Transnational Canadas: Anglo-Canadian Literature and Globalization (2009)

By Kit Dobson (Wilfrid Laurier UP 2009)
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Globalization and Canadian Literature

PART ONE: Reconstructing the Politics of Canadian Nationalism

Introduction to Part One
Chapter One: Spectres of Derrida and Theory’s Legacy
Chapter Two: Ambiguous Resistance in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing
Chapter Three: Nationalism and the Void in Dennis Lee’s Civil Elegies
Chapter Four: Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers and the Crisis of Canadian Modernity
Conclusion to Part One

PART TWO: Indigeneity and the Rise of Canadian Multiculturalism

Introduction to Part Two
Chapter Five: Critique of Spivakian Reason and Canadian Postcolonialisms
Chapter Six: Multiculturalism and Reconciliation in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan
Chapter Seven: Multicultural Postmodernities in Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion
Chapter Eight: Dismissing Canada in Jeannette Armstrong’s Slash
Conclusion to Part Two

PART THREE: Canada in the World

Introduction to Part Three
Chapter Nine: Transnational Multitudes
Chapter Ten: Mainstreaming Multiculturalism? The Giller Prize
Chapter Eleven: Global Subjectivities in Roy Miki’s Surrender
Chapter Twelve: Writing Past Belonging in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For
Conclusion to Part Three

Conclusion: Transnational Canadas

Bibliography

Index