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Book Synopsis
  • Primary audience is Canadian literature scholars
  • Contributes directly to current conversations in both contemporary Canadian media and academic circles around the relationship between bodies and land. For instance, Jordan Abel's piece addresses the possibilities and difficulties of reclaiming Nishga/Nisga'a identity in the aftermath of the residential school experience. Karina Vernon's essay addresses how Black subjects might respond in a moment when they learn that the home they've been longing for is already inhabited. Dina Al-Kassim's essay addresses kinships of dispossession.
  • This book is an effort to steer Canadian literatures out of controversy for controversy's sake, and into a flow of productive, relation-building discussion. It does this by addressing the substance of Canadian and Turtle Island writing, particularly writing by Indigenous, Black and Asian writers. While it avoids empty controversy, it embraces rigorous argument.
  • Addresses issues related to Indigenous and diaspora literatures, settler culture, Black studies, Asian Canadian studies, decolonization, critical race studies, multiculturalism, land issues
  • Particularly for those interested in the concepts of intersectionality, solidarity, and relationality


    • Table of Contents
    • Storying Land / Relations: An Introduction in Two Voices - Smaro Kamboureli and Larissa Lai
    • Agency, Urgency, Insurgency [poem] - Lillian Allen
    • Positioning Intergenerational Trauma: Nisga'a Nationalism and the Materiality of Marius Barbeau's Totem Poles - Jordan Abel
    • Neoliberal Gothic, Settler Social Imaginaries, and the Case for Decolonization on Two Fronts - Jennifer Henderson
    • Listing Waters: The Poetics of Solidarity in Darwish and Wong - Dina Al-Kassim
    • CLI and CLII [prose poems] - Sonnet L'Abbé
    • Back to the Future: Black Canada's Past and Present; or the Changing Same - Rinaldo Walcott
    • Deliberate Vulgarity: Performing the Demotic, Transforming Cultural Space? The Six Books [poems] - Pamela Mordecai
    • 'Making Things Right': Black Settlement and the Politics of Territory - Karina Vernon
    • From Islamophobia to Islamophilia: Dancing Orientalisms, Islamizing Muslims, and the Unspeakability of the Muslim Woman Subject - Sedef Arat-Koç
    • Literature, Language, Culture: At Mikinaakominis / TransCanadas 2017 - Eileen Antone
    • Listening at Mikinaakominis / TransCanadas 2017 - Erín Moure
    • Between Empire and Nation: Synchronicity and Revolution in Chinese Canadian Writing - Chris Lee
    • Diplomacy before Reconciliation - Margery Fee
    • Federal State, Feral Culture: (Not)Withstanding Canada around its 150th Year - Len Findlay
    • What Next? Asserting Peace Against the Odds - Rita Wong
    • Living on Unceded Indigenous Territories: Vancouver as a Site of Conflict in Building Alliance and Autonomy in Decolonial Struggles - Sophie McCall
    • Re-storying and Restoring the Buffalo to the Indigenous Plains - Tasha Hubbard
    • Landsensing: Body, Territory, Relation - Warren Cariou

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          Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
          Publication Date: 18/04/2023
          ISBN13: 9781771125109, 978-1771125109
          ISBN10: 1771125101
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          Description

          Book Synopsis
        • Primary audience is Canadian literature scholars
        • Contributes directly to current conversations in both contemporary Canadian media and academic circles around the relationship between bodies and land. For instance, Jordan Abel's piece addresses the possibilities and difficulties of reclaiming Nishga/Nisga'a identity in the aftermath of the residential school experience. Karina Vernon's essay addresses how Black subjects might respond in a moment when they learn that the home they've been longing for is already inhabited. Dina Al-Kassim's essay addresses kinships of dispossession.
        • This book is an effort to steer Canadian literatures out of controversy for controversy's sake, and into a flow of productive, relation-building discussion. It does this by addressing the substance of Canadian and Turtle Island writing, particularly writing by Indigenous, Black and Asian writers. While it avoids empty controversy, it embraces rigorous argument.
        • Addresses issues related to Indigenous and diaspora literatures, settler culture, Black studies, Asian Canadian studies, decolonization, critical race studies, multiculturalism, land issues
        • Particularly for those interested in the concepts of intersectionality, solidarity, and relationality


          • Table of Contents
          • Storying Land / Relations: An Introduction in Two Voices - Smaro Kamboureli and Larissa Lai
          • Agency, Urgency, Insurgency [poem] - Lillian Allen
          • Positioning Intergenerational Trauma: Nisga'a Nationalism and the Materiality of Marius Barbeau's Totem Poles - Jordan Abel
          • Neoliberal Gothic, Settler Social Imaginaries, and the Case for Decolonization on Two Fronts - Jennifer Henderson
          • Listing Waters: The Poetics of Solidarity in Darwish and Wong - Dina Al-Kassim
          • CLI and CLII [prose poems] - Sonnet L'Abbé
          • Back to the Future: Black Canada's Past and Present; or the Changing Same - Rinaldo Walcott
          • Deliberate Vulgarity: Performing the Demotic, Transforming Cultural Space? The Six Books [poems] - Pamela Mordecai
          • 'Making Things Right': Black Settlement and the Politics of Territory - Karina Vernon
          • From Islamophobia to Islamophilia: Dancing Orientalisms, Islamizing Muslims, and the Unspeakability of the Muslim Woman Subject - Sedef Arat-Koç
          • Literature, Language, Culture: At Mikinaakominis / TransCanadas 2017 - Eileen Antone
          • Listening at Mikinaakominis / TransCanadas 2017 - Erín Moure
          • Between Empire and Nation: Synchronicity and Revolution in Chinese Canadian Writing - Chris Lee
          • Diplomacy before Reconciliation - Margery Fee
          • Federal State, Feral Culture: (Not)Withstanding Canada around its 150th Year - Len Findlay
          • What Next? Asserting Peace Against the Odds - Rita Wong
          • Living on Unceded Indigenous Territories: Vancouver as a Site of Conflict in Building Alliance and Autonomy in Decolonial Struggles - Sophie McCall
          • Re-storying and Restoring the Buffalo to the Indigenous Plains - Tasha Hubbard
          • Landsensing: Body, Territory, Relation - Warren Cariou

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