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- Zeitschrift
- eISSN
- 2082-5102
- ISSN
- 0081-6272
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 10 Dec 2009
- Erscheinungsweise
- 4 Hefte pro Jahr
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- Englisch
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Dialogues, Reinterpretations, Critical Repositionings in Literary and Cultural Discourses of 21st Century Canada
Seitenbereich: 249 - 251
Zusammenfassung
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Tradition and the Individual Canadian Talent
Seitenbereich: 253 - 271
Zusammenfassung
In the twenty-first century, Canadian writers have been doing something they did infrequently in the past: acknowledging and referencing the work of past Canadian writers. Although declining pedagogical and academic interest in Canadian literature has made this development hard to see, writers themselves have been quietly building upon and contributing to something that looks very much like a literary tradition. Canadian writers of course continue to read and be influenced by writers outside Canada, just as they always have: but in their own words, they are now telling us that they are reading, learning from, and responding to other Canadian writers – that there is a Canadian literary tradition that crosses generational and regional borders, and that Canadian writers (and publishers, and readers) are aware of parts of that tradition, the parts that matter to them.
Schlüsselwörter
- Canadian Literature
- tradition
- canons
- influence
- epigraphs
- blurbs
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Recent (Re)Visions of Canlit: Partial Stock-Taking
Seitenbereich: 273 - 289
Zusammenfassung
This article approaches recent discussions on the state of contemporary CanLit as a body of literary texts, an academic field, and an institution. The discussion is informed primarily by a number of recent or relatively recent publications, such as
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- Canadian literature
- CanLit
- multiculturalism
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On Refusing Canada, Canlit and More: National and Literary Identity in All Its Varieties
Seitenbereich: 291 - 301
Zusammenfassung
Two recent anthologies of Canadian writing –
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- Canadian literature
- CanLit
- resistance
- Jewish writers
- anthologies
- CBC
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Acadian Literature in the 21st Century – Between Tradition and Modernity. Chronique D’une Sorciere De Vent and Pierre Bleu By Antonine Maillet
Seitenbereich: 303 - 316
Zusammenfassung
The aim of this article is to investigate the way in which tradition combines with modernity in Antonine Maillet’s novels
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- Antonine Maillet
- Acadian literature
- Acadian folklore
- time
- memory
- figure of the writer
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Quo Vadis Polish-Canadian Writing? Reflections on Home, Language, Writing, and Memory in Recent Texts By Canadian Writers of Polish Origins
Seitenbereich: 317 - 333
Zusammenfassung
The aim of this paper is to look at the recent publications by writers of Polish extraction living in Canada and writing in English in order to examine these texts in the context of their treatment of the concept of home, attitude to mother tongue and the usage of English, as well as the authors’ involvement in shaping the Canadian literary scene. The analysis will concentrate on selected texts published after 2014 to delineate the latest tendencies in Polish-Canadian writing. The discussion will include life writing genres such as memoirs, short stories, and novels. Since these writers have undertaken themes of (up)rootedness, identity, and memory and they have touched upon the creative redefinition of the figure of home, these aspects will also be examined from a theoretical perspective in the introductory part of the article. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek through his concept of “in-between peripherality” (2010: 87) proposes to view Central and Eastern European literature as both peripheral and in-between its “own national cultural self-referentiality and the cultural influence and primacy of the major Western cultures” (2010: 87). Moreover, as diasporic studies are inspired by the search for transcultural, dynamic exchanges and hybridity (Agnew 2005), the analysis will also include discussions on hybridity understood as a transgression of borders, both literary and genealogical as well as thematic. That is why, the classic notion of hybridity known widely in postcolonial studies, is here understood, according to Moslund (2010), as having horizontal and vertical orientations, where the former designates transgression of borders and space and the latter is connected to the movement across time. This approach is particularly interesting in the context of Polish-Canadian migrant and diasporic literature as, according to Pieterse (2001), hybridity understood as movement and translocation can offer new perspectives on migrant literatures in multi-and transcultural worlds.
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- Canadian writers of Polish origins
- Polish-Canadian writing
- diasporic writing
- home
- hybridity
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A Folkloristic Analysis of Polish Immigrant Narratives in Western Canada
Seitenbereich: 335 - 351
Zusammenfassung
The large wave of Polish immigration to Canada during the years immediately following World War II also brought the production of written narratives that reflect upon the process of migration and settlement in the new place. Although these migrants included persons from all across Poland, of different age groups, backgrounds, and occupations, the migration narratives share certain distinctive formulas and patterns, particularly in terms of their plot lines and narrative structure. Each story highlights the journey and its difficulties, the arrival and culture shock, the struggle to adapt, and finally acceptance of life in the new world. This article focuses on the migration experiences of Józef Bauer (arriving in Canada in 1946), Helena Beznowska (arriving 1948), Marian Pawiński (arriving 1949), and Erika Wolf-May (arriving 1953). Explored from a folkloristic perspective, these four narratives fulfill the four functions of folklore: entertainment, education, validation and reinforcement of beliefs and conduct, and maintaining the stability, solidarity, cohesiveness, and continuity of a group within the larger mass culture. Moreover, as folkloric expressions of culture, the narratives not only reflect our very human culture, but also reinforce our shared humanity.
