Trans. Can. Lit |
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| Editor:
| Kamboureli, Smaro
Miki, Roy |
| ISBN: | 978-1-282-16707-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2007 |
| Publisher: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $85.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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."