Contexts oo Canadian criticism
Author | : Eli Mandel |
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Release | : 1971 |
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Author | : Eli Mandel |
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Release | : 1971 |
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Author | : Ajay Heble |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1997-04-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781551111063 |
Times change, lives change, and the terms we need to describe our literature or society or condition—what Raymond Williams calls “keywords”—change with them. Perhaps the most significant development in the quarter-century since Eli Mandel edited his anthology Contexts of Canadian Criticism has been the growing recognition that not only do different people need different terms, but the same terms have different meanings for different people and in different contexts. Nation, history, culture, art, identity—the positions we take discussing these and other issues can lead to conflict, but also hold the promise of a new sort of community. Speaking of First Nations people and their literature, Beth Brant observes that “Our connections … are like the threads of a weaving. … While the colour and beauty of each thread is unique and important, together they make a communal material of strength and durability.” New Contexts of Canadian Criticism is designed to be read, to work, in much the same manner.
Author | : Eli Mandel |
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Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : 9780802017796 |
Author | : Eli Mandel |
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Total Pages | : 304 |
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Author | : Elias Wolf Mandel |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Canada |
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Author | : Eli MANDEL |
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Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1971 |
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ISBN | : 9780226502984 |
Author | : Cynthia Sugars |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2004-02-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781551114378 |
Unhomely States is the first collection of foundational essays of Canadian postcolonial theory. The essays span the period from 1965 to the present day and approach broad issues of Canadian culture and society. They represent the impassioned conflicts, dissonances, and intersections among postcolonial theorists in English Canada. Theories of Canadian postcolonialism are various and often contending. The questions proliferate: Is Canada postcolonial? Who in Canada is postcolonial? Are some Canadians more postcolonial than others? Together, the essays in this collection demonstrate both the historical development of this vigorous debate and its most prominent current perspectives. The anthology comprises work originally written in English, selected and arranged in order to demonstrate the dynamic nature of these discussions. Included here are essays by many well-known writers and theorists, such as George Grant, Northrop Frye, Margaret Atwood, Dennis Lee, Robert Kroetsch, Linda Hutcheon, Diana Brydon, Thomas King, Terry Goldie, Arun Mukherjee, Smaro Kamboureli, Stephen Slemon, and Roy Miki. The collection covers such topics as anti-colonial nationalism, settler-invader theory, First Nations contexts, postcolonial pedagogy, and critiques of Canadian postcolonialism. A general introduction surveying the current field of postcolonial discourse in English Canada is also included.
Author | : Camille La Bossière |
Publisher | : University of Ottawa Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0776615718 |
Context North America is a comparative study of Canadian and American literary relations that emphasizes the cultural and institutional contexts in which Canadian literature is taught and read. This volume exemplifies the question of how the literatures of Canada might aptly be studied and contextualized in the days of heightened discontinuity and increasingly ambiguous borderlines both between and within the many narratives that make up North America.
Author | : Nurjehan Aziz |
Publisher | : Mawenzi House Publishers |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Literary Criticism. Multicultural Studies. In the past three decades, Canadian writers of a diversity of backgrounds have challenged the traditional understanding of the term Canadian Literature, its conventions and its boundaries. Critics of a similar diversity have come together in this volume to provide the contexts for some of the best new Canadian writing being done today. Rohinton Mistry, Cyril Dabydeen, Dionne Brand, Cecil Foster, M G Vassanji, Shani Mootoo, Josef Skvorecky, Neil Bissoondath, Rienzi Crusz, Lawrence Hill, Andre Alexis, Pier de Giorgio Cicco, Mary di Michele, Fred Wah, Evelyn Lau, and others are included. The end of this volume contains incisive reviews of books.
Author | : W. J. Keith |
Publisher | : The Porcupine's Quill |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780889841215 |
Part One of this strongly worded, informed, and wide-ranging collection examines key issues for the future of Canadian criticism. Part Two offers new readings of important works by Grove, Wilson, MacLennan, Davies, Laurence, Hood, Wiebe, Hodgins, and Atwood. As W.J. Keith argues, `We still have a mission: to have our literature recognized as an essential reflection of our national life. This is what I mean by retrenchment and consolidation. Literature can survive without literary criticism but it cannot survive if it is unknown and unread. It is criticism's prime function at the present time to see that it is both known and read with that mature enjoyment which is a combination of emotional sensitivity and humane intelligence. As critics, scholars, editors, we shall not be fulfilling our responsibilities or justifying our existence if we attempt anything less.' Or as Keith modestly observes in his introduction to this collection, `If this book is of any interest, it will be because Canadian literature is an important subject. Literary commentators like myself are middle-men, and should be prepared to admit the fact. If this book succeeds in helping readers to appreciate the works of Canadian writers that I discuss, and to derive increased pleasure and insight from them, it will have served its purpose. I can see no other justification for it -- or for any other work of criticism.'