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1. Front Matter i
2. Table of Contents iii
3. Preface v
4. Is Canada Postcolonial? Introducing the Question 1
5. Questioning Canadian Postcolonialism
6. What Was Canada? 27
7. What Resides in the Question, “Is Canada Postcolonial?” 40
8. Canada and Postcolonialism: Questions, Inventories, and Futures 49
9. Looking Elsewhere for Answers to the Postcolonial Question: From Literary Studies to State Policy in Canada 78
10. Postcolonial Methodologies
11. The Absence of Seaming, Or How I Almost Despair of Dancing: How Postcolonial Are Canada’s Literary Institutions and Critical Practices? 97
12. Native Writing, Academic Theory: Post-colonialism across the Cultural Divide 111
13. Nostalgic Narratives and the Otherness Industry 127
14. Cool Dots and a Hybrid Scarborough: Multiculturalism as Canadian Myth 140
15. Is Canadian Literature Postcolonial?
16. Imagining Eighteenth-Century Quebec: British Literature and Colonial Rhetoric 151
17. “I too am a Canadian”: John Richardson’s The Canadian Brothers as Postcolonial Narrative 162
18. Are We There Yet? Reading the “Post-Colonial” and The Imperialist in Canada 177
19. Figures of Collection and (Post)Colonial Processes in Major John Richardson’s Wacousta and Thomas King’s Truth and Bright Water 190
20. Stolen Life? Reading through Two I’s in Postcolonial Collaborative Autobiography 207
21. “A Place to Stand On”: (Post)colonial Identity in The Diviners and “The Rain Child” 223
22. A“Place” through Language: Postcolonial Implications of Mennonite/s Writing in Western Canada 238
23. What’s Immigration Got to Do with It? Postcolonialism and Shifting Notions of Exile in Nino Ricci’s Italian-Canadians 252
24. Religion, Postcolonial Side-by-sidedness, and la transculture 268
25. After Postcolonialism: Migrant Lines and the Politics of Form in Fred Wah, M. Nourbese Philip, and Roy Miki 282
26. Meditations on the Question
27. Is Canada a Postcolonial Country? 297
28. Answering the Questions 300
29. Answering the Answers, Asking More Questions 312
30. Afterword 318
31. Bibliography 325
32. Notes on Contributors 352
33. Index 358