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Transnational Canadas marks the first sustained inquiry into the relationship between globalization and Canadian literature written in English. Tracking developments in the literature and its study from the centennial period to the present, it shows how current work in transnational studies can provide new insights for researchers and students. Arguing first that the dichotomy of Canadian nationalism and globalization is no longer valid in today’s economic climate, Transnational Canadas explores the legacy of leftist nationalism in Canadian literature. It examines the interventions of multicultural writing in the 1980s and 1990s, investigating the cultural politics of the period and how they increasingly became part of Canada’s state structure. Under globalization, the book concludes, we need to understand new forms of subjectivity and mobility as sites for cultural politics and look beyond received notions of belonging and being. An original contribution to the study of Canadian literature, Transnational Canadas seeks to invigorate discussion by challenging students and researchers to understand the national and the global simultaneously, to look at the politics of identity beyond the rubric of multiculturalism, and to rethink the slippery notion of the political for the contemporary era.

820 "19" --- 820 <71> --- #KOHU:CANADIANA --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Engelse literatuur--Canada --- 820 <71> Engelse literatuur--Canada --- 820 "19" Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Litterature canadienne-anglaise --- Transnationalisme dans la litterature. --- Litterature et mondialisation --- Canadian literature (English) --- Transnationalism in literature. --- Literature and globalization --- Globalization and literature --- Globalization --- English literature --- Canadian literature --- Auteurs issus des minorites --- Histoire et critique. --- Minority authors --- History and criticism. --- Littérature canadienne de langue anglaise --- Mondialisation --- Transnationalisme --- 20e siècle --- 21e siècle --- Dans la littérature --- Auteurs appartenant à des minorités --- Histoire et critique

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"This book examines the quest for/failure of Utopia across a range of contemporary American/transnational fictions in relation to terror and globalization through authors such as Susan Choi, André Dubus, Dalia Sofer, and John Updike. While recent critical thinkers have reengaged with Utopia, the possibility of terror -- whether state or non-state, external or homegrown -- shadows Utopian imaginings. Terror and Utopia are linked in fiction through the exploration of the commodification of affect, a phenomenon of a globalized world in which feelings are managed, homogenized across cultures, exaggerated, or expunged according to a dominant model. Narrative approaches to the terrorist offer a means to investigate the ways in which fiction can resist commodification of affect, and maintain a reasoned but imaginative vision of possibilities for human community. Newman explores topics such as the first American bestseller with a Muslim protagonist, the links between writer and terrorist, the work of Iranian-Jewish Americans, and the relation of race and religion to Utopian thought." -- Publisher's description.

Double appartenance (Sciences sociales) dans la littérature --- Dys-utopies dans la littérature --- Dystopias in literature --- Dysutopieën in de literatuur --- Fantaisie dans la littérature --- Fantasie in de literatuur --- Fantasy in literature --- Littératures transnationales --- Migration internationale dans la littérature --- Migration transnationale dans la littérature --- Réseaux sociaux transnationaux dans la littérature --- Terreur dans la littérature --- Terreur in de literatuur --- Terror in literature --- Trans-migration dans la littérature --- Transnationalism in literature --- Transnationalisme dans la littérature --- Transnationalisme in de literatuur --- Utopias in literature --- Utopies dans la littérature --- Utopieën in de literatuur --- American fiction --- History and criticism --- Utopias in literature. --- Dystopias in literature. --- Terror in literature. --- Fantasy in literature. --- Transnationalism in literature. --- Utopische literatuur. --- Dystopie. --- Terrorisme. --- Amerikaans. --- Bellettrie. --- American fiction. --- Dystopias. --- Fantasy. --- Literature. --- Terror. --- Transnationalism. --- Utopias. --- History and criticism. --- 2000-2099. --- 21st century --- Edwards, Kim --- Choi, Susan --- Dubus, Andre --- Sofer, Dalia --- Updike, John --- Evaristo, Bernardine --- Divakaruni, Chitra --- Utopies littéraires. --- Terreur --- Fantaisie --- Littérature américaine --- Transnationalisme --- Dans la littérature. --- Histoire et critique. --- American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism --- American literature --- Utopian literature