CanLit

Definitions

Abbreviation of Canadian literature; the body of written work considered to represent Canadian culture.

abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable

Examples

“"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."”

“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.”

CEFR level