Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory: Essays in Honour of Barbara Godard

by Eva C. Karpinski (Editor), Jennifer Henderson (Editor), Ian Sowton (Editor), Ray Ellenwood (Editor)

Overview

Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory 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. Their essays resonate with Godard’s innovative scholarship, situated at the intersection of such fields as literary studies, cultural studies, translation studies, feminist theory, arts criticism, social activism, institutional analysis, and public memory. In pursuit of unexpected linkages and connections, the essays venture beyond generic and disciplinary borders, zeroing in on Godard’s transdisciplinary practice which has been extremely influential in the way it framed questions and modelled interventions for the study of Canadian, Québécois, and Acadian literatures and cultures. The authors work with the materials ranging from Canadian government policies and documents to publications concerning white-supremacist organizations in Southern Ontario, online materials from a Toronto-based transgender arts festival, a photographic mural installation commemorating the Montreal Massacre, and the works of such writers and artists as Marie Clements, Nicole Brossard, France Daigle, Nancy Huston, Yvette Nolan, Gail Scott, Denise Desautels, Louise Warren, Rebecca Belmore, Vera Frenkel, Robert Lepage, and Janet Cardiff.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781554588633
Publisher:	Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Publication date:	10/30/2013
Series:	TransCanada
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	396
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Eva C. Karpinski teaches feminist theory and autobiography in the School of Women’s Studies at York University. She has published articles in Literature Compass, Men and Masculinities, Studies in Canadian Literature, Canadian Woman Studies, and Resources for Feminist Research, among others. She is the editor of Pens of Many Colours: A Canadian Reader, a popular college anthology of multicultural writing.

Jennifer Henderson is an associate professor in the Department of English at Carleton University.

Ian C. Sowton is a professor emeritus of English and senior scholar, York University.

Ray Ellenwood retired from York University in 2005 but is still actively researching and publishing.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents for
Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory, edited by Eva C. Karpinski, Jennifer Henderson, Ian Sowton, and Ray Ellenwood

Editors' Introduction | Eva C. Karpinski and Jennifer Henderson

Prolegomenon: Reader at Work: An Appreciation of Barbara Godard | Danielle Fuller

Part One: Textual/Visual Production: Critical Interventions

1 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

2 Cultural Memory and Tragic Affect in Nancy Huston's The Mark of the Angel | Pamela McCallum

3 Language and Interdisciplinarity: (Re-)contextualizing Nicole Brossard's Picture Theory | Karl E. Jirgens

4 Writing the Museum: Visual Art and Literature: Denise Desautels and Louise Warren | Claudine Potvin

Part Two: Culture/Policy/Institutions

5 Negotiating Literatures in Contiguity: France Daigle in/and Québec | Lianne Moyes and Catherine Leclerc

6 A Lack of Public Memory, a Public Memory of Lack | Phanuel Antwi

7 “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

8 Notes toward Thinking Transsexual Institutional Poetics | Trish Salah

Part Three: Translation/Transculturation

9 Voyage autour de la traduction: The Translator as Writer and Theorist | Alessandra Capperdoni

10 Taking Deleuze in the Middle, or Doing Intellectual History by the Letter | Jason Demers

11 Gail Scott and Barbara Godard on “The Main”: Borders, Sutures, Micro-cosmopolitan Interconnectivity, and Translation Studies | Gillian Lane-Mercier

Part Four: Public Memory and the Archive

12 Linked Histories and Radio-Activity in Marie Clements's Burning Vision | Sophie McCall

13 Memory as Fracture: French Mnemotechniques in the Erasure of the Holocaust | Michael Dorland

14 Gender in the Shaping of Public Memory: Arms (Monumental) for Montreal | Sue Lloyd

15 Contested Memories: Canadian Women Writers in and out of the Archive | Barbara Godard

Coda: In the Stacks of Barbara Godard, or Do Not Confuse the Complexity of This Moment with Chaos | Lisa Sloniowski

Contributors

Index