Index. Introduction: Tramping across the nation: Homeless embodiment in Canadian literature / Domenico A. Beneventi -- Domenico A. Beneventi -- Part I: Contested urban spaces. Culture and critique during mega-events: The 2010 Olympics and the right to the city / Jeff Derksen -- The ambivalence of enclosed spaces in immigrant fiction: Between refuge and prison / Amaryll Chanady -- Montréal marginalities: Revisiting Boulevard Saint-Laurent / Sherry Simon -- Heterotopia and its discontents: Exploring spatial, social, and textual liminality in Rawi Hage's Cockroach / Rita Sakr -- "Laisser-aller": Homelessness and contained space in Kobo Abe's The box man and Robert Majzels's City of forgetting / Simon Harel -- Part II: Counter-narratives and spaces of the nation/state. Unruly and unremarked: Theatrical spectatorship from below in nineteenth-century Canada / Alan Filewood -- 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 -- For king and country? War and Indigenous masculinity / Deena Rymhs -- Reclaiming Indigenous space through testimonial life writing: An Antane Kapesh's Je suis une maudite Sauvagesse as territorial imperative / Natasha Dagenais -- Norman Bethune and the contested spaces of Canadian public memory / Candida Rifkind -- Part III: Culture from below. Knowing the urban other: Notes on the ethics and epistemology of slumming in novels and reportage / Roxanne Rimstead -- "You should think about it, think what it means": Working girls in Canadian women's writing / Patricia Demers -- Border-crossings and alternative social spaces in Gabrielle Roy's Bonhfeur d'occasion/ The tin flute / D.M.R. Bentley -- Growing up poor and female in Montréal, 1930-1960: Women's autobiographies as counter-narratives / Patricia Smart -- Tramping across the nation: Homeless embodiment in Canadian literature / Domenico A. Beneventi -- Afterword -- List of contributors -- Index.
Summary:
"This collection explores strategies of reading space and conflict in Canadian and Québécois literary and cultural performances. How do literary texts and popular cultural performances produce and contest spatial practices? What is the role of the nation, the city, the community, and the individual subject in reproducing space, even during times of global hegemony and neocolonialism? In what ways do marginalized individuals and communities represent, contest, or appropriate spaces through counter-narratives and expressions of culture from below? And how does space itself shape conflict, counter-memory, and culture from below?"-- Provided by publisher. "Focusing on contestation instead of harmony and consensus, Contested Spaces disturbs the idealized space of Canadian multicultural pluralism to carry literary analysis and cultural studies into spaces often undetected and unforeseen; Contested Spaces exposes geographies of exclusion and difference such as flophouses and "slums," shantytowns and urban alleyways, underground spaces and peep shows, inner city urban parks as experienced by minority ethnics, the poor, women, social activists, Indigenous people, and Francophones in Canada. These essays are the product of sustained and high-level collaboration across French and English academic communities in Canada to facilitate theoretical exchange on the topic of space and contestation, to expose geographies of exclusion, and to generate new spaces of hope in the spirit of pioneering work by Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau, Doreen Massey, David Harvey, and other more recent theorists of space."-- Provided by publisher.
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