Inhabiting Memory in Canadian Literature / Habiter la mémoire dans la littérature canadienne

by Benjamin Authers (Editor), Maïté Snauwaert (Editor), Daniel Laforest (Editor), Albert Braz (Contribution by), Samantha Cook (Contribution by), Jennifer Bowering Delisle (Contribution by), R.A.M. Project (Contribution by), Smaro Kamboureli (Contribution by), Janne Korkka (Contribution by), André Lamontagne (Contribution by), Margaret Mackey (Contribution by), Sherry Simon (Contribution by), Pamela Sing (Contribution by), Alfred Taylor (Contribution by), Erin Wunker (Contribution by)

Overview

Featuring seven English-language essays, five French-language essays, and a bilingual introduction, this collection examines the cultural work of space and memory in Canada and Canadian literature, and encourages readers to investigate Canada within its regional, national, and global contexts. It also invites us to recognize local intersections so easily overlooked, yet so important. The diverse critical approaches of this collection reveal and probe the unities and fractures in national understanding, telling stories of otherness and marginality, of dis-location and un-belonging. This collection will be welcomed by readers and critics of Canadian literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781772122701
Publisher:	University of Alberta Press
Publication date:	11/20/2017
Edition description:	Bilingual
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Benjamin Authers is Assistant Professor at the University of Canberra and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, in Canberra, Australia. Maïté Snauwaert is Assistant Professor and Daniel Laforest is Associate Professor, both at the University of Alberta in Edmonton

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements / Remerciements vii

Introduction Benjamin Authers Maïté Snauwaert Daniel Laforest ix

1 Mapping the City / Cartographier La Ville

1 Espaces de Contestation: Mémoires conflictuelles sur le terrain de la ville Sherry Simon 3

2 The Archive and the Alleyway: The Spatial Poetics of Sachiko Murakami and Meredith Quartermain Erin Wunker 15

3 Urban Space and the Making of a Reader Margaret Mackey 37

2 Diasporic Memories / Mémoires Diasporiques

4 Unforgetting and Remembering on Demand: Diasporic Memory in Rawi Hage's Cockroach Smaro Kamboureli 57

5 Moved by the Past: Canadian Family Memoir and the Story of Genealogy Jennifer Bowering Delisle 79

6 Diaspora, Loss, and Melancholic Agency: Mapping the Fields between Susanna Moodie and Dionne Brand L. Camille van der Marel 95

3 Intercultural Spaces / Espaces Interculturels

7 Dans Un Gant De Fer: De la mémoire privée au dialogue critique Samantha Cook 127

8 Langue Et Identité « Ôtres »: Questions d'autoréflexivité chez Jean Chicoine Lise Gaboury-Diallo 143

9 Une « Autotraduction » Sauvage: Le Canada français dans « Le loup-garou » et « The Werwolves » d'Honoré Beaugrand Pamela V. Sing 157

4 Towards a New Memory / Vers Une Mémoire Nouvelle

10 Originaux Et Détraqués: La ville hétérodoxe et mémorielle de Louis Fréchette André Lamontagne 175

11 "A doubt about our ability to know invades the narrative": Space and Knowing in the Writings of Robert Kroetsch and Rudy Wiebe Janne Korkka 199

12 Fleeing the North Star: Lorena Gale's Angelique, Slavery, and Canadian Cultural Memory Albert Braz 219

Contributors / Collaborateurs 235

Index 241