Beyond "Understanding Canada": Transnational Perspectives on Canadian Literature

Acknowledgements vii Introduction xi Jeremy Haynes, Melissa Tanti, Daniel Coleman, Lorraine York i Contexts, Provocations, and Knowledge Territories 1 Beyond Understanding Canada Belatedness and Canadian Literary Studies // Smaro Kamboureli 2 The Understanding Canada Program and International Canadian Literary Studies // Christl Verduyn 3 Indigenous Writing in Indigenous Languages Reconfiguring Canadian Literary Studies and Beyond // Elizabeth Yeoman ii Roots and Routes 4 Canada in Black Transnational Studies Austin Clarke, Affective Affiliations, and the Cross-Border Poetics of Caribbean Canadian Writing // Michael A. Bucknor 5 “Why Don’t You Write about Canada?” Olive Senior’s Poetry, Everybody’s History, and the “Condition of Resonance” // Anne Collett 6 Canada and the Black Atlantic Epistemologies, Frameworks, Texts // Pilar Cuder-Domínguez iii Mapping Bodies, Place, and Time 7 “Off the Highway” Margins, Centres, Modernisms // Katalin Kürtösi 8 Canadian Photography and the Exhaustion of Landscape // Claire Omhovère 9 Posthuman Affect in the Global Empire Queer Speculative Fictions of Canada // Belén Martín-Lucas iv Border Zones 10 Unexpected Dialogical Space in David Albahari’s Immigrant Writing // Vesna Lopi_ci´c and Milena Kali _canin 11 The Politics of Art and Affect in Michael Helm’s Cities of Refuge // Ana María Fraile-Marcos v Reading Publics 12 Canada through the Lens of the Communist Censor The Translation of CanLit under an Authoritarian Regime // Lucia Otrísalová 13 Economies of Export Translating Laurence, Atwood, and Munro in Eastern Europe (1960–1989) // Cristina Ivanovici 14 Canadian Literature and Canadian Studies in the Czech Republic // Don Sparling Works Cited Contributors Index