Canadian Literature Research Articles (Page 1)

Review of Castellano-Ortolà (2024): Agencies in Feminist Translator Studies: Barbara Godard and the Crossroads of Literature in Canada

ABSTRACT Kit Dobson’s work focuses on several controversial issues in Canadian Indigenous history. The effects of oil capitalism on the environment is at the core of Field Notes on Listening, while Malled: Deciphering Shopping in Canada addresses the socio-economic impacts of shopping malls in Canada. Transnational Canadas: Anglo-Canadian Literature and Globalization examines Canadian literary traditions in the context of globalization, and We Are Already Ghosts tackles issues of Indigenous identities and the current politics surrounding the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. All these, and Dobson’s edited works – Please, No More Poetry: The Poetry of derek beaulieu; Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace; Transnationalism, Activism, Art; Dissonant Methods: Undoing Discipline in the Humanities Classroom; and All the Feels: Affect and Writings in Canada – serve as a springboard for this interview in tracing his diverse viewpoints about Canada’s evolution from a colonial past.

Conducting research on maternal health care through an intersectional lens is important to me because of the rise of health disparities, specifically racial disparities that exist within the health sector, however, there is limited race-based data in Canadian literature that addresses these disparities and how it affects racialized women.

For over a decade, members of Canada’s creative industries have claimed that Canadian post-secondary institutions are copying and using content without adequately compensating creators; these campaigns have primarily focused on fiction authors. This study aims to address these claims by determining how much Canadian creative literature is actually being used in a representative Canadian university. We analyzed reading materials provided to students as library reserves, textbooks, and course packs for the periods 2010-2012 and 2018-2022 and found that across both periods approximately 1.3% of courses assigned Canadian creative works as readings. An analysis of only the Fall semesters across these periods found that approximately 0.7% of all works – that is, copied excerpts and uncopied (purchased) works – assigned via library reserves, textbooks, and course packs were Canadian creative works. The number of assigned readings that included copied Canadian creative works (generally consisting only of course packs, not textbooks and likely not library reserves) would comprise much less than 0.7%. Therefore, this research suggests that the use and specifically copying of Canadian creative content in Canadian universities is not substantial enough to result in significant potential remuneration for the copying of an author’s work.

This article focuses on the position of the Czech-Canadian immigrant writer Josef Škvorecký and his writing in the Canadian literary field in the 1970s and 1980s. It looks at the contemporary development of Canadian literature as a category and Škvorecký’s role as an ethnic writer through Homi K. Bhabha’s concepts of hybridity and the Third Space while also considering the background of the Cold War and Canadian official policy on multiculturalism. The article discusses the Canadian publication of Škvorecký’s novel The Engineer of Human Souls in 1984, the Governor-General’s Literary Award given to it, the way the novel relates itself to Canada, and the polemic between Škvorecký and Terry Goldie in the journal Canadian Literature. This analysis of the novel and its dissemination and reception demonstrates that Bhabha’s postcolonial terminology cannot cover the case of a Czech exile writer in Canada, but the issues it brings to the debate open up new connections and contexts.

Developing recommendations and actions for integrated services delivery through primary health care teams in Canada: a deliberative dialogue approach for a national knowledge translation event.

Background: The Canadian government uses cultural policy and foreign policy instruments to internationalize Canadian literature through literary diplomacy to increase the understanding of Canada abroad. Analysis: For 60 years, Margaret Atwood has been a force multiplier in Canadian literary diplomacy. This article explores how Atwood’s internationalization in three phases of her career has been leveraged in cultural statecraft to enhance Canada’s image, reinforce bilateral diplomatic relations, increase cultural exports, and promote Canadian values and perspectives globally. Conclusion and implications: Establishing Canadian literature in the international imagination helps to portray Canada accurately and to advance the normative imperative—freedom, inclusion, diversity—in Canada’s soft power.

