Toward Establishing an—or the—“Archive” of African Canadian Literature

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Literary and Editorial Theory and Editing Marian Engel 17
6. “We think differently. We have a different understanding”: Editing Indigenous Texts as an Indigenous Editor 29
7. Toward Establishing an—or the—“Archive” of African Canadian Literature 41
8. Project Editing in Canada: Challenges and Compromises 57
9. Editing in Canada: The Case of L.M. Montgomery 75
10. The Material and Cultural Transformation of Scholarly Editing in Canada 93
11. Editing without Author(ity): Martha Ostenso, Periodical Studies, and the Digital Turn 105
12. Editing the Letters of Wilfred and Sheila Watson, 1956–1961: Scholarly Edition as Digital Practice 121
13. The Politics of Recovery and the Recovery of Politics: Editing Canadian Writing on the Spanish Civil War 139
14. Keeping the Code: Narrative and Nation in Donna Bennett and Russell Brown’s An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English 149
15. Performing Editors: Juggling Pedagogies in the Production of Canadian Literature in English: Texts and Contexts 169
16. Labours of Love and Cutting Remarks: The Affective Economies of Editing 189
17. bpNichol, Editor 199
18. Air, Water, Land, Light, and Language: Reflections on the Commons and Its Contents 211
19. The Ethically Incomplete Editor 225
20. Notes 239
21. Works Cited 249
22. About the Contributors 273
23. Index 279
24. Books in the TransCanada Series 296