Native American Literature and Its Place in the Inter-American Project

Fitz, Earl E.

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“…Indeed, it is "the oldest form of literary expression" (Fitz 2013: 125) which was available long before the arrival of the first Europeans; however, not all countries have acknowledged its importance equally. As Fitz (2013) points out, the countries of Spanish America and Brazil embraced it as a part of their literary traditions long ago, whereas Indigenous writers in the United States had to wait until the 1960s to be accepted into the canon (125). Although New's A History of Canadian Literature (2003) recognizes the importance of Indigenous traditions to Canadian literature by placing its beginnings in the pre-contact period, it has not always been like that.…”

Section: Canlit and Other American Literatures: Intersectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Canadian literature as an American literature : CanLit through the lens of hemispheric American literary studies

Grauzľová¹

2022

Brno Studies in English

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This paper addresses the noticeably low presence of Canadian literature in hemispheric American literary research. The fact that hemispheric literary studies focuses on a comparison of the United States and Spanish America is partly because of Canada's marginal position in the Americas, its lack of identification with the continent, and Canadian scholars' reluctance to engage in hemispheric studies due to their insecurity concerning cultural identity and the discipline's potential imperialistic impulses. By examining a representative history of Canadian literature and several literary studies for intersections and tangencies between Canadian literature and other literatures of the Americas, this paper will demonstrate that there are natural links between them, which make a transnational comparative approach to Canadian literature both legitimate and desirable.

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Section: Canlit and Other American Literatures: Intersectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%