Land/Relations
Possibilities of Justice in Canadian Literature
Published on 18. April 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
408 pages
978-1-77112-510-9 (ISBN)
Description
Primary audience is Canadian literature scholars
Contributes directly to current conversations in both contemporary Canadian media and academic circles around the relationship between bodies and land. For instance, Jordan Abel's piece addresses the possibilities and difficulties of reclaiming Nishga/Nisga'a identity in the aftermath of the residential school experience. Karina Vernon's essay addresses how Black subjects might respond in a moment when they learn that the home they've been longing for is already inhabited. Dina Al-Kassim's essay addresses kinships of dispossession.
This book is an effort to steer Canadian literatures out of controversy for controversy's sake, and into a flow of productive, relation-building discussion. It does this by addressing the substance of Canadian and Turtle Island writing, particularly writing by Indigenous, Black and Asian writers. While it avoids empty controversy, it embraces rigorous argument.
Addresses issues related to Indigenous and diaspora literatures, settler culture, Black studies, Asian Canadian studies, decolonization, critical race studies, multiculturalism, land issues
Particularly for those interested in the concepts of intersectionality, solidarity, and relationality
Contributes directly to current conversations in both contemporary Canadian media and academic circles around the relationship between bodies and land. For instance, Jordan Abel's piece addresses the possibilities and difficulties of reclaiming Nishga/Nisga'a identity in the aftermath of the residential school experience. Karina Vernon's essay addresses how Black subjects might respond in a moment when they learn that the home they've been longing for is already inhabited. Dina Al-Kassim's essay addresses kinships of dispossession.
This book is an effort to steer Canadian literatures out of controversy for controversy's sake, and into a flow of productive, relation-building discussion. It does this by addressing the substance of Canadian and Turtle Island writing, particularly writing by Indigenous, Black and Asian writers. While it avoids empty controversy, it embraces rigorous argument.
Addresses issues related to Indigenous and diaspora literatures, settler culture, Black studies, Asian Canadian studies, decolonization, critical race studies, multiculturalism, land issues
Particularly for those interested in the concepts of intersectionality, solidarity, and relationality
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
17 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 150 mm
Width: 231 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
612 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77112-510-9 (9781771125109)
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Smaro Kamboureli | Larissa Lai
Land/Relations
E-Book
04/2023
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
€39.49
Available for download
Persons
Smaro Kamboureli is a professor and the Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature in the English Department at the University of Toronto. She is the founder of the TransCanada series of books, published by WLU Press, originating from interdisciplinary conferences that initiated collaborative research on the methodologies and institutional structures and contexts that inform and shape the production, dissemination, teaching, and study of Canadian literature. Her most recent publications include Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies (WLU Press 2012), co-edited with Robert Zacharias and Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace (WLU Press, 2013), co-edited with Kit Dobson. Larissa Lai is the author of two novels, When Fox Is a Thousand and Salt Fish Girl. A recipient of the Astraea Foundation Emerging Writers' Award, she has been shortlisted for the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Tiptree Award, and the Dorothy Livesay Prize. She is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia.
Content
Storying Land / Relations: An Introduction in Two Voices - Smaro Kamboureli and Larissa Lai
Agency, Urgency, Insurgency [poem] - Lillian Allen
Positioning Intergenerational Trauma: Nisga'a Nationalism and the Materiality of Marius Barbeau's Totem Poles - Jordan Abel
Neoliberal Gothic, Settler Social Imaginaries, and the Case for Decolonization on Two Fronts - Jennifer Henderson
Listing Waters: The Poetics of Solidarity in Darwish and Wong - Dina Al-Kassim
CLI and CLII [prose poems] - Sonnet L'Abbe
Back to the Future: Black Canada's Past and Present; or the Changing Same - Rinaldo Walcott
Deliberate Vulgarity: Performing the Demotic, Transforming Cultural Space? The Six Books [poems] - Pamela Mordecai
'Making Things Right': Black Settlement and the Politics of Territory - Karina Vernon
From Islamophobia to Islamophilia: Dancing Orientalisms, Islamizing Muslims, and the Unspeakability of the Muslim Woman Subject - Sedef Arat-Koc
Literature, Language, Culture: At Mikinaakominis / TransCanadas 2017 - Eileen Antone
Listening at Mikinaakominis / TransCanadas 2017 - Erin Moure
Between Empire and Nation: Synchronicity and Revolution in Chinese Canadian Writing - Chris Lee
Diplomacy before Reconciliation - Margery Fee
Federal State, Feral Culture: (Not)Withstanding Canada around its 150th Year - Len Findlay
What Next? Asserting Peace Against the Odds - Rita Wong
Living on Unceded Indigenous Territories: Vancouver as a Site of Conflict in Building Alliance and Autonomy in Decolonial Struggles - Sophie McCall
Re-storying and Restoring the Buffalo to the Indigenous Plains - Tasha Hubbard
Landsensing: Body, Territory, Relation - Warren Cariou
Agency, Urgency, Insurgency [poem] - Lillian Allen
Positioning Intergenerational Trauma: Nisga'a Nationalism and the Materiality of Marius Barbeau's Totem Poles - Jordan Abel
Neoliberal Gothic, Settler Social Imaginaries, and the Case for Decolonization on Two Fronts - Jennifer Henderson
Listing Waters: The Poetics of Solidarity in Darwish and Wong - Dina Al-Kassim
CLI and CLII [prose poems] - Sonnet L'Abbe
Back to the Future: Black Canada's Past and Present; or the Changing Same - Rinaldo Walcott
Deliberate Vulgarity: Performing the Demotic, Transforming Cultural Space? The Six Books [poems] - Pamela Mordecai
'Making Things Right': Black Settlement and the Politics of Territory - Karina Vernon
From Islamophobia to Islamophilia: Dancing Orientalisms, Islamizing Muslims, and the Unspeakability of the Muslim Woman Subject - Sedef Arat-Koc
Literature, Language, Culture: At Mikinaakominis / TransCanadas 2017 - Eileen Antone
Listening at Mikinaakominis / TransCanadas 2017 - Erin Moure
Between Empire and Nation: Synchronicity and Revolution in Chinese Canadian Writing - Chris Lee
Diplomacy before Reconciliation - Margery Fee
Federal State, Feral Culture: (Not)Withstanding Canada around its 150th Year - Len Findlay
What Next? Asserting Peace Against the Odds - Rita Wong
Living on Unceded Indigenous Territories: Vancouver as a Site of Conflict in Building Alliance and Autonomy in Decolonial Struggles - Sophie McCall
Re-storying and Restoring the Buffalo to the Indigenous Plains - Tasha Hubbard
Landsensing: Body, Territory, Relation - Warren Cariou