Reconfigurations: Canadian Literatures and Postcolonial Identities<BR> Littratures canadiennes et identits postcoloniales (New Comparative Poetics, No. 7.) (English and French Edition)

This volume offers challenging assessments of the reconfigurations that have shaped Anglophone and Francophone Canadian literatures in the last decades of the twentieth century. Focusing on the pursuit of an ever-elusive &la" Canadianness in literary texts, it documents the astonishing range of Canadian diasporic identities that have recently emerged in the Canadian literary landscape. The contributors to this volume boldly transgress the widely held critical assumptions of postcolonialism in their examination of the literary representations of contemporary Canada's many &la" Others. Ce volume rassemble nombre d'analyses innovatrices des reconfigurations qui ont caracterise les litteratures canadiennes anglophones et francophones durant les dernieres decennies du vingtieme siecle. Tout en se concentrant sur la quete de I'insaisissable &la" Canadianite en litterature, l'ouvrage demontre l'etonnante diversite des identites diasporiques qui ont recemment emerge dans le paysage litterairecanadien. Les contributeurs de ce volume transgressent audacieusement les certitudes generalement acquises du postcolonialisme afin de mieux decrire les representations litteraires des nombreux &la" Autres du Canada actuel. Contents/Contenu: Marc Maufort: Introduction: Postcolonial Variations on a Canadian Theme -- Marie-Celie Agnant: Ecrire en marge de la marge -- Lucie Lequin: Marie-Celie Agnant: une ecriture de la memoire et du silence -- Marta Dvorak: Re/configuring Canadian Life Writing -- Janet Paterson: Quand le je est un(e) Autre: l'ecriture migrante au Quebec -- Marie-Linda Lord: L'epreuve de la marge face a l'Autre: les Etats-Unis dans les romans d'Antonine Maillet et de David AdamsRichards -- Robert S. Schwartzwald: Quel jardin pour la litterature quebecoise? RebondissReconfigurations: Canadian Literatures and Postcolonial Identities
Littratures canadiennes et identits postcoloniales (New Comparative Poetics, No. 7.) (English and French Edition), 2 was published 2004 under ISBN 9789052011097 and ISBN 9052011095.