The book collection, edited by Benjamin Authers, Maïté Snauwaert and Daniel Laforest -- Inhabiting Memory in Canadian Literature / Habiter la mémoire dans la littérature canadienne (UofA Press) -- has been selected among the three runners-up for the Gabrielle-Roy Prize of the ACQL (the Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures).
The winner will be disclosed in a special ceremony during the Association's annual meeting at Congress 2018 in Regina.
"Inhabiting Memory in Canadian Literature is an engaging exploration of space, place, and memory in a collection of twelve essays, written in both English and French, that meditate on literary expressions of loss, identity, and agency in a wide range of Canadian texts. The strengths of this edited collection of essays include its bilingualism, its theoretical, thematic, and temporal breadth, and its regional, national, and global scope. Taken together, the essays gathered here move across genres, canons, and literary periods in ways that illuminate the deep historical roots and contested intellectual meaning of the idea of space in Canadian literature and cultural criticism. Inhabiting Memory in Canadian Literature pairs historical depth with contemporary relevance, investigating space and memory as intersecting, dynamic, and fundamentally fluid categories of knowledge and compelling sites for historical and cultural analysis. It will be essential reading for many years to come."
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