The Faulty Palimpsest
Messing with Canadian Literature
©2027
Monographs
V,
82 Pages
Series:
Reimagining Canada, Volume 3
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Summary
The Faulty Palimpsest reimagines the future of the field of Canadian Literature (aka CanLit) by revisiting its past. It proposes a new method of reading laterally, across texts, to map out hidden and surprising networks of conflict, influence, and aesthetics. Starting in the early 1800s, The Faulty Palimpsest traces out a series of remarkable, improbable, and fascinating links between authors such as Lee Maracle, Frederick Douglass, John Richardson, Sheila Watson, Michael Ondaatje, and Nalo Hopkinson. Provocatively, this book argues that we must start again and reconsider attempted (and failed) erasure as a central dynamic of writing here. For the sake of the future, it is time to think more consciously of the messy conflicts shaping this land.
Details
- Pages
- V, 82
- Publication Year
- 2027
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783034370646
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Canadian Literature Black History Indigenous Literature Decolonization Abolition Slave Trade Palimpsest Gregory Betts
- Published
- New York, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, Oxford, 2027. V, 82 pp., 8 b/w figs.
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