BackgroundPatients who maintain longitudinal provider-patient relationships experience better overall health outcomes. However, most older adults in Canada lose contact with their family physician when they enter long-term care (LTC) as new providers assume responsibility for their care. There is relatively little known about the contextual factors, processes, knowledge, and health professions education antecedents that promote the benefits of relational, management, and informational care continuity during LTC transitions.MethodsUsing a rigorous scoping review method, we searched multiple databases systematically to identify and scrutinize peer-reviewed articles pertaining to continuity of care during LTC transitions in Canada. Guided by Transitions Theory, two independent reviewers screened citations and extracted data. A descriptive analytical method was employed to categorize content into themes.ResultsEight articles met the inclusion criteria. Our findings confirm that instances of relational continuity are very few during LTC transitions, suggesting barriers associated with practice models and the influence of physician characteristics. Notably, the review also highlights that the involvement of interprofessional team members, patients, and their partners-in-care in transition planning could improve informational and management care continuity for patients as they move into LTC.ConclusionPatient and family involvement, provider training, and practice and funding arrangements are all critical to improving relational, management, and informational care continuity during LTC transition. We recommend more studies to understand processes and policies to optimize informational continuity as a panacea for the often-disrupted relational continuity.

BackgroundLynch syndrome (LS) is an autosomal dominant cancer predisposition syndrome caused by a germline pathogenic variant, or epigenetic silencing, of a mismatch repair (MMR) gene, leading to a wide cancer...

Police tactical teams, referred to in Canada as Emergency Response Teams (ERT), are a specialized team of police officers who receive additional training, equipment, and support to mitigate dangerous, high-risk, life-threatening, and violent calls for service general duty officers may be challenged to mitigate effectively. Researchers suggest repeated and over-exposure to intentional acts of violence or elevated levels of aggression can lead to experiences (or symptoms) of anxiety, depression, hostility, burnout, and sleeping problems. Yet, very little research reveals the potential mental wellness of ERT members resultant from their public safety role. As media, academics, and stakeholders continue to express concerns regarding police militarization (both for and against), and research continues to dispute ERT normalization, police militarization, or ERT deployments, little evidence has unpacked the potential mental health implications resulting from ERT membership. To do so, the current study uses a scoping review to analyze the state of the literature to reveal how police ERTs are likely to experience stress. Findings from the current article suggest a serious dearth in Canadian and qualitative literature surrounding police ERT wellness and concludes with a discussion on directions for future qualitative research in Canada.

ABSTRACT This article revaluates Canadian Arctic literature through the imperial discourse lens, highlighting the need to reconceptualize the coloniality and postcoloniality of Canadian literature beyond the scope of Indigenous writing. It emphasizes the marginalization of Arctic Canadian literature within postcolonial discourse despite its deep connections with British imperialism. By employing Edward Said’s methodology of contrapuntal reading, the article explores the imperial narratives within Canadian literary identity, comparing Erika Behrisch Elce’s Lady Franklin of Russell Square with Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. It investigates how settler colonialism and the dynamics of cartography – emphasized by Baudrillard’s theory of the map preceding the territory – play into the construction of literary and national identities. The analysis challenges the glorification of Arctic exploration in Canadian identity and reveals its complex relations with British imperialism, thus broadening the scope of postcolonial critique to include underexplored imperial dimensions.

This research, grounded in Asian Critical Theory (AsianCrit), sheds light on the experiences of Asian educators and students within a large district school board in Ontario, Canada. Through a mixed-methods approach, involving surveys and focus groups conducted in Fall 2022, data was collected from over 1,300 Asian-identifying respondents including students in Grades 7 to 12, teachers, and administrators. Data analysis identified three major findings: (a) the need for empowering Asian representation in the curriculum; (b) the lack of belonging in schools, and; (c) the underrepresentation of diverse Asian identities among staff, especially in senior leadership positions. This research addresses a significant gap in the Canadian literature examining anti-Asian racism in schools and through a series of recommendations advocates for more equitable and inclusive educational environments.

At the intersection between New Woman studies and motherhood studies, critical approaches to female literature can offer a renewed perspective that fosters the revitalization of silenced authors and works. When applied within the framework of nineteenth-century Canadian literature in English, new readings of dismissed writers and works from this intersectional critical perspective offer the chance of voicing their innovations and achievements. Although praised in her time, the attention paid to Joanna Ellen Wood and her novel The Untempered Wind (1894) within the Canadian literary framework has been ambivalent. The present analysis of her literary career and her novel demonstrate both deserve a place within Canadian literature still to be recovered.

