Unsettled Remains

Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic
Herausgeber: Sugars, Cynthia; Turcotte

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines how Canadian writers have combined a postcolonial awareness with gothic metaphors of monstrosity and haunting in their response to Canadian history. This book gathers the essays that range from treatments of early postcolonial gothic expression in Canadian literature to attempts to define a Canadian postcolonial gothic mode.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781554580545
• ISBN-10: 1554580544
• Artikelnr.: 26158085

Autorenporträt

Cynthia Sugars is a professor of English at the University of Ottawa, where she teaches Canadian literature. She is the author of Canadian Gothic: Literature, History, and the Spectre of Self-Invention(2014) and is the editor of numerous essay collections, including The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature (forthcoming 2015); Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory (with Eleanor Ty, 2014); Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the postcolonial Gothic (with Gerry Turcotte; WLU Press, 2009); and the historical anthology Canadian Literature in English: Texts and Contexts (with Laura Moss, 2009). With Herb Wyile, she is currently the co-editor of Studies in Canadian Literature. Gerry Turcotte is the executive dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Sydney. He is the past president of the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ACSANZ), past secretary of the International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS), and founding director of the Centre for Canadian-Australian Studies (CCAS). He is the author of numerous books.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for
Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic, edited
by Cynthia Sugars and Gerry Turcotte
Introduction: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic Cynthia
Sugars and Gerry Turcotte
Chapter One: Catholic Gothic: Atavism, Orientalism, and Generic Change in
Charles De Guise's Le Cap au diable (1863) Andrea Cabajsky
Chapter Two: Viking Graves Revisited: Pre-Colonial Primitivism in Farley
Mowat's Northern Gothic Brian Johnson
Chapter Three: Coyote's Children and the Canadian Gothic: Sheila Watson's
The Double Hook and Gail Anderson-Dargatz's The Cure for Death by Lightning
Marlene Goldman
Chapter Four: "Horror Written on Their Skin": Joy Kagawa's Gothic Uncanny
Gerry Turcotte
Chapter Five: Familiar Ghosts: Feminist Postcolonial Gothic in Canada
Shelley Kulperger
Chapter Six: Canadian Gothic and the Work of Ghosting: Ann-Marie
MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees Atef Laouyene
Chapter Seven: A Ukranian-Canadian Gothic?: Ethnic Angst in Janice Kulyk
Keefer's The Green Library Lindy Ledohowski
Chapter Eight: "Something not unlike enjoyment": Gothicism, Catholicism,
and Sexuality in Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen Jennifer
Henderson
Chapter Nine: Rethinking the Canadian Gothic: Reading Eden Robinson's
Monkey Beach Jennifer Andrews
Chapter Ten: Beothuk Gothic: Michael Crummey's River Thieves Herb Wyile
Chapter Eleven: Keeping the Gothic at (Sick) Bay: Reading the Transferences
in Vincent Lam's Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures Cynthia Sugars
Contributors
Index
Contributors
Jennifer Andrews is a full professor in the Department of English at the
University of New Brunswick and co-editor of Studies in Canadian Literature
. She has co-authored a book on Thomas King entitled Border Crossings
(University of Toronto Press, 2003). She is currently writing a manuscript
on Native North American women's poetry funded by the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council.
Andrea Cabajsky is an assistant professor of Comparative Canadian
literature at the Université de Moncton. She is co-editor of National
Plots: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada (WLUP, forthcoming
2009) and is a founding member of the Early Canadian Literature Society.
She holds an FESR/Heritage Canada Standard Research Grant for 2007-09.
Marlene Goldman teaches Canadian literature at the University of Toronto.
She is the author of Paths of Desire (University of Toronto Press, 1977)
and recently completed a book on apocalyptic discourse in Canadian fiction,
Rewriting Apocalypse (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005). She is
currently researching Canadian fiction that invokes the motif of haunting.
Jennifer Henderson is an associate professor in the Department of English
Language and Literature at Carleton University. She has published articles
