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	What Is CanLit? - Time Capsules - Douglas Coupland - Opinion - Blog - - New York Times Blog
		CanLit is not a place for writers to experiment, and doesn’t claim to be that kind of place.
		CanLit is about representing a certain kind of allowed world in a specific kind of way, and most writers in Canada are O.K. with that — or are at least relieved to know the rules of the game from the outset and not have to waste time fostering illusions.
		CanLit was invented, in part, to introduce outlanders–particularly those living south of the Canadian border–to the existence of a large and superficially similar nation to their north.
	coupland.blogs.nytimes.com /?p=30 (1631 words)

	Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: Canlit
		In May 1999, I was approached by a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario, who was preparing a paper on the relationship between Canadian SF and Canadian Literature.
		I'm lucky enough to have had considerable success outside of Canada's borders, but if one were to delete all of that from my curriculum vitae, I think you'd find what's left is a resume indistinguishable from that of a reasonably successful Canlit writer.
		All the above is a preamble to responding directly to your question, "Do you see yourself as writing in the tradition of Canlit or in the tradition of SF?" It's a false dichotomy in my view; my work belongs squarely in both camps, and, as I believe the foregoing demonstrates, has been embraced by both.
	www.sfwriter.com /canlit.htm (846 words)

	Old and New
		They were bending and breaking the canon to suit their purposes and, somehow, instead of being excommunicated for heresy, were receiving plenty of attention.
		The Notebooks helped codify the changing landscape of CanLit, and in the two years following its publication, much attention was paid to many of the authors in the anthology, despite, or perhaps because of, their rabble-rousing.
		Where Heti offered strange, subversive urban fables with an elusive quality that charmed, Snyder's prose and purpose is too traditional to achieve pure quirk (children drown, relationships implode), yet her level of craft is not deft enough to allow the reader to ignore the book's lack of heft.
	www.biggeworld.com /archive/npost-spring04book-print.html (1285 words)

	Editorial - Denton Muir - January 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		To be fair, the parent waited until she had seen the course outline for her daughter’s grade 10 English class.
		This issue was shaped in part by a letter from a parent fed up with the lack of Canadian fiction her daughter was reading in her English classes.
		CanLit was on my personal radar screen when Canadian Poet Laureate George Bowering came to town.
	www.bctf.bc.ca /BCTELA/update/45.2-Jun03/45-2DaveEllison.html (414 words)

	Old and New
		There is a complaint, articulated often and loudly among many whippersnapper writers, that fast and funny CanLit is by definition impossible.
		The high priests of CanLit believe pop culture is shallow, ephemeral and trite, devoid of authenticity and depth.
		To paraphrase Henry Ford, "You can have any kind of CanLit you want, as long as it's Ondaatje, Shields or (God rest his soul) Findley." To ask for something else is to feel unpatriotic.
	www.biggeworld.com /archive/temptingfaith.html (904 words)

	About our company
		CanLit for Kids books Ltd. has been in business since 1996, meeting the needs of school libraries all across Canada.
		Originally founded by Harry and Jean Jordan (two retired teacher-librarians from British Columbia), the tradition is being carried on by Bobbie Turner (retired teacher-librarian) and Glen Turnbull (retired teacher).
		Recommend a colleague, who is new to CanLit For Kids.
	www.canlitforkids.com /about.html (492 words)

	Mosaic biography. Earle Birney's odd look back at 45 years of CanLit
		Birney made his first big contribution to CanLit when he was appointed literary editor of The Canadian Forum in 1936.
		Birney ends the book by quoting from a generally pessimistic letter he wrote to a friend on the last day of 1949.
		"CanLit may never be worth sounding off about," he said, thus proving that even visionary poets can sometimes be wrong.
	www.cariboo.bc.ca /ae/e_birney/english/level3/level4/doc00201.htm (977 words)

	Bookninja » Blog Archive » CanLit in the Crosshairs, too!
		Douglas Coupland has taken the stuffing out of the pillow of CanLit.
		After the article was published, he reportedly stuffed a sock in his grandmother’s mouth and forced her into a questionably-run private nursing home.
		Canadian fiction is bunged up by a generation that is well past its prime but won’t die and won’t retire.
	www.bookninja.com /?p=1361 (471 words)

	Canadian Literary Archives - CANLIT
		CANLIT carried out a number of surveys relating to Canadian literature, for example, publishers' sales statistics, use in school English curricula, readership, etc., and published a number of books between 1974 and 1980 based on analyses of the surveys.
		Peter Birdsall, Dolores Broten and Gail Donald, among others, have been active in the organization from its inception.
		Fonds consists of correspondence, various survey returns, research material for CANLIT publications and other miscellaneous material.
	www.ucalgary.ca /lib-old/SpecColl/canlit.htm (146 words)

