Cultural Circulation : Dialogues Between Canada and the American South

Cultural Circulation Dialogues Between Canada and the American South

The present volume is based on an international colloquium convened in 2010 to which scholars from North America and Europe contributed papers dealing with the historical, cultural, and literary connections between Canada and the American South. The essays on this broad but under-researched topic ar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar, author (author), Irmscher, Christoph, author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wien, Austria : Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2013.
Colección:Sitzungsberichte (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse)
Materias:
International relations.
Canada.
South America.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front MatterFront Matter(pp. 1-4)
  • Table of Contents(pp. 5-8)
  • Acknowledgements(pp. 9-10)
  • Introduction(pp. 11-20)
  • Ouverture
  • My Love Affair with Shrevlin McCannon(pp. 23-34)
  • I. Acadians and Canadians
  • "Beyond the Bayou": Sociocultural Spaces in Kate Chopin's Louisiana Short Stories(pp. 51-66)
  • Northeast by South: Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha and Antonine Maillet's Acadia(pp. 67-74)
  • II. Transmigrations
  • Audubon Goes North(pp. 77-98)
  • Stowe, the South, Canada, and Sadism(pp. 99-118)
  • From Roots to Routes: The Dialogic Relation between Alex Haley's Roots (1976) and Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes (2007)(pp. 119-134)
  • Flights to Canada: Jacob Lawrence, Ishmael Reed, and Lawrence Hill(pp. 135-154)
  • The Bridge from Mississippi's Freedom Summer to Canada: Pearl Cleage's Bourbon at the Border(pp. 155-170)
  • Metropolis and Hinterland: Faulkner and MacLeod(pp. 171-180)
  • III. Rewritings and Influences
  • Re-writing the Grimms: Eudora Welty and Margaret Atwood(pp. 183-190)
  • Hard Beauty. The Confluence of Eudora Welty and Alice Munro: Mississippi-South and Ontario-South Portraits of the 1930s(pp. 191-200)
  • Parallel Spiritual Worlds: Alice Munro Country and the American South(pp. 201-214)
  • "A Wordless Unease": Some Aspects of the Relationship between Art and Politics in the Works of Southern and Canadian Writers(pp. 215-230)
  • An Open Field of Possibility: Reading Jack Hodgins' The Invention of the World in Dialogue with the American South(pp. 231-254)
  • Crisscrossing the Continent: From Black Mountain to Vancouver(pp. 255-274)
  • IV. Circulating Genres and the Emergence of a Transcontinental Postmodern
  • Two Nations, One Genre? The Beginnings of the Modernist Short Story in the United States and Canada(pp. 277-290)
  • Canada/American South in the Short Story: Flannery O'Connor - Jack Hodgins - Leon Rooke(pp. 291-306)
  • Voice Not Place: Leon Rooke Makes a Success in Canada(pp. 307-316)
  • I, Canadian: Elizabeth Spencer's Montreal(pp. 317-332)
  • Michael Ondaatje's New Orleans in Coming Through Slaughter(pp. 333-350)
  • Culinary Transgressions: Food Practices and Constructions of Female Identity in Gail Anderson-Dargatz's The Cure for Death by Lightning and Fanny Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café(pp. 351-364)
  • South by Northwest(pp. 367-380)
  • List of Contributors(pp. 381-386)
  • Index(pp. 387-398).

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