Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: Negotiating Meaning in Changing Times 1
5. “Whirlwinds Coiled at My Heart”: Voice and Vision in a Writer’s Practice 21
6. Collaboration, Crosstalk, Improvisation
7. Voicing the Unforeseeable: Improvisation, Social Practice, Collaborative Research 39
8. Epistemological Crosstalk: Between Melancholia and Spiritual Cosmology in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant and Lee Maracle’s Daughters Are Forever 53
9. Native Performance Culture, Monique Mojica, and the Chocolate Woman Workshops 73
10. Collaboration and Convention in the Poetry of Pain Not Bread 95
11. Dialogism, Polyphony, Voice
12. Rejoinders in a Planetary Dialogue: J. M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, Lloyd Jones, et al. in Dialogue with Absent Texts 111
13. Not Just Representation: The Sound and Concrete Poetries of The Four Horsemen 135
14. Portraits of the Artist in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For and Madeleine Thien’s Certainty 151
15. Unsettling Voices: Dionne Brand’s Cosmopolitan Cities 169
16. Questions of Voice, Race, and the Body in Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms and Larissa Lai’s When Fox Is a Thousand 185
17. Space, Place, and Circulation
18. The Artialisation of Landscape in Jane Urquhart’s The Whirlpool 199
19. Ghostly Voices and Arctic Blanks: From Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights to Jane Urquhart’s Changing Heaven 215
20. “You must see to understand …”: Orientalist Clichés and Transformation in Robert Lepage’s The Dragons’ Trilogy 225
21. Diasporic Appropriations: Exporting South Asian Culture from Canada 241
22. Negotiating Belonging in Global Times: The Hérouxville Debates 253
23. Works Cited 273
24. The Contributors 299
25. Index 303