Jennifer Bowering Delisle
Biographic Data
| ID | 1356213 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Bowering Delisle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer Bowering |
| FAMILY NAME | Delisle |
| SIGNATURE | DELISLE J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ten Canadian Writers in Context
Ten years, ten authors, ten critics. The Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne reaches into its ten-year archive of Brown Bag Lunch readings to sample some of the most diverse and powerful voices in contemporary Canadian literature. This anthology offers readers samples from some of Canada’s most exciting writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Each selection is introduced by a brief essay, serving as a point of entry in…
The Newfoundland Diaspora
Engaging with the literature of Newfoundland out-migration through the lens of diaspora theory this book argues that the concept of a Newfoundland diaspora has much to contribute both to Canadian literary studies and to current interdisciplinary definitions and theorizations of diaspora.
Iraq in My Bones
This paper outlines my concept of "genealogical nostalgia," the post-immigrant generation's ambivalent longing for the places and stories of their parents' birth. In her memoir The Orange Trees of Baghdad , second-generation Canadian Leilah Nadir navigates genealogical nostalgia and postmemory, articulating the unique condition of the post-immigrant generation in our globalized world
Genealogical nostalgia’
Second-generation family memoirs often recount physical pilgrimages to distant homelands. While such journeys suggest a naive privileging of an essentialized, ideal origin, I argue that these visits also have the power to problematize origins by exposing the gaps between place and narrative. These journeys illuminate the dual forces of postmemory and what I term ‘genealogical nostalgia’, the longing for the times and places of one’s ancestral pas…
Finding the Future in the Past
Gcina Mhlophe's 1986 play Have You Seen Zandile? is the story of a young South African girl kidnapped by her estranged mother and separated from her loving grandmother, and is based on the playwright's own childhood experiences. Widely criticised in apartheid South Africa for being apolitical, the play continues to be denounced as light and sentimental. These criticisms are largely a response to the play's nostalgia, the longing for the stories a…
Surviving American Cultural Imperialism
Surviving American Cultural Imperialism
Finding the Future in the Past
Gcina Mhlophe's 1986 play Have You Seen Zandile? is the story of a young South African girl kidnapped by her estranged mother and separated from her loving grandmother, and is based on the playwright's own childhood experiences. Widely criticised in apartheid South Africa for being apolitical, the play continues to be denounced as light and sentimental. These criticisms are largely a response to the play's nostalgia, the longing for the stories a…
Surviving American Cultural Imperialism
Finding the Future in the Past
Gcina Mhlophe's 1986 play Have You Seen Zandile? is the story of a young South African girl kidnapped by her estranged mother and separated from her loving grandmother, and is based on the playwright's own childhood experiences. Widely criticised in apartheid South Africa for being apolitical, the play continues to be denounced as light and sentimental. These criticisms are largely a response to the play's nostalgia, the longing for the stories a…
Genealogical nostalgia’
Second-generation family memoirs often recount physical pilgrimages to distant homelands. While such journeys suggest a naive privileging of an essentialized, ideal origin, I argue that these visits also have the power to problematize origins by exposing the gaps between place and narrative. These journeys illuminate the dual forces of postmemory and what I term ‘genealogical nostalgia’, the longing for the times and places of one’s ancestral pas…
The Newfoundland Diaspora
Engaging with the literature of Newfoundland out-migration through the lens of diaspora theory this book argues that the concept of a Newfoundland diaspora has much to contribute both to Canadian literary studies and to current interdisciplinary definitions and theorizations of diaspora.
Iraq in My Bones
This paper outlines my concept of "genealogical nostalgia," the post-immigrant generation's ambivalent longing for the places and stories of their parents' birth. In her memoir The Orange Trees of Baghdad , second-generation Canadian Leilah Nadir navigates genealogical nostalgia and postmemory, articulating the unique condition of the post-immigrant generation in our globalized world
Ten Canadian Writers in Context
Ten years, ten authors, ten critics. The Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne reaches into its ten-year archive of Brown Bag Lunch readings to sample some of the most diverse and powerful voices in contemporary Canadian literature. This anthology offers readers samples from some of Canada’s most exciting writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Each selection is introduced by a brief essay, serving as a point of entry in…
History (6 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Canadian Identity and History (2 works) · Canadian literature (2 works)