Format:
398 S.
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Ill.
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23 cm
ISBN:
9783700174295
Series Statement:
Sitzungsberichte / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Bd. 843
Content:
"The present volume is based on an international colloquium convened in 2010 to which scholars from North America and Europe contributed papers dealing with the historical, cultural, and literary connections between Canada and the American South. The essays on this broad but under-researched topic are arranged in four sections reflecting the multiple ties and the cultural circulation between the two large North American regions. They illuminate demographic facts and developments, and their literary representations, such as the enforced displacement of the 18th century Acadiens, who later reassembled in Louisiana (Cajun culture), and the flight of thousands of fugitive (African American) slaves to the safe haven of Canada. Special attention is focused on the intertextual links between Southern writers and their Canadian counterparts, with William Faulkner and Eudora Welty especially providing inspiration for Canadian authors such as Alice Munro, Jack Hodgins, and Margaret Atwood."--
Note:
Literaturangaben
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Introduction
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OuvertureMy love affair with Shrevlin McCannon
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I. Acadians and CanadiansEt in Acadia ego : some versions of the pastoral in the Cajun ethnic revival
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"Beyond the bayou" : sociocultural spaces in Kate Chopin's Louisiana short stories
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Northeast by south : Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha and Antonine Maillet's Accadia
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II. TransmigrationsAudubon goes north
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Stowe, the south, Canada, and sadism
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From roots to routes : the dialogic relation between Alex Haley's Roots (1976) and Lawrence Hill's The book of Negroes (2007)Flights to Canada : Jacob Lawrence, Ishmael Reed, and Lawrence Hill
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The bridge from Mississippi's Freedom Summer to Canada : Pearl Cleage's Bourbon at the border
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Metropolis and hinterland : Faulkner and MacLeod
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III. Rewritings and influencesRe-writing the Grimms : Eudora Welty and Margaret Atwood
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Hard beauty : the confluence of Eudora Welty and Alice Munro : Mississippi-south and Ontario-south portraits of the 1930s
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Parallel spiritual worlds : Alice Munro country and the American south
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"A wordless unease" : some aspects of the relationship between art and politics in the works of southern and Canadian writers
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An open field of possibility : reading Jack Hodgins's The invention of the world in dialogue with the American south
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Crisscrossing the continent : from Black Mountain to Vancouver
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IV. Circulating genres and the emergence of a transcontinental postmodernTwo nations, one genre? : the beginnings of the modernist short story in the United States and Canada
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Canada/American south in the short story : Flannery O'ConnorJack Hodgins ; Leon Rooke
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Voice not place : Leon Rooke makes a success in Canada
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I, Canadian : Elizabeth Spencer's Montreal
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Michael Ondaatje's New Orleans in Coming through slaughter
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Culinary transgressions : food practices and constructions of female identity in Gail Anderson-Dargatz's The cure for death by lightning and Fannie Flagg's Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
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EnvoiSouth by northwest
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List of contributorsIndex.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Cultural circulation Wien : Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2013
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
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Ethnology
,
English Studies
Keywords:
Kanada
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USA
;
USA
;
Literaturbeziehungen
;
Konferenzschrift
Author information:
Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar 1942-
