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Book SynopsisThe dismantling of “Understanding Canada”—an international program eliminated by Canada’s Conservative government in 2012—posed a tremendous potential setback for Canadianists. Yet Canadian writers continue to be celebrated globally by popular and academic audiences alike. Twenty scholars speak to the government’s diplomatic and economic about-face and its implications for representations of Canadian writing within and outside Canada’s borders. The contributors to this volume remind us of the obstacles facing transnational intellectual exchange, but also salute scholars’ persistence despite these obstacles. Beyond “Understanding Canada” is a timely, trenchant volume for students and scholars of Canadian literature and anyone seeking to understand how Canadian literature circulates in a transnational world. Contributors: Michael A. Bucknor, Daniel Coleman, Anne Collett, Pilar Cuder-Domínguez, Ana María Fraile-Marcos, Jeremy Haynes, Cristina Ivanovici, Milena Kaličanin, Smaro Kamboureli, Katalin Kürtösi, Vesna Lopičić, Belén Martín-Lucas, Claire Omhovère, Lucia Otrísalová, Don Sparling, Melissa Tanti, Christl Verduyn, Elizabeth Yeoman, Lorraine York
Trade Review"Beyond 'Understanding Canada' takes its name and impetus from the Canadian government’s 2012 cancellation of the “Understanding Canada” program, which ended nearly forty years of financial support for interdisciplinary studies of Canada around the world. As the title suggests, the collection quickly moves beyond the Understanding Canada program to examine a broader range of questions regarding the transnational circulation of Canadian literature.... [The collection] succeeds admirably, overcoming the 'material challenges' of international scholarship not only to argue for but also to demonstrate convincingly the transnational nature of Canadian literary studies." Canadian Literature 235, Winter 2017 [Full article at http://canlit.ca/article/transnational-nationalism] -- Robert Zacharias
"The editors draw a number of important conclusions from the collection: that the popularity of Canadian women writers abroad must be linked to their power politics; that Canada has a set of ‘less laudable links’ (Collett) that need to be examined too; that indigenous writing needs to be more visibly worked into transnational contexts, that ‘transing [as in ‘transnational’] provides an opportunity to unsettle the profitability of any singular notion of national identity’." -- Christine Lorre-Johnston & Mark Williams * Oxford University Press Journals, Volume 98, Issue 1 *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Introduction xi Jeremy Haynes, Melissa Tanti, Daniel Coleman, Lorraine York i Contexts, Provocations, and Knowledge Territories 1 Beyond Understanding Canada Belatedness and Canadian Literary Studies // Smaro Kamboureli 2 The Understanding Canada Program and International Canadian Literary Studies // Christl Verduyn 3 Indigenous Writing in Indigenous Languages Reconfiguring Canadian Literary Studies and Beyond // Elizabeth Yeoman ii Roots and Routes 4 Canada in Black Transnational Studies Austin Clarke, Affective Affiliations, and the Cross-Border Poetics of Caribbean Canadian Writing // Michael A. Bucknor 5 “Why Don’t You Write about Canada?” Olive Senior’s Poetry, Everybody’s History, and the “Condition of Resonance” // Anne Collett 6 Canada and the Black Atlantic Epistemologies, Frameworks, Texts // Pilar Cuder-Domínguez iii Mapping Bodies, Place, and Time 7 “Off the Highway” Margins, Centres, Modernisms // Katalin Kürtösi 8 Canadian Photography and the Exhaustion of Landscape // Claire Omhovère 9 Posthuman Affect in the Global Empire Queer Speculative Fictions of Canada // Belén Martín-Lucas iv Border Zones 10 Unexpected Dialogical Space in David Albahari’s Immigrant Writing // Vesna Lopi_ci´c and Milena Kali _canin 11 The Politics of Art and Affect in Michael Helm’s Cities of Refuge // Ana María Fraile-Marcos v Reading Publics 12 Canada through the Lens of the Communist Censor The Translation of CanLit under an Authoritarian Regime // Lucia Otrísalová 13 Economies of Export Translating Laurence, Atwood, and Munro in Eastern Europe (1960–1989) // Cristina Ivanovici 14 Canadian Literature and Canadian Studies in the Czech Republic // Don Sparling Works Cited Contributors Index
