We are thrilled to announce our newest issue of Canadian Literature, issue 255! In this general issue’s editorial, Editor-in-Chief Christine Kim writes,
What is Canadian literature? The question of how we might define Canadian literature has often been debated through discussions about, for example, canons, institutions, and most recently settler colonialism. But as I return us to this question, I want to pose it differently by approaching the field of Canadian literature as problems of methodology and object. In doing so, I hope to reflect upon how we understand Canadian literature as a category or Canadian literary studies as a field, and, moreover, what work we see them as performing. In reflecting upon how our methods and objects define the field of Canadian literary studies, my intention is to ask questions about how we approach it, the kinds of analytics we employ, and the questions we chase. And as critics working within the field, what do we read? Or to put it another way, what have we conventionally gravitated towards as a proper object for Canadian literary studies? In presuming that others lie beyond the bound of the field, what moves are being made about how we map geographies and write histories? How does that speak to the histories of Canada and which relations it has been willing to acknowledge?
This issue also features:
- Articles by Kelly Baron, Naava Smolash, Zishad Lak and Pierre-Luc Landry, Jade Crimson Rose Da Costa, and Andy Weaver.
- A Readers’ Forum on “Literary Biodiversities” organized by Kit Dobson and featuring contributions by Tathagata Som, Sarah Wylie Krotz, Jordan Abel, Nicholas Bradley, Shazia Hafiz Ramji, and Stephanie Oliver.
- Poetry by Jamella Hagen, Steve Noyes, Melanie Pierluigi, Manahil Bandukwala, Rocco de Giacomo, and Tom Wayman.
- Reviews by David Huebert, Rachel Fernandes, Heather Macfarlane, Ginny Ratsoy, Shannon Lodoen, J. A. Weingarten, Kelly Baron, Sylvie Vranckx, Nicholas Bradley, Sunny Chan, Tim Conley, Paisley Conrad, Julian Gunn, Jodi Lundgren, Geoffrey Nilson, Valerie Uher, and Tracy Whalen.
The new issue can be ordered through our online store at https://canlit.ca/support/purchase/single-issues. Happy reading!