Edited by Christine Kim, Sophie McCall and Melina Baum Singer, (Wilfrid Laurier UP 2012).
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Table of Contents
Christine Kim and Sophie McCall | Introduction
I: PRESENT TENSE
Sophie McCall | Diaspora and Nation in Métis Writing
Kristina Fagan, Daniel Heath Justice, Keavy Martin, Sam McKegney, Deanna Reder, and Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair | Canadian Indian Literary Nationalism? Critical Approaches in Canadian Indigenous Contexts—A Collaborative Interlogue
Julia Emberley | Breaking the Framework of Representational Violence: Testimonial Publics, Memorial Arts, and a Critique of Postcolonial Violence (the Pickton Trial)
Belén Martín-Lucas | “Grammars of Exchange”: The “Oriental Woman” in the Global Market
II: PAST PARTICIPLES
Melina Baum Singer | Unhomely Moves: A.M. Klein, Jewish Diasporic Difference, Racialization, and Coercive Whiteness
Christopher Lee | Asian Canadian Critical Practice as Commemoration
Renate Eigenbrod | Diasporic Longings: (Re)Figurations of Home and Homelessness in Richard Wagamese’s Work
Jody Mason | Afro-Caribbean Writing in Canada and the Politics of Migrant Labour Mobility |
III: FUTURE IMPERFECT
Christine Kim | Racialized Diasporas, Entangled Postmemories, and Kyo Maclear’s The Letter Opener
Lily Cho | Underwater Signposts: Richard Fung’s Islands and Enabling Nostalgia
Alessandra Capperdoni | “Phoenicia ≠ Lebanon”: Transsexual Poetics as Poetics of the Body within and across the Nation
Deena Rymhs | Word Warriors: Indigenous Political Consciousness in Prison
Works Cited
Contributors
Index