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Book SynopsisContested Spaces investigates space and conflict in novels, short stories, life writing, and journalism from Canada and Québec by asking how counter-narratives challenge geographies of exclusion from below.
Trade Review"This excellent collection of fifteen essays by renowned scholars focuses on contested spaces and alternative or counternarratives. It invites rereading or reinterpreting of well-trodden ground and explores different voices and spaces in the discussion of the social meaning around space." -- Jane Koustas, Brock University *
Journal of Contemporary Drama in English *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Reading Space Through Conflict ROXANNE RIMSTEAD and DOMENICO A. BENEVENTI (Université de Sherbrooke) Part I: Contested Urban Spaces Chapter 1 : Culture and Critique During Mega-Events: The 2010 Olympics and the Right to the City JEFF DERKSEN (Simon Fraser University) Chapter 2: The Ambivalence of Enclosed Spaces in Immigrant Fiction: Between Refuge and Prison AMARYLL CHANADY (Université de Montréal) Chapter 3: Montreal Marginalities: Revisiting Boulevard Saint-Laurent SHERRY SIMON (Concordia University) Chapter 4: Heterotopia and Its Discontents: Exploring Spatial, Social, and Textual Liminality in Rawi Hage’s Cockroach RITA SAKR (University of London) Chapter 5: "Laisser-aller": Homelessness and Contained Space in Kobo Abe’s The Box Man and Robert Majzels’s City of Forgetting SIMON HAREL (Université de Montréal) Part II : Counter-Narratives and Spaces of the Nation/State Chapter 6: Unruly and Unremarked: Theatrical Spectatorship from Below in Nineteenth-Century Canada ALAN FILEWOD (University of Guelph) Chapter 7: Women’s Space in Postcolonial Perspective: France Théoret’s Une belle éducation and Assia Djebar’s Nulle part dans la maison de mon père MARY JEAN GREEN (Dartmouth College) Chapter 8: For King and Country? : War and Indigenous Masculinity DEENA RYMHS (University of British Columbia) Chapter 9: Reclaiming Indigenous Space through Testimonial Life Writing: An Antane Kapesh’s Je suis une maudite Sauvagesse as Territorial Imperative NATASHA DAGENAIS (Université de Sherbrooke) Chapter 10: Norman Bethune and the Contested Spaces of Canadian Public Memory CANDIDA RIFKIND (University of Winnipeg) Part III: Culture from Below Chapter 11 : Knowing the Urban Other: Notes on the Ethics and Epistemology of Slumming in Novels and Reportage ROXANNE RIMSTEAD (Université de Sherbrooke) Chapter 12: "You Should Think about It, Think What It Means": Working Girls in Canadian Women’s Writing PATRICIA DEMERS (University of Alberta) Chapter 13: Border-Crossings and Alternative Social Spaces in Gabrielle Roy’s Bonheur d’occasion / The Tin Flute D. M. R. BENTLEY (Western University) Chapter 14: Growing Up Poor and Female in Montreal, 1930-1960: Women’s Autobiographies as Counter-Narratives PATRICIA SMART (Carleton University) Chapter 15: Tramping Across the Nation: Homeless Embodiment in Canadian Literature DOMENICO A. BENEVENTI (Université de Sherbrooke) Afterword
