Smaro Kamboureli is a professor and the Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature in the English Department at the University of Toronto. She is the founder of the TransCanada series of books, published by WLU Press, originating from interdisciplinary conferences that initiated collaborative research on the methodologies and institutional structures and contexts that inform and shape the production, dissemination, teaching, and study of Canadian literature. Her most recent publications include Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies (WLU Press 2012), co-edited with Robert Zacharias and Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace (WLU Press, 2013), co-edited with Kit Dobson.

``Given the wide range of approaches and disciplines included in this volume, the index is particularly helpful in terms of orientation and contains not only major concepts and historical events related to Canadian studies, but also refers to important representatives of the Canadian literary scene. Moreover, each articles comes with an annotated section which, together with the overall bibliography, provides useful and interesting suggestions for further reading and discussion. The book's strengths certainly lie in the fact that it manages to emphasize the importance of the nation-state which, in spite of all cosmopolitan, global, and transnational developments at work, continues to serve as an important conceptual framework within the area of Canadian literary studies. Thus this volume is especially valuable for Canadian literary scholars and critics interested in the current debates centering on the nation with regard to (trans)national and global challenges.'' -- Felicitas Schweiker -- Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies, 25.2, September 2014

• Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies, edited by Smaro Kamboureli and Robert ZachariasPreface Smaro Kamboureli and Robert ZachariasIntroduction: Shifting the Ground of a Discipline: Emergence and Canadian Literary Studies in English Smaro KamboureliNational Literatures in the Shadow of Neoliberalism Jeff Derksen""Beyond CanLit(e)"": Reading. Interdisciplinarity. Transatlantically. Danielle FullerWhite Settlers and the Biopolitics of State Building in Canada Janine Brodie""Some Great Crisis"": Vimy as Originary Violence Robert ZachariasAmplifying Threat: Reasonable Accommodations and Quebec's Bouchard-Taylor Commission Hearings (2007) Monika Kin Gagnon and Yasmin JiwaniThe Time Has Come: Self and Community Articulations in Colour. An Issue and Awakening Thunder Larissa LaiArchivable Concepts: Talonbooks and Literary Translation Kathy MezeiIs CanLit Lost in Japanese Translation? Yoko FujimotoThe Cunning of Reconciliation: Reinventing White Civility in the ""Age of Apology"" Pauline WakehamThe Long March to ""Recognition"": Sákéj Henderson, First Nations Jurisprudence, and Sui Generis Solidarity Len Findlaybush/writing: embodied deconstruction, traces of community, and writing against the state in indigenous acts of inscription peter kulchyskiNotesWorks CitedContributorsIndex

Smaro Kamboureli is a professor and the Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature in the English Department at the University of Toronto. She is the founder of the TransCanada series of books, published by WLU Press, originating from interdisciplinary conferences that initiated collaborative research on the methodologies and institutional structures and contexts that inform and shape the production, dissemination, teaching, and study of Canadian literature. Her most recent publications include Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies (WLU Press 2012), co-edited with Robert Zacharias and Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace (WLU Press, 2013), co-edited with Kit Dobson.

``Given the wide range of approaches and disciplines included in this volume, the index is particularly helpful in terms of orientation and contains not only major concepts and historical events related to Canadian studies, but also refers to important representatives of the Canadian literary scene. Moreover, each articles comes with an annotated section which, together with the overall bibliography, provides useful and interesting suggestions for further reading and discussion. The book's strengths certainly lie in the fact that it manages to emphasize the importance of the nation-state which, in spite of all cosmopolitan, global, and transnational developments at work, continues to serve as an important conceptual framework within the area of Canadian literary studies. Thus this volume is especially valuable for Canadian literary scholars and critics interested in the current debates centering on the nation with regard to (trans)national and global challenges.'' -- Felicitas Schweiker -- Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies, 25.2, September 2014

• Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies, edited by Smaro Kamboureli and Robert ZachariasPreface Smaro Kamboureli and Robert ZachariasIntroduction: Shifting the Ground of a Discipline: Emergence and Canadian Literary Studies in English Smaro KamboureliNational Literatures in the Shadow of Neoliberalism Jeff Derksen""Beyond CanLit(e)"": Reading. Interdisciplinarity. Transatlantically. Danielle FullerWhite Settlers and the Biopolitics of State Building in Canada Janine Brodie""Some Great Crisis"": Vimy as Originary Violence Robert ZachariasAmplifying Threat: Reasonable Accommodations and Quebec's Bouchard-Taylor Commission Hearings (2007) Monika Kin Gagnon and Yasmin JiwaniThe Time Has Come: Self and Community Articulations in Colour. An Issue and Awakening Thunder Larissa LaiArchivable Concepts: Talonbooks and Literary Translation Kathy MezeiIs CanLit Lost in Japanese Translation? Yoko FujimotoThe Cunning of Reconciliation: Reinventing White Civility in the ""Age of Apology"" Pauline WakehamThe Long March to ""Recognition"": Sákéj Henderson, First Nations Jurisprudence, and Sui Generis Solidarity Len Findlaybush/writing: embodied deconstruction, traces of community, and writing against the state in indigenous acts of inscription peter kulchyskiNotesWorks CitedContributorsIndex