Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Québec /

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This collection explores strategies of reading space and conflict in Canadian and Québécois literary and cultural performances. How do literary texts and popular cultural performances produce and contest spatial practices? What is the role of the nation, the city, the community, and the individual s...

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Otros Autores: Beneventi, Domenic A. (Editor ), Beneventi, Domenico A. (Contribuidor), Bentley, D. M. R. (Contribuidor), Chanady, Amaryll (Contribuidor), Dagenais, Natasha (Contribuidor), Demers, Patricia (Contribuidor), Derksen, Jeff (Contribuidor), Filewod, Alan (Contribuidor), Green, Mary Jean (Contribuidor), Harel, Simon (Contribuidor), Rifkind, Candida (Contribuidor), Rimstead, Roxanne (Contribuidor, Editor ), Rymhs, Deena (Contribuidor), Sakr, Rita (Contribuidor), Simon, Sherry (Contribuidor), Smart, Patricia (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Temas:
Canadian literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Canadian literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
French-Canadian literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
French-Canadian literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Space in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
Canadian.
David Harvey.
Doreen Massey.
Henri Lefebvre.
Michel Foucaul.
Michel de Certeau.
Québécois.
cultural studies.
cultural.
geographies of exclusion.
lanalysis.
literary.
performances.
theorists of space.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Reading Space through Conflict
  • Part I: Contested Urban Spaces
  • 1. Culture and Critique during Mega-Events: The 2010 Olympics and the Right to the City
  • 2. The Ambivalence of Enclosed Spaces in Immigrant Fiction: Between Refuge and Prison
  • 3. Montréal Marginalities: Revisiting Boulevard Saint-Laurent
  • 4. Heterotopia and Its Discontents: Exploring Spatial, Social, and Textual Liminality in Rawi Hage's Cockroach
  • 5. "Laisser-aller": Homelessness and Contained Space in Kobo Abe's The Box Man and Robert Majzels's City of Forgetting
  • Part II: Counter-narratives and Spaces of the Nation/State
  • 6. Unruly and Unremarked: Theatrical Spectatorship from Below in Nineteenth-century Canada
  • 7. Women's Space in Postcolonial Perspective: France Théoret's Une belle éducation and Assia Djebar's Nulle part dans la maison de mon père
  • 8. For King and Country? War and Indigenous Masculinity
  • 9. Reclaiming Indigenous Space through Testimonial Life Writing: An Antane Kapesh's Je suis une maudite Sauvagesse as Territorial Imperative
  • 10. Norman Bethune and the Contested Spaces of Canadian Public Memory
  • Part III: Culture from Below
  • 11. Knowing the Urban Other: Notes on the Ethics and Epistemology of Slumming in Novels and Reportage
  • 12. "You Should Think about It, Think What It Means": Working Girls in Canadian Women's Writing
  • 13. Border-Crossings and Alternative Social Spaces in Gabrielle Roy's Bonheur d'occasion / The Tin Flute
  • 14. Growing Up Poor and Female in Montréal, 1930-1960: Women's Autobiographies as Counter-narratives
  • 15. Tramping across the Nation: Homeless Embodiment in Canadian Literature
  • Afterword
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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