| Translocated Modernisms: Paris and Other Lost Generations Contributor(s): Ballantyne, Emily (Editor), Dvořák, Marta (Editor), Irvine, Dean (Editor) |
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ISBN: 077662380X ISBN-13: 9780776623801 Publisher: University of Ottawa Press OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Canadian |
| Series: Canadian Literature Collection |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 7.9" (1.15 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Translocated Modernisms is a collection of ten chapters partitioned into sections and framed by an introduction by the editors and a coda by Kit Dobson, which is interested in those who thronged to the vibrant streets, caf s, and salons of Montparnasse, those who stayed such as Brion Gysin and Mavis Gallant, those who returned "home" such as Morley Callaghan, John Glassco, David Silverberg, and Sheila Watson, and those who galvanized local cultural practices by appropriating and translating them from elsewhere. While for some Paris becomes a permanent home, for others, it is simply a temporary excursion which can last for months, or for many years. The collection opens up the Lost Generation to include multiple generations and broadens its ambit to encompass modernist writers placed under erasure by dominant narratives of Anglo-American modernism. Instead of limiting the category to a single group based on a collective identity, this volume considers lost generations as a particular type of modernist identity attributable to multiple and disparate collectivities. These lost generations include those excluded from canonical narrativizations of expatriate modernisms, among which we spy the glimmer of other modernists living in the shadows of luminaries long recognized in the Anglo-American tradition. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ballantyne, Emily: - Emily Ballantyne is a doctoral candidate in English at Dalhousie University, where she is a Killam Fellow and a recent SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship recipient.Irvine, Dean: - Dean Irvine is Associate Professor at Dalhousie University. He directs Editing Modernism in Canada, Agile Humanities Agency, the Canadian Literature Collection at the University of Ottawa Press, and the Modernist Commons.Dvořak, Marta: - Marta Dvořák is Professor Emeritus of the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, in Paris. She has published over a hundred articles and book chapters on writers ranging from Canada's Emily Carr, A.M. Klein, Mavis Gallant, and Thomas King to New Zealand's Katherine Mansfield and Janet Frame and India's Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy.Irvine, Dean: - Dean Irvine is Associate Professor at Dalhousie University. He directs Editing Modernism in Canada, Agile Humanities Agency, the Canadian Literature Collection at the University of Ottawa Press, and the Modernist Commons. |