Literature and the Glocal City: Reshaping the English Canadian Imaginary (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138775630 ISBN 13: 9781138775633

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

The modern city is a space that can simultaneously represent the principles of its homeland alongside its own unique blend of the cultures that intermingle within its city limits.

This book makes an intervention in Canadian literary criticism by foregrounding both ‘globalism,’ which is increasingly perceived as the state-of-the-art literary paradigm, and the city. These are two significant axes of contemporary culture and identity that were previously disregarded by a critical tradition built around the importance of space and place in Canadian writing. Yet, as relevant as the turn to the city and to globalism may be, this collection’s most notable contribution lies in linking the notion of ‘glocality’, that is, the intermeshing of local and global forces to representations of subjectivity in the material and figurative space of the Canadian city. Dealing with oppositional discourses as multiculturalism, postcolonialism, feminism, diaspora, and environmentalism this book is an essential reference for any scholar with an interest in these areas.

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About the Author:

Ana Marķa Fraile-Marcos is Associate Professor of English at the University of Salamanca, Spain

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1138775630
• ISBN 13: 9781138775633
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212
• Editor: Fraile-Marcos Ana Marķa