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Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory Essays in Honour of Barbara Godard (2013)

Eva C. Karpinski, editor, Jennifer Henderson, editor, Ian Sowton, editor, and Ray Ellenwood, editor.  (Wilfrid Laurier UP 2013)

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Table Of Contents: 

Editors’ Introduction

Prolegomenon: Danielle Fuller | Reader at Work: An Appreciation of Barbara Godard

Part One: Textual/Visual Production: Critical Interventions

1. Louise H. Forsyth | Incisive Literary Critic, Brilliant Theorist, Engaged Teacher, Inspired Translator, Public Intellectual and Committed Activist—All in the Feminine: The Early Barbara Godard
2. Pamela McCallum | Cultural Memory and Tragic Affect in Nancy Huston’s
3. Karl Jirgens | Contemporary Canadian Inter-media Artists
4. Claudine Potvin | Flirting with the Museum: Denise Desautels and Louise Warren

Part Two: Culture/Policy/Institutions

5. Lianne Moyes and Catherin Leclerc | Federal Mediations in the Relations between Acadian and Québécois Letters
6. Phanuel Antwi | A Public Memory of Lack; Or, Of Learned Ignorance and the Invisible Empires in Southern Ontario
7. Len M. Findlay | “[T]he toil and spoil of translation”: A Godardian Reading of the Study-Guide: Discover Canada/Guide d’étude: Découvrir le Canada (2010)
8. Trish Salah | Notes Towards Thinking Transgender Institutional Poetics

Part Three: Translation/Transculturation

9. Alessandra Capperdoni | “Voyage autour de la traduction”: The Translator as Writer and Theorist
10. Jason Demers | “Taking him in the middle”, or, Intensifying Deleuze by Translation
11. Gillian Lane-Mercier | Gail Scott and Barbara Godard on “The Main”: Borders, Sutures, Micro-cosmopolitan Interconnectivity and Translation Studies

Part Four: Public Memory and the Archive

12. Sophie McCall | Linked Histories and Radio-Activity in Marie Clements’s Burning Vision
13. Michael Dorland | Holocaust Commemoration and the Disappearance of History
14. Sue Lloyd | Gender in the Shaping of Public Memory: Arms for Montreal
15. Barbara Godard | Contested Memories: Canadian Women Writers In and Out of the Archive
Coda: Lisa Sloniowski | In the Stacks of Barbara Godard, Or Do Not Confuse the Complexity of this Moment with Chaos

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  • Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies
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  • Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory Essays in Honour of Barbara Godard (2013)
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