Crosstalk : Canadian and Global Imaginaries in Dialogue

What are the fictions that shape Canadian engagement with the world? What frictions emerge from these encounters? This book demonstrates the productivity of scholarly debate across differences of outlook, culture, or training.

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 Manitobe. 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. Marts Dvork is a professor of Canadian and postcolonial literatures in English at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, former associate editor of The International Journal of Canadian Studies, and editor of Commonwealth Essays and Studies. She has written and edited many books, including Ernest Buckler: Rediscovery and Reassessment (WLU Press, 2001), Tropes and Territories: Short Fiction, Postcolonial Readings, and Canadian Writings in Context (which she co-edited with W.H. New), and The Faces of Carnival in Anita Desai's In Custody.