Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada

Herausgeber: Kim, Christine; Singer, Melina Baum; McCall, Sophie

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Produktbeschreibung

"Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada" 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. In asking how Indigenous and diasporic interventions have remapped these debates, the contributors argue there is a new "cultural grammar" at work and attempt to sketch out some of the ways that it operates.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781554583362
• ISBN-10: 1554583365
• Artikelnr.: 32874410

Autorenporträt

Christine Kim is an assistant professor of English at Simon Fraser University. Her teaching and research focus on Asian North American literature and theory, contemporary Canadian literature, and diasporic writing. She has recently published articles in Open Letter, Studies in Canadian Literature, and Asian Canadian Writing beyond Autoethnography (WLU Press, 2008). She is currently working on a book-length project titled From Multiculturalism to Globalization: The Cultural Politics of Asian Canadian Writing. Sophie McCall is an associate professor in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University, where she teaches Indigenous literatures and contemporary Canadian literature. Her most recent publication, with co-editor, Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill, is The Land We Are: Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation (2015). Melina Baum Singer is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario. Her research explores transnational and diasporic literatures in English Canada. She has co-edited, with Lily Cho, two special issues of Open Letter, "Poetics and Public Culture" and "Dialogues on Poetics and Public Culture".

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Table of Contents for Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and
Indigeneity in Canada, edited by Christine Kim, Sophie McCall, and Melina
Baum Singer
Introduction Christine Kim and Sophie McCall
I: PRESENT TENSE
Diaspora and Nation in Métis Writing Sophie McCall
Canadian Indian Literary Nationalism? Critical Approaches in Canadian
Indigenous Contexts-A Collaborative Interlogue Kristina Fagan, Daniel
Heath Justice, Keavy Martin, Sam McKegney, Deanna Reder, and Niigaanwewidam
James Sinclair
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
II: PAST PARTICIPLES
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
III: FUTURE IMPERFECT
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 ¿ Lebanon": Transsexual Poetics as Poetics of the Body within
and across the Nation Alessandra Capperdoni
Word Warriors: Indigenous Political Consciousness in Prison Deena Rymhs
Works Cited
Contributors
Index
Contributors' Bios
Melina Baum Singer is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at
the University of Western Ontario. Her research explores the transnational
and diasporic literatures in English Canada. She has co-edited, with Lily
Cho, two special issues of Open Letter, "Poetics and Public Culture" and
"Dialogues on Poetics and Public Culture," and has a recent article, "Is
Richler Canadian Content?: Jewishness, Race, and Diaspora," in Canadian
Literature 27 (2010).
Alessandra Capperdoni teaches modern and contemporary literature in the
Department of English at Simon Fraser University. She specializes in
Canadian and anglophone literatures, feminist poetics, critical theory, and
postcolonial and European studies. Her articles have appeared in
Translating from the Margins / Traduire des marges, Translation Effects:
The Making of Modern Canadian Culture, Inspiring Collaborations: Canadian
Literature, Culture, and Theory, and the journals TTR: Traduction,
traductologie, rédaction, Open Letter, and West Coast Line. She is
currently working on a book manuscript titled Shifting Geographies: Poetics
of Citizenship in the Age of Global Modernity.
Lily Cho is associate professor of English at York University in Toronto.
Her recent publications include "Future Perfect Loss: Richard Fung's Sea in
the Blood," Screen 49.4 (2008); "Asian Canadian Futures: Indenture Routes
and Diasporic Passages," Canadian Literature 199 (2009); and Eating
Chinese: Culture on the Menu in Small Town Canada (University of Toronto
Press, 2010).
Renate Eigenbrod is associate professor and head of the Department of
Native Studies at the University of Manitoba, specializing in Aboriginal
literatures. Besides the publication of her monograph, entitled Travelling
Knowledge: Positioning the Im/Migrant Reader of Aboriginal Literatures in
Canada, she has co-edited several volumes of scholarly articles, most
recently a special literature issue of The Canadian Journal of Native
Studies and the volume Across Cultures/Across Borders, published by
Broadview Press.
Julia Emberley is professor of English at the University of Western
Ontario. Her recent book is Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal: Cultural
Practices and Decolonization in Canada. Recently, she has published
articles in English Studies in Canada, Topia, The Journal of Visual
Culture, Humanities Research, and Fashion Theory. kristina fagan teaches
Aboriginal literature and storytelling in the Department of English at the
University of Saskatchewan. She co-edited Henry Pennier's autobiography,
Call Me Hank: A Sto:lo Man's Reflections on Living, Logging, and Growing
Old, which was launched with a traditional Sto:lo feast and book-burning
(so that the dead can read the book). She is a member of the Labrador Métis
Nation, and her current project is a study of Labrador Métis narrative and
identity.
Daniel Heath Justice is an enrolled Canadian citizen of the Cherokee Nation
and the author of Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History
(University of Minnesota Press), The Way of Thorn and Thunder (published as
