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Transnational Canadas [electronic resource]

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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 Arguing first that the dichotomy of Canadian nationalism and globalization is no longer valid in today's economic climate, Transnational Canadas explores the legacy of leftist nationalism in Canadian literature.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 th

Title Transnational Canadas [electronic resource] : Anglo-Canadian Literature and Globalization / Kit Dobson.
Publisher Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Creation Date c2009
Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-223) and index.
English
Content Spectres of Derrida and theory's legacy -- Ambiguous resistance in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing -- Nationalism and the void in Dennis Lee's Civil Elegies -- Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers and the crisis of Canadian modernity -- Critique of Spivakian reason and Canadian postcolonialisms -- Multiculturalism and reconciliation in Joy Kogawa's Obasan -- Multicultural postmodernities in Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion -- Dismissing Canada in Jeannette Armstrong's Slash -- Transnational multitudes -- Mainstreaming multiculturalism? The Giller Prize -- Global subjectivities in Roy Miki's Surrender -- Writing past belonging in Dionne Brand's What We All Long For -- Transnational Canadas.
Series TransCanada series
Extent 1 online resource (257 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010711810705171
MARC RECORDS
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