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Figures --Acknowledgments --Introduction: Unarchiving the literary event /Jason Camlot,Katherine McLeod --Part one: Archives of Canada's cultural production.CBC radio's digital archives and the production of Canadian citizenship and culture /Linda Morra --Othertalk: Conversational events in the Roy Kiyooka digital audio archive /Deanna Fong --Poetry on TV: Unarchiving Phyllis Webb's CBC-TV program, Extension (1967) /Katherine McLeod --Canadian pulp fictions: Unarchiving genre fiction as CanLit /Marcelle Kosman --Voices kept in context: Underpinning and not unpinning the recordings found in literary archives /Catherine Hobbs --Part two: Archival lacunae and the mediated event.Archival spectres and formats of the event: The foster poetry conference, 1963 /Jason Camlot --"It's all a curious dream": Nostalgia, old media, and the Vancouver poetry conferernce, 1963 /Karis Shearer --Linguistic therapy, c. 1973: Archival traces from Véhicule's press /Felicity Tayler --Listening to the unscripted: Aura and experience in Irving Layton's televisual archives /Joel Deshaye --Traces of a feminist literary event: Women and words, 1983 /Andrea Beverley --Salvage modernisms: Indigenous knowledges, digital repatriation, and reconciliation /Dean Irvine --Part three: Archives of the present.Is the TRC a text? /Clint Burnham --The material of Palinodic time: Sounding the voice of Lisa Robertson's archival poetics /Jessi MacEachern --Unfolding echoes: Temporal frames and resituated archives in digital poetics /Karl Jirgens --Excerpt from an audio recording (from a presentation at the TransCanada conference at the University of Toronto) /Jordan Abel --The archive in motion /Darren Wershler --Contributors --Index. "The materials we turn to for the construction of our literary pasts--the texts, performances, and discussions selected for storage and cataloguing in archives--shape what we know and teach about literature today. The ways in which archival materials have been structured into forms of preservation, in turn, impact their transference and transformation into new forms of presentation and re-presentation. Exploring the production of culture through and outside of the archives that preserve and produce CanLit as an entity, CanLit Across Media asserts that CanLit arises from acts of archival, critical, and creative analysis. Each chapter investigates, challenges, and provokes this premise by examining methods of "unarchiving" Canadian and Indigenous literary texts and events from the 1950s to the present. Engaging with a remediated archive, or "unarchiving," allows the authors and editors to uncover how the materials that document past acts of literary production are transformed into new forms and experiences in the present. The chapters consider literature and literary events that occurred before live audiences or were broadcast, and which are now recorded in print publications and documents, drawings, photographs, flat disc records, magnetic tape, film, videotape, and digitized files. Showcasing the range of methods and theories researchers use to engage with these materials, CanLit Across Media reanimates archives of cultural meaning and literary performance."--
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