Cultural circulation
Subtitle: dialogues between Canada and the American South
By: Waldemar Zacharasiewicz and Christoph Irmscher (eds.).
Series: Sitzungsberichte (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse) -- 843. Band; Sitzungsberichte (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse) -- 843. Bd.
Publisher: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Wien
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9783700174295
Subjects: Relations
Description: "The present volume is based on an international colloquium convened in 2010 to which scholars from North America and Europe contributed papers dealing with the historical, cultural, and literary connections between Canada and the American South. The essays on this broad but under-researched topic are arranged in four sections reflecting the multiple ties and the cultural circulation between the two large North American regions. They illuminate demographic facts and developments, and their literary representations, such as the enforced displacement of the 18th century Acadiens, who later reassembled in Louisiana (Cajun culture), and the flight of thousands of fugitive (African American) slaves to the safe haven of Canada. Special attention is focused on the intertextual links between Southern writers and their Canadian counterparts, with William Faulkner and Eudora Welty especially providing inspiration for Canadian authors such as Alice Munro, Jack Hodgins, and Margaret Atwood."--
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Academy publication.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Waldemar Zacharasiewicz and Christoph Irmscher -- Ouverture; title: My love affair with Shrevlin McCannon  -- Aritha van Herk -- I. Acadians and Canadians; title: Et in Acadia ego : some versions of the pastoral in the Cajun ethnic revival  -- Berndt Ostendorf; title: "Beyond the bayou" : sociocultural spaces in Kate Chopin's Louisiana short stories  -- Jutta Ernst; title: Northeast by south : Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha and Antonine Maillet's Accadia  -- Jacques Pothier -- II. Transmigrations; title: Audubon goes north  -- Christoph Irmscher; title: Stowe, the south, Canada, and sadism  -- Richard J. Ellis; title: From roots to routes : the dialogic relation between Alex Haley's Roots (1976) and Lawrence Hill's The book of Negroes (2007) --; title: Flights to Canada : Jacob Lawrence, Ishmael Reed, and Lawrence Hill  -- Hans Bak; title: The bridge from Mississippi's Freedom Summer to Canada : Pearl Cleage's Bourbon at the border  -- Sharon Monteith; title: Metropolis and hinterland : Faulkner and MacLeod  -- David Williams -- III. Rewritings and influences; title: Re-writing the Grimms : Eudora Welty and Margaret Atwood  -- Rosella Mamoli Zorzi; title: Hard beauty : the confluence of Eudora Welty and Alice Munro : Mississippi-south and Ontario-south portraits of the 1930s  -- Pearl Amelia McHaney; title: Parallel spiritual worlds : Alice Munro country and the American south  -- Charles R. Wilson; title: "A wordless unease" : some aspects of the relationship between art and politics in the works of southern and Canadian writers  -- Danièle Pitavy-Souques; title: An open field of possibility : reading Jack Hodgins's The invention of the world in dialogue with the American south  -- Ian MacRae; title: Crisscrossing the continent : from Black Mountain to Vancouver  -- William V. Davis -- IV. Circulating genres and the emergence of a transcontinental postmodern; title: Two nations, one genre? : the beginnings of the modernist short story in the United States and Canada  -- Reingard M. Nischik; title: Canada/American south in the short story : Flannery O'Connor -- Jack Hodgins -- Leon Rooke  -- Dieter Meindl; title: Voice not place : Leon Rooke makes a success in Canada  -- Thomas L. McHaney; title: I, Canadian : Elizabeth Spencer's Montreal  -- Marcel Arbeit; title: Michael Ondaatje's New Orleans in Coming through slaughter  -- Nahem Yousaf; title: Culinary transgressions : food practices and constructions of female identity in Gail Anderson-Dargatz's The cure for death by lightning and Fannie Flagg's Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café  -- Caroline Rosenthal -- Envoi; title: South by northwest  -- Laurie Ricou; title: List of contributors -- Index.