CLIL METHODOLOGY IN TEACHING CANADIAN LITERATURE IN TERTIARY EDUCATION: SCAFFOLDING

Multimodal CLIL approaches in teaching Canadian literature: enhancing language and literary competence

Canada comprises a wide variety of people of multifarious ethnic and cultural heritages with immigrants constituting 23% of the entire population (Statistics Canada 2022). Among those groups, Latina/o Canadians are a small but vibrant community whose artistic output is often overlooked. This paper provides a brief overview of the history and characteristics of Latina/o presence and literary output in Canada as well as discusses two Latina/o Canadian texts, namely and a body to remember with (1997), a short story collection by Chilean-Canadian author, Carmen Rodríguez, and Fronteras Americanas: American Borders (1993) by Argentinian-Canadian playwright, Guillermo Verdecchia. The analysis is focused on the discussion of the characters’ migratory mourning, as defined by Joseba Achotegui (2019), which is involved in the formation of immigrants’ hybrid identities as they continually reevaluate their relationship with the host and home country. Additionally, this paper touches upon the textual representations of military trauma that has impacted generations of Latina/o immigrants fleeing dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s (Hazelton 2007). Finally, this paper investigates the ways in which the Spanish language is employed in the texts. This paper argues that bilingualism underscores Rodríguez’s and Verdecchia’s hybridity and decolonial approach as they undermine the notion of America as a predominantly English-speaking continent dominated by the imperial US.

It is well established in the literature that Black children and youth-in-care are disproportionately overrepresented in Ontario’s child welfare system. Additionally, Black youth experience structural challenges with the education system. However, there is a lack of Canadian literature that explores the educational experiences of Black children while receiving child welfare services. This study examined the reports of youth, child welfare staff, and caregivers on the educational experiences of Black youth-in-care. In-depth interviews exploring the educational needs and goals of Black youth-in-care were conducted with 13 participants (3 child welfare staff, 6 caregivers, and 4 youth). Findings highlight that Black youth-in-care experience labelling, hypervisibility and invisibility, and harassment and bullying, all of which had an impact on how they navigated the school system, and contributed to internalized stereotypes and feelings of isolation and unbelonging. The findings also identify strategies for innovation and promoting the educational success of Black youth-in-care.

There are very few archetypal characters being more important for European cultural tradition than the Biblical first woman – Eve. As evidenced by literary onomastic research, the very use of semantically loaded first names implies intertextual connectedness, fulfilling – in most cases – associative and symbolic functions. This reference to archetypal stories and heroes makes it possible to create a multitude of new semantic layers, but it also serves to keep their original sense in cultural and collective memory. In our contribution, we seek comparative analysis and interpretation of selected characters, bearing the name of Eve, in modern French, Canadian and Czech literatures. The study focuses on variants, shifts, and similarities that, to varying extents, refer to the first Biblical woman. Throughout both the national literatures, we observe forms of the pretext−posttext relation and concrete onymic functions of the name of Eve in the time span from the close of the 19th century to the present day.

Not in my back yard (NIMBY)ism is a form of anti-homeless discrimination intended to displace people experiencing homelessness from urban spaces. While research on anti-homeless discrimination is abundant, the Canadian literature has yet to explore the political dimensions of this type of discrimination. International researchers have studied the connections between homelessness and citizenship, and we take up this theoretical work in this study. We present interview data from people experiencing homelessness in three mid-sized cities in Ontario. Using an analytical framework comprised of citizenship studies, urban geography, and sociological research on stigmatization, we assess participants’ perspectives of their respective communities, their understanding of the typology of homelessness, and how they enact particular kinds of public behaviours. We find that the participants’ public behaviours adapt to the place identity of their community to avoid stigmatization. The participants’ public behaviours are illustrative of how modern citizenship has been reconfigured under capitalism.

During the past decade, planetary health has emerged as a scientific field of practice and global movement in response to the major disruptions to our world, such as catastrophic floods, droughts, wildfires, heat domes, and extreme heat, affecting the health and well-being of humans and the planet. The concept of planetary health has been increasingly acknowledged by Canadian nurse educators, and globally, about the importance for integration in baccalaureate and graduate nursing curricula. In 2022, the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing updated its National Nursing Education Framework to include planetary health. There is, however, a gap in the Canadian literature of the process for integrating planetary health content in an already-full nursing curriculum. This paper highlights the pivotal historical timeline of the planetary health movement alongside the emergence educational initiatives, such the Call to Action in 2019 in the Canadian context and the global movement to address the planetary health crisis. The author describes how a nurse educator champions and leads the integration of planetary health content in a Canadian baccalaureate nursing program, while addressing the barriers to and facilitators of curricular change. It is important that nurse educators receive further professional development in equipping them with an understanding of planetary health and how to integrate and actualize this content in the nursing curricula. Planetary health knowledge is essential in preparing the next generation of nursing students so they can better address and mitigate the catastrophic impact of the planetary health crisis so all can flourish.