Smaro Kamboureli - Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature

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 Trans.Can.Lit (2007)

Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature (Wilfrid Laurier UP 2007), co-edited by Smaro Kamboureli and Roy Miki, is a collection of the edited keynote and plenary talks presented at TransCanada One. To order, please click here. 

Table of Contents

Smaro Kamboureli | Preface vii
Acknowledgements xvii
Diana Brydon | Metamorphoses of a Discipline: Rethinking Canadian Literature within Institutional Contexts Against, 1
Rinaldo Walcott | Institution: Established Law, Custom, or Purpose, 17
Daniel Coleman | From Canadian Trance to TransCanada: White Civility to Wry Civility in the CanLit Project, 25
Peter Dickinson | Sublititling CanLit: Keywords, 45
Lee Maracle | Oratory on Oratory, 55
Stephen Slemon | TransCanada, Literature: No Direction Home, 71
Richard Cavell | World Famous across Canada, or TransNational Localities, 85
Lily Cho | Diasporic Citizenship: Contradictions and Possibilities For Canadian Literature, 93
Lianne Moyes | Acts of Citizenship: Erin Mouré’s O Cidadán and the Limits Of Worldliness, 111
Winfried Siemerling | Trans-Scan: Globalization, Literary Hemispheric Studies, Citizenship as Project, 129
Ashok Mathur | Transubracination: How Writers of Colour Became CanLit, 141
Julia Emberley | Institutional Genealogies in the Global Net of Fundamentalisms, Families, and Fantasies, 153
Len Findlay | TransCanada Collectives: Social Imagination, the Cunning of Production, and the Multilateral Sublime, 173
Notes, 187
Works Cited, 199
Contributors, 223
Index,  227

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