Kit Dobson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3672561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kit Dobson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kit |
| FAMILY NAME | Dobson |
| SIGNATURE | DOBSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1667-9946 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
We Are Already Ghosts
we are already ghosts
Emergent Fiction 2023
Introduction
What kinds of shared futures can you and I imagine and bring into the realm of the possible, despite a highly organized investment in business as usual?-Min Hyoung Song, Climate LyricismWe want to restore balance, right relations, ethical being.We cannot afford delusional hierarchies.We will not race each other to the bottom.We commit to live up to the future's call.We want our lives to not be wasted.-Rita Wong, "bisphenol ache" ... even the 'bad…
Appropriation redux
This article considers ways in which solidarity across social locations might play a role in fostering resistance to vulnerability. My case study consists of the interplay between writer George Ryga’s 1967 play The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, and Okanagan Syilx writer and scholar Jeannette Armstrong’s 1985 novel Slash. While these important and compelling texts have received considerable critical attention, the relationship between them is less known. I…
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…
Neoliberalism and the limits of the human
What does it mean to be human in the context of the neoliberal political order? This article reads the contemporary terrain of theorization around embodiment and neoliberalism in order to argue that the deployment of the human has become evermore contingent in recent history. The article reads the ways in which the notion of the human comes into a state of crisis in Rawi Hage's novel Cockroach in order to understand the vulnerability of the human…
Producing Canadian Literature
Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace brings to light the relationship between writers in Canada and the marketplace within which their work circulates. Through a series of conversations with both established and younger writers from across the country, Kit Dobson and Smaro Kamboureli investigate how writers perceive their relationship to the cultural economy—and what that economy means for their creative proces…
Derelicte and the Oppressed
This paper, reading from Gayatri Spivak's ongoing revisions of her critique of subalternity, examines how the rebel figure in the 2001 screwball comedy Zoolander is brought into being and draws out the represented power structures according to broader social patterns in Hollywood depictions of resistance. While Zoolander is caught up in a politics that might lead to displaced forms of representation, its visual spectacle, juxtaposing poverty and …
Transnational Canadas
Transnational Canadas marks the first sustained inquiry into the relationship between globalization and Canadian literature written in English. Tracking developments in the literature and its study from the centennial period to the present, it shows how current work in transnational studies can provide new insights for researchers and students. Arguing first that the dichotomy of Canadian nationalism and globalization is no longer valid in today’…
Spirits of Elsewhere Past
Spirits of Elsewhere Past:A Dialogue on Soucouyant Kit Dobson (bio) and David John Chariandy (bio) This dialogue was conducted via e-mail in September, 2007. KIT DOBSON: I'd like to open by saying that having the opportunity to do this interview with you is a great pleasure; thank you for agreeing to do it. DAVID CHARIANDY: Thank you for agreeing to interview me, Kit. I'm very pleased to be able to discuss my work with one of Canada's most promis…
Neoliberalism and the limits of the human
What does it mean to be human in the context of the neoliberal political order? This article reads the contemporary terrain of theorization around embodiment and neoliberalism in order to argue that the deployment of the human has become evermore contingent in recent history. The article reads the ways in which the notion of the human comes into a state of crisis in Rawi Hage's novel Cockroach in order to understand the vulnerability of the human…
Spirits of Elsewhere Past
Spirits of Elsewhere Past:A Dialogue on Soucouyant Kit Dobson (bio) and David John Chariandy (bio) This dialogue was conducted via e-mail in September, 2007. KIT DOBSON: I'd like to open by saying that having the opportunity to do this interview with you is a great pleasure; thank you for agreeing to do it. DAVID CHARIANDY: Thank you for agreeing to interview me, Kit. I'm very pleased to be able to discuss my work with one of Canada's most promis…
Appropriation redux
This article considers ways in which solidarity across social locations might play a role in fostering resistance to vulnerability. My case study consists of the interplay between writer George Ryga’s 1967 play The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, and Okanagan Syilx writer and scholar Jeannette Armstrong’s 1985 novel Slash. While these important and compelling texts have received considerable critical attention, the relationship between them is less known. I…
Spirits of Elsewhere Past
Spirits of Elsewhere Past:A Dialogue on Soucouyant Kit Dobson (bio) and David John Chariandy (bio) This dialogue was conducted via e-mail in September, 2007. KIT DOBSON: I'd like to open by saying that having the opportunity to do this interview with you is a great pleasure; thank you for agreeing to do it. DAVID CHARIANDY: Thank you for agreeing to interview me, Kit. I'm very pleased to be able to discuss my work with one of Canada's most promis…
Transnational Canadas
Transnational Canadas marks the first sustained inquiry into the relationship between globalization and Canadian literature written in English. Tracking developments in the literature and its study from the centennial period to the present, it shows how current work in transnational studies can provide new insights for researchers and students. Arguing first that the dichotomy of Canadian nationalism and globalization is no longer valid in today’…
Derelicte and the Oppressed
This paper, reading from Gayatri Spivak's ongoing revisions of her critique of subalternity, examines how the rebel figure in the 2001 screwball comedy Zoolander is brought into being and draws out the represented power structures according to broader social patterns in Hollywood depictions of resistance. While Zoolander is caught up in a politics that might lead to displaced forms of representation, its visual spectacle, juxtaposing poverty and …
Producing Canadian Literature
Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace brings to light the relationship between writers in Canada and the marketplace within which their work circulates. Through a series of conversations with both established and younger writers from across the country, Kit Dobson and Smaro Kamboureli investigate how writers perceive their relationship to the cultural economy—and what that economy means for their creative proces…
Neoliberalism and the limits of the human
What does it mean to be human in the context of the neoliberal political order? This article reads the contemporary terrain of theorization around embodiment and neoliberalism in order to argue that the deployment of the human has become evermore contingent in recent history. The article reads the ways in which the notion of the human comes into a state of crisis in Rawi Hage's novel Cockroach in order to understand the vulnerability of the human…
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…
Appropriation redux
This article considers ways in which solidarity across social locations might play a role in fostering resistance to vulnerability. My case study consists of the interplay between writer George Ryga’s 1967 play The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, and Okanagan Syilx writer and scholar Jeannette Armstrong’s 1985 novel Slash. While these important and compelling texts have received considerable critical attention, the relationship between them is less known. I…
Introduction
What kinds of shared futures can you and I imagine and bring into the realm of the possible, despite a highly organized investment in business as usual?-Min Hyoung Song, Climate LyricismWe want to restore balance, right relations, ethical being.We cannot afford delusional hierarchies.We will not race each other to the bottom.We commit to live up to the future's call.We want our lives to not be wasted.-Rita Wong, "bisphenol ache" ... even the 'bad…
We Are Already Ghosts
we are already ghosts
Emergent Fiction 2023
History (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Canadian Identity and History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Short Stories in Global Literature (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works)