Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory
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Introduction Thinking Beyond Nostalgia: Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory PART I: SITES OF MEMORY: CULTURAL AMNESIA AND THE DEMANDS OF PLACE Globalization and Cultural Memory: Perspectives from the Periphery on the Post-National Disassembly of Place Putting Things in Their Place: The Syncrude Gallery of Aboriginal Culture and the Idiom of Majority History Lieux d'oubli: The Forgotten North of Canadian Literature Design and Disappearance: Visual Nostalgias and the Canadian Company Town Preserving "the echoing rooms of yesterday": Al Purdy's A-frame and the Place of Writers' Houses in Canada PART II: MEMORY TRANSFERENCE: POSTMEMORY, RE-MEMORY, AND FORGETTING Learning Sauerkraut: Ethnic Food, Cultural Memory, and Traces of Mennonite Identity in Alayna Munce's When I Was Young and In My Prime "Their Dark Cells": Transference, Memory, and Postmemory in John Mighton's Half Life Remembering Poverty: Bannock, Beans, and Black Tea, a Tale of Two Lives Postmemory and Canadian Poetry of the 1970s "Exhibit me buckskinned": Indigenous Legacy and Rememory in Joan Crate's Pale as Real Ladies: Poems for Pauline Johnson Scrapbooking: Memory and Memorabilia in Gail Anderson-Dargatz's The Cure for Death by Lightning and Turtle Valley PART III: RE-MEMBERING HISTORY: MEMORY WORK AS RECOVERY Ethnography, Law, and Aboriginal Memory: Collecting and Recollecting Gitxsan Histories in Canada Between Elegy and Taxidermy: Archibald Lampman's Golden Lady's Slippers Under Other Skies: Personal and Cultural Memory in E. Pauline Johnson's Nature Lyrics and Memorial Odes Indigenous Diasporas and the Shape of Cultural Memory: Reframing Anahareo's Devil in Deerskins Yours to Recover: Mound Burial in Alice Munro's "What Do You Want to Know For?" Romancing Canada in Best-Sellerdom: The Case of Quebec's Disappearance Collective Memory, Cultural Transmission, and the Occupation(s) of Quebec: Jean Provencher and Gilles Lachance's Quebec, Printemps 1918 PART IV: THE COMPULSION TO REMEMBER: TRAUMA AND WITNESSING Under Surveillance: Memory, Trauma and Genocide in Madeleine Thien's Dogs at the Perimeter "I didn't want to tell a story like this": Cultural Inheritance and the Second Generation in David Chariandy's Soucouyant Confronting the Legacy of Canada's Indian Residential School System: Cree Cultural Memory and the Warrior Spirit in David Alexander Robertson and Scott B. Henderson's 7 Generations Series Recovering Pedagogical Space: Trauma, Education, and The Lesser Blessed PART V: CULTURAL MEMORY IN A GLOBALIZED AGE "I have nothing soothing to tell you": Dionne Brand's Inventory as Global Elegy Now and Then: Dionne Brand's What We All Long For, the Desire to Forget, and the Urban Archive Haunted/Wanted in Jen Sookfong Lee's The End of East: Canada's Cultural Memory Beyond Nostalgia Rethinking Postcolonialism and Canadian Literature through Diasporic Memory: Reading Helen Humphrey's Afterimage Transnational Memory and Haunted Black Geographies: Esi Edugyan's The Second Life of Samuel Tyne