Producing Canadian Literature
Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace
Published on 30. June 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
268 pages
978-1-55458-355-3 (ISBN)
Description
Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace brings to light the relationship between writers in Canada and the marketplace within which their work circulates. Through a series of conversations with both established and younger writers from across the country, Kit Dobson and Smaro Kamboureli investigate how writers perceive their relationship to the cultural economy - and what that economy means for their creative processes.
The interviews in Producing Canadian Literature focus, in particular, on how writers interact with the cultural institutions and bodies that surround them. Conversations pursue the impacts of arts funding on writers; show how agents, editors, and publishers affect writers' works; examine the process of actually selling a book, both in Canada and abroad; and contemplate what literary awards mean to writers. Dialogues with Christian Boek, George Elliott Clarke, Daniel Heath Justice, Larissa Lai, Stephen Henighan, Roy Miki, Erin Moure, Ashok Mathur, Lee Maracle, Jane Urquhart, and Aritha van Herk testify to the broad range of experience that writers in Canada have when it comes to the conditions in which their work is produced.
Original in its desire to directly explore the specific circumstances in which writers work - and how those conditions affect their writing itself - Producing Canadian Literature will be of interest to scholars, students, aspiring writers, and readers who have followed these authors and want to know more about how their books come into being.
The interviews in Producing Canadian Literature focus, in particular, on how writers interact with the cultural institutions and bodies that surround them. Conversations pursue the impacts of arts funding on writers; show how agents, editors, and publishers affect writers' works; examine the process of actually selling a book, both in Canada and abroad; and contemplate what literary awards mean to writers. Dialogues with Christian Boek, George Elliott Clarke, Daniel Heath Justice, Larissa Lai, Stephen Henighan, Roy Miki, Erin Moure, Ashok Mathur, Lee Maracle, Jane Urquhart, and Aritha van Herk testify to the broad range of experience that writers in Canada have when it comes to the conditions in which their work is produced.
Original in its desire to directly explore the specific circumstances in which writers work - and how those conditions affect their writing itself - Producing Canadian Literature will be of interest to scholars, students, aspiring writers, and readers who have followed these authors and want to know more about how their books come into being.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55458-355-3 (9781554583553)
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Kit Dobson is an assistant professor of Canadian literature at Calgary's Mount Royal University. He is the author of Transnational Canadas: Anglo-Canadian Literature and Globalization (WLU Press, 2009) and co-author, with Smaro Kamboureli, of Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace (WLU Press, 2012).
Smaro Kamboureli is a professor and the Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature in the English Department at the University of Toronto. She is the founder of the TransCanada series of books, published by WLU Press, originating from interdisciplinary conferences that initiated collaborative research on the methodologies and institutional structures and contexts that inform and shape the production, dissemination, teaching, and study of Canadian literature. Her most recent publications include Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies (WLU Press 2012), co-edited with Robert Zacharias and Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace (WLU Press, 2013), co-edited with Kit Dobson.
Smaro Kamboureli is a professor and the Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature in the English Department at the University of Toronto. She is the founder of the TransCanada series of books, published by WLU Press, originating from interdisciplinary conferences that initiated collaborative research on the methodologies and institutional structures and contexts that inform and shape the production, dissemination, teaching, and study of Canadian literature. Her most recent publications include Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies (WLU Press 2012), co-edited with Robert Zacharias and Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace (WLU Press, 2013), co-edited with Kit Dobson.
Content
Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace, by Kit Dobson and Smaro Kamboureli
Foreword: Producing a Globalized Canadian Literature and Its Communities Jeff Derksen
Acknowledgements
Introduction Kit Dobson
1. Too Bloody-Minded to Give Up: Interview with Christian Boek Kit Dobson
2. The Politics of Our Work: Interview with Ashok Mathur Smaro Kamboureli and Kit Dobson
3. Change the Way Canada Sees Us: Interview with Lee Maracle Smaro Kamboureli and Kit Dobson
4. A Very, Very Uncertain Way to Make a Living: Interview with Jane Urquhart Smaro Kamboureli and Kit Dobson
5. To Hear This Different Story: Interview with Daniel Heath Justice Smaro Kamboureli and Kit Dobson
6 Crossing Borders with Our Work: Interview with Erin Moure Smaro Kamboureli and Kit Dobson
7. No Reason to Fool Yourself: Interview with Aritha van Herk Kit Dobson
8. Literature Survives through Its Variety: Interview with Stephen Henighan Kit Dobson
9. Under Conditions of Restraint: Interview with Larissa Lai Smaro Kamboureli and Kit Dobson
10. A Book of Poetry in the Mix: Interview with George Elliott Clarke Smaro Kamboureli and Kit Dobson
Appendix: Timeline of Canadian Cultural Bodies since the Massey Commission
Bibliography
Index
Foreword: Producing a Globalized Canadian Literature and Its Communities Jeff Derksen
Acknowledgements
Introduction Kit Dobson
1. Too Bloody-Minded to Give Up: Interview with Christian Boek Kit Dobson
2. The Politics of Our Work: Interview with Ashok Mathur Smaro Kamboureli and Kit Dobson
3. Change the Way Canada Sees Us: Interview with Lee Maracle Smaro Kamboureli and Kit Dobson
4. A Very, Very Uncertain Way to Make a Living: Interview with Jane Urquhart Smaro Kamboureli and Kit Dobson
5. To Hear This Different Story: Interview with Daniel Heath Justice Smaro Kamboureli and Kit Dobson
6 Crossing Borders with Our Work: Interview with Erin Moure Smaro Kamboureli and Kit Dobson
7. No Reason to Fool Yourself: Interview with Aritha van Herk Kit Dobson
8. Literature Survives through Its Variety: Interview with Stephen Henighan Kit Dobson
9. Under Conditions of Restraint: Interview with Larissa Lai Smaro Kamboureli and Kit Dobson
10. A Book of Poetry in the Mix: Interview with George Elliott Clarke Smaro Kamboureli and Kit Dobson
Appendix: Timeline of Canadian Cultural Bodies since the Massey Commission
Bibliography
Index