Prizing Literature: The Celebration and Circulation of National Culture

Gillian Roberts

Prizing Literature: The Celebration and Circulation of National Culture
Format
Hardback
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Country
Canada
Published
1 November 2011
Pages
272
ISBN
9781442642713

Prizing Literature: The Celebration and Circulation of National Culture

Gillian Roberts

When Canadian authors win prestigious literary prizes, from the Governor General’s Literary Award to the Man Booker Prize, they are celebrated not only for their achievements, but also for contributing to this country’s cultural capital. Discussions about culture, national identity, and citizenship are particularly complicated when the honorees are immigrants, like Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields, or Rohinton Mistry. Then there is the case of Yann Martel, who is identified both as Canadian and as rootlessly cosmopolitan. How have these writers’ identities been recalibrated in order to claim them as ‘representative’ Canadians?

sheds light on popular and media understandings of what it means to be part of a multicultural nation.

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