/lit/ - Literature

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>we're saturated with it
I wouldn't go that far. It's still anemic compared to most other countries. But it's more than nothing.
>The project of defining a coherent literary narrative of what it "means" to be Canadian, beyond certain chain stores and long term goals of the Liberals
Could not possible disagree more. This is the trap so many people have fallen in; it's a complete waste of time not only because it's impossible, but because it's just an awful motivation for an artist to begin with. Defining what it means to be Canadian is an offensive topic not because it's a exercise in futility, but because it's boring.
If Canada existed as an entity, it does not anymore. Anything that exists is local and by definition cannot be "universalized" as Canadian. If you want a fruitless "political" or "identarian" Canadian literary scene, at least make it regionalist. Staking a claim to Canada is a ridiculous position.