The Anglo-Canadian novel in the twenty-first century : interpretations / edited by Maria Löschnigg, Martin Löschnigg.

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English
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  • Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2019]
  • ©2019
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266 pages ; 26 cm

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    "This volume provides interpretation of major Canadian novels in English published during the last twenty years. Comprising a wide range of topics and genres, including writing by recent immigrants and by First Nations authors as well as speculative fiction on global future(s), these novels testify to the richness, vitality and diversity of contemporary Anglo-Canadian writing. The twenty-five essays by established and emerging scholars in the field show how contemporary Canadian novels in English have reflected transformations in Canada society since the turn of the millennia. In particular, they reappraise the cultural diversity which is central to an understanding of contemporary Canadian writing. The volume thus investigates the ongoing formation of a specifically Canadian form of multiculturalism and of Canadian cultural sensibilities as acted our in literature."--Provided by publisher
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    Contents
    • Arc of Itinerant Tropes: Beyond Kin and Kind in André Alexis's Fifteen Dogs (2015) / Rūta Šlapkauskaitė (Vilnius)
    • Dire Cartographies: Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy (2003-2013) / Coral Ann Howells (London)
    • Shakespearean Godgames in Makeshiweg, Ont.: Margaret Atwood, Hag-Seed (2016) / Martin Kuester (Marburg)
    • Indigeneity, Trauma and Healing: Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road (2005) / Silvia Mergenthal (Konstanz)
    • Abused by Fish Bellie, Accompanied by Manitous: The Residential School System's Death Toll in Joseph Doyden's Wenjack (2016) / Nassim Winnie Balestrini (Graz)
    • Geographies, Ethnicities, and the Cultures of Belonging: Dionne Brand, What We All Long For (2005) / David Creelman (Saint John/NB)
    • Mythopoeic Power of Fish Stink: Michael Crummey's Galore (2009) as an Ode to Story-Telling / Elisabeth Gießauf (Graz)
    • 'Turning the page': Timothy Findley's Pilgrim (1999) / Sherrill Grace (Vancouver)
    • Drilling for Oil with No Holds Barred: Don Gillmor's Long Change (2015) / Melanie Braunecker (Klagenfurt)
    • Daniel Defoe, Michel Tournier and the Autonomous Subject: Douglas Glover's Elle (2003) / Johannes Wally (Graz)
    • "Tell me more! Tell me more!" Sensationalism and Trauma in Rawi Hage's Cockroach (2008) / Sabrina Thom (Graz)
    • Ontologies of Disability/Ontologies of Care: Frances Itani's Deseronto Trilogy (2003-2017) / Anna Branach-Kallas (Toruń)
    • Trauma, Memory, and Art: Frances Itani, Requiem (2011) / Brigitte Johanna Glaser (Göttingen)
    • Native Ecologies: Thomas King's The Back of the Turtle (2014) / Maria Löschnigg (Graz)
    • Trauma, Liminality, and Narrative Voice: Tracey Lindberg's Birdie (2015) / Silke Jandl (Graz)
    • Mystery and Memory: Emily St. John Mandel's The Lola Quartet (2012) / Maximilian Feldner (Graz)
    • Is There Room for Happiness? Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters (2002) / Martin Löschnigg (Graz)
    • "Journey was to be an innocent story ...": Rites of Passage in Michael ondaatje's The Cat's Table (2011) / Dagmara Drewniak (Poznań)
    • Indigeneity Mainstreaming: Eden Robinson, Blood Sports (2006) / Jutta Zimmermann (Ziel)
    • Music in the Air: Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016) / David Staines (Ottawa)
    • Strong Voices: Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness (2004) / Jason Blake (Ljubljana)
    • "Difficult architecture of a new world": Jane Urquhart, The Stone Carvers (2001) / Marzena Sokolowska-Paryż (Warsaw)
    • Centrepiece of the Western Trilogy: Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing (2002) / Heinz Antor (Cologne)
    • Making a Life: Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan (2001) / Don Sparling (Brno).
    ISBN
    • 9783825346409 ((hardbound))
    • 3825346404 ((hardbound))
    LCCN
    2019459351
    OCLC
    1123106768
    International Article Number
    • 9783825346409
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