A trenchant scholarly exploration of how Canadian literature circulates in a transnational world.

The dismantling of "Understanding Canada”—an international program eliminated by Canada’s Conservative government in 2012—posed a tremendous potential setback for Canadianists. Yet Canadian writers continue to be celebrated globally by popular and academic audiences alike. Twenty scholars speak to the government’s diplomatic and economic about-face and its implications for representations of Canadian writing within and outside Canada’s borders. The contributors to this volume remind us of the obstacles facing transnational intellectual exchange, but also salute scholars’ persistence despite these obstacles. Beyond "Understanding Canada” is a timely, trenchant volume for students and scholars of Canadian literature and anyone seeking to understand how Canadian literature circulates in a transnational world.
Contributors:
Michael A. Bucknor, Daniel Coleman, Anne Collett, Pilar Cuder-Domínguez, Ana María Fraile-Marcos, Jeremy Haynes, Cristina Ivanovici, Milena Kaličanin, Smaro Kamboureli, Katalin Kürtösi, Vesna Lopičić, Belén Martín-Lucas, Claire Omhovère, Lucia Otrísalová, Don Sparling, Melissa Tanti, Christl Verduyn, Elizabeth Yeoman, Lorraine York

Acknowledgements vii
Introduction xi
Jeremy Haynes, Melissa Tanti, Daniel Coleman, Lorraine York
i Contexts, Provocations, and Knowledge Territories
1 Beyond Understanding Canada 3
Belatedness and Canadian Literary Studies
Smaro Kamboureli
2 The Understanding Canada Program and
International Canadian Literary Studies 23
Christl Verduyn
3 Indigenous Writing in Indigenous Languages 37
Reconfiguring Canadian Literary Studies and Beyond
Elizabeth Yeoman
ii Roots and Routes
4 Canada in Black Transnational Studies 51
Austin Clarke, Affective Affiliations, and the Cross-Border Poetics of Caribbean Canadian Writing
Michael A. Bucknor
5 "Why Don’t You Write about Canada?” 79
Olive Senior’s Poetry, Everybody’s History, and the "Condition of Resonance”
Anne Collett
6 Canada and the Black Atlantic 99
Epistemologies, Frameworks, Texts
Pilar Cuder-Domínguez
iii Mapping Bodies, Place, and Time
7 "Off the Highway” 117
Margins, Centres, Modernisms
Katalin Kürtösi
8 Canadian Photography and the Exhaustion of Landscape 131
Claire Omhovère
9 Posthuman Affect in the Global Empire 151
Queer Speculative Fictions of Canada
Belén Martín-Lucas
iv Border Zones
10 Unexpected Dialogical Space in David Albahari’s Immigrant Writing 175
Vesna Lopi_ci´c and Milena Kali _canin
11 The Politics of Art and Affect in Michael Helm’s
Cities of Refuge 193
Ana María Fraile-Marcos
v Reading Publics
12 Canada through the Lens of the Communist Censor 211
The Translation of CanLit under an Authoritarian Regime
Lucia Otrísalová
13 Economies of Export 229
Translating Laurence, Atwood, and Munro in Eastern Europe (1960-1989)
Cristina Ivanovici
14 Canadian Literature and Canadian Studies in the Czech Republic 255
Don Sparling
Works Cited 275
Contributors 301
Index 311