on Canadian fiction and criticism, feminist culture, and discourses of the
liberal self and is the author of Settler Feminism and Race Making in
Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2003). Her two current projects study
the government of childhood and the trope of national reconciliation.
Brian Johnson is an assistant professor in the Department of English at
Carleton University in Ottawa, where he specializes in Canadian literature
and literary theory. Among his recent publications are essays on
indigeneity and ecology in the Canadian animal story, northern nationalism
in Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese, and Jewish masculinities in the novels of
Mordecai Richler. He is currently working on a study of race and horror in
Canadian representations of the North.
Shelley Kulperger completed a Ph.D. on feminist and postcolonial gothic in
Canada in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the
University of Queensland, Australia. Her research interests include
Australian and Canadian gothic, motherhood, and feminist and postcolonial
cultural memory. She currently works in multicultural health policy and has
published articles on transculturation, urban space, multiculturalism, and
feminist cultural memory.
Atef Laouyene completed his Ph.D. in the Department of English at the
University of Ottawa in 2008. His dissertation, "The Post-Exotic Arab:
Orientalist Dystopias in Contemporary Postcolonial Fiction," draws on
modern theories of the exotic in order to investigate representations of
the Arab figure in the contemporary postcolonial novel. His research
interests include postcolonial literary studies, critical theory, Arabic
cultures and literatures, francophone literatures of the Maghreb, and Arab
diasporas studies. His current project focuses on narratives of violence in
Anglo-Arab writing.
Lindy Ledohowski completed her Ph.D. in the Department of English at the
University of Toronto in 2008. Her doctoral research looked at the
constructions of home and ethnicity in English-language Ukrainian-Canadian
literature. At present, she is a postdoctoral fellow funded by the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council in the Department of English at
the University of Ottawa. Her current research looks at how fictional
incest narratives in contemporary Canadian literature challenge ideas of a
national home.
Cynthia Sugars is an associate professor in the Department of English at
the University of Ottawa where she teaches Canadian literature and
postcolonial theory. She is the author of numerous essays on Canadian
literature and has edited two collections of essays on Canadian
postcolonial theory: Unhomely States: Theorizing English-Canadian
Postcolonialism (Broadview, 2004) and Home-Work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy,
and Canadian Literature (University of Ottawa Press, 2004). She has
recently co-edited (with Laura Moss) a new two-volume historical anthology
of Canadian literature, entitled Canadian Literature in English: Texts and
Contexts (Pearson, 2009) and is working on a study of Canadian ghosts.
Gerry Turcotte is the dean of arts and sciences at the University of Notre
Dame in Sydney, Australia. He is past president of the Association for
Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand, former secretary of the
International Council for Canadian Studies, founding director of the Centre
for Canadian-Australian Studies, and was the editor of Australian-Canadian
Studies for four years. He is the author and editor of fourteen books
including the novel Flying in Silence (published in Canada by Cormorant
Books and in Australia by Brandl and Schlesinger, 2001), which was
shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year in 2001 and Border Crossings:
Words and Images (Brandl and Schlesinger, 2004). His new book, Peripheral
Fear: Transformations of the Gothic in Canada and Australia, will be
published by Peter Lang in 2009.
Herb Wyile is a full professor in the Department of English at Acadia
University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. He has published numerous articles on
contemporary Canadian literature, co-edited special issues of Textual
Studies in Canada and Studies in Canadian Literature, and is the author of
Speculative Fictions: Contemporary Canadian Novelists and the Writing of
History (McGill-Queens UP, 2002) and Speaking in the Past Tense: Canadian
Novelists on Writing Historical Fiction (WLUP, 2007). He has recently
co-edited with Jeanette Lyne's Surf's Up! The Rising Tide of
Atlantic-Canadian Literature, a special issue of Studies in Canadian
Literature.