a trilogy by Kegedonce, and a single-volume omnibus edition by the
University of New Mexico Press), and numerous articles on Indigenous
literary criticism, history, and cultural studies. He is the co-editor of
the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Indigenous North American Literatures
and associate professor of Aboriginal literatures and Aboriginal studies at
the University of Toronto.
Christine Kim is assistant professor of English at Simon Fraser University.
Her teaching and research focus on Asian North American literature and
theory, contemporary Canadian literature, and diasporic writing. Her
journal publications include Open Letter, Studies in Canadian Literature,
Mosaic, and Interventions (forthcoming). She is currently working on a
book-length project titled Racialized Publics.
Christopher Lee is assistant professor of English at the University of
British Columbia. His articles have appeared in Amerasia Journal, Canadian
Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Journal of Asian American Studies,
Router, and differences. His book The Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic
Mediation in Asian American Literature will be published by Stanford
University Press in 2012. His current research focuses on trans-Pacific
literary formalism during the Cold War and formations of "Asia" across
settler colonial societies.
Keavy Martin lives in Treaty 6 territory, where she is assistant professor
of Indigenous literatures at the University of Alberta. Her articles have
appeared in journals such as the American Indian Culture and Research
Journal, English Studies in Canada, and Canadian Literature, and she is
currently completing a book-length project on Inuit literature in Canada.
In the summer, she teaches with the University of Manitoba's annual program
in Pangnirtung, Nunavut.
Belén Martín-Lucas teaches postcolonial literatures in English and
diasporic film and literatures at the University of Vigo, Spain. Her
research focuses on the politics of resistance in contemporary postcolonial
feminist fiction, looking at the diverse strategies employed in literary
works, such as tropes and genres.
Jody Mason is assistant professor in the Department of English at Carleton
University in Ottawa. Her book, which analyzes discourses of unemployment
in twentieth-century Canadian literatures, is forthcoming in 2012 with the
University of Toronto Press. Mason has published work on the relations
among class, diasporic formations, and the politics of mobility in Canadian
Literature, Studies in Canadian Literature, Papers of the Bibliographical
Society of Canada, and University of Toronto Quarterly.
Sophie McCall teaches contemporary Canadian and Indigenous literatures in
the English department at Simon Fraser University. Her book, First Person
Plural: Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship
(2011), explores the complexity of the issue of "voice" by examining
double-voiced, cross-cultural, composite productions among Aboriginal and
non-Aboriginal collaborators. She has published articles in Essays on
Canadian Writing, Canadian Review of American Studies, Resources for
Feminist Research, Canadian Literature, and C.L.R. James Journal.
Sam McKegney is a settler scholar of Indigenous literatures. He grew up in
Anishinaabe territory on the Saugeen Peninsula along the shores of Lake
Huron, and currently resides with his partner and their two daughters in
lands of shared stewardship between the Haudenosaunee and Algonquin
nations, where he is an associate professor of Indigenous and Canadian
literatures at Queen's University. He has written a book entitled Magic
Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community after Residential School and
articles on such topics as environmental kinship, masculinity theory,
prison writing, Indigenous governance, and Canadian hockey mythologies.
Deanna Reder (Cree/Métis) received her PhD from the Department of English
at the University of British Columbia in 2007 and is currently assistant
professor in English and First Nations studies at Simon Fraser University.
She co-edited an anthology with Linda Morra (Bishops University) titled
Troubling Tricksters: Revisiting Critical Conversations (2010) and is
currently working on a monograph on Cree and Métis autobiography in Canada.
Her article, "Writing Autobiographically: A Neglected Indigenous
Intellectual Tradition," is included in Across Cultures/Across Borders:
Canadian Aboriginal and Native American Literatures (2009).
Deena Rymhs is associate professor of English and women's and gender
studies at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of From
the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing (Wilfrid Laurier
University Press, 2008), and her work on imprisoned authors has appeared in
Life Writing, Biography, and the Journal of Gender Studies. She is
currently writing another book on spaces of violence in Indigenous
literature.
Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair (Anishinaabe) is originally from St. Peter's
(Little Peguis) Indian Settlement and is an assistant professor in the
departments of English and Native Studies at the University of Manitoba. In
2009, he co-edited (with Renate Eigenbrod) a double issue of The Canadian
Journal of Native Studies (29.1 and 2), focusing on "Responsible, Ethical,
and Indigenous-Centred Literary Criticisms of Indigenous Literatures" and
was a featured author in The Exile Book of Native Canadian Fiction and
Drama, edited by Daniel David Moses (2011). He currently has two books
under contract, the first (co-edited with Warren Cariou) is an anthology of
Manitoba Aboriginal writing over the past three centuries titled
Manitowapow (Portage & Main Press) and the second (co-edited with Jill
Doerfler and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark) is a collection of critical and
creative works on Anishinaabe story titled Centering Anishinaabeg Studies
(Michigan State University Press).