Schlüsselwörter
- Canada
- folklore
- immigration/migration
- life writing
- Poland
- World War II
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‘Alimentary Assemblages’ at Intersections: Food, (Queer) Bodies, and Intersectionality in Marusya Bociurkiw’s Comfort Food for Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl (2007)
Seitenbereich: 353 - 373
Zusammenfassung
Clearly devoted to the analysis of various issues of belonging, the work of Marusya Bociurkiw, a Ukrainian-Canadian queer writer, director, academic, and activist, examines culture, memory, history, and subjectivity in a fascinatingly unique way. Such a thematic composition is, however, not the only aspect that visibly marks and unities Bociurkiw’s multi-generic oeuvre; what clearly stands out as yet another distinguishing characteristic that Bociurkiw’s works have in common is the idea that seems to stand behind their creation – an impelling notion that “[t]o have one’s belonging lodged in a metaphor is voluptuous intrigue” (Brand 2001: 18). Consequently, what Bociurkiw’s works vividly portray is the writing-self “in search of its most resonant metaphor” (Brand 2001: 19). In one of her works,
Schlüsselwörter
- Intersectionality
- food/food studies
- queer bodies/writing
- memoir
- Canadian literature
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The Post-Human Lyric: Diffractive Vision and the Ethics of Mattering in Adam Dickinson’s Anatomic
Seitenbereich: 375 - 401
Zusammenfassung
The aim of my inquiry is to discuss Adam Dickinson’s revisionist approach to the lyric autobiography as shown in his most recent volume
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- Adam Dickinson
- Canadian conceptual poetry
- the post-human lyric
- New Materialism
- Karen Barad
- diffractive vision
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Oh Canadiana? Atlantic Canada, Joel Thomas Hynes, and Heroin Realism
Seitenbereich: 403 - 426
Zusammenfassung
The essay locates Joel Thomas Hynes’s
Schlüsselwörter
- Joel Thomas Hynes
- Canadiana
- Newfoundland
- Atlantic-Canadian literature
- heroin realism
- psychic turmoil
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Permutations of Remembrance and (Counter-) Monumentalization: John Mccrae’s in Flanders Fields
Seitenbereich: 427 - 443
Zusammenfassung
The article engages with the cultural impact of John McCrae’s canonical poem “In Flanders Fields” (1915), and more specifically the permutations of cultural memory and heritage discourse in
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- Heritage
- cultural memory
- monumentalization
- trauma
- body
- family memory
- witnessing
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Taking Root in Floating Cities – Space, Environment, and Immigrant Identity in Kerri Sakamoto’s Floating City
Seitenbereich: 445 - 464
Zusammenfassung
Human identity is shaped not only by culture, but also by nature – the environment in which people grow up and live, the places and spaces they visit, work in, and pass on an everyday basis. This people-place bond is particularly important in case of immigrants who are forced to abandon the places they know for a new – and often hostile – environment. This connection between space, environment, and immigrant identity is explored by Kerri Sakamoto, a Japanese-Canadian writer, in her newest novel,
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- Kerri Sakamoto
- place attachment
- immigrant identity
- family narrative
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Imperial (S)Kin: The Orthography of the Wake in Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black
Seitenbereich: 465 - 494
Zusammenfassung
The publication of Esi Edugyan’s
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- Skin
- racialized subject
- wake
- slave narrative
- epidermalization
- dermatrope
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Two-Spirit Identities in Canada: Mapping Sovereign Erotic in Joshua Whitehead’s Jonny Appleseed
Seitenbereich: 495 - 515
Zusammenfassung
In colonial times, mapping the New World functioned as an inherent mechanism of exerting colonial domination over Indigenous lands, enacting settler presence on these territories. While the colonial cartographies projected ownership, the non-normative mappings emerging from Aboriginal writing provide an alternative to settler Canadian geography. This article focuses on the imaginative geographies depicted in Joshua Whitehead’s
Schlüsselwörter
- Two-Spirit
- Indigiqueer
- queer Indigenous studies
- Indigenous literature
- First Nations literature
- sovereign erotic
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Review: Making Believe: Questions about Mennonites and Art
Seitenbereich: 517 - 519
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Review: Medievalism in English Canadian Literature from Richardson to Atwood
Seitenbereich: 521 - 525