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Canada

Text and Territory

Edited By: Máire Áine Ní Mhainnín, Elizabeth Tilley

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These essays debate literature, language, immigration, and culture in Canada, Ireland, and Europe. From the place of hockey in literary consciousness to mapping minority languages, the focus is on exploring culture in its widest sense.

The essays in this volume are expanded versions of papers that were first presented at the 13th Biennial Conference/XIIIème Congrès biennal of the Association for…

The essays in this volume are expanded versions of papers that were first presented at the 13th Biennial Conference/XIIIème Congrès biennal of the Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland, held at the National University of Ireland, Galway, in 2006. The theme of the Conference was Canada at Home and Abroad: Text and Territory/Le Canada et ses relations d’ici, de là, et de là bas. The papers debate issues surrounding literature, language and language acquisition, immigration/emigration, and culture, in Canada, Ireland, and in Europe as a whole. From an examination of the place of hockey in the Canadian literary consciousness, to mapping minority language visibility in officially bilingual cities, the focus here is on ways of exploring culture, understood in its widest sense.

Dr Máire Áine Ní Mhainnín teaches French at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She has published extensively on Québec women’s writing and supervises postgraduate research on French Canadian Literature and Culture. She is a member of the Executive committee of the Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland and has been Treasurer of the Association since 2003.

Dr Elizabeth Tilley teaches nineteenth-century literature and book history in the English Department at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She publishes on nineteenth-century serials and the history of Irish periodicals. She is Secretary of the Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland.