Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Canada and Its Americas 1
5. Defending The Nation?
6. Worlding the (Postcolonial) Nation: Canada’s Americas 31
7. Hemispheric Studies or Scholarly NAFTA? The Case for Canadian Literary Studies 48
8. Counter-Worlding Alaméricanité 62
9. Indigenous Remappings of America
10. Representations of the Native and the New World Subject 85
11. Indigeneity and Diasporic Belonging: Three New World Readings of Chief Sitting Bull 102
12. Outer America: Racial Hybridity and Canada’s Peripheral Place in Inter-American Discourse 119
13. Postslavery Routes
14. Eyeing the North Star? Figuring Canada in Postslavery Fiction and Drama 135
15. “May I See Some Identifi cation?” Race, Borders, and Identities in Any Known Blood 148
16. Quebec Connections
17. Translating in the Multilingual City: Montreal as a City of the Americas 171
18. “Lucky to be so bilingual”: Québécois and Chicano/a Literatures in a Comparative Context 186
19. Louis Dantin’s American Life 203
20. Transculturation and National Identity in the Novel Rojo, amarillo y verde by Alejandro Saravia 219
21. Looking beyond the Elephant: The Mexican Connection in Francine Noël’s La Conjuration des bâtards 231
22. Contributors 247
23. References 251
24. Index 283