Moveable Margins: The Shifting Spaces in Canadian Literature - Softcover

9781894770286: Moveable Margins: The Shifting Spaces in Canadian Literature

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1894770285 ISBN 13: 9781894770286

Verlag: TSAR PUBN, 2005

Cultural writing. This collection of essays explores contemporary Canadian literature in all of its challenges. Specifically, the collection focuses on notions of multiplicity, how ideas of space and landscape complement and intersect with the constantly changing facets of Canadian society. The authors are all Canadians, by birth or choice, but the literary worlds they project and widely disparate. This collection intends to bring out the differences, and perceive the intersections, through concise and insightful examinations of the richly diverse body of recent Canadian writing.

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Chelva Kanaganayakam was born in Sri Lanka and now lives in Toronto. He is Associate Professor of English at Trinity College, University of Toronto. He is the author of, among other works,Configurations of Exile: South Asian Writers and Their World, and has editedLutesong and Lament: Tamil Writing from Sri Lanka.

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Canadian literature continues to be something of a muddle, largely because any homogenizing grid would fail to embrace its divergent tendencies and characteristics. The essays in this book focus on how recent writing addresses notions of multiplicity, and how ideas of space and landcape complement and intersect within this genre. Each province, for example, brings to literature its distinctiveness, created by the specificities of its history and its populations and the contours of its landscape. Writers who have immigrated to Canada move away from the local to remembered and imagined landscapes, and the communities they project are at once familiar and distant, new and old. The authors represented here are all Canadians, by birth or by choice, but the worlds of their imagination are widely disparate. This collection is intended to bring out the differences, and in the process perceive the intersections and draw connections. The motifs that run through all the essays are community, space, and landscape, and they become the touchstones to examine a richly diverse body of recent Canadian writing.