Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada

Contents

v Acknowledgements vii Introduction 1 Christine Kim and Sophie McCall I PRESENT TENSE Diaspora and Nation in Métis Writing 21 Sophie McCall Canadian Indian Literary Nationalism? Critical Approaches in Canadian Indigenous Contexts—A Collaborative Interlogue 43 Kristina Fagan, Daniel Heath Justice, Keavy Martin, Sam McKegney, Deanna Reder, and Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair Breaking the Framework of Representational Violence: Testimonial Publics, Memorial Arts, and a Critique of Postcolonial Violence (the Pickton Trial) 65 Julia Emberley “Grammars of Exchange”: The “Oriental Woman” in the Global Market 83 Belén Martín-Lucas II PAST PARTICIPLES Unhomely Moves: A.M. Klein, Jewish Diasporic Difference, Racialization, and Coercive Whiteness 99 Melina Baum Singer Contents vi contents Asian Canadian Critical Practice as Commemoration 119 Christopher Lee Diasporic Longings: (Re)Figurations of Home and Homelessness in Richard Wagamese’s Work 135 Renate Eigenbrod Afro-Caribbean Writing in Canada and the Politics of Migrant Labour Mobility 153 Jody Mason III FUTURE IMPERFECT Racialized Diasporas, Entangled Postmemories, and Kyo Maclear’s The Letter Opener 171 Christine Kim Underwater Signposts: Richard Fung’s Islands and Enabling 191 Nostalgia Lily Cho “Phoenicia ≠ Lebanon”: Transsexual Poetics as Poetics of the Body within and across the Nation 207 Alessandra Capperdoni Word Warriors: Indigenous Political Consciousness in Prison 229 Deena Rymhs Works Cited 245 Contributors 265 Index 269 ...