The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature

by Cynthia Sugars

Overview

The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature provides a broad-ranging introduction to some of the key critical fields, genres, and periods in Canadian literary studies. The essays in this volume, written by prominent theorists in the field, reflect the plurality of critical perspectives, regional and historical specializations, and theoretical positions that constitute the field of Canadian literary criticism across a range of genres and historical periods. The volume provides a dynamic introduction to current areas of critical interest, including (1) attention to the links between the literary and the public sphere, encompassing such topics as neoliberalism, trauma and memory, citizenship, material culture, literary prizes, disability studies, literature and history, digital cultures, globalization studies, and environmentalism or ecocriticism; (2) interest in Indigenous literatures and settler-Indigenous relations; (3) attention to multiple diasporic and postcolonial contexts within Canada; (4) interest in the institutionalization of Canadian literature as a discipline; (5) a turn towards book history and literary history, with a renewed interest in early Canadian literature; (6) a growing interest in articulating the affective character of the "literary" - including an interest in affect theory, mourning, melancholy, haunting, memory, and autobiography. The book represents a diverse array of interests — from the revival of early Canadian writing, to the continued interest in Indigenous, regional, and diasporic traditions, to more recent discussions of globalization, market forces, and neoliberalism. It includes a distinct section dedicated to Indigenous literatures and traditions, as well as a section that reflects on the discipline of Canadian literature as a whole.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199941865
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/01/2015
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Pages:	994
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.80(h) x 2.80(d)

About the Author

Cynthia Sugars is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa.

Table of Contents

Contributors

Introduction
Cynthia Sugars (Ottawa)

Part I: Reflections on the Discipline

1. Constructing "Canadian Literature": A Retrospective
Frank Davey (Western)

2. National Literature, Canadian Criticism, and National Character
Adam Carter (Lethbridge)

3. Remembering Canada: The Politics of Cultural Memory
Richard Cavell (British Columbia)

4. Canadian Celebrity Authorship Moves On
Lorraine York (McMaster)

5. Towards a Planetary Poetics: Canadian Poetries after Globalization
Kit Dobson (Mount Royal) and Erin Wunker (Dalhousie)

6. Cultural Studies in Canada: Past, Present, and Future
Imre Szeman (Alberta) and Andrew Pendakis (Brock)

Part II: Indigenous Literatures and Contexts

7. Contemporary Métis Literature: Resistance, Roots, Innovation
Emma LaRocque (Manitoba)

8. From Profound Silences to Ethical Practices: Aboriginal Writing and Reconciliation
Jonathan Dewar (Aboriginal Healing Foundation/Algoma)

9. Indigenous Autobiography in Canada: Uncovering Intellectual Traditions
Deanna Reder (Simon Fraser)

10. "What Inuit Will Think": Taqralik Partridge and Keavy Martin Talk Inuit Literature
Taqralik Partridge and Keavy Martin (Alberta)

11. In/Hospitable "Aboriginalities" in Contemporary Indigenous Women's Writing
Julia Emberley (Western)

Part III: Literary Periods and Genres

12. Reading, Writing, and Speaking of Contact: Explorations from Both Sides
Jennifer Brown (Winnipeg) and Frieda Klippenstein (Parks Canada)

13. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French-Canadian Literature
Andrea Cabajsky (Moncton)

14. English-Canadian Narratives of Settlement
Janice Fiamengo (Ottawa)

15. British Poets, Classical Myths, Canadian Locations
D.M.R. Bentley (Western)

16. Cosmopolitan Nationalism: Canadian Literature of the Confederation Period, 1867-1914
Tracy Ware (Queen's)

17. Modernist Poetry in Canada, 1920-1960
J.A. Weingarten (Concordia)

18. Mid-Century Modernity and Fiction by Women, 1920-1950
Carole Gerson (Simon Fraser)

19. Mainstream Magazines: Home and Mobility
Faye Hammill and Michelle Smith (Strathclyde)

20. Canadian Drama and the Nationalist Impulse
Craig Walker (Queen's)

21. The Stratford Festival and Canadian Cultural Nationalism
Ian Rae (Western)

22. The Not So Quiet, Nor Short, Révolution Tranquille
David Leahy (Independent Scholar)

23. The Canadian Short Story in English: Aesthetic Agency, Social Change, and the Shifting Canon
Alexander MacLeod (St. Mary's)

24. The English-Canadian Novel: Counter-Memory and the Claims of History, 1950-2000
Cynthia Sugars (Ottawa)

25. Fracture Mechanics: Canadian Poetry since 1960
Tanis MacDonald (Wilfrid Laurier)

26. Humour and Irony in Quebec Women's Writing, 1970-2010: Taking the Pulse of a Resistance
Lucie Joubert (Ottawa)

27. The Digital Turn in Canadian and Québécois Literature
Kate Eichhorn (New School)

Part IV: Intra-National Perspectives and Traditions

28. Diasporic Citizenship and De-Formations of Citizenship
Lily Cho (York)

29. Black Canadian Literature: Fieldwork and "Post-Race"
David Chariandy (Simon Fraser)

30. (East and Southeast) Asian Canadian Literature: The Strange and the Familiar
Eleanor Ty (Wilfrid Laurier)

31. South-Asian Canadian "Geographies of Voice": Flagging New Critical Mappings
Mariam Pirbhai (Wilfrid Laurier)

32. You Say You've OD'd on Leonard Cohen: Canadian Jewish Writers, Celebrity, and the Mainstream
Norman Ravvin (Concordia)

33. For Better or for Worse: Revisiting écriture migrante in Québec
Marie CarriPre (Alberta) and Catherine Khordoc (Carleton)

34. On the Poetics of Arab-Canadian Literature in French and English
Elizabeth F. Dahab (California State)

35. "People are made of places": Perspectives on Region in Atlantic-Canadian Literature
Tony Tremblay (St. Thomas)

36. "If I were a rugged beauty . . .": Contemporary Newfoundland Fiction
Paul Chafe (Ryerson)

37. Retracing Prairie Literature
Alison Calder (Manitoba)

38. Canadian Literature on the Pacific Coast
Nicholas Bradley (Victoria)

Part V: Critical Fields and New Directions

39. Ecocriticism in Canada
Pamela Banting (Calgary)

40. Canadian Postcolonialisms
Diana Brydon (Manitoba) and Bruno Cornellier (Winnipeg)

41. Reading Historiography and Historical Fiction in Twentieth-Century Canada
Renée Hulan (Saint Mary's)

42. Canadian Book History
Eli MacLaren (McGill)

43. Canadian Auto/biography: Life Writing, Biography, and Memoir
Julie Rak (Alberta)

44. Canadian Children's Literature in English
Deirdre Baker (Toronto)

45. Canadian Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory in the "Second Wave"
Cecily Devereux (Alberta)

46. Gay and Lesbian Literature in Canada
Terry Goldie and Lee Frew (York)

47. Survival of the Fittest: CanLit and Disability
Sally Chivers (Trent)

48. Canadian Literature in the Neoliberal Era
Herb Wyile (Acadia)