Overview
- Explores the theoretical implications of relating literature and citizenship
- Examines a critical period when citizenship is crucially at the center of many political and cultural debates
- Utilizes Canadian literature as an example to illustrate broad dynamics in Western multicultural societies
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About this book
This book examines how concepts of citizenship have been negotiated in Anglophone Canadian literature since the 1970s. Katja Sarkowsky argues that literary texts conceptualize citizenship as political “co-actorship” and as cultural “co-authorship” (Boele van Hensbroek), using citizenship as a metaphor of ambivalent affiliations within and beyond Canada. In its exploration of urban, indigenous, environmental, and diasporic citizenship as well as of citizenship’s growing entanglement with questions of human rights, Canadian literature reflects and feeds into the term’s conceptual diversification. Exploring the works of Guillermo Verdecchia, Joy Kogawa, Jeannette Armstrong, Maria Campbell, Cheryl Foggo, Fred Wah, Michael Ondaatje, and Dionne Brand, this text investigates how citizenship functions to denote emplaced practices of participation in multiple collectives that are not restricted to the framework of the nation-state.
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About the author
Katja Sarkowsky is Professor of American Studies at the Westfaelische Wilhelms-University at Muenster, Germany, and author of the monograph AlterNative Spaces: Constructions of Space in Native American and First Nations Literatures (2007). Recent publications include the edited volume “Cranes on the Rise”: Metaphors in Life Writing (2018).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Narrating Citizenship and Belonging in Anglophone Canadian Literature
Authors: Katja Sarkowsky
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96935-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96934-3Published: 11 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07275-9Published: 13 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96935-0Published: 27 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 213
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: North American Literature, Contemporary Literature, Sociology of Citizenship