Smaro Kamboureli - Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature

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TransCanada Institute & Canadian Literature Special Issue

Special issue of Canadian Literature in collaboration with TransCanada Institute

Edited by Smaro Kamboureli

Canadian Literature and TransCanada Institute (U of Guelph) invite submissions for a special issue on the various shifts Canadian literature has undergone as an institution. How does the destabilization of the “national” myth as a result of transnational forces and globalization affect Canadian literature as a viable category of critical investigation and teaching? What are the politics that inform and shape the production of knowledge in the area of Canadian literature? How can we articulate the problematics of Canadian literature as a discipline or area study? Such questions as “is Canada post-colonial?” intersect with formulations such as “multicultural citizenship,” “white civility,” or “recovering Canada” in ways that require new mappings of this shifting field. In this context, how do such area studies as First Nations literature, Asian Canadian literature or other diasporic literatures in Canada inflect Canadian literature as an institution?

We invite submissions that critically examine the disciplinary and institutional frameworks within which Canadian literature is produced, disseminated, and taught from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Submission Deadline: September 1, 2008

Please submit an electronic file of your paper (in Word format) to both
Canadian Literature
and transcan@utoronto.ca

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