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Book SynopsisDowntown Canada is a collection of essays that addresses Canada as an urban place. The contributors focus their attention on the writing of Canada's cities and call attention to the centrality of the city in Canadian literature.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Douglas Ivison and Justin D. Edwards 'An Ordered Absence: Defeated Topologies in Canadian Literature' Richard Cavell Orient Dreams: Urbanity and the Post-Confederation Literacy Culture of Ottawa Steven Artelle Postcolonial Historicity: Halifax, Region and Empire in Barometer rising and the Nymph and the Lamp Christopher J. Armstrong La ville en vol / City in Flight: Tracing Lesbian E-Motion through Jovette Marchessault's Comme un enfant de la terre Barbara Godard Cities and Classrooms, Bodies and Texts: Notes Towards a Resident Reading (and teaching) of Vancouver Writing Peter Dickinson Lost in the City: The Montreal Novels of Regine Robin and Robert Majzels Dominic Beneventi Inside-Outside the Glass City: Toronto, the Canadian Immigrant City Batia Boe Stolar Divided Cities, Divided Selves: Portraits of the artist as Ambivalent Urban Hipster Lisa Salem-Wiseman Rewriting White Flight: Suburbia in Gerald Lynch's Troutstream and Joan Barfoot's Dancing in the Dark Paul Milton Dueling and Dwelling in Toronto and London: Transnational Urbanism in Catherine Bush's The Rules of Engagement John Clement Ball Epilogue Justin D. Edwards and Douglas Ivison
