Considers how the terms of critical debate in literary and cultural studies in Canada have shifted with respect to matters of race, nation, and difference.
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-264) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C810.9/8
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9781554583362 9781554584178
- LCCN
- PR9188.2.M55
- LCCN Item number
- C84 2012eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (viii, 274 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00229741 (OCoLC)799729958 (CaOOCEL)438954
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgements 8
- Introduction 10
- I: PRESENT TENSE 28
- Diaspora and Nation in Métis Writing 30
- Canadian Indian Literary Nationalism? Critical Approaches in Canadian Indigenous Contexts—A Collaborative Interlogue 52
- Breaking the Framework of Representational Violence: Testimonial Publics, Memorial Arts, and a Critique of Postcolonial Violence (the Pickton Trial) 74
- “Grammars of Exchange”: The “Oriental Woman” in the Global Market 92
- II: PAST PARTICIPLES 106
- Unhomely Moves: A.M. Klein, Jewish Diasporic Difference, Racialization, and Coercive Whiteness 108
- Asian Canadian Critical Practice as Commemoration 128
- Diasporic Longings: (Re)Figurations of Home and Homelessness in Richard Wagamese’s Work 144
- Afro-Caribbean Writing in Canada and the Politics of Migrant Labour Mobility 162
- III: FUTURE IMPERFECT 178
- Racialized Diasporas, Entangled Postmemories, and Kyo Maclear’s The Letter Opener 180
- Underwater Signposts: Richard Fung’s Islands and Enabling Nostalgia 200
- “Phoenicia ≠ Lebanon”: Transsexual Poetics as Poetics of the Body within and across the Nation 216
- Word Warriors: Indigenous Political Consciousness in Prison 238
- Works Cited 254
- Contributors 274
- Index 278
- A 278
- B 278
- C 279
- D 279
- E 279
- F 279
- G 280
- H 280
- I 280
- J 280
- K 280
- L 280
- M 281
- N 281
- O 281
- P 281
- Q 282
- R 282
- S 282
- T 282
- U 283
- V 283
- W 283
- Z 283
