2019

 

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Writing Beyond the End Times? /
Écrire au-delà de la fin des temps ? 
The Literatures of Canada and Quebec / 
Les littératures au Canada et au Québec


Editors: Ursula Mathis-Moser and Marie Carrière

Publisher: University of Alberta Press

Contributors: David Boucher, Marie Carrière, Nicole Côté, Piet Defraeye, Nicoletta Dolce, Danielle Dumontet, Ana María Fraile-Marcos, Marion Kühn, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Carmen Mata Barreiro, Ursula Mathis-Moser, Dunja M. Mohr, Émilie Notard, Daniel Poitras, Véronique Porra, Srilata Ravi, Marion Christina Rohrleitner

About the Book:

This collection of essays examines how the sense of crisis that occasionally seems to overwhelm us directs and transforms Canadian and Quebec writings in English and French, and conversely, how literature and criticism set out to counterbalance the social, economic, and ideological insecurities we live in.

Ce recueil de textes étudie les manières dont le sentiment de crise qui peut parfois sembler nous submerger, oriente et transforme les écrits canadiens et québécois d’expressions anglaise et française, et inversement, comment la littérature et la critique s’efforcent de contrebalancer les insécurités sociales, économiques et idéologiques dans lesquelles nous vivons.

 

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Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Québec


Editors: Roxanne Rimstead and Domenico A. Beneventi

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Contributors: Domenico A. Beneventi, D. M. R. Bentley, Amaryll Chanady, Natasha Dagenais, Jeff Derksen, Patricia Demers, Alan Filewod, Mary Jean Green, Simon Harel, Candida Rifkind, Roxanne Rimstead, Deena Rymhs, Rita Sakr, Sherry Simon, and Patricia Smart 

Keywords: Canadian and Quebec literatures; space and literature; counter-narrative; space and gender; space and social class; space and racialization

About the Book:

Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Québec explores strategies for reading space and conflict in Canadian and Québécois literature and cultural performances, positing questions such as: how do these texts and performances produce and contest spatial practices? What are the roles of the nation, city, community, and individual subject in reproducing space, particularly in times of global hegemony and neocolonialism? And in what ways do marginalized individuals and communities represent, contest, or appropriate spaces through counter-narratives and expressions of culture from below?

Focusing on discord rather than harmony and consensus, this collection disturbs the idealized space of Canadian multicultural pluralism to carry literary analysis and cultural studies into spaces often undetected and unforeseen – including flophouses and "slums," shantytowns and urban alleyways, underground spaces and peep shows, and inner-city urban parks as they are experienced by minorities and other marginalized groups. These essays are the products of sustained, high-level collaboration across French and English academic communities in Canada to facilitate theoretical exchange on the topic of space and contestation, uncover geographies of exclusion, and generate new spaces of hope in the spirit of pioneering works by Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau, Doreen Massey, David Harvey, and other prominent theorists of space.