Cultural Circulation : : Dialogues Between Canada and the American South / / Waldemar Zacharasiewicz and Christoph Irmscher.

• Superior document: Sitzungsberichte (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse)
• VerfasserIn: Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar,; Irmscher, Christoph,
• TeilnehmendeR: Irmscher, Christoph,
• Place / Publishing House: Wien, Austria : : Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Sitzungsberichte (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (398 pages) :; illustrations.
• Other title: Cultural Circulation
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Waldemar Zacharasiewicz and Christoph Irmscher.

The present volume is based on an international colloquium convened in 2010 to which scholars from North America and Europe contributed papers dealing with the historical, cultural, and literary connections between Canada and the American South. The essays on this broad but under-researched topic are arranged in four sections reflecting the multiple ties and the cultural circulation between the two large North American regions. They illuminate demographic facts and developments, and their literary representations, such as the enforced displacement of the 18th century Acadiens, who later reassembled in Louisiana (Cajun culture), and the flight of thousands of fugitive (African American) slaves to the safe haven of Canada. Special attention is focused on the intertextual links between Southern writers and their Canadian counterparts, with William Faulkner and Eudora Welty especially providing inspiration for Canadian authors such as Alice Munro, Jack Hodgins, and Margaret Atwood.