Description: Explores the value of attending to narratorial, lyric, and theatrical conventions in dialogue with questions of epistemological and social justice. Demonstrates how literary and critical conventions and theories operate within and across cultures.
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Diana Brydon is Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Globalization and Cultural Studies at the University of Manitoba. She has published books on Christina Stead and Timothy Findley, edited Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, and co-edited Shakespeare in Canada and Renegotiating Community: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Contexts
Review Quotes: Crosstalk is a challenging intervention that demonstrates the impact of globalization on debates about Canadian culture by highlighting the transformative role that various forms of creative dissonance and collaboration can play. The essays challenge accepted forms of national intelligibility by invoking the productive pedagogical disruption of transnational 'cross-talk.' The global context that underscores this collection privileges circulation over emplacement, dialogue over the illusion of creative autonomy, and friction over the stultifying appeal of consensus within entrenched disciplinary frameworks. The international contributors produce an essay collection that is distinguished as much by its range as by its important treatment of emergent spheres of political engagement.--Cynthia Sugars, University of Ottawa, editor (with Gerry Turcotte) of Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic (WLU Press, 2009), 2012 February