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• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Maps
• 1 Introduction: First Peoples and the Colonial Narratives of Canadian Literature
• Overview
• First Peoples and Founding Narratives
• Negotiating Contact
• Naming Culture: Colonial Interpretation, or, Power-Knowledge Narratives
• Cultural Re-Naming and the Indian Act
• First Stories – Textualization
• European Colonial Historical Narratives of Conquest and Warfare: “Settlement” and Trade to 1650
• Multiple Theatres of War: Canada and European Empires
• “American” Theatres of War
• Colonial Modes of Power: the Emerging Nation After 1812
• Religious and National Differences Between Upper and Lower Canada
• Louis-Joseph Papineau and the Patriotes
• William Lyon Mackenzie and Radical Reforming Zeal
• The Durham Report and Canadian Confederation
• Countering Colonial Notions of “Progress”: Aboriginal Literary Resistances
• George Copway and Early Indigenous Writers in English
• Performing Ethnicity: Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
• “The Two Sisters”: The Textualized Short Story as a Mediating Device
• The Trope of Incarceration: Aboriginal Protest Writing in the Twentieth Century
• Conclusion
• 2 Literatures of Landscape and Encounter Canadian Romanticism and Pastoral Writing
• Overview
• Beginnings of a Canadian Canon: Edward Hartley Dewart’s Selections from Canadian Poets (1864)
• Charles Sangster, Alexander McLachlan, and Charles Heavysege
• The Confederation Poets
• The Confederation Poets and the Canadian Landscape
• Inhabited Nature
• Conclusion
• 3 A New Nation Prose fiction and the Rise of the Canadian Novel During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
• Overview
• Double Discourse and New World Sensibility
• Strategic Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Female Writing
• The Double Image: The Coquette and Resemblance
• The “Re-Structuring” of Power in French and British Canada
• New World Aesthetics: Major John Richardson’s Wacousta (1832)
• The “Man of Feeling” and Psychological Space
• The Two Cultures of Rosanna Leprohon’s Antoinette De Mirecourt (1864)
• An Allegory Of Decline: William Kirby’s The Golden Dog (1877)
• Re-Defining Domesticity: Immigration and Gender Politics in Women’S Autobiographical Settler Narratives
• Re-Defining Domestic Space in the Writing of Catherine Parr Traill
• Sketches from the Bush: The Eriting of Susanna Moodie
• The Rise of the Canadian Popular Novel and the Role of the Popular Press
• Resemblance and Misrecognition in Catherine Beckwith Hart’s St. Ursula’s Convent (1824)
• The First Novel in Quebec: Philippe-Aubert de Gaspé’s The Influence of a Book (1837)
• From Oral to Print Culture: Humour and the Picaresque in de Gaspé and Haliburton
• Historical Romance and Les Anciens Canadiens (1863)
• Sublime community in New France
• The Imperial Idea in the Local Setting: Sarah Jeanette Duncan’s The Imperialist (1904)
• Affectionate Irony: Small-Town Canada Sketched by Stephen Butler Leacock
• Deconstructing the Novel of Education: Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables (1908)
• The speculative worlds of James De Mille: A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888)
• Container or Vontained? Narrative Interplay in A Strange Manuscript
• Conclusion
• 4 In Flanders Fields Gender and social transformation in the First and Second World Wars
• Overview
• The Execution or Poetics of Canadian War Literature: Some Shared Themes
• The war Poetry of john maccrae and f.g. Scott
• Discordant Voices: In Flanders Fields
• The Competing Perspectives of the Soldier Poets
• Popular Fiction And Romance: The War Writing of Bertrand William Sinclair
• The Economics of War: Societal Profit and Loss in Popular Fiction
• The War Machine: Redemption and Propaganda at a Distance
• Redefining gender Performances in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Rilla of Ingleside (1921)
• A Feminist Critique of War: Francis Marion Beynon’s Aleta Dey (1919)
• The New Language of War: Absurdism In Charles Yale Harrison’s Generals Die in Bed (1930)
• Literature of the Second World War: Psychology And Ethics in the Canadian War Novel
• War as Existential Void: Colin McDougall’s Execution (1958)
• Conclusion
• 5 Canadian Modernism, 1914–60 “A Journey Across Canada”
• Overview
• Marginal Modernism/Imagism and the Poetic Imagination
• Canadian Modernist Manifesto Writing
• The Garden and the Machine in Louise Morey Bowman’s Timepieces (1922)
• Journeys into Modernity: Katherine Hale’s Grey Knitting (1914) and Going North (1923)
• Imagism in the Canadian Poetic Imagination: A.J.M. Smith and E.J. Pratt
• The Montreal Movement: “Ideas are changing”
• The Canadian Authors Meet (1927 and 1928)
• Protest, Social Observation and Ethnicity: “King or Chaos”
• Dorothy Livesay’s Aesthetic of Commitment
• The Image Constellations of P.K. Page
• Diasporic Intertextuality in the Jewish-Canadian Modernism of A.M. Klein
