Contested spaces, counter-narratives, and culture from below in Canada and Quebec / edited and introduced by Roxanne Rimstead and Domenico A. Beneventi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rimstead, Roxanne, 1953- editor.

Beneventi, Domenic A., 1970- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Canadian literature.

Canadian literature--21st century--History and criticism.

French-Canadian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

French-Canadian literature.

French-Canadian literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Space in literature.

Physical Description:

ix, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Summary:

"This collection explores strategies of reading space and conflict in Canadian and Québécois literary and cultural performances. How do literary texts and popular cultural performances produce and contest spatial practices? What is the role of the nation, the city, the community, and the individual subject in reproducing space, even during times of global hegemony and neocolonialism? In what ways do marginalized individuals and communities represent, contest, or appropriate spaces through counter-narratives and expressions of culture from below? And how does space itself shape conflict, counter-memory, and culture from below? Focusing on contestation instead of harmony and consensus, Contested Spaces disturbs the idealized space of Canadian multicultural pluralism to carry literary analysis and cultural studies into spaces often undetected and unforeseen; Contested Spaces exposes geographies of exclusion and difference such as flophouses and "slums," shantytowns and urban alleyways, underground spaces and peep shows, inner city urban parks as experienced by minority ethnics, the poor, women, social activists, Indigenous people, and Francophones in Canada. These essays are the product of sustained and high-level collaboration across French and English academic communities in Canada to facilitate theoretical exchange on the topic of space and contestation, to expose geographies of exclusion, and to generate new spaces of hope in the spirit of pioneering work by Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau, Doreen Massey, David Harvey, and other more recent theorists of space." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Reading space through conflict / Roxanne Rimstead, Domenico A. Beneventi

Part I: Contested urban spaces: 1. Culture and critique during mega-events : the 2010 Olympics and the right to the city / Jeff Derksen

2. The ambivalence of enclosed spaces in immigrant fiction : between refuge and prison / Amaryll Chanady

3. Montréal marginalities : revisiting Boulevard Saint-Laurent / Sherry Simon

4. Heterotopia and its discontents : exploring spatial, social, and textual liminality in Rawi Hage's 'Cockroach' / Rita Sakr

5. "Laisser-aller" : homelessness and contained space in Kobo Abe's 'The Box Man' and Robert Majzel's 'City of Forgetting' / Simon Harel

Part II: Counter-narratives and spaces of the nation/state: 6. Unruly and unremarked : theatrical spectatorship from below in nineteenth-century Canada / Alan Filewod

7^ exclusion and difference such as flophouses and "slums," shantytowns and urban alleyways, underground spaces and peep shows, inner city urban parks as experienced by minority ethnics, the poor, women, social activists, Indigenous people, and Francophones in Canada. These essays are the product of sustained and high-level collaboration across French and English academic communities in Canada to facilitate theoretical exchange on the topic of space and contestation, to expose geographies of exclusion, and to generate new spaces of hope in the spirit of pioneering work by Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau, Doreen Massey, David Harvey, and other more recent theorists of space."

Provided by publisher. 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

8. For king and country? War and Indigenous masculinity / Deena Rymhs

9. Reclaiming Indigenous space through testimonial life writing : An Antane Kapesh's 'Je suis une maudite Sauvagesse' as territorial imperative / Natasha Dagenais

10. Norman Bethune and the contested spaces of Canadian public memory / Candida Rifkind

Part III: Culture from below: 11. Knowing the urban other : notes on the ethics and epistemology of slumming in novels and reportage / Roxanne Rimstead

12. "You should think about it, think what it means" : working girls in Canadian women's writing / Patricia Demers

13. Border-crossings and alternative social spaces in Gabrielle Roy's 'Bonheur d'occasion/The tin flute' / D.M.R. Bentley

14^phouses and "slums," shantytowns and urban alleyways, underground spaces and peep shows, inner city urban parks as experienced by minority ethnics, the poor, women, social activists, Indigenous people, and Francophones in Canada. These essays are the product of sustained and high-level collaboration across French and English academic communities in Canada to facilitate theoretical exchange on the topic of space and contestation, to expose geographies of exclusion, and to generate new spaces of hope in the spirit of pioneering work by Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau, Doreen Massey, David Harvey, and other more recent theorists of space."

Provided by publisher. Growing up poor and female in Montréal, 1930-1960 : women's autobiographies as counter-narratives / Patricia Smart

15. Tramping across the nation : homeless embodiment in Canadian literature / Domenico A. Beneventi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781442629905

1442629908

OCLC:

1097558878