Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English

Migration and Modernities recovers a comparative literary history of migration by bringing together scholars from the US and Europe to explore the connections between migrant experiences and the uneven emergence of modernity. The collection initiates transnational, transcultural and interdisciplinary conversations about migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, demonstrating how mobility unsettles the geographic boundaries, temporal periodization, and racial categories we often use to organize literary and historical study. Migrants are by definition liminal, and many have existed historically in the spaces between nations, regions or ethnicities. In exploring these spaces, Migration and Modernities also investigates the origins of current debates about belonging, rights, and citizenship. Its chapters traverse the globe, revealing the experiences — real or imagined — of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century migrants, from dispossessed Native Americans to soldiers in South America, Turkish refugees to Scottish settlers. They explore the aesthetic and rhetorical frameworks used to represent migrant experiences during a time when imperial expansion and technological developments made the fortunes of some migrants and made exiles out of others. These frameworks continue to influence the narratives we tell ourselves about migration today and were crucial in producing a distinctively modern subjectivity in which mobility and rootlessness have become normative.

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Literary History of Canada

10.3138/9781487589356 ◽

1976 ◽

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Literary History ◽

History Of

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Literary History of Canada

10.3138/9781487589370 ◽

1976 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

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Literary History ◽

History Of

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The Politics of Parody: A Literary History of Caricature 1760–1830 by David Francis Taylor

Eighteenth-Century Fiction ◽

10.3138/ecf.33.1.132 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

pp. 132-134

Author(s):

Holly Kruitbosch

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Literary History ◽

History Of

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Literature published in BAMlag’s main newspaper Stroitel BAMa

Voprosy literatury ◽

10.31425/0042-8795-2019-5-138-157 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 138-157

Author(s):

T. E. Smykovskaya

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Literary History ◽

Lyrical Poetry ◽

Russian Literary ◽

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Labour Camp

T. Smykovskaya writes about a unique episode of Russian literary history: the development of so-called ‘labour-camp literature’, more specifically, lyrical poetry, published in the camps’ newspapers. The article focuses on BAMlag’s principal paper Stroitel BAMa, which saw publications of works by A. Alving, P. Florensky, A. Tsvetaeva, and other detainees. In her examination of the material, which so far has provoked little to no scholarly interest, the author highlights the key themes, images and subjects of labour-camp literature. Essentially, the article attempts to focus on the yet unknown history of the newspaper Stroitel BAMa, the main printed medium of BAMlag, as well as to describe the paper’s artistic and journalistic paradigm, which defined the literary activities of Svobodlag for a decade. Therefore, the article covers the newspaper’s history from the 1933 competition for its name until the emergence of the poetry section in the mid-1930s; from the Stakhanov theme, omnipresent in ‘free’ and labour-camp poetry alike in 1936, until eulogy of the Soviet leaders in pre-war years.

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