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.
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.
Edited and Introduced by Roxanne Rimstead and Domenico A. Beneventi
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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
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
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