"The contributors to National Literature in Multinational States discuss the multiplicity and even incoherence of the idea of the nation, which presumes that the audience, the language, the territory, and the state all coincide exactly. But all states are perforce multilingual, multiethnic, and, yes, multinational. So what does this mean for the idea of a national literature?" Neil ten Kortenaar, English and Comparative Literature, University of Toronto
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- 256
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- Edmonton, CA
Table of Contents
- Front cover 1
- Title page 4
- Copyright page 5
- Dedication 6
- Contents 8
- The Nation and Its Literature(s) | Morris & Braz 10
- 1 Reticent Nations | Morris 32
- 2 Cultural Memory, National Identity | Cormier 52
- 3 Literary Resistance | Tétreault 74
- 4 Intersections of Nationhood, Multiculturalism, and Globalization in South Asian Canadian Fiction | Bandopadhyay 96
- 5 Canadian Literature in Heritage Languages and the Politics of Canon Formation | Sayed 120
- 6 “No Nation Now but the Imagination” | Hambuch 140
- 7 Rediscovering the Republic | White 160
- 8 A Multinational Narrativei n a Case Study of Translating an Eastern Christian Play | Joseph 178
- 9 Nigeria’s Other Civil War | Braz 198
- 10 “Write Only the Truth” | Umezurike 216
- Contributors 234
- Other titles from University of Alberta Press 241