• The Poet’s Gaze: Klein’s The Rocking Chair (1948)
• Canadian Modernist Prose: A Second Scroll
• Alienated Space in Sinclair Ross’s As for me and my House (1941)
• Gendered Re-Visioning in Canadian Modernism: Sheila Watson, Bertram Brooker and Elizabeth Smart
• The Polysemic Word: From Smart to Klein’s The Second Scroll (1951)
• Conclusion
• 6 Feminist Literatures New Poetics of Identities and Sexualities from the 1960s to the Twenty-First Century
• Overview
• Gender and Creativity in Margaret Atwood’s Fiction
• Margaret Laurence: Decolonization and Writing in Africa
• Margaret Laurence’s Manawaka Cycle (1964 to 1974)
• A Change of Scenery/Dépaysement: The Nomadic Fiction of Gabrielle Roy
• Alice Munro’s Visionary Short Stories
• “Scandalous bodies”: Gender Recoding and Auto/Biographies from Aritha Van Herk to Kerri Sakamoto
• Japanese-Canadian Internment and Historical Silences in Joy Nozomi Kogawa’s Obasan (1981)
• Postmodern Auto/Biography in the Work of Carol Shields
• A “Politics of Location” in Daphne Marlatt and Dionne Brand
• Psychogeography in Canadian Asian Writing
• Feminist Poetry: An Alternative Space of Writing (or, Being Other)
• Theorizing Feminist Collaborative and Communal Writing in the 1980s and 1990s
• Embodying Theory from Postmodernism to Postcolonialism: Feminist Conceptions of Translation, Textuality and Corporeality
• Recoding the Symbolic Mother: Nicole Brossard’s These Our Mothers (1977) and Picture Theory (1982)
• The Feminist-Deconstructive Poetics of Lola Lemire Tostevin
• “Between Command and Defiance”: Mothers and Daughters in the Poetry of Di Brandt
• Diasporic Doubled Consciousness: Dionne Brand’s Postcolonial Canada
• Performing Gender/Feminist Theatrical Subjectivities
• Foundational Feminist Drama from the 1930s to the Work of Gwen Pharis Ringwood
• The 1970s and 1980s: New Environments and Dramatic Re-Telling of Women’s Stories
• Carnival and the Picaresque Heroine in Antonine Maillet’s La Sagouine (1971)
• Sharon Pollock and Margaret Hollingsworth: Alternative Worlds
• Psychodrama and “the Violent Woman” in Feminist Theatre in the 1980s and 1990s
• Dramatic Sites of Desire: Lesbian Theatre in Canada
• Conclusion
• 7 Contemporary Indigenous Literatures Narratives of Autonomy and Resistance
• Overview
• New Venues, new Voices: Indigenous Publishing in the 1960s
• Anthologization: Recollecting and Innovating
• Contemporary Aboriginal Writing/Performance in English
• The Hybrid Drama of Tomson Highway
• Aboriginal Drama in the 1970s and 1980s
• Collaborations: Maria Campbell and Linda Griffiths Negotiate The Book of Jessica: A Theatrical Transformation (1989)
• The Residential Schools Explored Through Theatre: Oskiniko Larry Loyie, Vera Manuel and Joseph A. Dandurand
• Monique Mojica’s Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots (1991)
• The Satirical Humour of Drew Haydon Taylor and Daniel David Moses
• Interrogating Colonial History and its Societal Impact: The Rise of the Aboriginal Novel
• Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water (1993)
• Aboriginal Fiction Surveyed: the 1980s and 1990s
• Intertextuality and the Native Gothic in Eden Robinson’s Traplines (1996) and Monkey Beach (2000)
• Power Relations in Eden Robinson’s Blood Sports (2006)
• Globalized Aboriginal Literature
• “Words are Memory”: Contemporary Aboriginal Poetry – New Beginnings
• Aesthetic/Poetic Growth in the 1990s and Twenty-First Century
• Conclusion
• 8 Canadian Postmodernism Genre Trouble and New Media in Contemporary Canadian Writing
• Overview
• Beginnings, or, Deconstructive Voices: Margaret Atwood
• The Historiographical Metafiction of George Bowering
• Metafictional Parodies in the Writing of Leonard Cohen and Robert Kroetsch
• The Postmodern “Freak Shows” of Susan Swan and Jack Hodgins
• “The Politics of Settlement”: Giving Voice to Community in the Postmodern Fiction of Rudy Wiebe
• Genre Trouble and new Media Technologies: Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient (1992)
• Tele-vision: Catherine Bush’s Minus Time (1993)
• Hyperreal Canada and Digital Domains: Postmodern Journeys into Fear and the Virtual Worlds of William Gibson
• Mediatized/Postmodernism Performance
• Conclusion
• 9 Concluding with the Postcolonial Imagination Diversity, Difference and Ethnicity
• Overview
• The Postcolonial Paradigm: Contested Understandings and Alternative Models
• Theorizing “Trans.Can.Lit”
• Re-Conceiving the Canadian Canon: Postcolonial Possibilities and Allegorical Resistances
• Reconceiving the Canon through African-Canadian Perspectives
• Conclusion
• Glossary of Terms
• Guide to Further Reading
• Biographical, Reference and Historical Works
• Literary Histories and Encyclopaedias
• Aboriginal/First Peoples Literary Criticism
• Early Canadian Literature: Critical Approaches
• Drama Criticism
• Poetry Criticism
• The Novel: Criticism
• The Short Story/Short Fiction
• Critical Themes
• Author Criticism
• Works Cited
• Index