Cynthia Sugars

The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature provides a broad-ranging introduction to some of the key critical fields, genres, and periods in Canadian literary studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 994
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 180mm x 69mm
• Gewicht: 1678g
• ISBN-13: 9780199941865
• ISBN-10: 0199941866
• Artikelnr.: 44471632

Autorenporträt

Cynthia Sugars is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa.

Inhaltsangabe

* Contributors
* Introduction
* Cynthia Sugars (Ottawa)
* Part I: Reflections on the Discipline
* 1. Constructing "Canadian Literature": A Retrospective
* Frank Davey (Western)
* 2. National Literature, Canadian Criticism, and National Character
* Adam Carter (Lethbridge)
* 3. Remembering Canada: The Politics of Cultural Memory
* Richard Cavell (British Columbia)
* 4. Canadian Celebrity Authorship Moves On
* Lorraine York (McMaster)
* 5. Towards a Planetary Poetics: Canadian Poetries after Globalization
* Kit Dobson (Mount Royal) and Erin Wunker (Dalhousie)
* 6. Cultural Studies in Canada: Past, Present, and Future
* Imre Szeman (Alberta) and Andrew Pendakis (Brock)
* Part II: Indigenous Literatures and Contexts
* 7. Contemporary Métis Literature: Resistance, Roots, Innovation
* Emma LaRocque (Manitoba)
* 8. From Profound Silences to Ethical Practices: Aboriginal Writing
and Reconciliation
* Jonathan Dewar (Aboriginal Healing Foundation/Algoma)
* 9. Indigenous Autobiography in Canada: Uncovering Intellectual
Traditions
* Deanna Reder (Simon Fraser)
* 10. "What Inuit Will Think": Taqralik Partridge and Keavy Martin Talk
Inuit Literature
* Taqralik Partridge and Keavy Martin (Alberta)
* 11. In/Hospitable "Aboriginalities" in Contemporary Indigenous
Women's Writing
* Julia Emberley (Western)
* Part III: Literary Periods and Genres
* 12. Reading, Writing, and Speaking of Contact: Explorations from Both
Sides
* Jennifer Brown (Winnipeg) and Frieda Klippenstein (Parks Canada)
* 13. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French-Canadian Literature
* Andrea Cabajsky (Moncton)
* 14. English-Canadian Narratives of Settlement
* Janice Fiamengo (Ottawa)
* 15. British Poets, Classical Myths, Canadian Locations
* D.M.R. Bentley (Western)
* 16. Cosmopolitan Nationalism: Canadian Literature of the
Confederation Period, 1867-1914
* Tracy Ware (Queen's)
* 17. Modernist Poetry in Canada, 1920-1960
* J.A. Weingarten (Concordia)
* 18. Mid-Century Modernity and Fiction by Women, 1920-1950
* Carole Gerson (Simon Fraser)
* 19. Mainstream Magazines: Home and Mobility
* Faye Hammill and Michelle Smith (Strathclyde)
* 20. Canadian Drama and the Nationalist Impulse
* Craig Walker (Queen's)
* 21. The Stratford Festival and Canadian Cultural Nationalism
* Ian Rae (Western)
* 22. The Not So Quiet, Nor Short, Révolution Tranquille
* David Leahy (Independent Scholar)
* 23. The Canadian Short Story in English: Aesthetic Agency, Social
Change, and the Shifting Canon
* Alexander MacLeod (St. Mary's)
* 24. The English-Canadian Novel: Counter-Memory and the Claims of
History, 1950-2000
* Cynthia Sugars (Ottawa)
* 25. Fracture Mechanics: Canadian Poetry since 1960
* Tanis MacDonald (Wilfrid Laurier)
* 26. Humour and Irony in Quebec Women's Writing, 1970-2010: Taking the
Pulse of a Resistance
* Lucie Joubert (Ottawa)
* 27. The Digital Turn in Canadian and Québécois Literature
* Kate Eichhorn (New School)
* Part IV: Intra-National Perspectives and Traditions
* 28. Diasporic Citizenship and De-Formations of Citizenship
* Lily Cho (York)
* 29. Black Canadian Literature: Fieldwork and "Post-Race"
* David Chariandy (Simon Fraser)
* 30. (East and Southeast) Asian Canadian Literature: The Strange and
the Familiar
* Eleanor Ty (Wilfrid Laurier)
* 31. South-Asian Canadian "Geographies of Voice": Flagging New
Critical Mappings
* Mariam Pirbhai (Wilfrid Laurier)
* 32. You Say You've OD'd on Leonard Cohen: Canadian Jewish Writers,
Celebrity, and the Mainstream
* Norman Ravvin (Concordia)
* 33. For Better or for Worse: Revisiting écriture migrante in Québec
* Marie CarriPre (Alberta) and Catherine Khordoc (Carleton)
* 34. On the Poetics of Arab-Canadian Literature in French and English
* Elizabeth F. Dahab (California State)
* 35. "People are made of places": Perspectives on Region in
Atlantic-Canadian Literature
* Tony Tremblay (St. Thomas)
* 36. "If I were a rugged beauty . . .": Contemporary Newfoundland
Fiction
* Paul Chafe (Ryerson)
* 37. Retracing Prairie Literature
* Alison Calder (Manitoba)
* 38. Canadian Literature on the Pacific Coast
* Nicholas Bradley (Victoria)
* Part V: Critical Fields and New Directions
* 39. Ecocriticism in Canada
* Pamela Banting (Calgary)
* 40. Canadian Postcolonialisms
* Diana Brydon (Manitoba) and Bruno Cornellier (Winnipeg)
* 41. Reading Historiography and Historical Fiction in
Twentieth-Century Canada
* Renée Hulan (Saint Mary's)
* 42. Canadian Book History
* Eli MacLaren (McGill)
* 43. Canadian Auto/biography: Life Writing, Biography, and Memoir
* Julie Rak (Alberta)
* 44. Canadian Children's Literature in English
* Deirdre Baker (Toronto)
* 45. Canadian Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory in the "Second
Wave"
* Cecily Devereux (Alberta)
* 46. Gay and Lesbian Literature in Canada
* Terry Goldie and Lee Frew (York)
* 47. Survival of the Fittest: CanLit and Disability
* Sally Chivers (Trent)
* 48. Canadian Literature in the Neoliberal Era
* Herb Wyile (Acadia)