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

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"Focusing on contestation instead of harmony and consensus, Contested Spaces disturbs the idealized space of Canadian multicultural pluralism to carry literary analysis and cultural studies into spaces often undetected and unforeseen; Contested Spaces exposes geographies of exclusion and differ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Beneventi, Domenic, 1970- (Editor ), Rimstead, Roxanne, 1953- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Toronto Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Space in literature.
Canadian literature.
French-Canadian literature.
ART > Canadian.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Espace dans la litterature.
Litterature canadienne-française > 21e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Canadian literature (French) > 21st century > History and criticism.
Canadian literature (French) > 20th century > History and criticism.
Canadian literature (English) > 21st century > History and criticism.
Canadian literature (English) > 20th century > History and criticism.
French-Canadian literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
French-Canadian literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Canadian literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Canadian literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Copyright; Dedication; 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 Montreal 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 ForgettingPART 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 Theoret's Une belle education and Assia Djebar's Nulle part dans la maison de mon pere; 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 Imperative10 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 Montreal, 1930-1960: Women's Autobiographies as Counter-narratives15 Tramping across the Nation: Homeless Embodiment in Canadian Literature; Afterword; Contributors; Index

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