Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory
Essays in Honour of Barbara Godard
Published on 30. June 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
396 pages
978-1-55458-839-8 (ISBN)
Description
Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory is a collection of essays written in honour of Barbara Godard, one of the most original and wide-ranging literary critics, theorists, teachers, translators, and public intellectuals Canada has ever produced. The contributors, both established and emerging scholars, extend Godard's work through engagements with her published texts in the spirit of creative interchange and intergenerational relay of ideas. Their essays resonate with Godard's innovative scholarship situated at the intersection of such fields as literary studies, cultural studies, translation studies, feminist theory, arts criticism, social activism, institutional analysis, and public memory. In pursuit of unexpected linkages and connections, the essays venture beyond generic and disciplinary borders, zeroing in on Godard's transdisciplinary practice that has been extremely influential in the way that it framed questions and modeled interventions for the study of Canadian, Quebecois, and Acadian literatures and cultures. The authors work with the archives ranging from Canadian government policies and documents, to publications concerning white supremacist organizations in Southern Ontario, online materials from a Toronto-based transgender arts festival, a photographic mural installation commemorating the Montreal Massacre, and the works of such writers and artists as Marie Clements, Nicole Brossard, France Daigle, Nancy Huston, Yvette Nolan, Gail Scott, Denise Desautels, Louise Warren, Rebecca Belmore, Vera Frenkel, Robert Lepage, and Janet Cardiff.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55458-839-8 (9781554588398)
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Eva C. Karpinski teaches feminist theory and autobiography in the School of Women's Studies at York University. She has published articles in Literature Compass, Men and Masculinities, Studies in Canadian Literature, Canadian Woman Studies, and Resources for Feminist Research, among others. She is the editor of Pens of Many Colours: A Canadian Reader, a popular college anthology of multicultural writing.
Content
Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory, edited by Eva C. Karpinski, Jennifer Henderson, Ian Sowton, and Ray Ellenwood
Editors' Introduction Eva C. Karpinski and Jennifer Henderson
Prolegomenon: Reader at Work: An Appreciation of Barbara Godard Danielle Fuller
Part One: Textual/Visual Production: Critical Interventions
1 Incisive Literary Critic, Brilliant Theorist, Engaged Teacher, Inspired Translator, Public Intellectual, and Committed Activist-All in the Feminine: The Early Barbara Godard Louise H. Forsyth
2 Cultural Memory and Tragic Affect in Nancy Huston's The Mark of the Angel Pamela McCallum
3 Language and Interdisciplinarity: (Re-)contextualizing Nicole Brossard's Picture Theory Karl E. Jirgens
4 Writing the Museum: Visual Art and Literature: Denise Desautels and Louise Warren Claudine Potvin
Part Two: Culture/Policy/Institutions
5 Negotiating Literatures in Contiguity: France Daigle in/and Quebec Lianne Moyes and Catherine Leclerc
6 A Lack of Public Memory, a Public Memory of Lack Phanuel Antwi
7 ""The Toil and Spoil of Translation"": A Godardian Reading of the Study-Guide: Discover Canada/Guide d'etude: Decouvrir le Canada (2010) Len M. Findlay
8 Notes toward Thinking Transsexual Institutional Poetics Trish Salah
Part Three: Translation/Transculturation
9 Voyage autour de la traduction: The Translator as Writer and Theorist Alessandra Capperdoni
10 Taking Deleuze in the Middle, or Doing Intellectual History by the Letter Jason Demers
11 Gail Scott and Barbara Godard on ""The Main"": Borders, Sutures, Micro-cosmopolitan Interconnectivity, and Translation Studies Gillian Lane-Mercier
Part Four: Public Memory and the Archive
12 Linked Histories and Radio-Activity in Marie Clements's Burning Vision Sophie McCall
13 Memory as Fracture: French Mnemotechniques in the Erasure of the Holocaust Michael Dorland
14 Gender in the Shaping of Public Memory: Arms (Monumental) for Montreal Sue Lloyd
15 Contested Memories: Canadian Women Writers in and out of the Archive Barbara Godard
Coda: In the Stacks of Barbara Godard, or Do Not Confuse the Complexity of This Moment with Chaos Lisa Sloniowski
Contributors
Index
Editors' Introduction Eva C. Karpinski and Jennifer Henderson
Prolegomenon: Reader at Work: An Appreciation of Barbara Godard Danielle Fuller
Part One: Textual/Visual Production: Critical Interventions
1 Incisive Literary Critic, Brilliant Theorist, Engaged Teacher, Inspired Translator, Public Intellectual, and Committed Activist-All in the Feminine: The Early Barbara Godard Louise H. Forsyth
2 Cultural Memory and Tragic Affect in Nancy Huston's The Mark of the Angel Pamela McCallum
3 Language and Interdisciplinarity: (Re-)contextualizing Nicole Brossard's Picture Theory Karl E. Jirgens
4 Writing the Museum: Visual Art and Literature: Denise Desautels and Louise Warren Claudine Potvin
Part Two: Culture/Policy/Institutions
5 Negotiating Literatures in Contiguity: France Daigle in/and Quebec Lianne Moyes and Catherine Leclerc
6 A Lack of Public Memory, a Public Memory of Lack Phanuel Antwi
7 ""The Toil and Spoil of Translation"": A Godardian Reading of the Study-Guide: Discover Canada/Guide d'etude: Decouvrir le Canada (2010) Len M. Findlay
8 Notes toward Thinking Transsexual Institutional Poetics Trish Salah
Part Three: Translation/Transculturation
9 Voyage autour de la traduction: The Translator as Writer and Theorist Alessandra Capperdoni
10 Taking Deleuze in the Middle, or Doing Intellectual History by the Letter Jason Demers
11 Gail Scott and Barbara Godard on ""The Main"": Borders, Sutures, Micro-cosmopolitan Interconnectivity, and Translation Studies Gillian Lane-Mercier
Part Four: Public Memory and the Archive
12 Linked Histories and Radio-Activity in Marie Clements's Burning Vision Sophie McCall
13 Memory as Fracture: French Mnemotechniques in the Erasure of the Holocaust Michael Dorland
14 Gender in the Shaping of Public Memory: Arms (Monumental) for Montreal Sue Lloyd
15 Contested Memories: Canadian Women Writers in and out of the Archive Barbara Godard
Coda: In the Stacks of Barbara Godard, or Do Not Confuse the Complexity of This Moment with Chaos Lisa Sloniowski
Contributors
Index