Land/relations : possibilities of justice in Canadian literatures / edited by Smaro Kamboureli and Larissa Lai.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kamboureli, Smaro, editor.

Lai, Larissa, editor.

Series:

TransCanada series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian literature--Social aspects.

Canadian literature.

Canadian literature--History and criticism.

Race relations in literature.

Decolonization in literature.

Land tenure in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xv, 388 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Land relations

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Essential reading for those interested in questions of justice and cultural representation, Land/Relations speaks to and moves beyond the critical junctures in the study of Canadian literatures today. In the aftermath of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and following Canada's sesquicentennial, Land/Relations presents a collaborative effort at what Smaro Kamboureli and Larissa Lai call "counter-memory," a collective effort to recognise "relationships that have always been"--between peoples, between humanity and other living forms, between us and the land--in an effort to avoid erasure, loss, and trauma. Twenty influential literary critics engage a variety of genres--essay, life writing, testament, polemic, poetry--to explore the ways Canadian cultural production has been shaped by social and historical relations and can be given new and various forms to decolonize the institutions associated with the creation of this country's vision of Canadian literature."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I "open the portal": Connective Counter-Memory

Agency, Urgency, Insurgency / Lillian Allen

Introduction / Larissa Lai

The TransCanada Project and CanLit: A Microhistory / Larissa Lai

Literature, Language, Culture: At Mikinaakominis / TransCanadas 2017 / Eileen Antone

pt. II "the ghosts pile up with the toxic mistakes": Hauntings and Other Returns

River sisters / Rita Wong

Positioning Intergenerational Trauma: Nisga'a Nationalism and the Materiality of Marius Barbeau's Totem Poles / Jordan Abel

Listening at Mikinaakominis / TransCanadas 2017 / Erin Moure

Back to the Future: Black Canada's Past and Present, or the Changing Same / Rinaldo Walcott

Neoliberal Gothic, Settler Social Imaginaries, and the Case for Decolonization on Two Fronts / Jennifer Henderson

Re-storying and Restoring the Buffalo to the Indigenous Plains / Tasha Hubbard

pt. III "tinder conscience": Formations Otherwise

Cli / Sonnet LAbbe

Cli / Sonnet L'Abbe

Federal State, Feral Culture: (Not)Withstanding Canada around Its 150th Year / Len Findlay

Between Empire and Nation: Synchronicity and Revolution in Chinese Canadian Writing / Chris Lee

Diplomacy before Reconciliation / Margery Fee

From Islamophobia to Islamophilia?: Dancing Orientalisms, Islamizing Muslims, and the Unspeakability of the Muslim Woman Subject / Sedef Arat-Koc

pt. IV "In There, together": Land Intimacies

Deliberate Vulgarity: Performing the Demotic, Transforming Cultural Space? / Pamela Mordecai

"Making Things Right": Black Settlement and the Politics of Urban Territory / Karina Vernon

Listing Waters: The Poetics of Solidarity in Mahmoud Darwish and Rita Wong / Dina Al-Kassim

Living on Unceded Indigenous Territories: Vancouver as a Site of Conflict in Building Alliance and Autonomy in Decolonial Struggles / Sophie McCall

Landsensing: Body, Territory, Relation / Warren Cariou.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Land/relations.

ISBN:

1771125101

9781771125109

OCLC:

1197551318