Land/relations : possibilities of justice in Canadian literatures

Book 2023

"Essential reading for those interested in questions of justice and cultural representation, Land/Relations speaks to and moves beyond the critical junctures in the study of Canadian literatures today. In the aftermath of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and following Canada's sesquicentennial, Land/Relations presents a collaborative effort at what Smaro Kamboureli and Larissa Lai call "counter-memory," a collective effort to recognise "re...

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Canadian literature History and criticism

Canadian literature Social aspects

Decolonization in literature

Land tenure in literature

Race relations in literature

Part of a Series:

TransCanada series

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ISBN:

9781771125109
1771125101

Description:

xv, 388 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Land relations

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Agency, Urgency, Insurgency / Lillian Allen
Introduction / Larissa Lai
The TransCanada Project and CanLit: a microhistory / Smaro Kamboureli and Larissa Lai
Literature, Language, Culture: At Mikinaakominis / TransCanadas 2017 / Eileen Antone
river sisters / Rita Wong
Positioning Intergenerational Trauma: Nisga'a Nationalism and the Materiality of Marius Barbeau's Totem Poles / Jordan Abel
Listening at Mikinaakominis / TransCanadas 2017 / Erín Moure
Back to the Future: Black Canada's Past and Present, or the Changing Same / Rinaldo Walcott
Neoliberal Gothic, Settler Social Imaginaries, and the Case for Decolonization on Two Fronts / Jennifer Henderson
Re-storying and Restoring the Buffalo to the Indigenous Plains / Tasha Hubbard
CLI / Sonnet L'Abbé
CLII / Sonnet L'Abbé
Federal State, Feral Culture: (Not)Withstanding Canada around its 150th Year / Len Findlay
Between Empire and Nation: Synchronicity and Revolution in Chinese Canadian Writing / Chris Lee
Diplomacy before Reconciliation / Margery Fee
From Islamophobia to Islamophilia: Dancing Orientalisms, Islamizing Muslims, and the Unspeakability of the Muslim Woman Subject / Sedef Arat-Koç
Deliberate Vulgarity: Performing the Demotic, Transforming Cultural Space? / Pamela Mordecai
"Making Things Right": Black Settlement and the Politics of Urban Territory / Karina Vernon
Listing Waters: The Poetics of Solidarity in Mahmoud Darwish and Rita Wong / Dina Al-Kassim
Living on Unceded Indigenous Territories: Vancouver as a Site of Conflict in Building Alliance and Autonomy in Decolonial Struggles / Sophie McCall
Landsensing: Body, Territory, Relation / Warren Cariou

Control Number:

3298195

Other Authors:

Kamboureli, Smaro, editor
Lai, Larissa, editor

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