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 that has been extremely influential in the way that it framed questions and modeled interventions for the study of Canadian, Québécois, and Acadian literatures and cultures. The authors work with the archives 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:	9781554588398
Publisher:	Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Publication date:	06/01/2013
Series:	TransCanada , #7
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction Eva C. Karpinski Jennifer Henderson vii

Prolegomenon: Reader at Work: An Appreciation of Barbara Godard Danielle Fuller 1

Part 1 Textual/Visual Production: Critical Interventions

1 Incisive Literary Critic, Brilliant Theorist, Engaged Teacher, Inspired. Translator, Public Intellectual, and Committed Activist-All in the Femimine: The Early Barbara Godard Louise H. Forsyth 23

2 Cultural Memory and Tragic Affect in Nancy Huston's The Mark of the Angel Pamela McCallum 41

3 Language and Interdisciplinarity: (Re-)contextualizing Nicole Brossard's Picture Theory Karl E. Jirgens 59

4 Writing the Museum: "visual Art and Literature: Denise Desautels and Louise Warren Claudine Potvin 77

Part 2 Culture/Policy/Institutions

5 Negotiating Literatures in Contiguity: France Daigle in/and Québec Lianne Moyes Catherine Leclerc 95

6 A Lack of Public Memory, a Public Memory of Lack Phanuel Antwi 119

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 149

8 Notes toward Thinking Transsexual Institutional Poetics Trish Salah 167

Part 3 Translation/Transculturation

9 Voyage autour de la traduction: The Translator as Writer and Theorist Alessandra Capperdoni 193

10 Taking Deleuze in the Middle, or Doing Intellectual History by the Letter Jason Demers 211

11 Gail Scott and Barbara Godard on "The Main": Borders, Sutures, Micro-cosmopolitan Interconnectivity, and Translation Studies Gillian Lane-Mercier 225

Part 4 Public Memory and the Archive

12 Linked Histories and Radio-Activity in Marie Clements's Burning Vision Sophie McCall 245

13 Memory as Fracture: French Mnemotechniques in the Erasure of the Holocaust Michael Dorland 267

14 Gender in the Shaping of Public Memory: Arms (Monumental) for Montreal Sue Lloyd 287

15 Contested Memories: Canadian Women Writers in and out of the Archive Barbara Godard 297

Coda: In the Stacks of Barbara Godard, or Do Not Confuse the Complexity of This Moment with Chaos Lisa Sloniowski 325

Contributors 339

Index 347