Narrating Citizenship and Belonging in Anglophone Canadian Literature

• Main Author: Sarkowsky, Katja (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: America-Literatures.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Citizenship-Sociological aspects.; North American Literature.; Contemporary Literature.; Sociology of Citizenship.

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 cit...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Recognition, Citizenship, and Canadian Literature
• 2. "This is my own!": Negotiating Canadian Citizenship in Joy Kogawa's Novels
• 3. "Dismissing Canada"? AlterNative Citizenship and Indigenous Literatures
• 4. Writing Lives: Cartographies of Citizenship and Belonging
• 5. Cityzenship? Writing Immigrant and Diasporic Toronto
• 6. Cultural Citizenship and Beyond.