The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature

993 Pages·2015·15.023 MB·English

by  Cynthia Sugars (editor)

The Oxford Handbook of
C A NA D IA N
L I T E R AT U R E

The Oxford Handbook of
CANADIAN
LITERATURE
Edited by
CYNTHIA SUGARS
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The Oxford handbook of Canadian literature / edited by Cynthia Sugars.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary: “The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature provides a broad-ranging introduction to
some of the key critical fields, genres, and periods in Canadian literary studies” — Provided by publisher.
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1. Canadian literature. 2. Authors, Canadian. 3. Canada—In literature. 4. Canadian literature—History
and criticism. 5. National characteristics, Canadian. I. Sugars, Cynthia Conchita, 1963– editor.
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Contents
Acknowledgments  xi
Contributors  xiii
Introduction  1
Cynthia Sugars
PART I REFLECTIONS ON THE DISCIPLINE
1. Constructing “Canadian Literature”: A Retrospective  17
Frank Davey
2. National Literature, Canadian Criticism, and National Character  41
Adam Carter
3. Remembering Canada: The Politics of Cultural Memory  64
Richard Cavell
4. Canadian Celebrity Authorship Moves On  80
Lorraine York
5. Toward a Planetary Poetics: Canadian Poetries after Globalization  92
Erin Wunker
6. Cultural Studies in Canada: Past, Present, and Future  110
Imre Szeman and Andrew Pendakis
PART II INDIGENOUS LITERATURES
AND CONTEXTS
7. Contemporary Metis Literature: Resistance, Roots, Innovation  129
Emma LaRocque
vi Contents
8. From Profound Silences to Ethical Practices: Aboriginal
Writing and Reconciliation  150
Jonathan Dewar

9. Indigenous Autobiography in Canada: Uncovering Intellectual
Traditions  170

Deanna Reder
10. “What Inuit Will Think”: Keavy Martin and Taqralik

Partridge Talk Inuit Literature  191
Keavy Martin and Taqralik Partridge
11. In/Hospitable “Aboriginalities” in Contemporary Indigenous

Women’s Writing  209
Julia Emberley
PART III LITERARY PERIODS AND GENRES

12. Reading, Writing, and Speaking of Contact: Explorations
from Both Sides  227
Jennifer S.H. Brown and Frieda Esau Klippenstein
13. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French-Canadian Literature  242
Andrea Cabajsky
14. English-Canadian Narratives of Settlement  260
Janice Fiamengo

15. British Poets, Classical Myths, Canadian Locations  277
D.M.R. Bentley

16. Cosmopolitan Nationalism: Canadian Literature of the
Confederation Period, 1867–1914  295
Tracy Ware
17. Modernist Poetry in Canada, 1920–1960  314
J.A. Weingarten
18. Mid-Century Modernity and Fiction by Women, 1920–1950  337
Carole Gerson

19. Mainstream Magazines: Home and Mobility  352
Faye Hammill and Michelle Smith
Contents vii
20. Canadian Drama and the Nationalist Impulse  369
Craig Walker
21. The Stratford Festival and Canadian Cultural Nationalism  386
Ian Rae
22. The Not So Quiet, Nor Short, Révolution Tranquille  403
David Leahy
23. The Canadian Short Story in English: Aesthetic Agency, Social
Change, and the Shifting Canon  426
Alexander MacLeod
24. The English-Canadian Novel: Counter-Memory and
the Claims of History, 1950–2000  448
Cynthia Sugars
25. Fracture Mechanics: Canadian Poetry since 1960  471
Tanis MacDonald
26. Humour and Irony in Québec Women’s Writing, 1970–2010:
Taking the Pulse of a Resistance  495
Lucie Joubert
27. The Digital Turn in Canadian and Québécois Literature  512
Kate Eichhorn
PART IV INTRA-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
AND TRADITIONS
28. Diasporic Citizenship and De-Formations of Citizenship  527
Lily Cho
29. Black Canadian Literature: Fieldwork and “Post-Race”  539
David Chariandy
30. (East and Southeast) Asian Canadian Literature: The Strange
and the Familiar  564
Eleanor Ty
31. South Asian Canadian “Geographies of Voice”: Flagging New
Critical Mappings  583
Mariam Pirbhai
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32. You Say You’ve OD’d on Leonard Cohen: Canadian Jewish Writing
and the Mainstream  602
Norman Ravvin

33. For Better or for Worse: Revisiting Écriture migrante in Québec  621
Marie Carrière and Catherine Khordoc
34. On the Poetics of Arab-Canadian Literature in French and English  639
Elizabeth Dahab
35. “People Are Made of Places”: Perspectives on Region in
Atlantic-Canadian Literature  657
Tony Tremblay

36. “If I Were a Rugged Beauty …”: Contemporary
Newfoundland Fiction  676
Paul Chafe
37. Retracing Prairie Literature  691
Alison Calder
38. Canadian Literature on the Pacific Coast  709
Nicholas Bradley
PART V CRITICAL FIELDS AND NEW
DIRECTIONS
39. Ecocriticism in Canada  727
Pamela Banting
40. Canadian Postcolonialisms  755
Diana Brydon and Bruno Cornellier
41. Reading Historiography and Historical Fiction in
Twentieth-Century Canada  780
Renée Hulan
42. Canadian Book History  799
Eli MacLaren
43. Canadian Auto/biography: Life Writing, Biography, and Memoir  813
Julie Rak
Contents ix
44. Canadian Children’s Literature in English  826
Deirdre Baker
45. Canadian Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory
in the “Second Wave”  845
Cecily Devereux
46. Gay and Lesbian Literature in Canada  863
Terry Goldie and Lee Frew
47. Survival of the Fittest: CanLit and Disability  877
Sally Chivers
48. Canadian Literature in the Neoliberal Era  892
Herb Wyile
Index 907