Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Archive of Embodiment: Pauline Johnson’s “A Cry from an Indian Wife” 17
6. 2. Her “Eye” Was Her “I”: Emily Carr, Autobiography, and the Archive of Kinship 44
7. 3. “It’s What You [Don’t] Say”: Sheila Watson, the Imminent Narrative, and the Archive of Displacement 76
8. 4. Jane Rule and the Archive of Activism: Negotiating Imaginative – and Literal – Space for a Nation 107
9. 5. The “Minor” Archive: M. NourbeSe Philip and Mediations of Race and Gender in Canada 148
10. Conclusion 176
11. Notes 181
12. Works Cited 215
13. Index 231