Title Cultural grammars of nation, diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada / Christine Kim, Sophie McCall, and Melina Baum Singer, editors

Published Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2012 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2012)

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 274 pages) : illustrations, digital file Series TransCanada series TransCanada series. Contents Introduction / Christine Kim and Sophie McCall -- Diaspora and nation in Métis 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 / Belén 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 Summary Considers how the terms of critical debate in literary and cultural studies in Canada have shifted with respect to matters of race, nation, and difference Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-264) and index Notes English Subject Canadian literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism Canadian literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism Minorities -- Canada -- Social conditions Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Social conditions LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Canadian literature -- Indian authors Canadian literature -- Minority authors Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions Minorities -- Social conditions Social conditions SUBJECT Canada -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019352 Subject Canada Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author McCall, Sophie, 1969- Kim, Christine, 1973- Singer, Melina Baum, 1974- LC no. 2016417490 ISBN 9781554584178 1554584175 9781554583362 1554583365 129931323X 9781299313231

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