Cultural Identities In Canadian Literature Identites Culturelles Dans La Litterature Canadienne
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Author | : Bénédicte Mauguière |
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Genre | : Canadian literature |
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"This collection of essays deals with the multiple aspects of cultural identities in literature from a postcolonial perspective. The questions raised are at the crossroads of Canadian cultural identity as they address gender, language, race, nationalism, and ethnicity, making this book a valuable reference for researchers, scholars, and students who work in the expanding fields of cultural studies, minority or gender studies, and Canadian studies."--Jacket.
Author | : Bénédicte Mauguière |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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This collection of essays deals with the multiple aspects of cultural identities in literature from a postcolonial perspective. The questions raised are at the crossroads of Canadian cultural identity as they address gender, language, race, nationalism, and ethnicity, making this book a valuable reference for researchers, scholars, and students who work in the expanding fields of cultural studies, minority or gender studies, and Canadian studies. Les textes réunis dans cet ouvrage ainsi que la diversité des contributeurs qui proviennent d'horizons culturels variés (Europe, Afrique, Asie, Russie, Acadie, Québec, Haïti...) permettent de mieux apprécier la richesse de ces apports pour les littératures du Canada. Dans cette perspective, l'objectif de ce recueil d'essais n'est pas de répondre à l'éternelle question de l'existence d'une identité canadienne mais plutôt d'affirmer les multiples identités qui composent le Canada actuel et de contribuer ainsi à poser les jalons de nouvelles cartographies de l'imaginaire.
Author | : University of Alberta. Research Institute for Comparative Literature |
Publisher | : Research Institute for C |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : 9780921490104 |
Author | : Renée Hulan |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2002-03-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0773569448 |
By investigating mutually dependent categories of identity in literature that depicts northern peoples and places, Hulan provides a descriptive account of representative genres in which the north figures as a central theme - including autobiography, adventure narrative, ethnography, fiction, poetry, and travel writing. She considers each of these diverse genres in terms of the way it explains the cultural identity of a nation formed from the settlement of immigrant peoples on the lands of dispossessed, indigenous peoples. Reading against the background of contemporary ethnographic, literary, and cultural theory, Hulan maintains that the collective Canadian identity idealized in many works representing the north does not occur naturally but is artificially constructed in terms of characteristics inflected by historically contingent ideas of gender and race, such as self-sufficiency, independence, and endurance, and that these characteristics are evoked to justify the nationhood of the Canadian state.
Author | : Yvonne Studtfeld |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2008-08-12 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 3640136578 |
Examination Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (Englisches Seminar), language: English, abstract: “Since Canada’s literary tradition is fairly new, it is only natural that there should exist a genuine concern for identity.”1 Consequently, numerous works have addressed the question: What is Canadian about Canadian literature? A general answer is hard to find, among other reasons because the concept of Canadian identity as such is anything but trivial. The connections between national literature and national identity are generally acknowledged and have been thoroughly analysed. As Miriam Richter points out, [i]t is only very recently though, that the role of Canadian children’s literature in the process of defining national identity has come to be examined. Therefore, publications dealing exclusively with this topic exist to a comparatively small extent as yet.2 Despite the ongoing public and scholarly discussion of Canadian identity, it is important to ask whether the question of national identity is still a meaningful one when globalisation is changing the world and rendering national borders increasingly permeable. Economic alliances such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which facilitates trade between Canada, The United States and Mexico, could work towards a relaxation not only of legal but also of cultural borders. There are economists who claim that national boundaries are no longer meaningful concepts, but even though the role of the nation-state has certainly changed in the process of globalisation, the state remains a meaningful force in the modern world.3 Anderson argues that: the ‘end of the era of nationalism,’ so long prophesied, is not remotely in sight. Indeed, nation-ness is the most universally legitimate value in the political life of our time.4 Besides the fact that there has been very little research done on the topic of identity in Canadian children’s literature, there is more reason to a substantiated interest in this area.
Author | : Nora Foster Stovel |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0773575030 |
The most complete consideration of all the major writings of Margaret Laurence.
Author | : Klaus-Dieter Ertler |
Publisher | : Frankfurt am Main : P. Lang |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783631361283 |
At the turn of the millennium, cultural pluralism has come to be regarded as an essential factor in any discussions about Canadian identity. The Canadian model of multi-culturalism lies behind the present proliferation of Canadian literature, a literature which is more polyphonic and varied than ever, resisting limiting definitions just as the concept of Canadian identity proves to be multi-facetted. The essays collected in this volume approach the issue of Canadian identity and its relevance for Canadian culture from a Central European perspective. <BR> A l'aube du vingt et unieme siecle, on considere desormais le pluralisme culturel comme partie integrante de toutes questions portant sur l'identite canadienne. A tel point que le modele du multiculturalisme semble meme deja depasse par la creation litteraire du Canada, dont les textes - plus polysemiques et varies que jamais - defient toute tentative de definition trop limitee. A partir d'un point de vue d'Europe centrale, les essais reunis dans ce volume traitent des problemes de l'identite canadienne et de leur role au sein du systeme culturel du Canada."
Author | : Máire Áine Ní Mhainnín |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2009-05-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 144381055X |
The essays in this volume are expanded versions of papers that were first presented at the 13th Biennial Conference/XIIIème Congrès biennal of the Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland, held at the National University of Ireland, Galway, in 2006. The theme of the Conference was Canada at Home and Abroad: Text and Territory/Le Canada et ses relations d’ici, de là, et de là bas. The papers debate issues surrounding literature, language and language acquisition, immigration/emigration, and culture, in Canada, Ireland, and in Europe as a whole. From an examination of the place of hockey in the Canadian literary consciousness, to mapping minority language visibility in officially bilingual cities, the focus here is on ways of exploring culture, understood in its widest sense.
Author | : Marie J. Carrière |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783039113170 |
Le pluralisme culturel de la littérature produite aujourd'hui au Canada et au Québec transforme non seulement ces deux espaces littéraires, mais aussi, la relation entre eux. En réunissant, par l'entremise d'un recueil bilingue, méthodologies, appareils théoriques et concepts habituellement réservés à l'un ou l'autre des contextes critiques, les textes de Migrance comparée (issus d'un appel à contributions général) fait état de ce qui distingue les littératures contemporaines d'expression anglaise et française mais aussi de ce qui les rattache l'une à l'autre. The cultural plurality of literature produced today in Canada and Quebec transforms not only these two literary spaces, but also, their relation to one another. By bringing together methodologies, theoretical approaches and concepts usually reserved to one or the other critical context, this bilingual collection of texts of Comparing Migration (the result of a general call for papers) displays the differences but also the connections between French and English contemporary writing in Canada.
Author | : Marino Tuzi |
Publisher | : Guernica Editions |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781550710298 |
The Power of Allegiances explores contemporary social reality in Canada from a cultural perspective. It proposes that ideas about being Canadian are not culturally neutral. Such ideas are influenced by specific, historical, and cultural traditions that differ from those found in anglophone and francophone communities. By examining the fictional work of several writers of Italian heritage, Marino Tuzi demonstrates that one's cultural and gender identity is a product of conflicting factors, factors which are located in mainstream society and in a given ethnic group. The book shows that this particular representation of Canadian experience by minority writers is conveyed in ways which underline a unique cultural perspective. Marino Tuzi makes use of cultural studies, social history, and the sociology of ethnicity, and literary criticism. This interdisciplinary study of culture and society will be of interest to a variety of readers, from specialists in the fields of cultural studies, literature, and sociology to general readers who are curious about the multicultural nature of contemporary Canadian life.