The study of Canadian literature can no longer take place in isolation from larger external forces. Pressures of multiculturalism put emphasis upon discourses of citizenship and security, while market-driven factors increasingly shape the publication, dissemination, and reception of Canadian writing. The persistent questioning of the Humanities has invited a rethinking of the disciplinary and curricular structures within which the literature is taught, while the development of area and diaspora studies has raised important questions about the tradition. The goal of the TransCanada series is to publish forward-thinking critical interventions that investigate these paradigm shifts in interdisciplinary ways.
"These TransCanada books should be read by Canadianists not for what they say about actual literary works—which is little, and not really their project—but for how they open the field itself by crossing it from exterior entry points. Absent of the literature, their contribution is more to the study of the study of CanLit—an increasingly undisciplined discipline.'' – Brendan McCormack, Canadian Literature
Series editor: Smaro Kamboureli, Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature, Department of English, University of Toronto
For more information, please contact:
- Smaro Kamboureli, Series Editor, Department of English, University of Toronto
- Siobhan McMenemy, Senior Editor, Wilfird Laurier University Press
