This book presents the diverse field of material culture studies in Canadian literary, artistic, and political contexts today. The first of its kind, it features sixteen essays by leading scholars in Canada, each examining a different object, including the beaver, comics, water, a musical playlist, and the human body.
This book presents the diverse field of material culture studies in Canadian literary, artistic, and political contexts today. The first of its kind, it features sixteen essays by leading scholars in Canada, each examining a different object, including the beaver, comics, water, a musical playlist, and the human body.
Thomas Allen is an associate professor of English at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America (2008). His research concerns the cultural history of time, especially in relation to material culture.
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Table of Contents Material Cultures in Canada, edited by Thomas Allen and Jennifer Blair Introduction: Material Cultures in Canada, Material Cultures Now Thomas Allen and Jennifer Blair Part I Materialities 1. The Work of the Beaver Jody Berland 2. Night in a Box: Anne Carson's Nox and the Materiality of Elegy Tanis MacDonald 3. Maxims and Contraries: Notes from a Project in Process Alison Calder 4. The Geranium in the Window: One Plant's Literary Hardiness in the Canadian Imagination Shelley Boyd Part II Immaterialities 5. Is It Still a Cinch? The Transformational Properties of Objects in Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing Susan Birkwood 6. Obama's Playlist: Materializing Transnational Desire at the CBC Mark Simpson 7. Grinning Things: Object Lessons in Violent Labour Michael Epp 8. Moses Cotsworth and the Authenticity of Time Thomas Allen 9. Materializing Climate Change: Images of Exposure, States of Exception Nicole Shukin 10. Waters as Potential Paths to Peace Rita Wong Part III Materials Of and For Spaces 11. The Biotopographies of Seth's George Sprott (1894-1975) Candida Rifkind 12. Woodrow: Memory and Nostalgia at Play Jessa Alston-O'Connor 13. Plaques and Persons: Commemorating Canada's Authors Carole Gerson 14. Archaeological Detritus and the Bulging Archive: The Staging of He Named Her Amber at the Art Gallery of Ontario May Chew 15. Poetry and Globalized Cities: A Material Poetics of Canadian Urban Space Jeff Derksen Afterword: Endless Material: The Future of Things in Canada Thomas Allen and Jennifer Blair Contributors Index
Table of Contents Material Cultures in Canada, edited by Thomas Allen and Jennifer Blair Introduction: Material Cultures in Canada, Material Cultures Now Thomas Allen and Jennifer Blair Part I Materialities 1. The Work of the Beaver Jody Berland 2. Night in a Box: Anne Carson's Nox and the Materiality of Elegy Tanis MacDonald 3. Maxims and Contraries: Notes from a Project in Process Alison Calder 4. The Geranium in the Window: One Plant's Literary Hardiness in the Canadian Imagination Shelley Boyd Part II Immaterialities 5. Is It Still a Cinch? The Transformational Properties of Objects in Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing Susan Birkwood 6. Obama's Playlist: Materializing Transnational Desire at the CBC Mark Simpson 7. Grinning Things: Object Lessons in Violent Labour Michael Epp 8. Moses Cotsworth and the Authenticity of Time Thomas Allen 9. Materializing Climate Change: Images of Exposure, States of Exception Nicole Shukin 10. Waters as Potential Paths to Peace Rita Wong Part III Materials Of and For Spaces 11. The Biotopographies of Seth's George Sprott (1894-1975) Candida Rifkind 12. Woodrow: Memory and Nostalgia at Play Jessa Alston-O'Connor 13. Plaques and Persons: Commemorating Canada's Authors Carole Gerson 14. Archaeological Detritus and the Bulging Archive: The Staging of He Named Her Amber at the Art Gallery of Ontario May Chew 15. Poetry and Globalized Cities: A Material Poetics of Canadian Urban Space Jeff Derksen Afterword: Endless Material: The Future of Things in Canada Thomas Allen and Jennifer Blair Contributors Index
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