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Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario
Contemporary Counter Memories and Narratives --ch. OneRecuperating Indigenous Narratives: Making Legible the Documenting of Injustices /Deanna Reder --ch. Two"I write this for all of you": Recovering the Unpublished RCMP "Incident" in Maria...
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Contemporary Counter Memories and Narratives --ch. OneRecuperating Indigenous Narratives: Making Legible the Documenting of Injustices /Deanna Reder --ch. Two"I write this for all of you": Recovering the Unpublished RCMP "Incident" in Maria Campbell's Halfbreed (1973) /Alix Shield --ch. ThreeTelling Harm: Time, Redress, and Canadian Literature /Benjamin Authers --ch. FourModified Seeds and Morphemes: Going from Farm to Page /Laura Moss --SECTION TWOUnbecoming Narratives --ch. FiveLandscape, Citizenship, and Belonging /Shani Mootoo --ch. SixUntold Bodies: Failing Gender in Canada's Past and Future /Kit Dobson --ch. SevenThresholds of Sustainability: Cassils' and Emma Donoghue's Counter-Narratives /Libe Garcia Zarranz --ch. EightUnsustainable: Lyric Intervention in Vivek Shraya's even thispage is white /Erin Wunker --ch. NineUntold Stories of Slavery: Performing Pregnancy and Racial Futurity in Beatrice Chancy /Kailin Wright --ch. TenAuthors and Archives: The Writers' Union of Canada and the Promulgation of Canadian Literary Papers /Erin Ramlo --SECTION THREEMemories from Below and Beyond the Border --ch. ElevenThe Vietnam Era Resisters Who Shaped Canada's Ceramic Heritage /Mary Ann Steggles --ch. TwelveWho Can Tell? Photographic Histories and Counter-Histories of Mennonite Communities in Canada /Martha Langford --ch. ThirteenWho Gets Remembered? Gender and Art in the Early Twentieth Century /Jacques Des Rochers --ch. FourteenGerman Internment Camps in the Maritimes: Another Untold Story in RS. Duffy's The Cartographer of No Man's Land /Jennifer Andrews --SECTION FOURRhetorical Renegotiations --ch. FifteenThe Story Behind the Story, or the Untold Story? John Coulter's Perceptions of a Canadian Tragic Hero, Louis Riel /Krisztina Kodo --ch. SixteenSupra Legem Interruptio: Losing Louis Riel (and His Interruptive Return) /Gregory Betts --ch. SeventeenThomas D'Arcy McGee and Louis Riel: Minority Nationalists, Extreme Moderates /Margery Fee --ch. EighteenBefore Secret Path: Residential School Memoirs from the 1970s /Linda Warley. "On the Other Side(s) of 150 explores the different literary, historical and cultural legacies of Canada's sesquicentennial celebrations. It asks vital questions about the ways that histories and stories have been suppressed and invites consideration about what happens once a commemorative moment has passed. Like a Cubist painting, this modality offers a critical strategy by which also to approach the volume as dismantling, reassembling, and re-enacting existing commemorative tropes; as offering multiple, conditional, and contingent viewpoints that unfold over time; and as generating a broader (although far from being comprehensive) range of counter-memorial performances. The chapters in this volume are thus provisional, interconnected, and adaptive: they offer critical assemblages by which to approach commemorative narratives or showcase lacunae therein; by which to return to and intervene in ongoing readings of the past from the present moment; and by which not necessarily to resolve, but rather to understand the troubled and troubling narratives of the present moment. Contributors propose that these preoccupations are not a means of turning away from present concerns, but rather a means of grappling with how the past informs or is shaped to inform them; and how such concerns are defined by immediate social contexts and networks."--
