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Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada /

The essays reference pivotal moments in Canadian literary and cultural history and speak to ongoing debates about Canadian nationalism, postcolonalism, migrancy, and transnationalism. Topics covered include the Asian race riots in Vancouver in 1907, the cultural memory of internment and dispersal of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Singer, Melina Baum, 1974-, Kim, Christine, 1973-, McCall, Sophie, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Christine Kim and Sophie McCall
  • Diaspora and nation in Metis writing / Sophie McCall
  • Canadian Indian literary nationalism? Critical approaches in Canadian indigenous contexts
  • A collaborative interlogue / Kristina Fagan [and others]
  • Breaking the framework of representational violence: Testimonial publics, memorial arts, and a critique of postcolonial violence (the Pickton Trial) / Julia Emberley
  • "Grammars of exchange": The "Oriental Woman" in the global market / Belen Martín-Lucas
  • Unhomely moves: A.M. Klein, Jewish diasporic difference, racialization, and coercive whiteness / Melina Baum Singer
  • Asian Canadian critical practice as commemoration / Christopher Lee
  • Diasporic longings: (Re)figurations of home and homelessness in Richard Wagamese's work / Renate Eigenbrod
  • Afro-Caribbean writing in Canada and the politics of migrant labour mobility / Jody Mason
  • Racialized diasporas, entangled postmemories, and Kyo Maclear's The letter opener / Christine Kim
  • Underwater signposts: Richard Fung's Islands and enabling nostalgia / Lily Cho
  • "Phoenicia [not equal to] Lebanon": Transsexual poetics as poetics of the body within and across the nation / Alessandra Capperdoni
  • Word warriors: Indigenous political consciousness in prison / Deena Rymhs.