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Book SynopsisPrizing Literature is the first extended study of contemporary award winning Canadian literature and the ways in which we celebrate its authors.
Trade Review'Prizing Literature is a perceptive, theoretically sophisticated, and elegantly argued contribution to the growing study of Canadian literary promotional culture. It fills a notable gap in scholarship on the visibility of Canadian literature and will certainly become an important book in the field. Gillian Roberts' engaging writing makes Prizing Literature an accessible book for all culturally informed readers.' -- Lorraine York, Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction * Prizing Canadian Literature * The 'Sri Lankan Poet, Domiciled in Canada': Michael Ondaatje's Territories, Citizenships, and Cosmopolitanisms" *"The "American-Not-American': Carol Shields's Border Crossings and Gendered Citizenships * The 'Bombay-born, Canadian-based Banker': Rohinton Mistry's Hospitality at the Threshold * Un Quebecois francophone ecrivant en anglais': Yann Martel's Zoos, Hospitals, and Hotels Conclusion, or Discrepant Invitations Works Cited
