Publisher:
Book*hug, Toronto
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ProQuest Ebook Central, [Ann Arbor]
CanLit–the commonly used short form for English Canadian Literature as a cultural formation and industry—has been at the heart of several recent public controversies. Why? Because CanLit is breaking open to reveal the accepted injustices at its...
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CanLit–the commonly used short form for English Canadian Literature as a cultural formation and industry—has been at the heart of several recent public controversies. Why? Because CanLit is breaking open to reveal the accepted injustices at its heart. It is imperative that these public controversies and the issues that sparked them be subject to careful and thorough discussion and critique. Refuse provides a critical and historical context to help readers understand conversations happening about CanLit presently. One of its goals is to foreground the perspectives of those who have been changing the conversation about what CanLit is and what it could be. Topics such as literary celebrity, white power, appropriation, class, rape culture, and the ongoing impact of settler colonialism are addressed by a diverse gathering of writers from across Canada. This volume works to avoid a single metanarrative response to these issues, but rather brings together a cacophonous multitude of voices.
Intro -- Introduction: Living in the Ruins -- Part One: Refusal -- Rape Culture, CanLit, and You -- Burn -- The You Know -- small birds -- Stars Upon Thars -- How It Works -- But I Still Like -- #CanLit at the Crossroads -- Part Two: Refuse --...
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Intro -- Introduction: Living in the Ruins -- Part One: Refusal -- Rape Culture, CanLit, and You -- Burn -- The You Know -- small birds -- Stars Upon Thars -- How It Works -- But I Still Like -- #CanLit at the Crossroads -- Part Two: Refuse -- CanLit Is a Raging Dumpster Fire -- Sonnet's Shakespeare -- Check Your Privilege! -- refuse: a trans girl writer's story -- When a Cow Saves Your Life, You Learn that Audre Lorde Is Always Right -- CanLit Hierarchy vs. the Rhizome -- How Do We Get Out of Here? -- "No Appeal" -- Part Three: Re/fuse -- On Not Refusing CanLit -- Visions and Versions of Resilience -- In the "New CanLit," We Must All Be Antigones -- Refusing the Borders of CanLit -- Whose CanLit -- Hearing the Artificial Obvious -- Writing as a Rupture -- Contributor Bios -- Acknowledgements -- Works Cited
