Exiguity

Reflections on the Margins of Literature

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

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For the past four centuries, five major languages have dominated Western literature. This domination has excluded or rendered marginal all other literatures - has, in effect, diminished literary diversity and endangered the existence of the literature of ""smaller"" cultures. In an illuminating defence for their preservation, François Paré reflects on the diversity of cultures and languages in the world and on the fantastic richness of ""smaller"" literatures. He offers us memorable samples of this diversity and, in his original and thought-provoking style, tantalizes us with critical musings on the complexity of ""marginal"" literature and the regenerative power it can offer. Exiguity: Reflections on the Margins of Literature reflects Paré's deep involvement with the development and preservation of minority cultures in Canada.

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Utgivningsdatum1997-04-30
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt280 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor185
FörlagWilfrid Laurier University Press
ISBN9780889202658
ÖversättareLin Burman
UtmärkelserWinner of the 1993 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction in the original French edition

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François Paré was born in Longueuil, Québec and is currently a professor of French at the University of Guelph. In 1993 he won the Governor General's Award and the Signet d'or for Les literatures de l'exiguïté. He is also author of Théories de la fragilité (1994). Lin Burman is a teacher of French and freelance translator. She holds an M.A. in translation studies from the School of Translation, Glendon College, York University.

``This readable translation by Lin Burman makes available to English-language readers a novel and contemporary reflective approach to the state of some literatures in the world today....Parã© succeeds in confronting the reader with a stimulating apologia for the voices from the edge....This book can be read and appreciated by advanced undergraduate and postgraduate research students from any literary discipline. It will be of particular interest to those studying the minority cultures of Canada and to those with an interest in literature beyond the beaten path of major languages....This is a radical book, both in the idea that mass cultural movements can produce the opposite effect and in the manner in which profound reflections are casually made. In the age of the sound-byte and the domination of the visual it is reassuring that Parã© not only sees a future for the writers of smaller languages but predicates the maintenance of the intellectual spirit on their continuing survival and development.'' -- Pãidraig O Gormaile, University of Galway, Ireland, Canadian Ethnic Studies