Whatever became of CanLit? New anthology addresses the question

Luminous Ink: Writers on Writing in Canada
Edited by Tessa McWatt, Rabindranath Maharaj and Dione Brand | Cormorant Books
$29.95, 233 pages
Some people say that the concept of Canadian Literature (caps intentional) was born in 1972, when the House of Anansi published Margaret Atwood’s Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature.
At once surveying what existed already and elaborating from that survey an aspirational notion of a national literature in Canada, a separate and important b