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v Acknowledgements vii 1. Introduction: Negotiating Meaning in Changing Times 1 DIANA BRYDON AND MARTA DVOR 4ÀK 2. “Whirlwinds Coiled at My Heart”: Voice and Vision in a Writer’s Practice 21 OLIVE SENIOR SECTION ONE: COLLABORATION, CROSSTALK, IMPROVISATION 3. Voicing the Unforeseeable: Improvisation, Social Practice, Collaborative Research 39 AJAY HEBLE AND WINFRIED SIEMERLING 4. Epistemological Crosstalk: Between Melancholia and Spiritual Cosmology in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant and Lee Maracle’s Daughters Are Forever 53 DANIEL COLEMAN 5. Native Performance Culture, Monique Mojica, and the Chocolate Woman Workshops 73 RIC KNOWLES 6. Collaboration and Convention in the Poetry of Pain Not Bread 95 ALISON CALDER Contents SECTION TWO: DIALOGISM, POLYPHONY, VOICE 7. Rejoinders in a Planetary Dialogue: J.M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, Lloyd Jones, et al. in Dialogue with Absent Texts 111 MARTA DVOR 4ÀK 8. Not Just Representation: The Sound and Concrete Poetries of The Four Horsemen 135 FRANK DAVEY 9. Portraits of the Artist in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For and Madeleine Thien’s Certainty 151 PILAR CUDER-DOMÍNGUEZ 10. Unsettling Voices: Dionne Brand’s Cosmopolitan Cities 169 SANDRA REGINA GOULART ALMEIDA 11. Questions of Voice, Race, and the Body in Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms and Larissa Lai’s When Fox Is a Thousand 185 CHARLOTTE STURGESS SECTION THREE: SPACE, PLACE, AND CIRCULATION 12. The Artialisation of Landscape in Jane Urquhart’s The Whirlpool 199 CLAIRE OMHOVÈRE 13. Ghostly Voices and Arctic Blanks: From Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights to Jane Urquhart’s Changing Heaven 215 CATHERINE LANONE 14. “You must see to understand …”: Orientalist Clichés and Transformation in Robert Lepage’s The Dragons’ Trilogy 225 CHRISTINE LORRE-JOHNSTON 15. Diasporic Appropriations: Exporting South Asian Culture from Canada 241 CHELVA KANAGANAYAKAM 16. Negotiating Belonging in Global Times: The Hérouxville Debates 253 DIANA BRYDON Works Cited 273 Contributors 299 Index 303 vi CONTENTS ...

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