"Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies" is a
collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine the various
contexts--political, social, and cultural--that have shaped the
study of Canadian literature and the role it plays in our
understanding of the Canadian nation-state. The essays are tied
together as instances of critical practices that reveal the
relations and exchanges that take place between the categories of
the literary and the nation, as well as between the disciplinary
sites of critical discourses and the porous boundaries of their
methods. They are concerned with the material effects of the
imperial and colonial logics that have fashioned Canada, as well as
with the paradoxes, ironies, and contortions that abound in the
general perception that Canada has progressed beyond its colonial
construction.
Smaro Kamboureli's introduction demonstrates that these essays
engage with the larger realm of human and social practices--throne
speeches, book clubs, policies of accommodation of cultural and
religious differences, Indigenous thought about justice and
ethics--to show that literary and critical work is inextricably
related to the Canadian polity in light of transnational and global
forces.
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