Beyond "Understanding Canada"

Melissa Tanti is a PhD candidate in English at McMaster University. Her area of specialization is contemporary women’s literature and feminist critical theory. Jeremy Haynes is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University where he studies Canadian, Indigenous, and diasporic literatures with an interest in Indigenous methodologies. Daniel Coleman is Professor Emeritus of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. He was born and raised in Ethiopia and came to Canada to go to college. After BEd and MA degrees from the University of Regina, and a PhD from the University of Alberta, he went on to teach at McMaster University. He has written scholarly books about literature, masculinity, migration, and whiteness in Canada, and he has written literary non-fiction books about his upbringing among missionaries in Ethiopia, about the spiritual and cultural politics of reading, and about eco-human relations in Hamilton, Ontario, the post-industrial city where he lives. Daniel Coleman has edited books on early Canadian literary cultures, postcolonial masculinities, race, Caribbean-Canadian literature, the state of the humanities in Canadian universities, the creativity and resilience of refugee-d and Indigenous peoples, and international scholarship on Canadian literatures. Some of these books have won awards. He is grateful to live in the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe in Hamilton, Ontario. Lorraine York, Senator William McMaster Chair in Canadian Literature and Culture in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, specializes in Canadian literary culture and celebrity studies.

• Acknowledgements viiIntroduction xiJeremy Haynes, Melissa Tanti, Daniel Coleman, Lorraine Yorki Contexts, Provocations, and Knowledge Territories1 Beyond Understanding Canada Belatedness and Canadian Literary Studies // Smaro Kamboureli2 The Understanding Canada Program andInternational Canadian Literary Studies // Christl Verduyn3 Indigenous Writing in Indigenous Languages Reconfiguring Canadian Literary Studies and Beyond // Elizabeth Yeomanii Roots and Routes4 Canada in Black Transnational Studies Austin Clarke, Affective Affiliations, and the Cross-Border Poetics of Caribbean Canadian Writing // Michael A. Bucknor5 “Why Don’t You Write about Canada?” Olive Senior’s Poetry, Everybody’s History, and the “Condition of Resonance” // Anne Collett6 Canada and the Black Atlantic Epistemologies, Frameworks, Texts // Pilar Cuder-Domíngueziii Mapping Bodies, Place, and Time7 “Off the Highway” Margins, Centres, Modernisms // Katalin Kürtösi8 Canadian Photography and the Exhaustion of Landscape // Claire Omhovère9 Posthuman Affect in the Global Empire Queer Speculative Fictions of Canada // Belén Martín-Lucasiv Border Zones10 Unexpected Dialogical Space in David Albahari’s Immigrant Writing // Vesna Lopi_ci´c and Milena Kali _canin11 The Politics of Art and Affect in Michael Helm’sCities of Refuge // Ana María Fraile-Marcosv Reading Publics12 Canada through the Lens of the Communist Censor The Translation of CanLit under an Authoritarian Regime // Lucia Otrísalová13 Economies of Export Translating Laurence, Atwood, and Munro in Eastern Europe (1960–1989) // Cristina Ivanovici14 Canadian Literature and Canadian Studies in the Czech Republic // Don SparlingWorks Cited Contributors Index

"Beyond 'Understanding Canada' takes its name and impetus from the Canadian government’s 2012 cancellation of the “Understanding Canada” program, which ended nearly forty years of financial support for interdisciplinary studies of Canada around the world. As the title suggests, the collection quickly moves beyond the Understanding Canada program to examine a broader range of questions regarding the transnational circulation of Canadian literature.... [The collection] succeeds admirably, overcoming the 'material challenges' of international scholarship not only to argue for but also to demonstrate convincingly the transnational nature of Canadian literary studies." Canadian Literature 235, Winter 2017 [Full article at http://canlit.ca/article/transnational-nationalism]