Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada

by Kim, Christine; Mccall, Sophie; Singer, Melina Baum

• ISBN13: 9781554583362
• ISBN10: 1554583365
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-30
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr

Summary

Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canadaconsiders how the terms of critical debate in literary and cultural studies in Canada have shifted with respect to matters of race, nation, and difference. In asking how Indigenous and diasporic interventions have remapped these debates, the contributors argue there is a new "cultural grammar" at work and attempt to sketch out some of the ways that it operates.

Author Biography

Christine Kim is an assistant professor of English at Simon Fraser University. She has published articles in Open Letter, Studies in Canadian Literature, and Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography (WLU Press, 2008). Sophie McCall teaches contemporary First Nations and Canadian literatures in the English Department at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of First Person Plural: Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship (2011). Melina Baum Singer is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario. She has co-edited, with Lily Cho, two special issues of Open Letter, "Poetics and Public Culture" and "Dialogues on Poetics and Public Culture."

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Present Tense
Diaspora and Nation in Métis Writing	p. 21
Canadian Indian Literary Nationalism? Critical Approaches in Canadian Indigenous Contexts-A Collaborative Interlogue	p. 43
Breaking the Framework of Representational Violence: Testimonial Publics, Memorial Arts, and a Critique of Postcolonial Violence (the Pickton Trial)	p. 65
"Grammars of Exchange": The "Oriental Woman" in the Global Market	p. 83
Past Participles
Unhomely Moves: A.M. Klein, Jewish Diasporic Difference, Racialization, and Coercive Whiteness	p. 99
Asian Canadian Critical Practice as Commemoration	p. 119
Diasporic Longings: (Re)Figurations of Home and Homelessness in Richard Wagamese's Work	p. 135
Afro-Caribbean Writing in Canada and the Politics of Migrant Labour Mobility	p. 153
Future Imperfect
Racialized Diasporas, Entangled Postmemories, and Kyo Maclear's The Letter Opener	p. 171
Underwater Signposts: Richard Fung's Islands and Enabling Nostalgia	p. 191
"Phoenicia ≠ Lebanon": Transsexual Poetics as Poetics of the Body within and across the Nation	p. 207
Word Warriors: Indigenous Political Consciousness in Prison	p. 229
Works Cited	p. 245
Contributors	p. 265
Index	p. 269
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