	Eye Weekly - It's all Toronto's fault - 08.01.02
		Henighan goes so far as to claim that CanLit itself has been taken over by the media-driven forces of TorLit, arguing that it is almost impossible to be a successful writer without living in Toronto, a claim that ignores other literary centres, such as Vancouver.
		There are interesting issues worth exploring in When Words Deny the World, some with real repercussions for CanLit and the Canadian publishing industry (especially in light of the Stoddart disaster), but Henighan's obsession with the Toronto-centric nature of CanLit ultimately undermines all the good points here.
		Like the writers and publishers he condemns in these essays, Henighan is unable to see beyond the context of Toronto and, ironically, thus becomes the very thing he criticizes most.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_08.01.02/arts/books.html (657 words)

	Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		English-Canadian and French-Canadian literature are themselves subdivided into regional voices, which in turn mirror the concerns of their own varied communities.
		Although short on tradition, "Canlit" is increasingly read, translated and acclaimed the world over.
		Canadian novelists, essayists and poets such as Robertson Davies, Margaret Atwood, Gabrielle Roy, Jacques Ferron, Alice Munro, Anne Hébert, Jacques Godbout, Northrop Frye, Hubert Aquin, Gaston Miron, Michael Ondaatje and Mordecai Richler have given voice to the deepest thoughts and feelings of Canadians.
	www.bergen.org /AAST/projects/Canada/Literature (88 words)

	lowry04
		The novel's revision of the historical account of Toronto 's modern development embroils itself in a fanciful depiction of CanLit as social space or geography through which Caravaggio, the name itself an allusion to one notorious Renaissance painter, steals his way back to the city.
		In the context of contemporary CanLit and/or the emergence of multiculturalism in general, how does the appearance of a "white" subject presuppose an elision of particular class differences or the re-appropriation of racialized histories and experiences?
		After the End/s: CanLit and the Unravelling of Nation, "Race," and Space in the Writing of Michael Ondaatje, Daphne Marlatt, and Roy Kiyooka.
	clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu /clcweb04-3/lowry04.html (4384 words)

	CanLit fans gear up for fest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Novelist Miriam Toews, with her hit novel A Complicated Kindness riding high on bestseller charts, is sure to be a crowd-pleaser.
		Among the other big names in CanLit who are coming: B.C.'s George Bowering, Edmonton's Greg Hollingshead, Toronto's Cordelia Strube, Catherine Bush and Ann-Marie MacDonald, Kingston's Helen Humphreys and Newfoundland's Michael Winter.
		Poor says she got hooked on CanLit by taking a University of Manitoba English course from David Arnason, also a respected local writer.
	www.artsnews.ca /Walker/040920c.html (481 words)

	write_away: Thursday Published Writing: Andrew Pyper, If you Lived Here you'd be Home by Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Examples: its false nostalgia for an obscenely idyllic rusticism unknown to the 85% of the population that reside in large cities; limited conflict with low emotional stakes and complacent protagonists; smug prose suited only to authorially pretentious readings at an awards ceremony with the Governor General.
		Now, not all Canadian authors deal with typical Canlit topics, such as the movement from rural to urban environments.
		Generally I'm quite anti the idea of a "national literature", or characterising writers (or writers characterising themselves) as belonging to some unified group based on their passports.
	community.livejournal.com /write_away/801882.html (899 words)

	50 Books: BOOKS: How to Win a CanLit Award
		The prospect of Crazy John's Oval gave everybody the heebie-jeebies and eventually the bid fell through--and an entire city (with the exception of Crazy John's management) sighed with relief.
		The rules for award-winning Australian literature are much like what you describe for CanLit, too, and God help you if you try to get a grant from the government to help you write a book yourself.
		They make it fairly plain that middle-aged white male science fiction writers (hello) are not quite their target demographic, dang it all.
	50books.blogspot.com /2005/11/books-how-to-win-canlit-award.html (479 words)

	Canadian Literature in Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The situation has improved recently, so that Japanese readers are aware that Canadian heroes and heroines are different from their American counterparts.
		At present, Japanese translations of CanLit include Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley, Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Laurence, Thomas King, Alice Munro,Robertson Davies, and others.
		While Canada's uniqueness can be found in nature, winter,bilingualism, anti-Americanism and historical experiences, CanLit touches upon more universal and fundamental issues too, such as feminism, racial equality etc. Some of those themes, in today's global context, allow Japanese readers to comprehend Canadian experiences, fictitious or real,as if they were their own.
	www.carleton.ca /cjc2002/FinalProgram/KatoYukako.htm (177 words)

	Some Canadian Authors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Canlit has the remarkable attribute of being colonial literature twice over.
		Some of it has universal appeal, while some may only appreciated by those who live there.
		The latter is notable for having its plot centre on the design and construction of a new tramway system.
	www.math.unb.ca /~jdp/canlit.html (544 words)

	The McLaren vs. Onstad Championship Chicklit Canlit Catfight :: Accordion Guy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Whether reacting to the barb that she was just a columnist and not a magazine writer, or her less fond memories of the editing process, Leah likened it to trying to skin a cat in a very animated way, “You keep trying to kill the damn thing, but it keeps coming back.
		The passive aggressive Championship Chicklit Canlit Catfight that the Saturday National Post had billed this as was starting to shape up.
		Katrina answered first, “Well after reading so much Canlit in my undergrad and then reading even more again during my Masters, I didn’t want to write another typical stormy east coast, wind in the grass prairie, closing scene in small town Ontario book.
	accordionguy.blogware.com /blog/_archives/2006/2/2/1739783.html (4376 words)

