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Transcanada Ser.: Transnational Canadas : Anglo-Canadian Literature and Globalization by Kit Dobson (2009, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherWilfrid Laurier University Press

ISBN-101554580633

ISBN-139781554580637

eBay Product ID (ePID)72100440

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Number of Pages258 Pages

Publication NameTransnational Canadas : Anglo-Canadian Literature and Globalization

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2009

SubjectCanadian, Globalization, Public Policy / Social Policy, Semiotics & Theory

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Political Science

AuthorKit Dobson

SeriesTranscanada Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight13.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

Reviews"In presenting transnational Canadas as a process, and a practice, Dobson enacts an ethics of reading that accounts for not only the texts of CanLit but also the contexts in which they are produced, circulated, and consumed, read and re-read, by academic and non-academic readers alike." - Gillian Roberts, University of Nottingham, British Journal of Canadian Studies, Volume 23 (Number 2), 2010, ''Dobson moves deftly between textual and contextual analysis: in approaching established, canonical texts, he examines both their canonicity and the form and content of the works themselves; in his study of more recent work, his attention to the implications of such phenomena as the Giller Prize persuasively argues that we must consider Canadian literature within its economic context, given the function of books as 'cultural commodities that participate in the logic of capital'.''

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal810.9/0054

Table Of ContentTable of Contents for Transnational Canadas: Anglo-Canadian Literature and Globalization by Kit Dobson Introduction: Globalization and Canadian Literature PART ONE: Reconstructing the Politics of Canadian Nationalism Introduction to Part One Chapter One: Spectres of Derrida and Theory's Legacy Chapter Two: Ambiguous Resistance in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing Chapter Three: Nationalism and the Void in Dennis Lee's Civil Elegies Chapter Four: Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers and the Crisis of Canadian Modernity Conclusion to Part One PART TWO: Indigeneity and the Rise of Canadian Multiculturalism Introduction to Part Two Chapter Five: Critique of Spivakian Reason and Canadian Postcolonialisms Chapter Six: Multiculturalism and Reconciliation in Joy Kogawa's Obasan Chapter Seven: Multicultural Postmodernities in Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion Chapter Eight: Dismissing Canada in Jeannette Armstrong's Slash Conclusion to Part Two PART THREE: Canada in the World Introduction to Part Three Chapter Nine: Transnational Multitudes Chapter Ten: Mainstreaming Multiculturalism? The Giller Prize Chapter Eleven: Global Subjectivities in Roy Miki's Surrender Chapter Twelve: Writing Past Belonging in Dionne Brand's What We All Long For Conclusion to Part Three Conclusion: Transnational Canadas Bibliography Index

SynopsisThis book presents the first sustained inquiry into the relationship between Canadian literature and globalisation. It tracks developments in literature and its study from Canada's centennial (1967) to its time, and examines how work, of its time, in transnational studies provides new insights in the study of Canadian literature., Presents the first sustained inquiry into the relationship between Canadian literature and globalisation. This book tracks developments in literature and its study from Canada's centennial (1967) to its time, and examines how work, of its time, in transnational studies provides fresh insights in the study of Canadian literature., Transnational Canadas marks the first sustained inquiry into the relationship between globalization and Canadian literature written in English. Tracking developments in the literature and its study from the centennial period to the present, it shows how current work in transnational studies can provide new insights for researchers and students. Arguing first that the dichotomy of Canadian nationalism and globalization is no longer valid in today's economic climate, Transnational Canadas explores the legacy of leftist nationalism in Canadian literature. It examines the interventions of multicultural writing in the 1980s and 1990s, investigating the cultural politics of the period and how they increasingly became part of Canada's state structure. Under globalization, the book concludes, we need to understand new forms of subjectivity and mobility as sites for cultural politics and look beyond received notions of belonging and being. An original contribution to the study of Canadian literature, Transnational Canadas seeks to invigorate discussion by challenging students and researchers to understand the national and the global simultaneously, to look at the politics of identity beyond the rubric of multiculturalism, and to rethink the slippery notion of the political for the contemporary era.