Introduction: Disturbing Images -- - The Poor in the National Imaginary -- - The Power of Images -- - Poverty Narratives: A New Category of Analysis -- - The Gender of Poverty -- - Fictioning' a Literature -- - Beyond Literature: Ordinary Voices -- - Populist Motives -- - Cultural Critique as Social Therapy -- - Testimony and Radical Knowledge -- - Visits and Homecomings -- - Susanna Moodie: Poverty and Vice -- - Nellie McClung: Social Gospel Rescue -- - Gabrielle Roy: Everyday Struggle as Resistance -- - 'We Live in a Rickety House': Social Boundaries and Poor Housing -- - A Genealogy of Poor Houses -- - Alice Munro's Gaze -- from a Distance -- - Homeplace and 'Bugs' -- - Theories and Anti-Theory: On Knowing Poor Women -- - Anti-Theory, Anti-What? -- - Subjectivities -- - Theories of the Classed and Gendered Subject -- - Understanding as Opposed to Mapping Subjectivities -- - Subverting 'Poor Me': Negative Constructions of Identity -- - Cy-Thea Sand's Cultural Smuggling -- - Maria Campbell's Halfbreed and Alternative Status-Honour Groups -- - The Poor as Colonized Subjects -- - Decolonizing Poor Subjects through Autobiography -- - 'Organized Forgetting' -- - On Autobiographical Memories of Poverty, Class, Gender, and Nation -- - Poverty as Distant Landscape: Edna Jaques -- - Class Travelling with Fredelle Bruser Maynard -- - 'Remnants of Nation' -- - Poverty and Nation as Reciprocal Constructions -- - Saving the Nation: The Diviners -- - Strategies of Containment and Exclusion -- - Counter-national Testimonies -- - The Long View: Contexts of Oppositional Criticism
