Notes on the Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction: Writing a History of Literature in Canada 1
5. I. Beginnings
6. 1: Aboriginal Oral Traditions 27
7. 2: The Whites Arrive: White Writing before Canada, 1000–1600 38
8. II. The Literature of New France, 1604–1760
9. 3: Historical Background 47
10. 4: Literature on New France 48
11. 5: Colonial Literature in New France 58
12. III. The Literature of British Canada, 1763–1867
13. 6: Historical Overview 69
14. 7: English-Canadian Colonial Literature 72
15. 8: French-Canadian Colonial Literature under the Union Jack 88
16. IV. From the Dominion to the Territorial Completion of the Nation, 1867–1918
17. 9: English-Canadian Literature, 1867–1918: The Making of a Nation 113
18. 10: French-Canadian Literature from National Solidarity to the École littéraire de Montréal 127
19. V. The Modern Period, 1918–1967
20. 11: Politics and Literature between Nationalism and Internationalism 149
21. 12: English-Canadian Poetry, 1920–1960 159
22. 13: The English-Canadian Novel and the Displacement of the Romance 174
23. 14: The Modernist English-Canadian Short Story 194
24. 15: Early English-Canadian Theater and Drama, 1918–1967 207
25. 16: French Canada from the First World War to 1967: Historical Overview 222
26. 17: French-Canadian Poetry up to the 1960s 228
27. 18: The French-Canadian Novel between Tradition and Modernism 242
28. 19: The French-Canadian Short Story 264
29. 20: French-Canadian Drama from the 1930s to the Révolution tranquille 270
30. VI. Literature from 1967 to the Present
31. 21: Sociopolitical and Cultural Developments from 1967 to the Present 285
32. 22: English-Canadian Literary Theory and Literary Criticism 291
33. 23: The English-Canadian Novel from Modernism to Postmodernism 310
34. 24: The English-Canadian Short Story since 1967: Between (Post)Modernism and (Neo)Realism 330
35. 25: English-Canadian Poetry from 1967 to the Present 352
36. 26: Contemporary English-Canadian Drama and Theater 373
37. 27: Canons of Diversity in Contemporary English-Canadian Literature 387
38. 28: Literature of the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis 413
39. 29: The Quebec Novel 429
40. 30: The French-Canadian Short Prose Narrative 450
41. 31: French-Canadian Poetry from 1967 to the Present 456
42. 32: Orality and the French-Canadian Chanson 470
43. 33: Drama and Theater from the Révolution tranquille to the Present 478
44. 34: Transculturalism and écritures migrantes 497
45. 35: The Institutionalization of Literature in Quebec 509
46. Further Reading 519
47. Notes on the Contributors 545
48. Index 551