Overview

What 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.

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Author:   Diana Brydon ,  Marta Dvořák
Publisher:   Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Imprint:   Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.492kg
ISBN:  

9781554583027

ISBN 10:   1554583020
Pages:   330
Publication Date:   13 September 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Table 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"

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Diana Brydon is Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Globalization and Cultural Studies at the University of Manitoba. She has published books on Christina Stead and Timothy Findley, edited Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, and co-edited Shakespeare in Canada and Renegotiating Community: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Contexts Marta Dvořák is professor of Canadian and postcolonial literatures in English at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, former associate editor of The International Journal of Canadian Studies, and editor of Commonwealth Essays and Studies. Focusing her research on (post)modernism and cross-culturalism, she has authored and edited books ranging from Ernest Buckler: Rediscovery and Reassessment (WLU Press, 2001) to Tropes and Territories: Short Fiction, Postcolonial Readings, and Canadian Writings in Context (co-ed. W.H. New) and The Faces of Carnival in Anita Desai's In Custody.

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