"Write Only the Truth" : (Rejcontesting the Nigerian Nation in Chimeka Garricks's Tomorrow Died Yesterday and Helon Kabila's Oil on Water / Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike. 10. Reticent Nations : Governor General's Award-Winning Fiction and the Representation of Canada / Paul D. Morris -- 2. Cultural Memory, National Identity : The Changing Paradigms of Acadian Literature / Matthew Cormier -- 3. Literary Resistance : Situating a Metis National Literature / Matthew Tétreault -- 4. Intersections of Nationhood, Multiculturalism, and Globalization in South Asian Canadian Fiction : A Study of Anita Rau Badami's Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? / Sabujkoli Bandopadhyay -- 5. Canadian Literature in Heritage Languages and the Politics of Canon Formation / Asma Sayed -- 6. "No Nation Now but the Imagination" : No Caribbean Nation without the Dutch Caribbean / Doris Hambuch -- 7. Rediscovering the Republic : The Work of Joan Daniel Bezsonoff / Jerry White -- 8. A Multinational Narrative in a Case Study of Translating an Eastern Christian Play / Clara A.B. Joseph -- 9. Nigeria's Other Civil War : Ken Saro-Wiwa and Ogoni Nationalism / Albert Braz -- 10. "Write Only the Truth" : (Rejcontesting the Nigerian Nation in Chimeka Garricks's Tomorrow Died Yesterday and Helon Kabila's Oil on Water / Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike.
Summary:
"If literature has often informed the creation of a national imaginary--a sense of common history and destiny--it has also complicated, even challenged, the unifying vision assumed in the formation of a national literature and sense of nation. National Literature in Multinational States questions the persistent association of literature and nation-states, contrasting this with the reality of multinational and ethnocultural diversity. The contributors to this collection interrogate concepts and manifestations of nationalism in the context of literary production while evaluating the place of national literatures in multinational states at a time when social unity and political agreement have never been more elusive. The volume strives for synoptic analysis via the complementary, multifaceted treatment of literary creation in several geo-cultural contexts: Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, India, and Nigeria. Contributors: Sabujkoli Bandopadhyay, Albert Braz, Matthew Cormier, Doris Hambuch, Clara Joseph, Paul D. Morris, Asma Sayed, Matthew Tétreault, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, Jerry White."-- Provided by publisher.
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