X Marks the Spot: Literature and Theory as Limit Tests for Comparative Literature in the 21st Century, Canadian Perspectives

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  • Susan Ingram York University
  • Irene Sywenky University of Alberta

Gako-hitzak:

literatura comparada, world literature, Canadà, traducció (cultural), globalització

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This article reflects on the Canadian Comparative Literature Association as it approaches its 50thanniversary. The first part of the article details two small experimental events the association held to update its constitution and prepare for the anniversary, while the second and third parts identify relevant scholarship that speaks to key vectors of the association’s experience: translation, globalization, and World Literature. It situates Canadian Comparative Literature as a translation zone and finds work by Sherry Simon and Billy Rae Belcourt exemplary in embodying and responding to the limits, tensions and challenges we find ourselves facing.

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Associate Professor, Department of Humanities, York University (Toronto, Canada)
Affiliate: Canadian Centre for German and European Studies, and RGTTC (Research Group on Translation and Transcultural Contact)
Member of the Graduate Programs in Humanities,  Communication and CultureInterdisciplinary Studies, and Translation Studies
and the GTA-based Fashion Research Group
Past-President and websysadmin: Canadian Comparative Literature Association

Associate Editor, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue canadienne de la littérature comparée.

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Irene Sywenky is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta. She has published on postcolonial and post-imperial cultural spaces; cultural translation; border identities and border cultures; memory; popular culture.  She is the Editor of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue canadienne de la littérature comparée.

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2019-01-31