Narrating Citizenship And Belonging In Anglophone Canadian Literature

Author : Katja Sarkowsky
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319969350

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Narrating Citizenship and Belonging in Anglophone Canadian Literature by Katja Sarkowsky Pdf

This book examines how concepts of citizenship have been negotiated in Anglophone Canadian literature since the 1970s. Katja Sarkowsky argues that literary texts conceptualize citizenship as political “co-actorship” and as cultural “co-authorship” (Boele van Hensbroek), using citizenship as a metaphor of ambivalent affiliations within and beyond Canada. In its exploration of urban, indigenous, environmental, and diasporic citizenship as well as of citizenship’s growing entanglement with questions of human rights, Canadian literature reflects and feeds into the term’s conceptual diversification. Exploring the works of Guillermo Verdecchia, Joy Kogawa, Jeannette Armstrong, Maria Campbell, Cheryl Foggo, Fred Wah, Michael Ondaatje, and Dionne Brand, this text investigates how citizenship functions to denote emplaced practices of participation in multiple collectives that are not restricted to the framework of the nation-state.

Author : Caroline Koegler,Jesper Reddig,Klaus Stierstorfer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783110749830

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Citizenship, Law and Literature by Caroline Koegler,Jesper Reddig,Klaus Stierstorfer Pdf

This edited volume is the first to focus on how concepts of citizenship diversify and stimulate the long-standing field of law and literature, and vice versa. Building on existing research in law and literature as well as literature and citizenship studies, the collection approaches the triangular relationship between citizenship, law and literature from a variety of disciplinary, conceptual and political perspectives, with particular emphasis on the performative aspect inherent in any type of social expression and cultural artefact. The sixteen chapters in this volume present literature as carrying multifarious, at times opposing energies and impulses in relation to citizenship. These range from providing discursive arenas for consolidating, challenging and re-negotiating citizenship to directly interfering with or inspiring processes of law-making and governance. The volume opens up new possibilities for the scholarly understanding of citizenship along two axes: Citizenship-as-Literature: Enacting Citizenship and Citizenship-in-Literature: Conceptualising Citizenship.

Author : William Kaplan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0773509852

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Belonging by William Kaplan Pdf

Essays presented in January 1992 at a Roundtable on Citizenship sponsored by the Faculty of Law at the U. of Ottawa discuss what it means to be a Canadian and how Canadian citizenship must evolve if it is to serve a unifying ideal. The essays are organized in four broad categories: history; regions; law, constitutionalism, and economics; and individuals and groups. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Eva Ries
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110767520

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Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction by Eva Ries Pdf

Even though the literary trope of the flâneur has been proclaimed ‘dead’ on several occasions, it still proves particularly lively in contemporary Anglophone fiction. This study investigates how flânerie takes a belated ‘ethical turn’ in its more recent manifestations by negotiating models of ethical subjectivity. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s writings on the ‘aesthetics of existence’ as well as Judith Butler’s notion of precariousness as conditio humana, it establishes a link between post-sovereign models of subject formation and a paradoxical constellation of flânerie, which surfaces most prominently in the work of Walter Benjamin. By means of detailed readings of Ian McEwan’s Saturday, Siri Hustvedt’s The Blindfold, Teju Cole’s Open City, Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For and Robin Robertson’s The Long Take, Or a Way to Lose More Slowly, this book traces how the ambivalence of flânerie and its textual representation produces ethical norms while at the same time propagating the value of difference by means of disrupting societal norms of sameness. Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction thus shows that the flânerie text becomes a medium of ethical critique in post-postmodern times.

Author : Rüdiger Ahrens,Florian Kläger,Klaus Stierstorfer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110580822

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Symbolism 2018 by Rüdiger Ahrens,Florian Kläger,Klaus Stierstorfer Pdf

This special issue of Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics explores the various functions of metaphor in life writing. Looking at a range of autobiographical subgenres (pathography, disability narratives, memoirs of migration, autofiction) and different kinds of metaphors, the contributions seek to ‘map’ the possibilities of metaphor for narratively framing an individual life and for constructing notions of selfhood.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004437456

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Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts by Anonim Pdf

An effective tool for reading postcolonial con/texts, ideology also provides a matrix to grasp the world, enabling collective political action. This interdisciplinary volume reflects that each position is subject to asymmetrical power relations, with critiques of ideological manifestations occurring in intersecting cultural, social, and political configurations.

Author : Astrid Franke,Stefanie Mueller,Katja Sarkowsky
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030935511

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Reading the Social in American Studies by Astrid Franke,Stefanie Mueller,Katja Sarkowsky Pdf

Reading the Social in American Studies offers a unique exploration of the advantages and benefits in using sociological terms and concepts in American literary and cultural studies and, conversely, in using literature—understood broadly—to uncover a microlevel of the social. Its temporal scope ranges from the early 19th to the 21st century, providing a historical dimension that is otherwise often missing from studies on the conjunction of literature and sociology. The contributors’ approaches include genre reflections as well as close readings, theoretical discussions of crucial sociological terms, and literary observations backed up by empirical sociological studies. The book will familiarize international readers with ideas on the social from both sides of the Atlantic, including scholarship of such figures as John Dewey, Georg Simmel, Norbert Elias, and Pierre Bourdieu.

Author : L. Oakes,J. Warren
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230625495

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Language, Citizenship and Identity in Quebec by L. Oakes,J. Warren Pdf

Globalization is calling for new conceptualizations of belonging within culturally diverse communities. Quebec, driven by the pressures of maintaining Francophone identity and accommodating migrant groups, provides a fascinating case study of how to foster a sense of belonging.

Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration,Judy Bethel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0660591197

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Canadian Citizenship by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration,Judy Bethel Pdf

Author : Adrienne Clarkson
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781770898394

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Belonging by Adrienne Clarkson Pdf

Never has the world experienced greater movement of peoples from one country to another, from one continent to another. These seismic shifts in population have brought about huge challenges for all societies. In this year’s Massey Lectures, Canada’s twenty-sixth Governor General and bestselling author Adrienne Clarkson argues that a sense of belonging is a necessary mediation between an individual and a society. She masterfully chronicles the evolution of citizenship throughout the ages: from the genesis of the idea of the citizen in ancient Greece, to the medieval structures of guilds and class; from the revolutionary period which gave birth to the modern nation-state, to present-day citizenship based on shared values, consensus, and pluralism. Clarkson places particular emphasis on the Canadian model, which promotes immigration, parliamentary democracy, and the rule of law, and the First Nations circle, which embodies notions of expansion and equality. She concludes by looking forward, using the Bhutanese example of Gross National Happiness to determine how we measure up today and how far we have to go to bring into being the citizen, and the society, of tomorrow.

Author : Kit Dobson
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781554586684

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Transnational Canadas by Kit Dobson Pdf

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.

Author : Frank Davey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015029847715

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Post-national Arguments by Frank Davey Pdf

The author's focus is on the implicit (not the overt) politics of 16 Canadian novels, written since 1967. The novels were selected because they have been important to particular Canadian audiences, offer some portrayal of Canada, and are useful as vehicles for discussion of Canadian-US relations. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780773553507

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by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : OCLC:823186033

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Canadian Citizenship by Anonim Pdf

Author : Danielle Fuller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0712344594

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Citizen Reader by Danielle Fuller Pdf