{"product_id":"crosstalk-canadian-and-global-imaginaries-in-dialogue-9781554582648","title":"Crosstalk: Canadian and Global Imaginaries in Dialogue","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e What are the fictions that shape Canadian engagements with the global? What frictions emerge from these encounters? In negotiating aesthetic and political approaches to Canadian cultural production within contexts of global circulation, this collection argues for the value of attending to narratorial, lyric, and theatrical conventions in dialogue with questions of epistemological and social justice. Using the twinned framing devices of crosstalk and cross-sighting, the contributing authors attend to how the interplay of the verbal and the visual maps public spheres of creative engagement today. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Individual chapters present a range of methodological approaches to understanding national culture and creative labour in global contexts. Through their collective enactment of methodological crosstalk, they demonstrate the productivity of scholarly debate across differences of outlook, culture, and training. In highlighting convergences and disagreements, the book sharpens our understanding of how literary and critical conventions and theories operate within and across cultures. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e``This stimulating collection of essays had its origins in a workshop entitled \"Voice and Vision: Situating Canadian Culture Globally,\" held at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in 2008.... Thankfully...ample cross-references have made Crosstalk a far more unified collection than most conference-generated volumes. In the spirit of the book's title, the contributors have clearly engaged in a considerable amount of post-workshop dialogue and, thanks to this and the careful introduction, the collection does a fine job of answering the questions posed by the editors at the outset.... The success of this timely collection owes much to the work of the two editors.... Both have clearly put in long hours to ensure that the book's attempt to broaden the models used to debate Canadian imaginaries has become a significant intervention. The net result is impressive and one comes away from Crosstalk feeling that the multiple directions taken by the individual authors...have been long routes that have converged at a common crossroads.'' -- John Thieme -- Commonwealth Essays and Studies, Vol. 35, No. 2, Spring 2013\u003cbr\u003e`` Crosstalk is a challenging intervention that demonstrates the impact of globalization on debates about Canadian culture by highlighting the transformative role that various forms of creative dissonance and collaboration can play. The essays challenge accepted forms of national intelligibility by invoking the productive pedagogical disruption of transnational âcross-talk.â The global context that underscores this collection privileges circulation over emplacement, dialogue over the illusion of creative autonomy, and friction over the stultifying appeal of consensus within entrenched disciplinary frameworks. The international contributors produce an essay collection that is distinguished as much by its range as by its important treatment of emergent spheres of political engagement.'' -- Cynthia Sugars, University of Ottawa, editor (with Gerry Turcotte) of Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic (WLU Press, 2009)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eCrosstalk: Canadian and Global Imaginaries in Dialogue\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Diana Brydon and Marta Dvořák\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Introduction: Negotiating Meaning in Changing Times  Diana Brydon and Marta Dvořák\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. \"\"Whirlwinds Coiled at My Heart\"\": Voice and Vision in a Writer's Practice\"\"  Olive Senior\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSection One: Collaboration, Crosstalk, Improvisation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Voicing the Unforeseeable: Improvisation, Social Practice, Collaborative Research  Ajay Heble and Winfried Siemerling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Epistemological Crosstalk: Between Melancholia and Spiritual Cosmology in David Chariandy's \u003ci\u003eSoucouyant\u003c\/i\u003e and Lee Maracle's \u003ci\u003eDaughters Are Forever\u003c\/i\u003e  Daniel Coleman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Native Performance Culture, Monique Mojica, and the \u003ci\u003eChocolate Woman\u003c\/i\u003e Workshops  Ric Knowles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Collaboration and Convention in the Poetry of Pain Not Bread  Alison Calder\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSection Two: Dialogism, Polyphony, Voice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Rejoinders in a Planetary Dialogue: J.M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, Lloyd Jones et al. in Dialogue with Absent Texts  Marta Dvořák\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. Not Just Representation: The Sound and Concrete Poetries of the Four Horsemen  Frank Davey\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. Portraits of the Artist in Dionne Brand's \u003ci\u003eWhat We All Long For\u003c\/i\u003e and Madeleine Thien's \u003ci\u003eCertainty\u003c\/i\u003e  Pilar Cuder-Domínguez\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. Unsettling Voices: Dionne Brand's Cosmopolitan Cities  Sandra Regina Goulart Almeida\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11. Questions of Voice, Race, and the Body in Hiromi Goto's \u003ci\u003eChorus of Mushrooms\u003c\/i\u003e and Larissa Lai's \u003ci\u003eWhen Fox Is a Thousand\u003c\/i\u003e  Charlotte Sturgess\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSection Three: Space, Place, and Circulation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e12. The Artialisation of Landscape in Jane Urquhart's \u003ci\u003eThe Whirlpool\u003c\/i\u003e  Claire Omhovère\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e13. Ghostly Voices and Arctic Blanks: From Emily Brontë's \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e to Jane Urquhart's \u003ci\u003eChanging Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e  Catherine Lanone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e14. \"\"You must see to understand...\"\": Orientalist Clichés and Transformation in Robert Lepage's \u003ci\u003eThe Dragons' Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e  Christine Lorre-Johnston\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e15. Diasporic Appropriations: Exporting South Asian Culture from Canada  Chelva Kanaganayakam\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e16. Negotiating Belonging in Global Times: The Hérouxville Debates  Diana Brydon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorks Cited\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188665737559,"sku":"9781554582648","price":77.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/crosstalk-canadian-and-global-imaginaries-in-dialogue-9781554582648","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}