	English TBA 1067 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Canadian literature, or CanLit, as a field of study has recently undergone major transformations that have called into question its disciplinary boundaries and critical assumptions.
		Against the pressures of economic and cultural globalization, literary scholars have been forced to rethink and renegotiate the nation-based formations that constituted the field of CanLit, a process that motivated the design of the recent national conference, “TransCanada: Literature, Institutions, Citizenship,” held in Vancouver in June 2005.
		In reconsidering the formative history of CanLit through one of its manifestations, we can approach “Asian Canadian,” not as a stable identity, but as a provisional creative and critical formation that reveals the shifting boundaries of CanLit at this moment in its cultural history.
	www.sfu.ca /english/Gradwebpage/course1067841.html (280 words)

	CanLit great Alice Munro talks about her LongPen(TM) experience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		CanLit great Alice Munro talks about her LongPen(TM) experience
		CanLit great Alice Munro talks about her LongPen experience
		Click here to watch with Windows Media Player
	www.longpen.com /vid-alicemunro-lp.html (58 words)

	Welcome to CanLit for Kids
		CanLit For Kids Books Ltd. has been in business in Canada since 1996, meeting the needs of school and public libraries all across the nation.
		CanLit For Kids Books Ltd. believes that by promoting and supporting the use of Canadian books in school libraries, we are providing a much needed service to teacher-librarians, teachers and students.
		To that end, our company policy is to distribute exclusively, books by Canadian authors and Canadian illustrators.
	www.canlitforkids.com (153 words)

	CBC.ca - Arts - Books - Bookmaker's Odds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Every cliché about CanLit is true: 18 past winners were set in a small, Canadian town, or in the Canadian wilderness.
		A CanLit fixture often compared to Carol Shields and Anne Tyler, Barfoot’s Critical Injuries was longlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize.
		Luck follows the immediate aftermath of the sudden death of a small-town furniture maker and the impact it has on his artist wife, her model and the family’s housekeeper.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/books/bookmakers.html (1781 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada \| Character Parts by Brian Busby
		The most original and entertaining reference book to be published in years, Character Parts is the behind-the-scenes look at CanLit we have all been waiting for.
		Brian Busby settles the suspicions that arise when a fictional character reminds you of a real-life one, listing the sources for characters from the whole of Canadian literature.
		Brian Busby has done a remarkable job bringing together material from a wide range of sources, many of them not found anywhere else, to create a rich and indispensable reference book.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=067697578X (462 words)

	Letter from Berlin: CanLit Comes to Town \| Dooney's Cafe \| a news service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Letter from Berlin: CanLit Comes to Town
		BERLIN—What does it feel like to be at a literary reading in which the audience is outnumbered by the reader?
		And I won’t say that I’ll never go to a literary prose reading again, because you should never say “never.” But I don’t think I’ll go to a whole lot more of them.
	www.dooneyscafe.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=359&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 (2306 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Canlit foodbook: From pen to palate, a collection of tasty literary fare: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Amazon.ca: The Canlit foodbook: From pen to palate, a collection of tasty literary fare: Books
		The Canlit foodbook: From pen to palate, a collection of tasty literary fare
		Be the first person to review this item.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0002179083 (172 words)

	Vehicule Press - Titles - Dr. Delicious by Robert Lecker
		He could bring in music, painting, hypochondria, malt whisky, deranged students, government grants, questionable authors, bank debt, termite infestations, a teaching stint in Brazil, lawsuits, the pleasures of hot-sauce.
		He would write about his passions, his failures, how the whole business of CanLit drove him crazy, lost him sleep, drove him on."
		Robert Lecker's tragicomic memoir is an irreverent history of an explosive era in Canadian literature, a glimpse into the mind of a preoccupied professor, and a unique record of the generation that made Canadian literature what it is today.
	www.vehiculepress.com /titles/405.html (231 words)

	Canadian Literature - The Sugar Quill
		We already have a Margaret Atwood thread, but a general Canlit thread would be great so we could compare and contrast Canadian novels, for instance, or recommend them.
		Some great authors of Canlit include Margaret Laurence, Mordecai Richler, Alice Munro...
		There is a sort of "Canlit" style, isn't there?
	www.sugarquill.net /forum/index.php?showtopic=6403 (1185 words)

	Up and coming poet - Margaret Atwood: Queen of CanLit - CBC Archives
		Up and coming poet - Margaret Atwood: Queen of CanLit - CBC Archives
		Home > Arts and Entertainment > Margaret Atwood: Queen of CanLit > Up and coming poet
		Atwood reads: "The green man" and "It is dangerous to read newspapers"
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-68-1494-10054/arts_entertainment/margaret_atwood/clip2 (385 words)

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