Contested Spaces, Counter-Narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Québec

Herausgeber: Rimstead, Roxanne; Beneventi, Domenic A

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Produktbeschreibung

Contested Spaces investigates space and conflict in novels, short stories, life writing, and journalism from Canada and Québec by asking how counter-narratives challenge geographies of exclusion from below.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 165mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781442629905
• ISBN-10: 1442629908
• Artikelnr.: 52415318

Autorenporträt

Edited and Introduced by Roxanne Rimstead and Domenico A. Beneventi

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Reading Space Through Conflict
ROXANNE RIMSTEAD and DOMENICO A. BENEVENTI (Université de Sherbrooke)
Part I: Contested Urban Spaces
Chapter 1 : Culture and Critique During Mega-Events: The 2010 Olympics and
the Right to the City
JEFF DERKSEN (Simon Fraser University)
Chapter 2: The Ambivalence of Enclosed Spaces in Immigrant Fiction: Between
Refuge and Prison
AMARYLL CHANADY (Université de Montréal)
Chapter 3: Montreal Marginalities: Revisiting Boulevard Saint-Laurent
SHERRY SIMON (Concordia University)
Chapter 4: Heterotopia and Its Discontents: Exploring Spatial, Social, and
Textual Liminality in Rawi Hage’s Cockroach
RITA SAKR (University of London)
Chapter 5: "Laisser-aller": Homelessness and Contained Space in Kobo Abe’s
The Box Man and Robert Majzels’s City of Forgetting
SIMON HAREL (Université de Montréal)
Part II : Counter-Narratives and Spaces of the Nation/State
Chapter 6: Unruly and Unremarked: Theatrical Spectatorship from Below in
Nineteenth-Century Canada
ALAN FILEWOD (University of Guelph)
Chapter 7: 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 (Dartmouth College)
Chapter 8: For King and Country? : War and Indigenous Masculinity
DEENA RYMHS (University of British Columbia)
Chapter 9: Reclaiming Indigenous Space through Testimonial Life Writing: An
Antane Kapesh’s Je suis une maudite Sauvagesse as Territorial Imperative
NATASHA DAGENAIS (Université de Sherbrooke)
Chapter 10: Norman Bethune and the Contested Spaces of Canadian Public
Memory
CANDIDA RIFKIND (University of Winnipeg)
Part III: Culture from Below
Chapter 11 : Knowing the Urban Other: Notes on the Ethics and Epistemology
of Slumming in Novels and Reportage
ROXANNE RIMSTEAD (Université de Sherbrooke)
Chapter 12: "You Should Think about It, Think What It Means": Working Girls
in Canadian Women’s Writing
PATRICIA DEMERS (University of Alberta)
Chapter 13: Border-Crossings and Alternative Social Spaces in Gabrielle
Roy’s Bonheur d’occasion / The Tin Flute
D. M. R. BENTLEY (Western University)
Chapter 14: Growing Up Poor and Female in Montreal, 1930-1960: Women’s
Autobiographies as Counter-Narratives
PATRICIA SMART (Carleton University)
Chapter 15: Tramping Across the Nation: Homeless Embodiment in Canadian
Literature
DOMENICO A. BENEVENTI (Université de Sherbrooke)
Afterword