Research Catalog

Title

Refuse : CanLit in ruins / edited by Hannah McGregor, Julie Rak, and Erin Wunker.

Publication

• Toronto : Book*hug, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rak, Julie, 1966-
• Wunker, Erin, 1979-
• McGregor, Hannah

Description

218 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"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: CanLit in Ruins 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 and ruinous multitude of voices. With contributions by: Zoe Todd, Keith Maillard, Jane Eaton Hamilton, kim goldberg, Tanis MacDonald, Gwen Benaway, Lucia Lorenzi, Alicia Elliott, Sonnet l'Abbé, Marie Carrière, Kai Cheng Thom, Dorothy Ellen Palmer, Natalee Caple & Nikki Reimer, Lorraine York, Chelsea Vowel, Laura Moss, Phoebe Wang, A.H. Reaume, Jennifer Andrews, Kristen Darch & Fazeela Jiwa, Erika Thorkelson and Joshua Whitehead."--

Series Statement

Essais ; no. 6

Uniform Title

Essais (Toronto, Ont.) ; no. 6.

Subject

• Canadian literature > History and criticism
• Race discrimination in literature
• Imperialism in literature
• Social classes in literature
• Sex discrimination in literature
• Literature and society > Canada > History
• Literature and society
• Canada

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-210).

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic formats.

Contents

Introduction: Kiving in the ruins / Hannah McGregor, Julie Rak, and Erin Wunker -- Part one: Refusal. Rape culture, CanLit, and you / Zoe Todd ; Burn / Keith Maillard ; The you know / Jane Eaton Hamilton ; small birds / kim goldberg ; Stars upon thars: the Sneetches and other CanLit stories / Tanis MacDonald ; How it works / Tanis MacDonald ; But I still like / Gwen Benaway ; #CanLit at the crossroads: violence is nothing new; how we deal with it might be / Tanis MacDonald -- Part two: Refuse. CanLit is a raging dumpster fire / Alicia Elliott ; Sonnet's Shakespeare / Sonnet l'Abbé ; Check your privilege! / Marie Carrière ; refuse: a trans girl writer's story / Kai Cheng Thom ; When a cow saves your life, you learn that Audre Lorde is always right / Dorothy Ellen Palmer ; CanLit hierarchy vs. the rhizome / Natalee Caple & Nikki Reimer ; How do we get out of here? an Atwood scholar signing off / Lorraine York ; "No appeal" / Chelsea Vowel -- Part three: Re/fuse. On not refusing CanLit / Laura Moss ; Visions and versions of resilience: mentoring as a means of survival / Phoebe Wang ; In the "New CanLit," we must all be Antigones / A.H. Reaume ; Refusing the borders of CanLit / Jennifer Andrews ; Whose CanLit: solidarity and accountability in literary communities / Kristen Darch & Fazeela Jiwa ; Hearing the artificial obvious : Margaret Atwood, UBCAccountable, and the power of listening / Erika Thorkelson ; Writing as a rupture: a breakup note to CanLit / Joshua Whitehead.

Call Number

JFE 19-4985

ISBN

• 9781771664318
• 1771664312

OCLC

1055270781

Title

Refuse : CanLit in ruins / edited by Hannah McGregor, Julie Rak, and Erin Wunker.

Publisher

Toronto : Book*hug, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Essais ; no. 6

Essais (Toronto, Ont.) ; no. 6.

Additional Formats

Issued also in electronic formats.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-210).

Added Author

Rak, Julie, 1966- editor.

Wunker, Erin, 1979- editor.

McGregor, Hannah, editor.

Other Form:

Refuse. First edition. Toronto : BookThug, 2018 (CaOONL)20189049456

Research Call Number

JFE 19-4985