Cultural grammars of nation, diaspora, and indigeneity in Canada / Christine Kim, Sophie McCall, and Melina Baum Singer, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCall, Sophie, 1969-

Kim, Christine, 1973-

Singer, Melina Baum, 1974-

Series:

TransCanada series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--Canada--Social conditions.

Minorities.

Social conditions.

Canada--Social conditions.

Canada.

Physical Description:

viii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2012]

Summary:

Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada considers how the terms of critical debate in literary and cultural studies in Canada have shifted with respect to race, nation, and difference. In asking how Indigenous and diasporic interventions have remapped these debates, the contributors argue that a new "cultural grammar" is at work and attempt to sketch out some of the ways it operates.

The essays reference pivotal moments in Canadian literary and cultural history and speak to ongoing debates about Canadian nationalism, postcolonalism, migrancy, and transnationalism. Topics covered include the Asian race riots in Vancouver in 1907, the cultural memory of internment and dispersal of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s, the politics of migrant labour and the "domestic labour scheme" in the 1960s, and the trial of Robert Pickton in Vancouver in 2007. The contributors are particularly interested in how diaspora and indigeneity continue to contribute to this critical reconfiguration and in how conversations about diaspora and indigeneity in the Canadian context have themselves been transformed. Cultural Grammars is an attempt to address both the interconnections and the schisms between these multiply fractured critical terms as well as the larger conceptual shifts that have occurred in response to national and post-national arguments. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Present Tense

Diaspora and Nation in Métis Writing / Sophie McCall McCall, Sophie 21

Canadian Indian Literary Nationalism? Critical Approaches in Canadian Indigenous Contexts-A Collaborative Interlogue / Kristina Fagan Fagan, Kristina, Daniel Heath Justice Justice, Daniel Heath, Keavy Martin Martin, Keavy, Sam McKegney McKegney, Sam, Deanna Reder Reder, Deanna, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair Sinclair, Niigaanwewidam James 43

Breaking the Framework of Representational Violence: Testimonial Publics, Memorial Arts, and a Critique of Postcolonial Violence (the Pickton Trial) / Julia Emberley Emberley, Julia 65

"Grammars of Exchange": The "Oriental Woman" in the Global Market / Belén Martín-Lucas Martín-Lucas, Belén 83

II Past Participles

Unhomely Moves: A.M. Klein, Jewish Diasporic Difference, Racialization, and Coercive Whiteness / Melina Baum Singer Singer, Melina Baum 99

Asian Canadian Critical Practice as Commemoration / Christopher Lee Lee, Christopher 119

Diasporic Longings: (Re)Figurations of Home and Homelessness in Richard Wagamese's Work / Renate Eigenbrod Eigenbrod, Renate 135

Afro-Caribbean Writing in Canada and the Politics of Migrant Labour Mobility / Jody Mason Mason, Jody 153

III Future Imperfect

Racialized Diasporas, Entangled Postmemories, and Kyo Maclear's The Letter Opener / Christine Kim Kim, Christine 171

Underwater Signposts: Richard Fung's Islands and Enabling Nostalgia / Lily Cho Cho, Lily 191

"Phoenicia ≠ Lebanon": Transsexual Poetics as Poetics of the Body within and across the Nation / Alessandra Capperdoni Capperdoni, Alessandra 207

Word Warriors: Indigenous Political Consciousness in Prison / Deena Rymhs Rymhs, Deena 229.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-264) and index.

ISBN:

9781554583362

1554583365

OCLC:

693814277