Kit Dobson, Kamboureli

Producing Canadian Literature

Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace

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Produktbeschreibung

10 A Book of Poetry in the Mix: Interview with George Elliott Clarke Smaro Kamboureli and Kit Dobson Born in African Nova Scotia (Africadia) in 1960, George Elliott Clarke is a poet, novelist, librettist, Officer of the Order of Canada, and recipient of the Order of Nova Scotia. As a scholar, he helped to initiate the study of African-Canadian literature, publishing Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature (2002). His honours include the Governor-General's Award for Poetry (2001) and the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellows Prize (2005). He has taught at Duke University, McGill University, and the University of British Columbia. His newest books are Red (2011) and Directions Home: Approaches to African-Canadian Literature (2012).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781554583553
• ISBN-10: 1554583551
• Artikelnr.: 35212328

Autorenporträt

Kit Dobson is an assistant professor of Canadian literature at Calgary's Mount Royal University. He is the author of Transnational Canadas: Anglo-Canadian Literature and Globalization (WLU Press, 2009) and co-author, with Smaro Kamboureli, of Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace (WLU Press, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace,
by Kit Dobson and Smaro Kamboureli
Foreword: Producing a Globalized Canadian Literature and Its Communities
Jeff Derksen
Acknowledgements
Introduction Kit Dobson
1. Too Bloody-Minded to Give Up: Interview with Christian Bök Kit Dobson
2. The Politics of Our Work: Interview with Ashok Mathur Smaro Kamboureli
and Kit Dobson
3. Change the Way Canada Sees Us: Interview with Lee Maracle Smaro
Kamboureli and Kit Dobson
4. A Very, Very Uncertain Way to Make a Living: Interview with Jane
Urquhart Smaro Kamboureli and Kit Dobson
5. To Hear This Different Story: Interview with Daniel Heath Justice
Smaro Kamboureli and Kit Dobson
6 Crossing Borders with Our Work: Interview with Erín Moure Smaro
Kamboureli and Kit Dobson
7. No Reason to Fool Yourself: Interview with Aritha van Herk Kit Dobson
8. Literature Survives through Its Variety: Interview with Stephen Henighan
Kit Dobson
9. Under Conditions of Restraint: Interview with Larissa Lai Smaro
Kamboureli and Kit Dobson
10. A Book of Poetry in the Mix: Interview with George Elliott Clarke
Smaro Kamboureli and Kit Dobson
Appendix: Timeline of Canadian Cultural Bodies since the Massey Commission
Bibliography
Index