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Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies

Smaro Kamboureli, editor, and Robert Zacharias, editor, (Wilfrid Laurier UP 2012). 

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Table of Contents

Smaro Kamboureli and Robert Zacharias | Preface
Smaro Kamboureli | Introduction: Shifting the Ground of a Discipline: Emergence and Canadian Literary
Studies in English
Jeff Derksen | National Literatures in the Shadow of Neoliberalism
Danielle Fuller | “Beyond CanLit(e)”: Reading. Interdisciplinarity. Trans-Atlantically.
Janine Brodie | White Settlers and the Biopolitics of State-Building in Canada
Robert Zacharias | “Some Great Crisis”: Vimy as Originary Violence
Monika Kin Gagnon and Yasmin Jiwani | Amplifying Threat: Reasonable Accommodations and Quebec’s Bouchard–Taylor Commission Hearings (2007)
Larissa Lai | The Time Has Come: Self and Community Articulations in Colour. An Issue and Awakening Thunder
Kathy Mezei | Archivable Concepts: Talonbooks and Literary Translation
Yoko Fujimoto | Is CanLit Lost in Japanese Translation?
Pauline Wakeham | The Cunning of Reconciliation: Reinventing White Civility in the “Age of Apology”
Len Findlay | The Long March to “Recognition”: Sákéj Henderson, First Nations Jurisprudence, and Sui Generis Solidarity
peter kulchyski | bush/writing: embodied deconstruction, traces of community and writing against the state in indigenous acts of inscription
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