamboureli

Scandalous Bodies is an impassioned scholarly study both of literature by diasporic writers and of the contexts within which it is produced. It explores topics ranging from the Canadian government’s multiculturalism policy to media representations of so-called minority groups, from the relationship between realist fiction and history to postmodern constructions of ethnicity, from the multicultural theory of the philosopher Charles Taylor to the cultural responsibilities of diasporic critics such as Kamboureli herself. Smaro Kamboureli proposes no neat or comforting solutions to the problems she addresses. Rather than adhere to a single method of reading or make her argument follow a systematic approach, she lets the texts and the socio-cultural contexts she examines give shape to her reading. In fact, methodological issues, and the need to revisit them, become a leitmotif in the book. Theoretically rigorous and historically situated, this study also engages with close reading—not the kind that views a text as a sovereign world, but one that opens the text in order to reveal the method of its making. Her practice of what she calls negative pedagogy—a self-reflexive method of learning and unlearning, of decoding the means through which knowledge is produced—allows her to avoid the pitfalls of constructing a narrative of progress. Her critique of Canadian multiculturalism as a policy that advocates what she calls “sedative politics” and of the epistemologies of ethnicity that have shaped, for example, the first wave of ethnic anthologies in Canada are the backdrop against which she examines the various discourses that inform the diasporic experience in Canada. Scandalous Bodies was first published in 2000 and received the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian Criticism.

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1554587174

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Trans.Can.Lit

Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature

By: Smaro Kamboureli

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Producing Canadian Literature

Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace

By: Kit Dobson,Smaro Kamboureli

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Producing Canadian Literature

Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace

By: Kit Dobson,Smaro Kamboureli

Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace brings to light the relationship between writers in Canada and the marketplace within which their work circulates. Through a series of conversations with both established and younger writers from across the country, Kit Dobson and Smaro Kamboureli investigate how writers perceive their relationship to the cultural economy—and what that economy means for their creative processes. The interviews in Producing Canadian Literature focus, in particular, on how writers interact with the cultural institutions and bodies that surround them. Conversations pursue the impacts of arts funding on writers; show how agents, editors, and publishers affect writers’ works; examine the process of actually selling a book, both in Canada and abroad; and contemplate what literary awards mean to writers. Dialogues with Christian Bök, George Elliott Clarke, Daniel Heath Justice, Larissa Lai, Stephen Henighan, Roy Miki, Erín Moure, Ashok Mathur, Lee Maracle, Jane Urquhart, and Aritha van Herk testify to the broad range of experience that writers in Canada have when it comes to the conditions in which their work is produced. Original in its desire to directly explore the specific circumstances in which writers work—and how those conditions affect their writing itself—Producing Canadian Literature will be of interest to scholars, students, aspiring writers, and readers who have followed these authors and want to know more about how their books come into being.

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371

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1554586402

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9781554586400

Scandalous Bodies

Diasporic Literature in English Canada

By: Smaro Kamboureli

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Diasporic Literature in English Canada

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Critical Collaborations

Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies

By: Smaro Kamboureli,Christl Verduyn

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Critical Collaborations

Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies

By: Smaro Kamboureli,Christl Verduyn

Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies is the third volume of essays produced as part of the TransCanada conferences project. The essays gathered in Critical Collaborations constitute a call for collaboration and kinship across disciplinary, political, institutional, and community borders. They are tied together through a simultaneous call for resistance—to Eurocentrism, corporatization, rationalism, and the fantasy of total systems of knowledge—and a call for critical collaborations. These collaborations seek to forge connections without perceived identity—linking concepts and communities without violating the differences that constitute them, seeking epistemic kinships while maintaining a willingness to not-know. In this way, they form a critical conversation between seemingly distinct areas and demonstrate fundamental allegiances between diasporic and indigenous scholarship, transnational and local knowledges, legal and eco-critical methodologies. Links are forged between Indigenous knowledge and ecological and social justice, creative critical reading, and ambidextrous epistemologies, unmaking the nation through translocalism and unsettling histories of colonial complicity through a poetics of relation. Together, these essays reveal how the critical methodologies brought to bear on literary studies can both challenge and exceed disciplinary structures, presenting new forms of strategic transdisciplinarity that expand the possibilities of Canadian literary studies while also emphasizing humility, complicity, and the limits of knowledge.

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1554589126

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Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies

By: Smaro Kamboureli,Robert Zacharias

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Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies

By: Smaro Kamboureli,Robert Zacharias

Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine the various contexts—political, social, and cultural—that have shaped the study of Canadian literature and the role it plays in our understanding of the Canadian nation-state. The essays are tied together as instances of critical practices that reveal the relations and exchanges that take place between the categories of the literary and the nation, as well as between the disciplinary sites of critical discourses and the porous boundaries of their methods. They are concerned with the material effects of the imperial and colonial logics that have fashioned Canada, as well as with the paradoxes, ironies, and contortions that abound in the general perception that Canada has progressed beyond its colonial construction. Smaro Kamboureli’s introduction demonstrates that these essays engage with the larger realm of human and social practices—throne speeches, book clubs, policies of accommodation of cultural and religious differences, Indigenous thought about justice and ethics—to show that literary and critical work is inextricably related to the Canadian polity in light of transnational and global forces.

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1554583977

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Producing Canadian Literature

Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace

By: Kit Dobson,Smaro Kamboureli

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Producing Canadian Literature

Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace

By: Kit Dobson,Smaro Kamboureli

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Book's by Smaro Kamboureli

Trans.Can.Lit

Trans.Can.Lit

Scandalous Bodies

Scandalous Bodies

Trans.Can.Lit

Trans.Can.Lit

Producing Canadian Literature

Producing Canadian Literature

Scandalous Bodies

Scandalous Bodies

Critical Collaborations

Critical Collaborations

Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies

Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies

Producing Canadian Literature

Producing Canadian Literature

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