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Unsettled remains : Canadian literature and the postcolonial gothic / edited by Cynthia Sugars and Gerry Turcotte.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), Canadian.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- History in literature.
- Ambivalence in literature.
- Canadian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Canadian fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (324 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic examines how Canadian writers have combined a postcolonial awareness with gothic metaphors of monstrosity and haunting in their response to Canadian history. The essays gathered here range from treatments of early postcolonial gothic expression in Canadian literature to attempts to define a Canadian postcolonial gothic mode. Many of these texts wrestle with Canada's colonial past and with the voices and histories that were repressed in the push for national consolidation but emerge now as uncanny reminders of that co
- Contents:
- Introduction: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic / Cynthia Sugars and Gerry Turcotte
- Chapter One: Catholic Gothic: Atavism, Orientalism, and Generic Change in Charles De Guise's Le Cap au diable (1863) / Andrea Cabajsky
- Chapter Two: Viking Graves Revisited: Pre-Colonial Primitivism in Farley Mowat's Northern Gothic / Brian Johnson
- Chapter Three: Coyote's Children and the Canadian Gothic: Sheila Watson's The Double Hook and Gail Anderson-Dargatz's The Cure for Death by Lightning / Marlene Goldman
- Chapter Four: "Horror Written on Their Skin": Joy Kagawa's Gothic Uncanny / Gerry Turcotte
- Chapter Five: Familiar Ghosts: Feminist Postcolonial Gothic in Canada / Shelley Kulperger
- Chapter Six: Canadian Gothic and the Work of Ghosting: Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees / Atef Laouyene
- Chapter Seven: A Ukrainian-Canadian Gothic?: Ethnic Angst in Janice Kulyk Keefer's The Green Library / Lindy Ledohowski
- Chapter Eight: "Something not unlike enjoyment": Gothicism, Catholicism, and Sexuality in Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen / Jennifer Henderson
- Chapter Nine: Rethinking the Canadian Gothic: Reading Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach / Jennifer Andrews
- Chapter Ten: Beothuk Gothic: Michael Crummey's River Thieves / Herb Wyile
- Chapter Eleven: Keeping the Gothic at (Sick) Bay: Reading the Transferences in Vincent Lam's Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures / Cynthia Sugars.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612534355
- 9781554588008
- 1554588006
- 9781282534353
- 1282534351
- 9781554582945
- 1554582946
- OCLC:
- 659589214
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