This is going to be a post about Canadian literature, because I just did a whole PhD on Canadian science fiction, and studying The Discourse ™ of CanLit during the 20th century was a whole part of it. So this lives in my brain now, rent-free, and I have opinions on it to share with folks.
Tag: science fiction
Surviving the Wilds of the Panhandle: an expression of queer futurity in (spite of) the present world
Earlier this summer, the curator of The Art Gallery at University of West Florida commissioned a text from me to accompany the ceramic art exhibit of Justin Quaid Grubb. Here’s the catalogue with my essay, in all its glory.
Love, literary canons, and gatekeeping behaviour
Canonical texts are beloved. Assembling the literary output of (what amounted to mostly dead, mostly white, mostly male) authors and examining their themes, their tropes, their references to politics and art history and so on, is what made English departments in the Western world historically great – their ability to take texts and relate their…