Beyond National Time: Black Atlantic Temporalities and the Time-Space of Black Canadian Cultural Studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-97
Author(s):  
Karina Vernon
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Black Atlantic ◽  
Canadian Literature ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Black Canadian ◽  
Ongoing Project

This paper works with methodologies offered by Winfried Siemerling’s The Black Atlantic Reconsidered (2015) to elaborate the complexities involved in conversations between the fields of Canadian Literature and Black Canadian cultural studies. As Siemerling argues, Black Canadian literature is marked by the transversal time-spaces of the Black Atlantic which run counter to linear national time. What are the implications, then, of the Black Atlantic’s incommensurable time-spaces in the ongoing project of institutionalizing Black Canadian literature?

scholarly journals A Glimpse from the Chambord Staircase at Translation’s Role in Comparative Literature

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Koustas
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Canadian Literature ◽  
Translation Strategy ◽  
Selection Of

While the importance of the translation process remains recognized as a worthwhile activity in both Literary/Cultural Studies and in fiction, it is frequently overlooked in larger discussions of Canadian literature, including comparative studies. Such activities aim to blur the lines between Us and Them, between Other and Self, or between the Rest of Canada (the Roc) and Quebec, in other words, to align or combine the frequently cited legendary two staircases of Château de Chambord. However, in the process, they have obscured other boundaries, such as those between Comparative Literature and Translation. Studies in Comparative Canadian Literature, for example, frequently overlook, or at least downplay, the importance of translation, neglecting to consider, for example, the translation strategy used and the selection of translated works available for comparison.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. xiv-16
Author(s):  
Keith Newlin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
New Woman ◽  
Pedagogical Issues ◽  
Literary Realism ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
American Literary Realism

The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism offers thirty-five original chapters with fresh interpretations of the artistic and political challenges of representing life accurately. Organized by topic and theme, the chapters draw on recent scholarship in literary and cultural studies to offer an authoritative and in-depth reassessment of major and minor figures and the contexts that shaped their work. One set of chapters explores realism’s genesis and its connection to previous and subsequent movements. Others examine the inclusiveness of representation, the circulation of texts, and the aesthetic representation of science, time, space, and the subjects of medicine, the New Woman, and the middle class. Still others trace the connection to other arts—poetry, drama, illustration, photography, painting, and film—and to pedagogical issues in the teaching of realism.

scholarly journals A sense of loss? Unsettled attachments in the current conjuncture

2019 ◽  
Vol 96 (96) ◽  
pp. 132-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Spatial Relations ◽  
Framing Effects ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Political Alignments

In what ways does conjunctural analysis help us to think better about the present? In this article, I will suggest that this way of thinking (Stuart Hall's demanding gift to cultural studies) offers us three things of value for dealing with a turbulent and troubling present:<br/> • A configuration of time-space: not just the conventional here and now, but spatial relations and entangled temporalities;<br/> • Attention to heterogeneous social forces and their political alignments;<br/> • The principle of articulation, rather than the analysis of singularities.<br/> A conjunctural analysis helps to illuminate the present and I suggest that it might be approached in terms of the framing effects of different formations, different temporalities and the different 'senses of loss' that were articulated in the politics of Brexit.

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