Crosstalk
Canadian and Global Imaginaries in Dialogue
Will be published approx. on 30. September 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
330 pages
978-1-55458-302-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55458-302-7 (9781554583027)
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Diana Brydon is Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Globalization and Cultural Studies at the University of Manitoba. She has published books on Christina Stead and Timothy Findley, edited Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, and co-edited Shakespeare in Canada and Renegotiating Community: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Contexts
Marta Dvorak is professor of Canadian and postcolonial literatures in English at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, former associate editor of The International Journal of Canadian Studies, and editor of Commonwealth Essays and Studies. Focusing her research on (post)modernism and cross-culturalism, she has authored and edited books ranging from Ernest Buckler: Rediscovery and Reassessment (WLU Press, 2001) to Tropes and Territories: Short Fiction, Postcolonial Readings, and Canadian Writings in Context (co-ed. W.H. New) and The Faces of Carnival in Anita Desai's In Custody.
Marta Dvorak is professor of Canadian and postcolonial literatures in English at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, former associate editor of The International Journal of Canadian Studies, and editor of Commonwealth Essays and Studies. Focusing her research on (post)modernism and cross-culturalism, she has authored and edited books ranging from Ernest Buckler: Rediscovery and Reassessment (WLU Press, 2001) to Tropes and Territories: Short Fiction, Postcolonial Readings, and Canadian Writings in Context (co-ed. W.H. New) and The Faces of Carnival in Anita Desai's In Custody.
Content
Table of Contents for Crosstalk: Canadian and Global Imaginaries in Dialogue, edited by Diana Brydon and Marta DvorA k 1. Introduction: Negotiating Meaning in Changing Times | Diana Brydon and Marta DvorA k 2. aWhirlwinds Coiled at My Hearta: Voice and Vision in a Writeras Practicea | Olive Senior Section One: Collaboration, Crosstalk, Improvisation 3. Voicing the Unforeseeable: Improvisation, Social Practice, Collaborative Research | Ajay Heble and Winfried Siemerling 4. Epistemological Crosstalk: Between Melancholia and Spiritual Cosmology in David Chariandyas Soucouyant and Lee Maracleas Daughters Are Forever | Daniel Coleman 5. Native Performance Culture, Monique Mojica, and the Chocolate Woman Workshops | Ric Knowles 6. Collaboration and Convention in the Poetry of Pain Not Bread | Alison Calder Section Two: Dialogism, Polyphony, Voice 7. Rejoinders in a Planetary Dialogue: J.M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, Lloyd Jones et al. in Dialogue with Absent Texts | Marta DvorA k 8. Not Just Representation: The Sound and Concrete Poetries of the Four Horsemen | Frank Davey 9. Portraits of the Artist in Dionne Brandas What We All Long For and Madeleine Thienas Certainty | Pilar Cuder-DomA-nguez 10. Unsettling Voices: Dionne Brandas Cosmopolitan Cities | Sandra Regina Goulart Almeida 11. Questions of Voice, Race, and the Body in Hiromi Gotoas Chorus of Mushrooms and Larissa Laias When Fox Is a Thousand | Charlotte Sturgess Section Three: Space, Place, and Circulation 12. The Artialisation of Landscape in Jane Urquhartas The Whirlpool | Claire OmhovA?re 13. Ghostly Voices and Arctic Blanks: From Emily BrontA"'s Wuthering Heights to Jane Urquhartas Changing Heaven | Catherine Lanone 14. aYou must see to understand...a: Orientalist ClichA (c)s and Transformation in Robert Lepageas The Dragonsa Trilogy | Christine Lorre-Johnston 15. Diasporic Appropriations: Exporting South Asian Culture from Canada | Chelva Kanaganayakam 16. Negotiating Belonging in Global Times: The HA (c)rouxville Debates | Diana Brydon Works Cited Contributors Index