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"Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Qubec explores strategies for reading space and conflict in Canadian and Qubcois literature and cultural performances, positing questions such as: how do these texts and performances produce and contest spatial practices? What are the roles of the nation, city, community, and individual subject in reproducing space, particularly in times of global hegemony and neocolonialism? And in what ways do marginalized individuals and communities represent, contest, or appropriate spaces through counter-narratives and expressions of culture from below? Focusing on discord rather than harmony and consensus, this collection disturbs the idealized space of Canadian multicultural pluralism to carry literary analysis and cultural studies into spaces often undetected and unforeseen including flophouses and ""slums,"" shantytowns and urban alleyways, underground spaces and peep shows, and inner-city urban parks as they are experienced by minorities and other marginalized groups. These essays are the products of sustained, high-level collaboration across French and English academic communities in Canada to facilitate theoretical exchange on the topic of space and contestation, uncover geographies of exclusion, and generate new spaces of hope in the spirit of pioneering works by Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau, Doreen Massey, David Harvey, and other prominent theorists of space."

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Author:   Roxanne Rimstead ,  Domenic A. Beneventi
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.700kg
ISBN:  

9781442629905

ISBN 10:   1442629908
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   28 February 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgements Introduction: Reading Space Through Conflict ROXANNE RIMSTEAD and DOMENICO A. BENEVENTI (Université de Sherbrooke) Part I: Contested Urban Spaces Chapter 1 : Culture and Critique During Mega-Events: The 2010 Olympics and the Right to the City JEFF DERKSEN (Simon Fraser University) Chapter 2: The Ambivalence of Enclosed Spaces in Immigrant Fiction: Between Refuge and Prison AMARYLL CHANADY (Université de Montréal) Chapter 3: Montreal Marginalities: Revisiting Boulevard Saint-Laurent SHERRY SIMON (Concordia University) Chapter 4: Heterotopia and Its Discontents: Exploring Spatial, Social, and Textual Liminality in Rawi Hage’s Cockroach RITA SAKR (University of London) Chapter 5: ""Laisser-aller"": Homelessness and Contained Space in Kobo Abe’s The Box Man and Robert Majzels’s City of Forgetting SIMON HAREL (Université de Montréal) Part II : Counter-Narratives and Spaces of the Nation/State Chapter 6: Unruly and Unremarked: Theatrical Spectatorship from Below in Nineteenth-Century Canada ALAN FILEWOD (University of Guelph) Chapter 7: Women’s Space in Postcolonial Perspective: France Théoret’s Une belle éducation and Assia Djebar’s Nulle part dans la maison de mon père MARY JEAN GREEN (Dartmouth College) Chapter 8: For King and Country? : War and Indigenous Masculinity DEENA RYMHS (University of British Columbia) Chapter 9: Reclaiming Indigenous Space through Testimonial Life Writing: An Antane Kapesh’s Je suis une maudite Sauvagesse as Territorial Imperative NATASHA DAGENAIS (Université de Sherbrooke) Chapter 10: Norman Bethune and the Contested Spaces of Canadian Public Memory CANDIDA RIFKIND (University of Winnipeg) Part III: Culture from Below Chapter 11 : Knowing the Urban Other: Notes on the Ethics and Epistemology of Slumming in Novels and Reportage ROXANNE RIMSTEAD (Université de Sherbrooke) Chapter 12: ""You Should Think about It, Think What It Means"": Working Girls in Canadian Women’s Writing PATRICIA DEMERS (University of Alberta) Chapter 13: Border-Crossings and Alternative Social Spaces in Gabrielle Roy’s Bonheur d’occasion / The Tin Flute D. M. R. BENTLEY (Western University) Chapter 14: Growing Up Poor and Female in Montreal, 1930-1960: Women’s Autobiographies as Counter-Narratives PATRICIA SMART (Carleton University) Chapter 15: Tramping Across the Nation: Homeless Embodiment in Canadian Literature DOMENICO A. BENEVENTI (Université de Sherbrooke) Afterword"

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This excellent collection of fifteen essays by renowned scholars focuses on contested spaces and alternative or counternarratives. It invites rereading or reinterpreting of well-trodden ground and explores different voices and spaces in the discussion of the social meaning around space. -- Jane Koustas, Brock University * <em>Journal of Contemporary Drama in English</em> *

"""This excellent collection of fifteen essays by renowned scholars focuses on contested spaces and alternative or counternarratives. It invites rereading or reinterpreting of well-trodden ground and explores different voices and spaces in the discussion of the social meaning around space."" -- Jane Koustas, Brock University * <em>Journal of Contemporary Drama in English</em> *"

Contested Spaces showcases editors and authors at the top of their game, with a clear sense of the field of Canadian literary studies and the capacity to interest some of its most interesting practitioners. - Will Straw, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Quebec is an important and compelling edited collection that will add complexity and nuance to Canadian and Quebecois literary and cultural studies. Deploying new materialist approaches to analyse present and historical contested spaces/spaces of contestation, including those that are embodied, the essays attend to processes of spatialization that are rarely noticed. - Jody Mason, Department of English Language and Literature, Carleton University

Author Information

Roxanne Rimstead is a professor in the Département Lettres et communications, Université de Sherbrooke. Domenico A. Beneventi is an associate professor in the Département Lettres et communications, Université de Sherbrooke.

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