Nationalism and Literature: The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United StatesSarah Corse's analysis of nearly two hundred American and Canadian novels offers a theory of national literatures. Demonstrating that national canon formation occurs in tandem with nation-building, and that canonical novels play a symbolic role in this, this 1996 book accounts for cross-national literary differences, addresses issues of mediation and representation in theories of 'reflection', and illuminates the historically constructed nature of the relationship between literature and the nation-state. |
Contents
Introduction cultural fields and literary use | 1 |
Nationbuilding and the historical timing of a national literature in the United States | 18 |
Nationbuilding and the historical timing of a national literature in Canada | 34 |
The canonical novels the politics of cultural nationalism | 63 |
The literary prize winners revision and renewal | 97 |
The bestsellers the economics of publishing and the convergence of popular taste | 129 |
Literary meaning and cultural use | 155 |
The canonical novels | 171 |
The literary prize winners 19781987 | 172 |
The bestsellers 19781987 | 174 |
Coding sheet | 178 |
Generic categories | 182 |
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