Diana Brydon is Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Globalization and Cultural Studies at the University of Manitoba. She has published books on Christina Stead and Timothy Findley, edited Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, and co-edited Shakespeare in Canada and Renegotiating Community: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Contexts Marta Dvořák is professor of Canadian and postcolonial literatures in English at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, former associate editor of The International Journal of Canadian Studies, and editor of Commonwealth Essays and Studies. Focusing her research on (post)modernism and cross-culturalism, she has authored and edited books ranging from Ernest Buckler: Rediscovery and Reassessment (WLU Press, 2001) to Tropes and Territories: Short Fiction, Postcolonial Readings, and Canadian Writings in Context (co-ed. W.H. New) and The Faces of Carnival in Anita Desai's In Custody.

• Crosstalk: Canadian and Global Imaginaries in Dialogue, edited by Diana Brydon and Marta Dvořák1. Introduction: Negotiating Meaning in Changing Times Diana Brydon and Marta Dvořák2. ""Whirlwinds Coiled at My Heart"": Voice and Vision in a Writer's Practice"" Olive SeniorSection One: Collaboration, Crosstalk, Improvisation3. Voicing the Unforeseeable: Improvisation, Social Practice, Collaborative Research Ajay Heble and Winfried Siemerling4. Epistemological Crosstalk: Between Melancholia and Spiritual Cosmology in David Chariandy's Soucouyant and Lee Maracle's Daughters Are Forever Daniel Coleman5. Native Performance Culture, Monique Mojica, and the Chocolate Woman Workshops Ric Knowles6. Collaboration and Convention in the Poetry of Pain Not Bread Alison CalderSection Two: Dialogism, Polyphony, Voice7. Rejoinders in a Planetary Dialogue: J.M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, Lloyd Jones et al. in Dialogue with Absent Texts Marta Dvořák8. Not Just Representation: The Sound and Concrete Poetries of the Four Horsemen Frank Davey9. Portraits of the Artist in Dionne Brand's What We All Long For and Madeleine Thien's Certainty Pilar Cuder-Domínguez10. Unsettling Voices: Dionne Brand's Cosmopolitan Cities Sandra Regina Goulart Almeida11. Questions of Voice, Race, and the Body in Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms and Larissa Lai's When Fox Is a Thousand Charlotte SturgessSection Three: Space, Place, and Circulation12. The Artialisation of Landscape in Jane Urquhart's The Whirlpool Claire Omhovère13. Ghostly Voices and Arctic Blanks: From Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights to Jane Urquhart's Changing Heaven Catherine Lanone14. ""You must see to understand..."": Orientalist Clichés and Transformation in Robert Lepage's The Dragons' Trilogy Christine Lorre-Johnston15. Diasporic Appropriations: Exporting South Asian Culture from Canada Chelva Kanaganayakam16. Negotiating Belonging in Global Times: The Hérouxville Debates Diana BrydonWorks CitedContributorsIndex

``This stimulating collection of essays had its origins in a workshop entitled "Voice and Vision: Situating Canadian Culture Globally," held at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in 2008.... Thankfully...ample cross-references have made Crosstalk a far more unified collection than most conference-generated volumes. In the spirit of the book's title, the contributors have clearly engaged in a considerable amount of post-workshop dialogue and, thanks to this and the careful introduction, the collection does a fine job of answering the questions posed by the editors at the outset.... The success of this timely collection owes much to the work of the two editors.... Both have clearly put in long hours to ensure that the book's attempt to broaden the models used to debate Canadian imaginaries has become a significant intervention. The net result is impressive and one comes away from Crosstalk feeling that the multiple directions taken by the individual authors...have been long routes that have converged at a common crossroads.'' -- John Thieme -- Commonwealth Essays and Studies, Vol. 35, No. 2, Spring 2013