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Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine the various contexts—political, social, and cultural—that have shaped the study of Canadian literature and the role it plays in our understanding of the Canadian nation-state. The essays are tied together as instances of critical practices that reveal the relations and exchanges that take place between the categories of the literary and the nation, as well as between the disciplinary sites of critical discourses and the porous boundaries of their methods. They are concerned with the material effects of the imperial and colonial logics that have fashioned Canada, as well as with the paradoxes, ironies, and contortions that abound in the general perception that Canada has progressed beyond its colonial construction.
Smaro Kamboureli’s introduction demonstrates that these essays engage with the larger realm of human and social practices—throne speeches, book clubs, policies of accommodation of cultural and religious differences, Indigenous thought about justice and ethics—to show that literary and critical work is inextricably related to the Canadian polity in light of transnational and global forces.
Smaro Kamboureli is a professor and the Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature in the English Department at the University of Toronto. She is the founder of the TransCanada series of books, published by WLU Press, originating from interdisciplinary conferences that initiated collaborative research on the methodologies and institutional structures and contexts that inform and shape the production, dissemination, teaching, and study of Canadian literature. Her most recent publications include Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies (WLU Press 2012), co-edited with Robert Zacharias and Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace (WLU Press, 2013), co-edited with Kit Dobson.
Table of Contents for Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies, edited by Smaro Kamboureli and Robert Zacharias
Preface | Smaro Kamboureli and Robert Zacharias
Introduction: Shifting the Ground of a Discipline: Emergence and Canadian Literary Studies in English | Smaro Kamboureli
National Literatures in the Shadow of Neoliberalism | Jeff Derksen
"Beyond CanLit(e)": Reading. Interdisciplinarity. Transatlantically. | Danielle Fuller
White Settlers and the Biopolitics of State Building in Canada | Janine Brodie
"Some Great Crisis": Vimy as Originary Violence | Robert Zacharias
Amplifying Threat: Reasonable Accommodations and Quebec's Bouchard–Taylor Commission Hearings (2007) | Monika Kin Gagnon and Yasmin Jiwani
The Time Has Come: Self and Community Articulations in Colour. An Issue and Awakening Thunder | Larissa Lai
Archivable Concepts: Talonbooks and Literary Translation | Kathy Mezei
Is CanLit Lost in Japanese Translation? | Yoko Fujimoto
The Cunning of Reconciliation: Reinventing White Civility in the "Age of Apology" | Pauline Wakeham
The Long March to "Recognition": Sákéj Henderson, First Nations Jurisprudence, and Sui Generis Solidarity | Len Findlay
bush/writing: embodied deconstruction, traces of community, and writing against the state in indigenous acts of inscription | peter kulchyski
Notes
Works Cited
Contributors
Index