Beyond the Edge of the Century: The Postcolonial Imagination in the “New” Fictions of the Canadas
Whereas the 1990s witnessed the establishment of the basic parameters within which Canada could be considered a postcolonial enclave, the new millennium, shortly after its opening, has seen the reworking of the Canadian postcolonial. The contemporary rethinking of the postcolonial condition of Cana...
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Universidad de Zaragoza
2008-12-01
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Whereas the 1990s witnessed the establishment of the basic parameters within which Canada could be considered a postcolonial enclave, the new millennium, shortly after its opening, has seen the reworking of the Canadian postcolonial. The contemporary rethinking of the postcolonial condition of Canada has given place to new theoretical moves, partly uncovered when looking at the long-standing mutual nurture between theoretical and imaginative writing. This paper centres on this contemporary theoretical revision to eventually propose that this revisionary invigoration has mainly been launched from fictions by authors indirectly affected by the multicultural agenda of the 1980s and 1990s. As a corollary of the reconfiguration of the Canadian postcolonial, and its views on nation, culture and identity in the negative, the fictions published in the late 1990s and the early years of the new millennium show a penchant for writing the nation in multifarious forms that gradate the (post)colonial, while bringing to the fore regional and communal histories silenced for the welfare of the national/state mirage.
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| spelling | doaj.art-22e50d1ddc2a4dd8a2fd38125871810f2023-12-19T17:24:10ZengUniversidad de ZaragozaMiscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies1137-63682386-48342008-12-013810.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20089720Beyond the Edge of the Century: The Postcolonial Imagination in the “New” Fictions of the CanadasPedro M. Carmona Rodríguez0Centro de Estudios Canadienses-Universidad de La Laguna Whereas the 1990s witnessed the establishment of the basic parameters within which Canada could be considered a postcolonial enclave, the new millennium, shortly after its opening, has seen the reworking of the Canadian postcolonial. The contemporary rethinking of the postcolonial condition of Canada has given place to new theoretical moves, partly uncovered when looking at the long-standing mutual nurture between theoretical and imaginative writing. This paper centres on this contemporary theoretical revision to eventually propose that this revisionary invigoration has mainly been launched from fictions by authors indirectly affected by the multicultural agenda of the 1980s and 1990s. As a corollary of the reconfiguration of the Canadian postcolonial, and its views on nation, culture and identity in the negative, the fictions published in the late 1990s and the early years of the new millennium show a penchant for writing the nation in multifarious forms that gradate the (post)colonial, while bringing to the fore regional and communal histories silenced for the welfare of the national/state mirage. https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/article/view/9720PostcolonialCanadaCanadian fictionNationNation building |
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| title | Beyond the Edge of the Century: The Postcolonial Imagination in the “New” Fictions of the Canadas |
| title_full | Beyond the Edge of the Century: The Postcolonial Imagination in the “New” Fictions of the Canadas |
| title_fullStr | Beyond the Edge of the Century: The Postcolonial Imagination in the “New” Fictions of the Canadas |
| title_full_unstemmed | Beyond the Edge of the Century: The Postcolonial Imagination in the “New” Fictions of the Canadas |
| title_short | Beyond the Edge of the Century: The Postcolonial Imagination in the “New” Fictions of the Canadas |
| title_sort | beyond the edge of the century the postcolonial imagination in the new fictions of the canadas |
| topic | Postcolonial Canada Canadian fiction Nation Nation building |
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