Smaro Kamboureli, Larissa Lai

Broschiertes Buch

Land/Relations

Possibilities of Justice in Canadian Literatures

Herausgeber: Lai, Larissa; Kamboureli, Smaro

Beschreibung

1. Primary audience is Canadian literature scholars 2. Contributes directly to current conversations in both contemporary Canadian media and academic circles around the relationship between bodies and land. For instance, Jordan Abel's piece addresses the possibilities and difficulties of reclaiming Nishga/Nisga'a identity in the aftermath of the residential school experience. Karina Vernon's essay addresses how Black subjects might respond in a moment when they learn that the home they've been longing for is already inhabited. Dina Al-Kassim's essay addresses kinships of dispossession. 3. This book is an effort to steer Canadian literatures out of controversy for controversy's sake, and into a flow of productive, relation-building discussion. It does this by addressing the substance of Canadian and Turtle Island writing, particularly writing by Indigenous, Black and Asian writers. While it avoids empty controversy, it embraces rigorous argument. 4. Addresses issues related to Indigenous and diaspora literatures, settler culture, Black studies, Asian Canadian studies, decolonization, critical race studies, multiculturalism, land issues 5. Particularly for those interested in the concepts of intersectionality, solidarity, and relationality

Autor

Smaro Kamboureli is a professor and the Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature in the English Department at the University of Toronto. She is the founder of the TransCanada series of books, published by WLU Press, originating from interdisciplinary conferences that initiated collaborative research on the methodologies and institutional structures and contexts that inform and shape the production, dissemination, teaching, and study of Canadian literature. Her most recent publications include Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies (WLU Press 2012), co-edited with Robert Zacharias and Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace (WLU Press, 2013), co-edited with Kit Dobson. Larissa Lai is the author of two novels, When Fox Is a Thousand and Salt Fish Girl. A recipient of the Astraea Foundation Emerging Writers' Award, she has been shortlisted for the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Tiptree Award, and the Dorothy Livesay Prize. She is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 150mm x 231mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781771125109
• ISBN-10: 1771125101
• Artikelnr.: 60211176