| Since Canadian’s centennial, Canadian literature, especially fiction, increasingly inhabits and international field. Not only can writers like Rohinton Mistry and Austin Clarke win Canadian book awards for novels set entirely in India or the West Indies, but Canadian born authors such as Mordecai Richler and Kate Pullinger explore traditional themes of Canadian identity and place through the lives of expatriates. This course will examine a variety of post-1967 novels set wholly or partly abroad in the context of traditional CanLit debates around the thematics of place and more recent discussions of multiculturalism and diaspora, the Canadian canon, national identity, postcolonialism, postnationalism /transnationalism, and Canada’s position in a globalizing world. |
