Project information
Diversity and unity in Canadian literature
- Project Identification
- GA405/06/0096
- Project Period
- 1/2006 - 12/2008
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Czech Science Foundation
- Standard Projects
- MU Faculty or unit
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Faculty of Arts
- prof. PhDr. Petr Kyloušek, CSc.
- prof. PhDr. Petr Horák, CSc.
- Mgr. Klára Kolinská, M.A., Ph.D.
- doc. PhDr. Tomáš Pospíšil, Ph.D.
- Mgr. et Mgr. Kateřina Prajznerová, M.A., Ph.D.
- Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
- Keywords
- Canadian literature, identity, alterity (otherness), multiculturalism
Canada represents a unique environment for studying literary and cultural questions of the relations between various linguistic, ethnocultural, social and individual identities. Issues including images of one´s self and the other, identity and alterity, integration and exclusion, hybridization have for the most part been examined in a "one-sided" approach created by the Anglophone-Francophone linguistic and cultural barrier. This project will provide a synthesis based on an examination of a variety of contrasting and/or intersecting points of view, e.g. Anglophone Canadian, Francophone Canadian, First Nations, immigrants, other marginalized groups. The approach that has been selected is guite close to the Anglo-American concept of "literary culture": literary texts and history will be examined through the prism of cultural identity models and the structuring and dynamics of systems of values will be examined using integrating and separatist factors. The expected outcome will be two analogous books, one in Czech and the second in English and French. The proposed publication in Czech will therefore fill in a gap that exists in Czech, offering a comprehensive overview of Canadian (i.e. Anglophone Canadian, French-Canadian, immigrant, Inuit and Indian literatures) and through its methodological approach it will offer a model for examining literary guestions of identity and alterity in other regions, e.g. Europe and Central Europe.
Publications
Total number of publications: 44
2012
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„Indiánský Orfeus“ u Leonarda Cohena (Beautiful Losers) a Jacquesa Ferrona (Le Ciel de Québec)
World Literature Studies, year: 2012, volume: 4, edition: 2
2011
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La poétique baroquisante de Marie-Claire Blais
VOIX & IMAGES, year: 2011, volume: 37, edition: 1
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Les étrangers de Gabrielle Roy
Cultural Constructions of Migration in Canada / Constructions culturelles de la migration au Canada, year: 2011
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Quand la grosse femme d'a côté voyageait. Les Traversées de Michel Tremblay
A la carte. Le roman québécois (2005-2010), edition: 1. vyd., year: 2011, number of pages: 17 s.
2010
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Going down the Road for the Red Violin: The Trajectory of Canadian Feature Film during the Last Forty Years
Year: 2010, type: Conference abstract
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Sebastian M. Herrmann, Katja Kanzler, Anne Koenen, Zoe A. Kusmierz, Leonard Schmieding, eds.,Ambivalent Americanizations Popular and Consumer Culture in Central and Eastern Europe. American Studies - A Monograph Series 165 (Heidelberg: Winter, 2008)
Amerikastudien - American Studies, year: 2010, volume: 55, edition: 2
2009
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0. Évidence d'une culture nationale. I. Dimension noétique de l'art. II. Identité canadienne dans le contexte historique. III. Littérature canadienne-francaise et québécoise. VI. Solitudes canadiennes et la perception de l'autre
Petr Kyloušek, Klára Kolinská, Kateřina Prajznerová, Tomáš Pospíšil, Eva Voldřichová Beránková: Us-Them-Me: The Search for Indentity in Canadian Literature and Film, Nous-Eux-Moi: La quete de l'identité dans la littérature et le cinéma canadiens, edition: Vyd. 1, year: 2009, number of pages: 129 s.
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0. Samozřejmost národní kultury. I. Umění jako poznání. II. Utváření kanadské identity v historickém kontextu. III. Francouzsko-kanadská a quebecká literatura. VI. Kanadské samoty a vnímání druhého.
Petr Kyloušek, Klára Kolinská, Kateřina Prajznerová, Tomáš Pospíšil, Eva Voldřichová Beránková, Petr Horák: MY ONI JÁ. Hledání identity v kanadské literatuře a filmu, edition: Vyd. 1., year: 2009, number of pages: 126 s.
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Autorské osobnosti kanadského hraného filmu
Year: 2009, type:
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Identita laicita tolerance
My, oni, já, edition: Vyd. první, year: 2009, number of pages: 14 s.