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CanLit
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en Canadian literature; the body of written work considered to represent Canadian culture.
en Michael Hingston The Dilettantes Calgary, Alb. w:Freehand Books 2013 158 https://archive.org/details/dilettantesnovel0000hing/page/158/mode/1up 9781554811823 "Next semester is my CanLit pre-req. I put up a good fight, too, but I couldn't escape it—or him. So I'm just going to buy up his whole damn catalogue and call it a day."
Russell Smith CanLit isn't what it used to be https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-canlit-isnt-what-it-used-to-be/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240511203816/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-canlit-isnt-what-it-used-to-be/ 11 May 2024 24 July 2018 Even though we were writing our own stories, and many of us went on to be published, we did not feel that we were part of CanLit. We were Canadian, sure, but we wanted to write about the contemporary, wired world and we were just as interested in Berlin and New York as we were in the Riel Rebellion, and that made us anti-CanLit.
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