Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-264) and index.

Machine generated contents note: I. Present Tense -- Diaspora and Nation in Metis Writing / Sophie McCall -- Canadian Indian Literary Nationalism? Critical Approaches in Canadian Indigenous Contexts---A Collaborative Interlogue / Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair -- Breaking the Framework of Representational Violence: Testimonial Publics, Memorial Arts, and a Critique of Postcolonial Violence (the Pickton Trial) / Julia Emberley -- "Grammars of Exchange": The "Oriental Woman" in the Global Market / Belen Martin-Lucas -- II. Past Participles -- Unhomely Moves: A.M. Klein, Jewish Diasporic Difference, Racialization, and Coercive Whiteness / Melina Baum Singer -- Asian Canadian Critical Practice as Commemoration / Christopher Lee -- Diasporic Longings: (Re)Figurations of Home and Homelessness in Richard Wagamese's Work / Renate Eigenbrod -- Afro-Caribbean Writing in Canada and the Politics of Migrant Labour Mobility / Jody Mason -- III. Future Imperfect -- Racialized Diasporas, Entangled Postmemories, and Kyo Maclear's The Letter Opener / Christine Kim -- Underwater Signposts: Richard Fung's Islands and Enabling Nostalgia / Lily Cho -- "Phoenicia [≠] Lebanon": Transsexual Poetics as Poetics of the Body within and across the Nation / Alessandra Capperdoni -- Word Warriors: Indigenous Political Consciousness in Prison / Deena Rymhs.

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