Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I: PRESENT TENSE -- Diaspora and Nation in Métis Writing -- Canadian Indian Literary Nationalism? Critical Approaches in Canadian Indigenous Contexts-A Collaborative Interlogue -- Breaking the Framework of Representational Violence: Testimonial Publics, Memorial Arts, and a Critique of Postcolonial Violence (the Pickton Trial) -- "Grammars of Exchange": The "Oriental Woman" in the Global Market -- II: PAST PARTICIPLES -- Unhomely Moves: A.M. Klein, Jewish Diasporic Difference, Racialization, and Coercive Whiteness -- Asian Canadian Critical Practice as Commemoration -- Diasporic Longings: (Re)Figurations of Home and Homelessness in Richard Wagamese's Work -- Afro-Caribbean Writing in Canada and the Politics of Migrant Labour Mobility -- III: FUTURE IMPERFECT -- Racialized Diasporas, Entangled Postmemories, and Kyo Maclear's The Letter Opener -- Underwater Signposts: Richard Fung's Islands and Enabling Nostalgia -- "Phoenicia ≠ Lebanon": Transsexual Poetics as Poetics of the Body within and across the Nation -- Word Warriors: Indigenous Political Consciousness in Prison -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Considers how the terms of critical debate in literary and cultural studies in Canada have shifted with respect to race, nation, and difference. In asking how Indigenous and diasporic interventions have remapped these debates, the contributors argue that a new "cultural grammar" is at work and sketch out how it operates.

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