Introduction Shifting the Ground of a Discipline: Emergence and Canadian Literary Studies in English

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Preface xi
5. Shifting the Ground of a Discipline: Emergence and Canadian Literary Studies in English 1
6. National Literatures in the Shadow of Neoliberalism 37
7. “Beyond CanLit(e)”: Reading. Interdisciplinarity. Transatlantically. 65
8. White Settlers and the Biopolitics of State Building in Canada 87
9. “Some Great Crisis”: Vimy as Originary Violence 109
10. Amplifying Threat: Reasonable Accommodations and Quebec’s Bouchard-Taylor Commission Hearings (2007) 129
11. The Time Has Come: Self and Community Articulations in Colour. An Issue and Awakening Thunder 151
12. Archivable Concepts: Talonbooks and Literary Translation 173
13. Is CanLit Lost in Japanese Translation? 187
14. The Cunning of Reconciliation: Reinventing White Civility in the “Age of Apology” 209
15. The Long March to “Recognition”: Sákéj Henderson, First Nations Jurisprudence, and Sui Generis Solidarity 235
16. bush/writing: embodied deconstruction, traces of community, and writing against the state in indigenous acts of inscription 249
17. Notes 269
18. Works Cited 303
19. Contributors 331
20. Index 335
21. Books in the TransCanada Series 350