Inhabiting Memory in Canadian Literature / Habiter La Mémoire Dans La Littérature Canadienne

Inhabiting Memory in Canadian Literature / Habiter La Mémoire Dans La Littérature Canadienne

Benjamin Authers (Editor), Maïté Snauwaert (Editor), Daniel Laforest (Editor)
$54.99
Publication Date: November 10th, 2017
Publisher:
University of Alberta Press
ISBN:
9781772122701
Pages:
304

Description

This book examines the cultural work of space and memory in Canada and Canadian literature, and encourages readers to investigate Canada within its regional, national, and global contexts. It features seven chapters in English and five in French, with a bilingual introduction. The contributors invite us to recognize local intersections that are so easily overlooked, yet are so important. They reveal the unities and fractures in national understanding, telling stories of otherness and marginality and of dislocation and un-belonging.

Ce livre examine l'importance culturelle de l'espace et de la m moire en contexte canadien et plus sp cifiquement dans les litt ratures du pays, afin d'inviter des lectures neuves des questions r gionales, nationales et globales. Il rassemble sept chapitres en anglais et cinq en fran ais, en plus d'une introduction bilingue. Les contributions, favorisant des approches th matiques et th oriques vari es, sont r unies par leur d sir de mettre en lumi re des croisements in dits entre la m moire et l'espace en tant qu'ils d finissent certains des probl mes les plus br lants de notre poque au Canada. S'y r v le l' quilibre fort instable entre r cits unitaires et fractures communautaires, entre alt rit et marginalit , ou entre dislocation et d sappartenance.

Contributors / Collaborateurs: Albert Braz, Samantha Cook, Jennifer Delisle, Lise Gaboury-Diallo, Smaro Kamboureli, Janne Korkka, Andr Lamontagne, Margaret Mackey, Sherry Simon, Pamela Sing, Camille van der Marel, Erin Wunker
Featuring seven English-language essays, five French-language essays, and a bilingual introduction, this collection examines the cultural work of space and memory in Canada and Canadian literature, and encourages readers to investigate Canada within its regional, national, and global contexts. It also invites us to recognize local intersections so easily overlooked, yet so important. The diverse critical approaches of this collection reveal and probe the unities and fractures in national understanding, telling stories of otherness and marginality, of dis-location and un-belonging. This collection will be welcomed by readers and critics of Canadian literature.

Contributors: Albert Braz, Samantha Cook, Jennifer Delisle, Lise Gaboury-Diallo, Smaro Kamboureli, Janne Korkka, Andr Lamontagne, Margaret Mackey, Sherry Simon, Pamela Sing, Camille van der Marel, Erin Wunker.

About the Author

Benjamin Authers is Lecturer at Flinders University, Adelaide, and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra. Maïté Snauwaert holds a PhD in French Literature from Université Paris 8. In Canada since 2004, she has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre de recherche sur le texte et l'imaginaire Figura at the Université du Québec à Montréal, at the CRILCQ/Université de Montréal, and at McGill University (Marie-Thérèse Reverchon scholarship). She is an associate professor at the Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta. Daniel Laforest is Associate Professor at the University of Alberta where he teaches Quebec and Canadian literatures, as well as French literature, cultural studies and critical theory. He has been Fulbright fellow at the Centre for Cultural Studies of the University of California Santa Cruz. He serves as associate editor for the academic journal Canadian Literature.