Beschreibung:
Transnational Canadas marks the first sustained inquiry into the relationship between globalization and Canadian literature written in English. Tracking developments in the literature and its study from the centennial period to the present, it shows how current work in transnational studies can provide new insights for researchers and students.
Introduction: Globalization & Canadian Literature; Spectres of Derrida & Theory's Legacy; Ambiguous Resistance in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing; Nationalism & the Void in Dennis Lee's Civil Elegies; Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers & the Crisis of Canadian Modernity; Critique of Spivakian Reason & Canadian Postcolonialisms; Multiculturalism & Reconciliation in Joy Kogawa's Obasan; Multicultural Postmodernities in Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion; Dismissing Canada in Jeannette Armstrong's Slash; Transnational Multitudes; Mainstreaming Multiculturalism? The Giller Prize; Global Subjectivities in Roy Miki's Surrender; Writing Past Belonging in Dionne Brand's What We All Long For; Conclusion: Transnational Canadas; Index.