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A cutting edge study of the relation of Canadian literature to the Americas.
In the last few decades Canadian and Québécois literatures have been catapulted onto the global stage, gaining international readership and recognition. Canada and Its Americas challenges the convention that study of this literature should be limited to its place within national borders, arguing that these works should be examined from the perspective of their place and influence within the Americas as a whole.
The chapters in this volume, a groundbreaking work in the burgeoning field of hemispheric American studies, expand the horizons of Canadian and Québécois literatures, suggest alternative approaches to models centred on the United States, and analyze the risks and benefits of hemispheric approaches to Canada and Quebec. Revealing the connections among a broad range of Canadian, Québécois, American, Caribbean, Latin American, and diasporic literatures, the contributors critique the neglect of Canadian works in Hemispheric studies and show how such writing can be successfully integrated into an emerging area of literary inquiry. An important development in understanding the diversity of literatures throughout the western hemisphere, Canada and Its Americas reveals exciting new ways for thinking about transnationalism, regionalism, border cultures, and the literatures they produce.
The chapters in this volume, a groundbreaking work in the burgeoning field of hemispheric American studies, expand the horizons of Canadian and Québécois literatures, suggest alternative approaches to models centred on the United States, and analyze the risks and benefits of hemispheric approaches to Canada and Quebec. Revealing the connections among a broad range of Canadian, Québécois, American, Caribbean, Latin American, and diasporic literatures, the contributors critique the neglect of Canadian works in Hemispheric studies and show how such writing can be successfully integrated into an emerging area of literary inquiry. An important development in understanding the diversity of literatures throughout the western hemisphere, Canada and Its Americas reveals exciting new ways for thinking about transnationalism, regionalism, border cultures, and the literatures they produce.
Details
304 Pages, 6 x 9
ISBN 9780773536579
January 2010
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
"This book makes an important intervention into attempts to internationalize the humanities by creating inter-American research perspectives. Siemerling and Casteel break from the focus on U.S. research traditions and their relationship to Latin America, and draw attention to the overlooked subject of Canada. They examine theoretical issues involved in the inclusion of Canada into hemispheric work and present case studies that model potential methodologies for doing so. Further, the book dares to ask questions about the role of the nation within a transnational and hemispheric framework of study." Claudia Sadowski-Smith, author of Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States
"With its Canadian and European notions of multiculturalism, the book shrinks the elephant, re-girds the mouse, and fills that bed with a lively new hemispheric panoply. This book is a wake-up call for Canadian studies... and American studies too." R. H. Solomon, University of Alberta
“Canada and Its Americas is a coherent collection of interesting and well-written pieces, all of which are based on solid research. The book challenges the exclusion of Canada from ‘America,’ and the writers stake out explicitly new territory in their Canadian approach to American studies.” Susie O’Brien, English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
"With its Canadian and European notions of multiculturalism, the book shrinks the elephant, re-girds the mouse, and fills that bed with a lively new hemispheric panoply. This book is a wake-up call for Canadian studies... and American studies too." R. H. Solomon, University of Alberta
“Canada and Its Americas is a coherent collection of interesting and well-written pieces, all of which are based on solid research. The book challenges the exclusion of Canada from ‘America,’ and the writers stake out explicitly new territory in their Canadian approach to American studies.” Susie O’Brien, English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
Winfried Siemerling is a professor of english at the University of Waterloo.
Sarah Phillips Casteel is an associate professor of english at Carleton University.
Sarah Phillips Casteel is an associate professor of english at Carleton University.
Canada and Its Americas
Edited by Winfried Siemerling and Sarah Phillips Casteel
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Canada and Its Americas 3
WINFRIED SIEMERLING AND SARAH PHILLIPS CASTEEL
DEFENDING THE NATION?
1 Worlding the (Postcolonial) Nation: Canada's Americas 31
CYNTHIA SUGARS
2 Hemispheric Studies or Scholarly NAFTA? The Case for Canadian Literary Studies 48
HERB WYILE
3 Counter-Worlding A/américanité 62
DAVID LEAHY
INDIGENOUS REMAPPINGS OF AMERICA
4 Representations of the Native and the New World Subject 85
AMARYLL CHANADY
5 Indigeneity and Diasporic Belonging: Three New World Readings of Chief Sitting Bull 102 SARAH PHILLIPS CASTEEL
6 Outer America: Racial Hybridity and Canada’s Peripheral Place in Inter-American Discourse 119 ALBERT BRAZ
POSTSLAVERY ROUTES
7 Eyeing the North Star? Figuring Canada in Postslavery Fiction and Drama 135
MAUREEN MOYNAGH
8 "May I See Some Identification?" Race, Borders, and Identities in Any Known Blood 148 WINFRIED SIEMERLING
QUEBEC CONNECTIONS
9 Translating in the Multilingual City: Montreal as a City of the Americas 171
SHERRY SIMON
10 "Lucky to be so bilingual": Québécois and Chicano/a Literatures in a Comparative Context 186 MONIKA GIACOPPE
11 Louis Dantin’s American Life 203
PATRICIA GODBOUT
12 Transculturation and National Identity in the Novel Rojo, amarillo y verde by Alejandro Saravia 219 HUGH HAZELTON
13 Looking beyond the Elephant: The Mexican Connection in Francine Noël’s La Conjuration des bâtards 231
CATHERINE KHORDOC
Contributors 247
References 251
Index 283
Edited by Winfried Siemerling and Sarah Phillips Casteel
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Canada and Its Americas 3
WINFRIED SIEMERLING AND SARAH PHILLIPS CASTEEL
DEFENDING THE NATION?
1 Worlding the (Postcolonial) Nation: Canada's Americas 31
CYNTHIA SUGARS
2 Hemispheric Studies or Scholarly NAFTA? The Case for Canadian Literary Studies 48
HERB WYILE
3 Counter-Worlding A/américanité 62
DAVID LEAHY
INDIGENOUS REMAPPINGS OF AMERICA
4 Representations of the Native and the New World Subject 85
AMARYLL CHANADY
5 Indigeneity and Diasporic Belonging: Three New World Readings of Chief Sitting Bull 102 SARAH PHILLIPS CASTEEL
6 Outer America: Racial Hybridity and Canada’s Peripheral Place in Inter-American Discourse 119 ALBERT BRAZ
POSTSLAVERY ROUTES
7 Eyeing the North Star? Figuring Canada in Postslavery Fiction and Drama 135
MAUREEN MOYNAGH
8 "May I See Some Identification?" Race, Borders, and Identities in Any Known Blood 148 WINFRIED SIEMERLING
QUEBEC CONNECTIONS
9 Translating in the Multilingual City: Montreal as a City of the Americas 171
SHERRY SIMON
10 "Lucky to be so bilingual": Québécois and Chicano/a Literatures in a Comparative Context 186 MONIKA GIACOPPE
11 Louis Dantin’s American Life 203
PATRICIA GODBOUT
12 Transculturation and National Identity in the Novel Rojo, amarillo y verde by Alejandro Saravia 219 HUGH HAZELTON
13 Looking beyond the Elephant: The Mexican Connection in Francine Noël’s La Conjuration des bâtards 231
CATHERINE KHORDOC
Contributors 247
References 251
Index 283
