"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globalization is no longer valid in today's economic climate,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.
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