Title: Moveable margins : the shifting spaces of Canadian literature /
Authors: Kanaganayakam, C. 1952-
Publisher: TSAR,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Canadian literature Minority authors History and criticism.; Immigrants' writings, Canadian History and criticism.; Communities in literature.; Canadian literature History and criticism
Abstract: "Canadian literature continues to be something of a muddle, largely because any homogenizing grid would fail to embrace its divergent tendencies and characteristics. The essays in this book focus on how recent writing addresses notions of multiplicity, and how ideas of space and landscape complement and intersect within this genre. Each province, for example, brings to literature its disinctiveness, created by the specificities of its history and its population and the contours of its landscape. Writers who have immigrated to Canada move away from the local to remembered and imagined landscapes, and the communities they project are at once familiar and distant, new and old. The authors represented here are all Canadians, by birth or by choice, but the worlds of their imagination are widely disparate. This collection is intended to bring out the differences, and in the process perceive the intersections and draw connections. The motifs that run through all the essays are community, space, and landscape, and they become the touchstones to examine a richly diverse body of recent Canadian writing. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Getting beyond boundaries : polybridity in contemporary Canadian literature / Donna Bennett -- Empire girls and global girls : a dialogue on spaces of community in the twentieth century / Diana Brydon & Jessica Schagerl -- Towards a pedagogy of African Canadian literature / George Elliot Clarke -- Ondaatje and the cosmopolitan desert explorers : landscape, space and community in The English patient / Paulo Lemos Horta -- Canadian Crusoes from sea to sea : the oceanic communities of Douglas Glover's Elle and Yann Martel's Life of Pi / John Clement Ball -- Concepts of community in five North American and South Asian poems / Christopher Levenson -- The aesthetics of some Aboriginal poetry and some poetry from Newfoundland / Stephanie McKenzie -- The necessity of nationhood : affirming the sovereignty of Indigenous national literatures / Daniel Heath Justice -- Spattering dung over Canadian lawns : immigrant writing and literary history / Chelva Kanaganayakam -- (Dis)inheriting the nation : contemporary Canadian memoirs and the anxiety of origins / Cynthia Sugars.