Cultural Nationalism 3.0
The head of The Writers’ Union of Canada continues the debate on CanLit in the schools (and in our lives) June 2013
Michael LaPointe’s essay on CanLit in the May issue of the Literary Review of Canada challenges Canadians to measure both our awareness of our national literature and our level of contentment with the very idea of a national literature. LaPointe continues an ongoing conversation that almost certainly does not happen in most of the rest of the English-speaking…