Unhomely states : theorizing English-Canadian postcolonialism

Sugars, Cynthia Conchita, 1963- (Added Author).

Summary: "Unhomely States is the first collection of foundational essays of Canadian postcolonial theory. The essays span the period from 1965 to the present day and approach broad issues of Canadian culture and society. They represent the impassioned conflicts, dissonances, and intersections among postcolonial theorists in English Canada."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 1551114372 :
ISBN: 9781551114378 :
Physical Description: 382 p. ; 22 cm.
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Publisher: Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, c2004.

Content descriptions

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Introduction : unhomely states -- 1. From lament for a nation : the defeat of Canadian nationalism / George Grant -- 2. From "conclusion to A literary history of Canada" / Northrop Frye -- 3. From Survival : a thematic guide to Canadian literature / Margaret Atwood -- 4. Another preface to an uncollected anthology : Canadian criticism in a commonwealth context / R. T. Robertson -- 5. Editorial to the journal of Canadian fiction / John Moss -- 6. Cadence, country, silence : writing in colonial space / Dennis Lee -- 7. Disunity as unity : a Canadian strategy / Robert Kroetsch -- 8. 'Circling the downspout of empire' : post-colonialism and postmodernism / Linda Hutcheon -- 9. The white inuit speaks : contamination as literary strategy / Diana Brydon -- 10. English Canada's postcolonial complexities / Donna Bennett -- 11. Unsettling the empire : resistance theory for the second world / Stephen Slemon -- 12. Postcolonial theory and the 'settler' subject / Alan Lawson -- 13. Reading postcoloniality, reading Canada / Diana Brydon -- 14. Godzilla vs. post-colonial / Thomas King -- 15. Semiotic control : native peoples in Canadian literatures in English / Terry Goldie -- 16. The 'post-colonial' imagination / Lee Maracle -- 17. Unfolding the lessons of colonization / Marie Battiste -- 18. Canadian (tw)ink : surviving the white-outs / Gary Boire -- 19. 'Olga in wonderland' : Canadian ethnic minority writing and post-colonial theory / Enoch Padolsky -- 20. How shall we read South Asian Canadian texts? / Arun Mukherjee -- 21. What use is ethnicity to aboriginal peoples in Canada? / Margery Fee -- 22. 'A tough geography' : towards a poetics of black space(s) in Canada / Rinaldo Walcott -- 23. Geography lessons : on being an insider/outsider to the Canadian nation / Himani Bannerji -- 24. Sliding the scale of elision : 'race' constructs/cultural praxis / Roy Miki -- 25. To essentialize or not to essentialize : is this the question? / Sherene Razack -- 26. Transvestic sites : postcolonialism, pedagogy, and politics / Richard Cavell -- 27. Critical correspondences : the diasporic critic's (self)-location / Smaro Kamboureli -- 28. Always indigenizel : the radical humanities in the postcolonial Canadian university / Len Findlay.