{"product_id":"contested-spaces-counternarratives-and-culture-from-below-in-canada-and-quebec-9781442629905","title":"Contested Spaces Counternarratives and Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContested 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 * \u003cem\u003eJournal of Contemporary Drama in English\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements    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","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408356843863,"sku":"9781442629905","price":60.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442629905.jpg?v=1730502573","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/contested-spaces-counternarratives-and-culture-from-below-in-canada-and-quebec-9781442629905","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}