Overview

Digital Memory Agents in Canada explores memory performances and representations with different cultural and spatial relationships to Canada. It moves from discourses on place to focus on the digital or virtual space and on how certain cultures, subjectivities, or positionalities use digital media to document or represent their recollections. Embracing interdisciplinary approaches, the contributors investigate how digital media, like memories, can transcend space and time to impact individuals and communities. Chapters examine memorialization, documentation, and online activism; aesthetic productions and counter-productions of identity in literature, film, and beyond; queer and feminist archiving and consciousness-raising; and Indigenous, Métis, and Black narratives of resistance. These are narratives and research models that disrupt Canadian, hegemonic, colonial, white-centric, and patriarchal beliefs. Digital Memory Agents in Canada will be of interest to scholars and students specializing in memory studies, digital humanities, film and media studies, and cultural studies. Contributors: Jim Clifford, Matthew Cormier, Erika Dyck, Craig Harkema, Caroline Hodes, Russell J. A. Kilbourn, Jordan B. Kinder, Anna Kozak, Braidon Schaufert, Amanda Spallacci, Matthew Tétreault, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, Stephen Webb

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Author:   Matthew Cormier (Assistant Professor, Université de Moncton) ,  Amanda Spallacci
Publisher:   University of Alberta Press
Imprint:   University of Alberta Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.375kg
ISBN:  

9781772127447

ISBN 10:   1772127442
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   29 October 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Draft Table of Contents Introduction: Digital Memory Agents in Canada / MATTHEW CORMIER, AMANDA SPALLACCI 1. Digital History Making During a Crisis: A COVID-19 Archive / JIM CLIFFORD, ERIKA DYCK, CRAIG HARKEMA 2. From Counter-Memory to Legislative Reform: Sexual Assault Activism on Social Media in Canada / AMANDA SPALLACCI 3. “I Make In Rem—Against the World—the Following Order”: Survivor Agency and Refusal in the Independent Assessment Process’ Digital Memory / CAROLINE HODES 4. Virtual Museum Tours: Queer Nostalgic Pasts and Utopic Futures in Canadian Nightlife Memories / BRAIDON SCHAUFERT 5. Counter-Cartographies and Activist Archives: Mapping Canadian Extractivism and its Resistance in Brian Holmes’ Petropolis / JORDAN B. KINDER 6. Socially Mediatized Identities vs. The Law of the Heart: Posthuman Memory in Sophie Deraspe’s Antigone / RUSSELL J. A. KILBOURN 7. “You Are Not One Thing”: Narrative and Memory in Zalika Reid-Benta’s Frying Plantain / UCHECHUKWU PETER UMEZURIKE 8. Toward a Literary Métis Homeland: A Digital Analysis Comparing the Poetry of Louis Riel to Gregory Scofield’s Louis: The Heretic Poems and Marilyn Dumont’s The Pemmican Eaters / MATTHEW TÉTREAULT, STEPHEN WEBB 9. Beyond Borders and Belonging: Queer (Un)belonging in Dionne Brand’s Thirsty / ANNA KOZAK 10. Through the Digital Prism of Acadian Identity: Aesthetics, Politics, and Counterculture / MATTHEW CORMIER Contributors

Reviews

“The subject of this volume is the next frontier of memory studies.” Julia Creet, York University “The contributors develop critical perspectives on issues of settler colonialism and racism, and advance politically informed perspectives on queer issues, identitarian issues, and social justice.” Joshua Synenko, Trent University

Author Information

Matthew Cormier is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the Université de Moncton. Amanda Spallacci is Lecturer in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta.

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