Digital Memory Agents in Canada : Performance, Representation, and Culture / ed. by Amanda Spallacci, Matthew Cormier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clifford, Jim, Contributor.

Cormier, Matthew, Contributor.

Cormier, Matthew, Editor.

Dyck, Erika, Contributor.

Harkema, Craig, Contributor.

Kilbourn, Russell J. A., Contributor.

Kinder, Jordan B., Contributor.

Kozak, Anna, Contributor.

Schaufert, Braidon, Contributor.

Spallacci, Amanda, Contributor.

Spallacci, Amanda, Editor.

Tétreault, Matthew, Contributor.

Umezurike, Uchechukwu Peter, Contributor.

Webb, Stephen, Contributor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Press, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Digital Memory Agents in Canada explores memory performances and representations with different cultural and spatial relationships to Canada. It moves from discourses on place to focus on the digital or virtual space and on how certain cultures, subjectivities, or positionalities use digital media to document or represent their recollections. Embracing interdisciplinary approaches, the contributors investigate how digital media, like memories, can transcend space and time to impact individuals and communities. Chapters examine memorialization, documentation, and online activism; aesthetic productions and counter-productions of identity in literature, film, and beyond; queer and feminist archiving and consciousness-raising; and Indigenous, Métis, and Black narratives of resistance. These are narratives and research models that disrupt Canadian, hegemonic, colonial, white-centric, and patriarchal beliefs. Digital Memory Agents in Canada will be of interest to scholars and students specializing in memory studies, digital humanities, film and media studies, and cultural studies. Contributors: Jim Clifford, Matthew Cormier, Erika Dyck, Craig Harkema, Caroline Hodes, Russell J. A. Kilbourn, Jordan B. Kinder, Anna Kozak, Braidon Schaufert, Amanda Spallacci, Matthew Tétreault, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, Stephen Webb

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Introduction

1. Digital History Making during a Crisis. A COVID-19 Archive

2 From Counter-Memory to Legislative Reform. Sexual Assault Activism on Social Media in Canada

3 “I Make In Rem—Against the World— the Following Order”. Survivor Agency and Refusal in the Independent Assessment Process’s Digital Memory

4. Virtual Museum Tours. Queer Nostalgic Pasts and Utopic Futures in Canadian Nightlife Memories

5. Counter-Cartographies and Activist Archives. Navigating Petrocultural Memory in Brian Holmes’s Petropolis

6. Socially Mediatized Identities versus The Law of the Heart. Posthuman Memory in Sophie Deraspe’s Antigone

7. “You Are Not One Thing”. Narrative and Memory in Zalika Reid-Benta’s Frying Plantain

8. Toward a Literary Métis Homeland. A Digital Analysis of Gregory Scofield’s Louis: The Heretic Poems and Marilyn Dumont’s The Pemmican Eaters

9. Beyond the Borders of the City and the Digital Space. Queer (Un)belonging and Memory Work in Dionne Brand’s Thirsty

10. Through the Digital Prism of Acadian Identity. Aesthetics, Politics, and Counterculture

Contributors

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Mar 2025)

ISBN:

9781772127867

1772127868