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La réflexion que propose Langages et écritures de l’exil, avec une attention particulière portée à des textes de L’Ouest canadien comme terre d’asile et terre d’exil, cherche à faire ressortir le caractère fondamentalement ambivalent de l’exil, dont Edward Said a pu écrire qu’il « constitue étrangement un sujet de réflexion fascinant », et à témoigner de la propension apodictique de l’esprit humain à dire, à raconter, à construire et à se construire, par la parole ou par l’écriture, des récits qui partagent la souffrance, hurlent l’angoisse, clament une identité, revendiquent une voix. Cet ouvrage collectif regroupe des textes rassemblés à la suite d’un colloque international à l’University of Calgary tenu à l’automne 2014 et placé sous le patronage du Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada, de l’University of Alberta, de l’University of Calgary et de l’Université François-Rabelais de Tours.

French-Canadians --- Exile (Punishment) in literature --- French-Canadian literature --- Geocriticism --- Intellectual life --- Themes, motives --- History and criticism --- Criticism --- Canadian literature (French) --- French literature --- Canadians, Francophone --- Canadians, French-speaking --- Francophone Canadians --- French-speaking Canadians --- Canadians

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The contributors to Ecocriticism and Geocriticism survey the overlapping territories of these critical practices, demonstrating through their diversity of interests, as well as their range of topics, texts, periods, genres, methods, and perspectives, just how rich and varied ecocritical and geocritical approaches can be. As diffuse 'schools' of criticism, ecocriticism and geocriticism represent two relatively recent discourses through which literary and cultural studies have placed renewed emphasis on the lived environment, social and natural spaces, spatiotemporality, ecology, history, and geography. These loosely defined practices have also fostered politically engaged inquiries into the ways that humans not only represent, but also organize the spaces and places in which they, their fellow humans, and many other forms of life must dwell. These essays exemplify the ways in which critics may bring environmental and spatial literary studies to bear on each other, enabling readers to looks at both literature and their surroundings differently.

Ecocriticism --- Geocriticism --- Literature and society --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- History --- Ecocriticism. --- Geocriticism. --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Ecological literary criticism --- Environmental literary criticism --- Social aspects --- Criticism --- Sociolinguistics --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- European literature. --- America-Literatures. --- Literature-Philosophy. --- Literature-History and criticism. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- European Literature. --- North American Literature. --- Literary Theory. --- Literary History. --- European literature --- Literature History and criticism --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc.

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This collection emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to the problem of scale, with essays ranging in subject matter from literature to film, architecture, the plastic arts, philosophy, and scientific and political writing. Its contributors consider a variety of issues provoked by the sudden and pressing shifts in scale brought on by globalization and the era of the Anthropocene, including: the difficulties of defining the concept of scale; the challenges that shifts in scale pose to knowledge formation; the role of scale in mediating individual subjectivity and agency; the barriers to understanding objects existing in scalar realms different from our own; the role of scale in mediating the relationship between humans and the environment; and the nature of power, authority, and democracy at different social scales.

Criticism. --- Geocriticism. --- Scaling (Social sciences). --- Literature-Philosophy. --- Critical theory. --- Comparative literature. --- Motion pictures. --- Literary Theory. --- Critical Theory. --- Comparative Literature. --- Film Theory. --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Critical social theory --- Critical theory (Philosophy) --- Critical theory (Sociology) --- Negative philosophy --- Criticism (Philosophy) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Sociology --- Frankfurt school of sociology --- Socialism --- History and criticism --- Literature—Philosophy. --- Literature --- Scale (Philosophy) --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Theory

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By offering an analysis of the idea of home across the individual, interpersonal, social, and global scales, Mapping Home aims to show the extent to which self-concept is deeply tied to constructions of home in a globally mobile age. The epistemological link between dwelling as "knowing oneself" and the experience of welcome as key to being able to map "one's place(s) in the world" are examined through Martin Heidegger's concept of dwelling, Zygmunt Bauman's notion of liquid modernity, Jacques Derrida's exploration of hostile hospitality, and Kwame Anthony Appiah's sense of cosmopolitanism as border-crossing conversation. To further explore these ideas, the book draws on multimodal literature and films that span genres, including gothic horror, fantasy and science fiction, thoughtful comedies, and politically nuanced tragedies. The quality that deeply links the texts is their ability to illuminate the stabilities and mobilities through which home not only mediates but also integrates an individual's diverse experiences of belonging in different locations as well as on different geocultural scales—from the intimate "household" to the more abstract "hometown" or "homeland" and beyond.

Self-perception. --- Geocriticism. --- Criticism --- Self-concept --- Self image --- Self-understanding --- Perception --- Self-discrepancy theory --- Self-evaluation --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Literature-Philosophy. --- Fiction. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Literary Theory. --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Philosophy --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century. --- Literature—Philosophy. --- Literatura contemporània --- Teoria de la literatura --- Filosofia de la literatura --- Teoria literària (Filosofia) --- Literatura --- Estètica literària --- Història de la literatura --- Poesia contemporània --- Postmodernisme (Literatura) --- Literature, Modern --- Fiction Literature. --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Philosophy. --- Theory

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Many but not all the contributions in this volume originated as presentations at the Critical Topography conference in 2015. Bordo and Fitzpatrick coin the term critical topography to describe how thought and symbolic forms invent place through text and image. International in scope, Canadian in spirit, and grounded in singular sites, Place Matters presents critical topography as an approach to analyze, interpret, and reflect on place.

Geocriticism. --- Landscapes in art. --- Place (Philosophy) in art. --- Ai Wei Wei. --- Albert Camus. --- Anthropocene. --- Arcadia. --- Atomic Photographers Guild. --- Ayuituq National Park. --- Barthes. --- Berlin. --- Brewery Pond. --- COVID 19. --- Canada. --- Cape Town. --- Cezanne. --- Chamolangma. --- Chernobyl. --- Chicago. --- Colonus. --- Daiesh Refugee Camp. --- David McMillan. --- District Six Museum. --- Donetsk airport. --- Edward Burtynsky. --- Everest. --- Group Seven. --- Hamish Fulton. --- Henry David Thoreau. --- Hiroshima. --- Indian Residential School. --- Indigenous. --- Jesper Svenbro. --- La Peste. --- Lesbos. --- Manto. --- Margaret Olin. --- Mark Ruwedel. --- Maurice Blanchot. --- Max Avdeev. --- Michel Foucault. --- Mont St Victoire. --- Mount Kailash. --- Nagasaki. --- National Socialism. --- Nepal. --- Newfoundland. --- Nora. --- Nunavut. --- Palestine. --- Pangnirtung. --- Paul Duro. --- Peter van Wyck. --- Port Hope. --- Poussin. --- QuAppelle Valley. --- Raymond Williams. --- Richard Long. --- Robert del Tredici. --- Saskatchewan. --- Sebald. --- Sophocles. --- Tibet. --- Walden. --- Walter Benjamin. --- X marks spot. --- aesthetic. --- art. --- aura. --- chorography. --- civic witness. --- colonialism. --- critical topography. --- disaster. --- document. --- imitation. --- inscription. --- keeping place. --- landscape testimony. --- lieu de memoire. --- modernity. --- painting. --- photographs. --- pictures. --- place. --- punctum. --- ruins. --- sublime. --- terra nullius. --- topos. --- trauma. --- walls. --- wilderness.