Crosstalk : Canadian and global imaginaries in dialogue /
Brydon, Diana.
Dvorak, Marta.
Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
c2012.
"What are the fictions that shape Canadian engagements with the global? What frictions emerge from these encounters? In negotiating aesthetic and political approaches to Canadian cultural production within contexts of global circulation, this collection argues for the value of attending to narratorial, lyric, and theatrical conventions in dialogue with questions of epistemological and social justice. Using the twinned framing devices of crosstalk and cross-sighting, the contributing authors attend to how the interplay of the verbal and the visual maps public spheres of creative engagement today. Individual chapters present a range of methodological approaches to understanding national culture and creative labour in global contexts. Through their collective enactment of methodological crosstalk, they demonstrate the productivity of scholarly debate across differences of outlook, culture, and training. In highlighting convergences and disagreements, the book sharpens our understanding of how literary and critical conventions and theories operate within and across cultures." -- Publisher's website.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: negotiating meaning in changing times / Diana Brydon and Marta Dvorak -- "Whirlwinds coiled at my heart: voice and vision in a writer's practice / Olive Senior.
SECTION ONE: COLLABORATION, CROSSTALK, IMPROVISATION. Voicing the Unforeseeable: Improvisation, Social Practice, Collaborative Research / Ajay Heble and Winfried Siemerling -- Epistemological Crosstalk: Between Melancholia & Spiritual Cosmology in David Chariandy's "Soucouyant" and Lee Maracle's "Daughters Are Forever" / Daniel Coleman -- Native Performance Culture, Monique Mojica, and the "Chocolate Woman" Workshops / Ric Knowles -- Collaboration and Convention in the Poetry of Pain Not Bread / Alison Calder.
SECTION TWO: DIALOGISM, POLYPHONY, VOICE. Rejoinders in a Planetary Dialogue: J.M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, Lloyd Jones, et al. in Dialogue with Absent Texts / Marta Dvorak -- Not Just Representation: The Sound and Concrete Poetries of the Four Horsemen / Frank Davey -- Portraits of the Artist in Dionne Brand's "What We All Long For" and Madeleine Thien's "Certainty" / Pilar Cuder-Domínguez -- Unsettling Voices: Dionne Brand's Cosmopolitan Cities / Sandra Regina Goulart Almeida -- Questions of Voice, Race, and the Body in Hiromi Goto's "Chorus of Mushrooms" and Larissa Lai's "When Fox Is a Thousand" / Charlotte Sturgess.
SECTION THREE; SPACE, PLACE, AND CIRCULATION. The Artialisation of Landscape in Jane Urquhart's "The Whirlpool" / Claire Omhovère -- Ghostly Voices and Arctic Blanks: Fromn Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" to Jane Urquhart's "Changing Heaven" / Catherine Lanone -- "You must see to understand...": Orientalist Cliches and Transformation in Robert Lepage's "The Dragons' Trilogy" / Christine Lorre-Johnston -- Diasporic Appropriations: Exporting South Asian Culture from Canada / Chelva Kanaganayakam -- Negotiating Belonging in Global Times: The Herouxville Debates / Diana Brydon.
"What are the fictions that shape Canadian engagements with the global? What frictions emerge from these encounters? In negotiating aesthetic and political approaches to Canadian cultural production within contexts of global circulation, this collection argues for the value of attending to narratorial, lyric, and theatrical conventions in dialogue with questions of epistemological and social justice. Using the twinned framing devices of crosstalk and cross-sighting, the contributing authors attend to how the interplay of the verbal and the visual maps public spheres of creative engagement today. Individual chapters present a range of methodological approaches to understanding national culture and creative labour in global contexts. Through their collective enactment of methodological crosstalk, they demonstrate the productivity of scholarly debate across differences of outlook, culture, and training. In highlighting convergences and disagreements, the book sharpens our understanding of how literary and critical conventions and theories operate within and across cultures." -- Publisher's website.
Canadian literature
Literature and globalization
Culture and globalization
Issued also in electronic format.