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Imagining Vancouvers

Burning Water, Ana Historic, and the Literary (Un)Settling of the Pacific Coast
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Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Introduction vii
  4. A Usable Past? New Questions, New Directions
  5. “A Trading Shop So Crooked A Man Could Jump Through The Cracks” 3
  6. Past Lives 21
  7. The Orange Devil 39
  8. State Of Shock 53
  9. “And They May Get It Wrong, After All” 67
  10. Unconventional Voices: Fiction Versus Recorded History
  11. Windigo Killing 83
  12. Telling A Better Story 99
  13. The Racialization Of Canadian History 113
  14. Turning The Tables 131
  15. Literary Histories, Regional Contexts
  16. “To Free Itself, And Find Itself” 151
  17. “Old Lost Land” 167
  18. Imagining Vancouvers 183
  19. Too Little Geography; Too Much History 197
  20. References 215
  21. Contributors 237
  22. Index 241
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https://doi.org/10.51644/9781554581610-013

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Introduction vii
  4. A Usable Past? New Questions, New Directions
  5. “A Trading Shop So Crooked A Man Could Jump Through The Cracks” 3
  6. Past Lives 21
  7. The Orange Devil 39
  8. State Of Shock 53
  9. “And They May Get It Wrong, After All” 67
  10. Unconventional Voices: Fiction Versus Recorded History
  11. Windigo Killing 83
  12. Telling A Better Story 99
  13. The Racialization Of Canadian History 113
  14. Turning The Tables 131
  15. Literary Histories, Regional Contexts
  16. “To Free Itself, And Find Itself” 151
  17. “Old Lost Land” 167
  18. Imagining Vancouvers 183
  19. Too Little Geography; Too Much History 197
  20. References 215
  21. Contributors 237
  22. Index 241
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