Klappentext A cutting edge study of the relation of Canadian literature to the Americas. Zusammenfassung A cutting edge study of the relation of Canadian literature to the Americas.

Autorentext

Winfried Siemerling is a professor of english at the University of Waterloo. Sarah Phillips Casteel is an associate professor of english at Carleton University.

Klappentext

A cutting edge study of the relation of Canadian literature to the Americas.

Zusammenfassung
A cutting edge study of the relation of Canadian literature to the Americas.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments Introduction: Canada and Its Americas / Winfried Siemerling and Sarah Phillips Casteel DEFENDING THE NATION? 01 Worlding the (Postcolonial) Nation: Canada's Americas / Cynthia Sugars; 2 Hemispheric Studies or Scholarly nafta? The Case for Canadian Literary Studies / Herb Wyile; 3 Counter-Worlding A/americanite / David Leahy INDIGENOUS REMAPPINGS OF AMERICA 04 Representations of the Native and the New World Subject / Amaryll Chanady; 5 Indigeneity and Diasporic Belonging: Three New World Readings of Chief Sitting Bull / Sarah Phillips Casteel; 6 Outer America: Racial Hybridity and Canada's Peripheral Place in Inter-American Discourse / Albert Braz POSTSLAVERY ROUTES 07 Eyeing the North Star? Figuring Canada in Postslavery Fiction and Drama / Maureen Moynagh; 8 "May I See Some Identification?" Race, Borders, and Identities in Any Known Blood / Winfried Siemerling QUEBEC CONNECTIONS 09 Translating in the Multilingual City: Montreal as a City of the Americas / Sherry Simon; 10 "Lucky to be so bilingual": Quebecois and Chicano/a Literatures in a Comparative Context / Monika Giacoppe; 11 Louis Dantin's American Life / Patricia Godbout; 12 Transculturation and National Identity in the Novel Rojo, amarillo y verde by Alejandro Saravia / Hugh Hazelton; 13 Looking beyond the Elephant: The Mexican Connection in Francine Noel's La Conjuration des batards / Catherine Khordoc Contributors; References; Index