Land/Relations

Possibilities of Justice in Canadian Literatures
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-77112-510-9
Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 231 mm x 150 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: TransCanada

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 'relationships that have always been' - between peoples, between humanity and other living forms, between us and the land - in an effort to avoid erasure, loss, and trauma. Twenty influential literary critics engage a variety of genres-essay, life writing, testament, polemic, poetry-to explore the ways Canadian cultural production has been shaped by social and historical relations and can be given new and various forms to decolonize the institutions associated with the creation of this country's vision of Canadian literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kamboureli, Smaro

Lai, Larissa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Smaro Kamboureli is a professor and the Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature in the English Department at the University of Toronto. She is the founder of the TransCanada series of books, published by WLU Press, originating from interdisciplinary conferences that initiated collaborative research on the methodologies and institutional structures and contexts that inform and shape the production, dissemination, teaching, and study of Canadian literature. Her most recent publications include Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies (WLU Press 2012), co-edited with Robert Zacharias and Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace (WLU Press, 2013), co-edited with Kit Dobson. Larissa Lai is the author of two novels, When Fox Is a Thousand and Salt Fish Girl. A recipient of the Astraea Foundation Emerging Writers' Award, she has been shortlisted for the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Tiptree Award, and the Dorothy Livesay Prize. She is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia.