Reconfigurations

This volume offers challenging assessments of the reconfigurations that have shaped Anglophone and Francophone Canadian literatures in the last decades of the twentieth century. Focusing on the pursuit of an ever-elusive « Canadianness in literary texts, it documents the astonishing range of Canadian diasporic identities that have recently emerged in the Canadian literary landscape. The contributors to this volume boldly transgress the widely held critical assumptions of postcolonialism in their examination of the literary representations of contemporary Canada's many « Others. Ce volume rassemble nombre d'analyses innovatrices des reconfigurations qui ont caracterise les litteratures canadiennes anglophones et francophones durant les dernieres decennies du vingtieme siecle. Tout en se concentrant sur la quete de I'insaisissable « Canadianite en litterature, l'ouvrage demontre l'etonnante diversite des identites diasporiques qui ont recemment emerge dans le paysage litteraire canadien. Les contributeurs de ce volume transgressent audacieusement les certitudes generalement acquises du postcolonialisme afin de mieux decrire les representations litteraires des nombreux « Autres du Canada actuel. Contents/Contenu: Marc Maufort: Introduction: Postcolonial Variations on a Canadian Theme -- Marie-Celie Agnant: Ecrire en marge de la marge -- Lucie Lequin: Marie-Celie Agnant: une ecriture de la memoire et du silence -- Marta Dvorak: Re/configuring Canadian Life Writing -- Janet Paterson: Quand le je est un(e) Autre: l'ecriture migrante au Quebec -- Marie-Linda Lord: L'epreuve de la marge face a l'Autre: les Etats-Unis dans les romans d'Antonine Maillet et de David AdamsRichards -- Robert S. Schwartzwald: Quel jardin pour la litterature quebecoise? Rebondissements du discours de la decolonisation dans le paradigrne postcolonical au Quebec -- Uma Parameswaran: Driving into the New Millennium on a Trans-Canada Highway That Has Only Entry Ramps -- Diana Brydon: Detour Canada: Rerouting the Black Atlantic, Reconfiguring the Postcolonial -- Gerry Turcotte: « A Fearful Calligraphy: De/scribing the Uncanny Nation in Joy Kogawa's Obasan -- Coral Ann Howells: « Identities Always in Process: Stories by South Asian Women Writing in Canada -- Jeanne Delbaere: Re-configuring the Postcolonial Paradigrn: The Fiction of M.G. Vassanji -- Reid Gilbert: Panych and Gorling's The Overcoat: Silent Remnants; New Genres - Richard J. Lane: Surviving the Residential School System: Resisting Hegemonic Canadianness in Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen - Mark Shackleton: « Restoring the Imprisoned Nation to Itself: Resistance, Repossession, and Reconciliation in the Plays of Tomson Highway - Sherrill Grace: Reconfiguring North: Canadian Identity in the 21st Century. Les responsables de la publication: Marc Maufort et Franca Bellarsi enseignent les litteratures anglaises et americaines a l'Universite Libre de Bruxelles.