University of Toronto Press
Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Québec
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About this book
Author / Editor information
Roxanne Rimstead is a professor in the Département Lettres et communications, Université de Sherbrooke.
Beneventi Domenic A. :
Domenico A. Beneventi is an associate professor in the Département Lettres et communications, Université de Sherbrooke.
Reviews
"This excellent collection of fifteen essays by renowned scholars focuses on contested spaces and alternative or counternarratives. It invites rereading or reinterpreting of well-trodden ground and explores different voices and spaces in the discussion of the social meaning around space."
Jody Mason, Department of English Language and Literature, Carleton University:
"Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Québec is an important and compelling edited collection that will add complexity and nuance to Canadian and Québécois literary and cultural studies. Deploying new materialist approaches to analyse present and historical contested spaces/spaces of contestation, including those that are embodied, the essays attend to processes of spatialization that are rarely noticed."
Will Straw, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University:
"Contested Spaces showcases editors and authors at the top of their game, with a clear sense of the field of Canadian literary studies and the capacity to interest some of its most interesting practitioners."
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Reading Space through Conflict
1 - Part I: Contested Urban Spaces
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1. Culture and Critique during Mega-Events: The 2010 Olympics and the Right to the City
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2. The Ambivalence of Enclosed Spaces in Immigrant Fiction: Between Refuge and Prison
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3. Montréal Marginalities: Revisiting Boulevard Saint-Laurent
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4. Heterotopia and Its Discontents: Exploring Spatial, Social, and Textual Liminality in Rawi Hage’s Cockroach
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5. “Laisser-aller”: Homelessness and Contained Space in Kobo Abe’s The Box Man and Robert Majzels’s City of Forgetting
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6. Unruly and Unremarked: Theatrical Spectatorship from Below in Nineteenth-century Canada
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7. Women’s Space in Postcolonial Perspective: France Théoret’s Une belle éducation and Assia Djebar’s Nulle part dans la maison de mon père
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8. For King and Country? War and Indigenous Masculinity
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9. Reclaiming Indigenous Space through Testimonial Life Writing: An Antane Kapesh’s Je suis une maudite Sauvagesse as Territorial Imperative
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10. Norman Bethune and the Contested Spaces of Canadian Public Memory
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11. Knowing the Urban Other: Notes on the Ethics and Epistemology of Slumming in Novels and Reportage
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12. “You Should Think about It, Think What It Means”: Working Girls in Canadian Women’s Writing
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13. Border-Crossings and Alternative Social Spaces in Gabrielle Roy’s Bonheur d’occasion / The Tin Flute
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14. Growing Up Poor and Female in Montréal, 1930–1960: Women’s Autobiographies as Counter-narratives
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15. Tramping across the Nation: Homeless Embodiment in Canadian Literature
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Afterword
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List of Contributors
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Index
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