MONTREAL DOUBLE LAUNCH: CanLit Across Media & Home Feelings

Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore, 2220 McGill College Avenue, Montreal, QC
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Presented by the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, Librarie Paragraphe Bookstore will host a double launch for CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event (Eds. Jason Camlot and Katherine McLeod) and Home Feelings: Liberal Citizenship and the Canadian Reading Camp Movement (Jody Mason). The launch will feature two 10 minute presentations by the books' respective editors and author, and will be followed by a cocktail. Books will be available for purchase at the event.

Jason Camlot is professor in the Department of English at Concordia University. Katherine McLeod is an affiliated researcher with SpokenWeb at Concordia University. Jody Mason is associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University.

ABOUT CANLIT ACROSS MEDIA

The materials we turn to for the construction of our literary pasts - the texts, performances, and discussions selected for storage and cataloguing in archives - shape what we know and teach about literature today. The ways in which archival materials have been structured into forms of preservation, in turn, impact their transference and transformation into new forms of presentation and re-presentation. Showcasing the range of methods and theories researchers use to engage with these materials, CanLit Across Media reanimates archives of cultural meaning and literary performance.

ABOUT HOME FEELINGS

Literature, literacy, and citizenship took on new and contested meanings in early twentieth-century Canada, particularly in frontier work camps. In this critical history of the reading camp movement, Jody Mason undertakes the first sustained analysis of the organization that became Frontier College in 1919. Shifting the focus away from urban centres and postwar state narratives of citizenship, Home Feelings tracks the importance of reading projects and conceptions of literacy to the emergence of liberal citizenship in Canada prior to the Second World War.