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ReVisions
Speculating in Literature and Film in Canada
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Wendy Roy
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English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
ReVisions examines speculative fiction, film, and television created by artists in Canada and reflecting their distinct experiences. Bringing together critical and creative works by eighteen different authors, the book re-envisions Canadian politics, cultures, and societies and asks important questions about representations of our world.
The collection examines the realm of the past through a futuristic, speculative lens, asking readers to revise their understandings of past events and current relationships. Editor Wendy Roy assembles a variety of investigations of Canada and the larger world, including studies of the use of apocalyptic and dystopian scenarios by Indigenous writers to revisit Canada’s history of colonization. The varied contributions demonstrate that speculative writing can help us to see what is happening in the world around us and at the same time to re-envision it, to reconsider the consequences of our actions, and to imagine revised and perhaps better futures.
Author / Editor information
Contributor: Wendy Roy
Wendy Roy is Bateman professor in the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
ix - Introduction
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ReVisions: Speculating in Literature and Film in Canada
1 - Connecting Past to Future: Anishinaabe Knowledge, Archives, and the Cold War
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Horrors of Northern Development: (Anti-)Capitalist Infrastructure and Anishinaabe Knowledge in Moon of the Crusted Snow
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Speculative Archives in Novels by Thomas King and Larissa Lai: Hope in the Midst of Crisis
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Speculative Fiction and Historiographic Metafiction: The Cold War in Contemporary Apocalyptic Literary Canada, Coast to Coast
67 - Interlude
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Interrupting the Fire with Story: An Interview with Cherie Dimaline
85 - Crossing Over: Dystopian and Posthuman Futures for Young People
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Indigenous Resurgence and Resistance in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves and Hunting by Stars
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Posthuman Girlhoods in Canadian Young Adult Science Fiction
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Climate Change and the Girl Body: Hope and the Dystopian Future in Three Novels by Monica Hughes
139 - Interlude
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Othering ad Infinitum: A Critical-Creative Examination of the Secular and Spiritual in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring
161 - Creating Communities: Consumption and Hunger in Dystopian Cities and Prisons
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Small Acts of Urban Place-Making in Nalo Hopkinson’s Skin Folk
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The Possibilities of Prison Food in Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last
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“Like the Voice of a Mad Angel”: Hungry Ghosts in Kai Cheng Thom’s Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir
225 - Interlude
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Someone Is Dead
247 - Apocalyptic World-Making: Comic Books, Enclosed Spaces, and Short Stories
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Other Worlds within Other Worlds: Comics World-Building and Identity Formation in Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven
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Gender Oppression through Enclosed Spaces in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy
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“Show Me You’re Still Human”: Uncertainty and Humanity in Apocalyptic Short Stories by Canadian Women Writers
303 - Interlude
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Children of the Affect
329 - Gender and Indigeneity: Apocalyptic and Dystopian Film and Television
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What If the Natives Were Immune? Dismembering Colonial Masculinity in Jeff Barnaby’s Blood Quantum
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Vision and Re-Visioning in The Handmaid’s Tale and Two Adaptations
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“I’m Not Your Personal Manic Pixie Assassin”: Reading Killjoys’ Tough Woman through an Alien Lens
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Contributors
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Index
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Publishing information
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November 21, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9781487567590
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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392
eBook ISBN:
9781487567590
Keywords for this book
speculative fiction; Canadian literature; science fiction; fantasy; dystopian fiction; apocalyptic narratives; Indigenous writers; colonization; Canadian politics; Canadian culture; future studies; film studies
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
