ReVisions examines speculative fiction, film, and television created by artists in Canada and reflecting their distinct experiences. Bringing together critical and creative works by eighteen different authors, the book re-envisions Canadian politics, cultures, and societies and asks important questions about representations of our world. The collection examines the realm of the past through a futuristic, speculative lens, asking readers to revise their understandings of past events and current relationships. Editor Wendy Roy assembles a variety of investigations of Canada and the larger world,…mehr
ReVisions examines speculative fiction, film, and television created by artists in Canada and reflecting their distinct experiences. Bringing together critical and creative works by eighteen different authors, the book re-envisions Canadian politics, cultures, and societies and asks important questions about representations of our world. The collection examines the realm of the past through a futuristic, speculative lens, asking readers to revise their understandings of past events and current relationships. Editor Wendy Roy assembles a variety of investigations of Canada and the larger world, including studies of the use of apocalyptic and dystopian scenarios by Indigenous writers to revisit Canada's history of colonization. The varied contributions demonstrate that speculative writing can help us to see what is happening in the world around us and at the same time to re-envision it, to reconsider the consequences of our actions, and to imagine revised and perhaps better futures.
Wendy Roy is Bateman professor in the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan.
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Acknowledgments Introduction ReVisions: Speculating in Literature and Film in Canada Wendy Roy Part 1: Connecting Past to Future: Anishinaabe Knowledge, Archives, and the Cold War 1. Horrors of Northern Development: (Anti-)Capitalist Infrastructure and Anishinaabe Knowledge in Moon of the Crusted Snow Gage Karahkwí:io Diabo 2. Speculative Archives in Novels by Thomas King and Larissa Lai: Hope in the Midst of Crisis Alicia Fahey 3. Speculative Fiction and Historiographic Metafiction: The Cold War in Contemporary Apocalyptic Literary Canada, Coast to Coast Matthew Cormier Interlude Interrupting the Fire with Story: An Interview with Cherie Dimaline Mabiana Camargo Part 2: Crossing Over: Dystopian and Posthuman Futures for Young People 4. Indigenous Resurgence and Resistance in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves and Hunting by Stars Gwen Rose 5. Posthuman Girlhoods in Canadian Young Adult Science Fiction Alena Cicholewski 6. Climate Change and the Girl Body: Hope and the Dystopian Future in Three Novels by Monica Hughes William Thompson Interlude Othering ad Infinitum: A Critical-Creative Examination of the Secular and Spiritual in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring (Brown Boy Under the Cape) Sheheryar B. Sheikh Part 3: Creating Communities: Consumption and Hunger in Dystopian Cities and Prisons 7. Small Acts of Urban Place-Making in Nalo Hopkinson’s Skin Folk Jessica McDonald 8. The Possibilities of Prison Food in Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last Shelley Boyd 9. “Like the Voice of a Mad Angel”: Hungry Ghosts in Kai Cheng Thom’s Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir Kai McKenzie Interlude Someone Is Dead Amy LeBlanc Part 4: Apocalyptic World-Making: Comic Books, Enclosed Spaces, and Short Stories 10. Other Worlds within Other Worlds: Comics World-Building and Identity Formation in Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven Jasmine Redford 11. Gender Oppression through Enclosed Spaces in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy Mabiana Camargo 12. “Show Me You’re Still Human”: Uncertainty and Humanity in Apocalyptic Short Stories by Canadian Women Writers Wendy Roy Interlude Children of the Affect, Cynthea Masson Part 5: Gender and Indigeneity: Apocalyptic and Dystopian Film and Television 13. What If the Natives Were Immune? Dismembering Colonial Masculinity in Jeff Barnaby’s Blood Quantum June Scudeler 14. Vision and Re-Visioning in The Handmaid’s Tale and Two Adaptations MacKenzie Read 15. “I’m Not Your Personal Manic Pixie Assassin”: Reading Killjoys’ Tough Woman through an Alien Lens Heather Snell Contributors Index
Acknowledgments Introduction ReVisions: Speculating in Literature and Film in Canada Wendy Roy Part 1: Connecting Past to Future: Anishinaabe Knowledge, Archives, and the Cold War 1. Horrors of Northern Development: (Anti-)Capitalist Infrastructure and Anishinaabe Knowledge in Moon of the Crusted Snow Gage Karahkwí:io Diabo 2. Speculative Archives in Novels by Thomas King and Larissa Lai: Hope in the Midst of Crisis Alicia Fahey 3. Speculative Fiction and Historiographic Metafiction: The Cold War in Contemporary Apocalyptic Literary Canada, Coast to Coast Matthew Cormier Interlude Interrupting the Fire with Story: An Interview with Cherie Dimaline Mabiana Camargo Part 2: Crossing Over: Dystopian and Posthuman Futures for Young People 4. Indigenous Resurgence and Resistance in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves and Hunting by Stars Gwen Rose 5. Posthuman Girlhoods in Canadian Young Adult Science Fiction Alena Cicholewski 6. Climate Change and the Girl Body: Hope and the Dystopian Future in Three Novels by Monica Hughes William Thompson Interlude Othering ad Infinitum: A Critical-Creative Examination of the Secular and Spiritual in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring (Brown Boy Under the Cape) Sheheryar B. Sheikh Part 3: Creating Communities: Consumption and Hunger in Dystopian Cities and Prisons 7. Small Acts of Urban Place-Making in Nalo Hopkinson’s Skin Folk Jessica McDonald 8. The Possibilities of Prison Food in Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last Shelley Boyd 9. “Like the Voice of a Mad Angel”: Hungry Ghosts in Kai Cheng Thom’s Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir Kai McKenzie Interlude Someone Is Dead Amy LeBlanc Part 4: Apocalyptic World-Making: Comic Books, Enclosed Spaces, and Short Stories 10. Other Worlds within Other Worlds: Comics World-Building and Identity Formation in Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven Jasmine Redford 11. Gender Oppression through Enclosed Spaces in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy Mabiana Camargo 12. “Show Me You’re Still Human”: Uncertainty and Humanity in Apocalyptic Short Stories by Canadian Women Writers Wendy Roy Interlude Children of the Affect, Cynthea Masson Part 5: Gender and Indigeneity: Apocalyptic and Dystopian Film and Television 13. What If the Natives Were Immune? Dismembering Colonial Masculinity in Jeff Barnaby’s Blood Quantum June Scudeler 14. Vision and Re-Visioning in The Handmaid’s Tale and Two Adaptations MacKenzie Read 15. “I’m Not Your Personal Manic Pixie Assassin”: Reading Killjoys’ Tough Woman through an Alien Lens Heather Snell Contributors Index
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