Beyond "Understanding Canada"

Transnational Perspectives on Canadian Literature

Melissa Tanti, Jeremy Haynes, Daniel Coleman, Lorraine York, Melissa Tanti, Jeremy Haynes, Daniel Coleman, Lorraine York

• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781772122695
• eBook ISBN: 9781772123258
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The dismantling of "Understanding Canada"—an international program eliminated by Canada's Conservative government in 2012—posed a tremendous potential setback for Canadianists. Yet Canadian writers continue to be celebrated globally by popular and academic audiences alike. Twenty scholars speak to the government's diplomatic and economic about-face and its implications for representations of Canadian writing within and outside Canada's borders. The contributors to this volume remind us of the obstacles facing transnational intellectual exchange, but also salute scholars' persistence despite these obstacles. Beyond "Understanding Canada" is a timely, trenchant volume for students and scholars of Canadian literature and anyone seeking to understand how Canadian literature circulates in a transnational world. Contributors: Michael A. Bucknor, Daniel Coleman, Anne Collett, Pilar Cuder-Domínguez, Ana María Fraile-Marcos, Jeremy Haynes, Cristina Ivanovici, Milena Kali?anin, Smaro Kamboureli, Katalin Kürtösi, Vesna Lopi?i?, Belén Martín-Lucas, Claire Omhovère, Lucia Otrísalová, Don Sparling, Melissa Tanti, Christl Verduyn, Elizabeth Yeoman, Lorraine York

Index

Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.

Abandoned Marble Quarries series (Burtynsky), 141

Aboriginal peoples. See Indigenous peoples

ACSUS (Association for Canadian Studies in the US), 7, 273n9

Ady, Endre, 128–29

African Canadian, as term, 104

See also black Atlantic; black Canadians; black Canadian writing; Caribbean Canadian writing

Afroperiphery, as term, 105

After Canaan (Compton), 104–5

Ahmed, Sara, 159, 164, 167

Albahari, David

about, xix, 175–77

contending civilities, 176

dialogical space for immigrants and Indigenous peoples, 175–77, 181–83, 191–92

nostalgia for former nations, 179–80

outsiders in national vision, 177–78

trickster figures, 187–90

Albahari, David, works

“An Indian at Olympic Plaza,” 175–76, 178–81, 185–91

Götz and Meyer, 176

“Learning Cyrillic,” 175, 182–84, 186, 190–91

Snow Man, 175, 177, 179–80, 182, 186, 191

Algoo-Baksh, Stella, 66

Alias Grace (Atwood), 251n10

Almonte, Richard, 85

Angilirq, Paul Apak, 41–42

The Animals in That Country (Atwood), 235

Animal Stories (Seton), 221–22, 228n6

Anne of Green Gables series (Montgomery), xx–xxi, 218–20, 228n6

Antwi, Phanuel, 61–62, 70, 75n5

Appadurai, Arjun, 19

area studies, 13–14, 18–19, 46–47, 54

See also transnational studies

Argentina, UC program, 29, 34–35

Armstrong, Jeannette, xxiii, 270

arts, visual

art theory, 195–99, 203–5

E. Carr as marginal modernist, xviii, 119–24

expression of consciousness, 197–98

Group of Seven artists, 121–24, 134, 141–42

inter-iconicity, 131, 141–42, 144, 146–47, 147n1

landscape painting, 134

postcards, 197

sight in hierarchy of senses, 196

See also Cities of Refuge (Helm); landscape photography

Association for Canadian Studies [in Canada] (ACS), 11, 25–26

Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries (GKS), 261

Association for Canadian Studies in the US (ACSUS), 7, 273n9

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• I Contexts, Provocations, and Knowledge Territories
• II Roots and Routes
• III Mapping Bodies, Place, and Time
• IV Border Zones
• V Reading Publics
• Works Cited
• Contributors
• Index
• Other Titles from The University of Alberta Press