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Book SynopsisWhat 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. 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.
Table of ContentsTable of Contents for Crosstalk: Canadian and Global Imaginaries in Dialogue, edited by Diana Brydon and Marta Dvorà k 1. Introduction: Negotiating Meaning in Changing Times | Diana Brydon and Marta Dvorà k 2. âWhirlwinds Coiled at My Heartâ: Voice and Vision in a Writerâs Practiceâ | Olive Senior Section One: Collaboration, Crosstalk, Improvisation 3. Voicing the Unforeseeable: Improvisation, Social Practice, Collaborative Research | Ajay Heble and Winfried Siemerling 4. Epistemological Crosstalk: Between Melancholia and Spiritual Cosmology in David Chariandyâs Soucouyant and Lee Maracleâs Daughters Are Forever | Daniel Coleman 5. Native Performance Culture, Monique Mojica, and the Chocolate Woman Workshops | Ric Knowles 6. Collaboration and Convention in the Poetry of Pain Not Bread | Alison Calder Section Two: Dialogism, Polyphony, Voice 7. Rejoinders in a Planetary Dialogue: J.M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, Lloyd Jones et al. in Dialogue with Absent Texts | Marta Dvorà k 8. Not Just Representation: The Sound and Concrete Poetries of the Four Horsemen | Frank Davey 9. Portraits of the Artist in Dionne Brandâs What We All Long For and Madeleine Thienâs Certainty | Pilar Cuder-DomÃ-nguez 10. Unsettling Voices: Dionne Brandâs Cosmopolitan Cities | Sandra Regina Goulart Almeida 11. Questions of Voice, Race, and the Body in Hiromi Gotoâs Chorus of Mushrooms and Larissa Laiâs When Fox Is a Thousand | Charlotte Sturgess Section Three: Space, Place, and Circulation 12. The Artialisation of Landscape in Jane Urquhartâs The Whirlpool | Claire Omhovère 13. Ghostly Voices and Arctic Blanks: From Emily BrontÃ"'s Wuthering Heights to Jane Urquhartâs Changing Heaven | Catherine Lanone 14. âYou must see to understand...â: Orientalist Clichés and Transformation in Robert Lepageâs The Dragonsâ Trilogy | Christine Lorre-Johnston 15. Diasporic Appropriations: Exporting South Asian Culture from Canada | Chelva Kanaganayakam 16. Negotiating Belonging in Global Times: The Hérouxville Debates | Diana Brydon Works Cited Contributors Index
