CanLit

English

CanLit (uncountable)

Abbreviation of Canadian literature; the body of written work considered to represent Canadian culture.
- 2013, Michael Hingston, The Dilettantes, Calgary, Alb.: Freehand Books, →ISBN, page 158:
  "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."
- 2018 July 24, Russell Smith, “CanLit isn’t what it used to be”, in The Globe and Mail‎^[1], Toronto, ON: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 March 2023:
  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.