ReVisions : speculating in literature and film in Canada / edited by Wendy Roy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roy, Wendy, 1957- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Canadian fiction.

Speculative fiction, Canadian--History and criticism.

Speculative fiction, Canadian.

Apocalypse in literature.

Speculation in literature.

Dystopian films--Canada.

Dystopian films.

Apocalypse in motion pictures.

Dystopian television programs--Canada.

Dystopian television programs.

Apocalypse on television.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 427 pages)

Other Title:

Speculating in literature and film in Canada

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2025]

Summary:

"ReVisions examines speculative fiction, film, and television created by artists in Canada and reflecting their distinct experiences. Bringing together critical and creative works by eighteen different authors, the book re-envisions Canadian politics, cultures, and societies and asks important questions about representations of our world. The collection examines the realm of the past through a futuristic, speculative lens, asking readers to revise their understandings of past events and current relationships. Editor Wendy Roy assembles a variety of investigations of Canada and the larger world, including studies of the use of apocalyptic and dystopian scenarios by Indigenous writers to revisit Canada's history of colonization. The varied contributions demonstrate that speculative writing can help us to see what is happening in the world around us and at the same time to re-envision it, to reconsider the consequences of our actions, and to imagine revised and perhaps better futures."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Revisions : Speculating in literature and film in Canada / Wendy Roy

Horrors of northern development : (Anti-)capitalist infrastructure and Anishinaabe knowledge in *Moon of the Crusted Snow* / Gage Karahkwí:io Diabo

Speculative archives in novels by Thomas King and Larissa Lai : Hope in the midst of crisis / Alicia Fahey

Speculative fiction and historiographic metafiction : The Cold War in contemporary apocalyptic literary Canada, coast to coast / Matthew Cormier

Interrupting the fire with story : An interview with Cherie Dimaline / Mabiana Camargo

Indigenous resurgence and resistance in Cherie Dimaline’s *The Marrow Thieves* and *Hunting by Stars* / Gwen Rose

Posthuman girlhoods in Canadian young adult science fiction / Alena Cicholewski

Climate change and the girl body : Hope and the dystopian future in three novels by Monica Hughes / William Thompson

Othering ad infinitum : A critical-creative examination of the secular and spiritual in Nalo Hopkinson’s *Brown Girl in the Ring* (*Brown Boy under the Cape*) / Sheheryar B. Sheikh

Small acts of urban place-making in Nalo Hopkinson’s *Skin Folk* / Jessica McDonald

The possibilities of prison food in Margaret Atwood’s *The Heart Goes Last* / Shelley Boyd

“Like the voice of a mad angel” : Hungry ghosts in Kai Cheng Thom’s *Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars : A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir* / Kai McKenzie

Someone is dead / Amy LeBlanc

Other worlds within other worlds : Comics world-building and identity formation in Emily St. John Mandel’s *Station Eleven* / Jasmine Redford

Gender oppression through enclosed spaces in Margaret Atwood’s *MaddAddam Trilogy* / Mabiana Camargo

“Show me you’re still human” : Uncertainty and humanity in apocalyptic short stories by Canadian women writers / Wendy Roy

Children of the affect / Cynthea Masson

What if the natives were immune? Dismembering colonial masculinity in Jeff Barnaby’s *Blood Quantum* / June Scudeler

Vision and re-visioning in *The Handmaid’s Tale* and two adaptations / Mackenzie Read

“I’m not your personal manic pixie assassin” : Reading *Killjoys’* tough woman through an alien lens / Heather Snell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 12, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: ReVisions.

ISBN:

9781487567606

148756760X

9781487567590

1487567596

OCLC:

1528645888

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license