Moveable Margins: The Shifting Spaces in Canadian Literature - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1894770285 ISBN 13: 9781894770286

Publisher: Tsar Publications, 2005

Synopsis

In these essays some of Canada's leading literary critics examine how recent Canadian literature addresses notions of multiplicity, and how ideas of space and landscape complement and intersect with the constantly changing facets of Canadian society. The collection considers the works of a large number of diverse writers, while dealing specifically with genres such as Asian, African, and Native Canadian writing.

The contributors are respected scholars of Canadian literature at major universities.

About this title

About the Author

Chelva Kanaganayakam teaches English literature at the University of Toronto. He has published and edited several books on postcolonial literature, South Asian writing, Canadian literature, and Tamil studies.

From the Back Cover

In these essays some of Canada's leading literary critics examine how recent Canadian literature addresses notions of multiplicity, and how ideas of space and landscape complement and intersect with the constantly changing facets of Canadian society. The collection considers the works of a large number of diverse writers, while dealing specifically with genres such as Asian, African, and Native Canadian writing. The contributors are respected scholars of Canadian literature at major universities.

From the Inside Flap

Canadian literature continues to be something of a muddle, largely because any homogenizing grid would fail to embrace its divergent tendencies and characteristics. The essays in this book focus on how recent writing addresses notions of multiplicity, and how ideas of space and landcape complement and intersect within this genre. Each province, for example, brings to literature its distinctiveness, created by the specificities of its history and its populations and the contours of its landscape. Writers who have immigrated to Canada move away from the local to remembered and imagined landscapes, and the communities they project are at once familiar and distant, new and old. The authors represented here are all Canadians, by birth or by choice, but the worlds of their imagination are widely disparate. This collection is intended to bring out the differences, and in the process perceive the intersections and draw connections. The motifs that run through all the essays are community, space, and landscape, and they become the touchstones to examine a richly diverse body of recent Canadian writing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tsar Publications
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1894770285
• ISBN 13: 9781894770286
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204
• Editor: Kanaganayakam Professor Chelva