Land/Relations examines colonial, national, historical, and social relations that have given shape to a body of literature in Canada and the politics and possibilities of solidarity across geography and communities, bridging genres and critical methods to propose new directions for cultural accountability and critique. Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part I "open the portal": Connective Counter-Memory -- Agency, Urgency, Insurgency -- Introduction -- The TransCanada Project and CanLit: A Microhistory -- Literature, Language, Culture: At Mikinaakominis -- Part II "the ghosts pile up with the toxic mistakes": Hauntings and Other Returns -- river sisters -- Positioning Intergenerational Trauma: Nisga'a Nationalism and the Materiality of Marius Barbeau's Totem Poles -- Listening at Mikinaakominis / TransCanadas 2017 -- Back to the Future: Black Canada's Past and Present, or the Changing Same -- Neoliberal Gothic, Settler Social Imaginaries, and the Case for Decolonization on Two Fronts -- Re-storying and Restoring the Buffalo to the Indigenous Plains -- Part III "tinder conscience": Formations Otherwise -- CLI -- CLII -- Federal State, Feral Culture: (Not)Withstanding Canada around Its 150th Year -- Between Empire and Nation: Synchronicity and Revolution in Chinese Canadian Writing -- Diplomacy before Reconciliation -- From Islamophobia to Islamophilia?: Dancing Orientalisms, Islamizing Muslims, and the Unspeakability of the Muslim Woman Subject -- Part IV "in there, together": Land Intimacies -- Deliberate Vulgarity: Performing the Demotic, Transforming Cultural Space? -- "Making Things Right": Black Settlement and the Politics of Urban Territory -- Listing Waters: The Poetics of Solidarity in Mahmoud Darwish and Rita Wong -- Living on Unceded Indigenous Territories: Vancouver as a Site of Conflict in Building Alliance and Autonomy in Decolonial Struggles -- Landsensing: Body, Territory, Relation -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- V -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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