Since its beginning, Comparative Literature has been characterized as a discipline in crisis. But its shifting boundaries are its strength, allowing for collaboration and growth and illuminating a path forward. In Comparative Literature for the New Century a diverse group of scholars argue for a distinct North American approach to literary studies that includes the promotion of different languages. Chapters by senior scholars such as George Elliott Clarke, E.D. Blodgett, and Sneja Gunew are placed in dialogue with those by younger scholars, including Dominique Hétu, Maria Cristina Seccia, and Ndeye Fatou Ba. The writers, many of whom are bilingual or trilingual, discuss problems with translation, identity and belonging, the modern epic, the role of tradition, minority writing, Francophone and Anglophone novels in Africa, and politics in literature. Engaging with theory, history, media studies, psychology, translation studies, post-colonial studies, and gender studies, chapters exemplify how the knowledge and tools offered by Comparative Literature can be applied in reading, exploring, and understanding not only literary productions but also the world at large. Presenting some of the most current work being carried out by academics and scholars actively engaged in the field in Canada and abroad, Comparative Literature for the New Century promotes the value of Comparative Literature as an interdisciplinary study and assesses future directions it might take.--$cProvided by publisher.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2018.
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- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 809
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9780773554498 9780773555365
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- PN865
- LCCN Item number
- C62 2018eb
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- 1 electronic text (xii, 335 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
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- (CaBNVSL)kck00239282 (OCoLC)1048895916 (CaOOCEL)455602
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Comparative LITERATURE for the NEW CENTURY 2
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- Contents 6
- Foreword 8
- Acknowledgments 12
- Introduction: The State of the Art 16
- SECTION ONE Comparative Arguments 32
- Anonymous: Animating Ecologies of Belonging 34
- The Languages of Comparative Literature 54
- SECTION TWO Future Directions in Comparative Literature 78
- Dialogue between Francophone and Anglophone Literatures in Africa 80
- “What a Caring Act”: Geographies of Care and the Posthuman in Canadian Dystopian Fiction 100
- Why Not an “African-Canadian” Epic? Lessons from Pratt andWalcott, Etc. 130
- Reading Literature through Translation: The Case of Antonio D’Alfonso into Italian 166
- Exile, Media, Capital: Calendar’s System of Exchange 187
- SECTION THREE International Comparative Studies 210
- A Many-Tongued Babel: Translingualism in Canadian Multicultural Writing 212
- “Like a Dancing Gypsy”: A Close Reading of Cockroach 228
- The Power to Narrate: Representing Italian Migrant Working-Class Experiences in Two Steel Cities in Australia and Canada 242
- Gunn, Edwards, and di Michele: Nomadic Spaces 259
- Peasant Boots, Dancing Boots: Assimilation and Hyphenation in Vera Lysenko’s Yellow Boots and Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms 280
- SECTION FOUR Looking Back at Traditions 300
- Comparative Literature in Canada: A Case Study 302
- Haunting Tradition Properly: Studies in Ethnic Minority Writing 317
- Contributors 334
- Index 340
