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In partnership with Glass Bookshop, the Canadian Literature Centre | Centre de littérature canadienne (University of Alberta) is hosting the online launch of Marie Carrière’s Cautiously Hopeful: Metafeminist Practices in Canada, and All the Feels / Tous les sens: Affect and Writing in Canada / Affect et écriture au Canada, co-edited by Marie Carrière, Ursula Moser, and Kit Dobson (University of Alberta Press).
Both publications emerged from the activities of the CLC and its past director, Marie Carrière. The launch will feature readings of both books by the three scholars as well as a discussion of the texts centred on the affect of hope in these precarious times.
If feminism has always been characterized by its divisions, it is metafeminism, a term coined by Lori Saint-Martin, that defines and embraces that disorder. As a carefully devised reading practice, metafeminism understands contemporary feminist literature and theory as both recalling and extending the tropes and politics of the past. In Cautiously Hopeful Marie Carrière brings together seemingly disparate writing by Anglo-Canadian, Indigenous, and Québécois women authors under the banner of metafeminism. Familiarizing readers with major streams of feminist thought, including intersectionality, affect theory, and care ethics, Carrière shows how literary works by such authors as Dionne Brand, Nicole Brossard, Naomi Fontaine, Larissa Lai, Tracey Lindberg, and Rachel Zolf, among others, tackle the entanglement of gender with race, settler-invader colonialism, heteronormativity, positionality, language, and the posthuman condition.
All the Feels / Tous les sens presents research into emotion and cognition in Canadian, Indigenous, and Québécois writings in English or French. Affect is both internal and external, private and public; with its fluid boundaries, it represents a productive dimension for literary analysis. The emerging field of affect studies makes vital claims about ethical impulses, social justice, and critical resistance, and thus much is at stake when we adopt affective reading practices. The contributors ask what we can learn from reading contemporary literatures through this lens. Unique and timely, readable and teachable, this collection is a welcome resource for scholars of literature, feminism, philosophy, and transnational studies as well as anyone who yearns to imagine the world differently.