National Literature in Multinational States
- Publisher
- The University of Alberta Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2022
- Category
- Canadian, Comparative Literature
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781772126075
- Publish Date
- Dec 2022
- List Price
- $34.99
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781772126747
- Publish Date
- Apr 2023
- List Price
- $34.99
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Description
If literature has often informed the creation of a national imaginary—a sense of common history and destiny—it has also complicated, even challenged, the unifying vision assumed in the formation of a national literature and sense of nation. National Literature in Multinational States questions the persistent association of literature and nation-states, contrasting this with the reality of multinational and ethnocultural diversity. The contributors to this collection interrogate concepts and manifestations of nationalism in the context of literary production while evaluating the place of national literatures in multinational states at a time when social unity and political agreement have never been more elusive. The volume strives for synoptic analysis via the complementary, multifaceted treatment of literary creation in several geo-cultural contexts: Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, India, and Nigeria.
Contributors: Sabujkoli Bandopadhyay, Albert Braz, Matthew Cormier, Doris Hambuch, Clara A.B. Joseph, Paul D. Morris, Asma Sayed, Matthew Tétreault, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, Jerry White
About the authors
Albert Braz is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and English at the University of Alberta. He is the author of The False Traitor: Louis Riel in Canadian Culture (2003) and Apostate Englishman: Grey Owl the Writer and the Myths (2015) and the co-editor, with Paul D. Morris, of National Literature in Multinational States (2022).
Paul D. Morris is Professor of English at the Université de Saint-Boniface.
Excerpt: National Literature in Multinational States (edited by Albert Braz & Paul Morris)
“Most of the contradictions and fissures between nations and national literatures referred to in the respective chapters of National Literatures and Multinational States occur in countries that emerged as political and cultural entities out of the cauldron of empire and colonialism.” From the Introduction