Research Catalog

Title

Trans/acting culture, writing, and memory : essays in honour of Barbara Godard / editors, Eva C. Karpinski ... [et al.].

Publication

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press ; Lancaster : Gazelle [distributor], c2013.

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Additional Authors

• Godard, Barbara
• Karpinski, Eva C.

Description

xxix, 363 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

This is a collection of essays written in honour of Barbara Godard, one of the most original and wide-ranging literary critics, theorists, teachers, translators, and public intellectuals Canada has ever produced. The contributors, both established and emerging scholars, extend Godard's work through engagements with her published texts in the spirit of creative interchange and intergenerational relay of ideas.

Series Statement

TransCanada series

Uniform Title

TransCanada series

Subject

• Godard, Barbara
• Canadian literature > History and criticism
• French-Canadian literature > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Prolegomenon: Reader at work: an appreciation of Barbara Godard / Danielle Fuller -- pt. 1. Textual/visual production: critical interventions. Incisive literary critic, brilliant theorist, engaged teacher, inspired translator, public intellectual, and committed activist, all in the feminine: the early Barbara Godard / Louise H. Forsyth ; Cultural memory and tragic affect in Nancy Huston's The mark of the angel / Pamela McCallum ; Language and interdisciplinarity: (re-)contextualizing Nicole Brossard's Picture theory / Karl E. Jirgens ; Writing the museum: visual art and literature: Denise Desautels and Louise Warren / Claudine Potvin -- pt. 2. Culture/policy/institutions. Negotiating literatures in contiguity: France Daigle in/and Québec / Lianne Moyes and Catherine Leclerc ; A lack of public memory, a public memory of lack / Phanuel Antwi ;
• "The toil and spoil of translation": a Godardian reading of the Study-guide: discover Canada/Guide d'étude: découvrir le Canada (2010) / Len M. Findlay ; Notes toward thinking transsexual institutions poetics / Trish Salah -- pt. 3. Translation/transculturation. Voyage autour de la traduction: the translator as writer and theorist / Alessandra Capperdoni ; Taking Deleuze in the middle, or doing intellectual history by the letter / Jason Demers ; Gail Scott and Barbara Godard on "The main": borders, sutures, micro-cosmopolitan interconnectivity and translation studies / Gillian Lane-Mercier -- pt. 4. Public memory and the archive. Linked histories and radio-activity in Marie Clements's Burning vision / Sophie McCall ; Memory as fracture: French mnemotechniques in the erasures of the Holocaust / Michael Dorland ; Gender in the shaping of public memory: Arms (monumental) for Montreal / Sue Lloyd ;

ISBN

• 9781554588398 (hbk.)
• 1554588391 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 818461858
• SCSB-11826453

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library