Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts: Narratives of English Canada

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Contents Acknowledgements vii I n t r o d uc t i o n Why Penelopes? How Unruly? Which Ghosts? Narratives of English Canada Eva Darias-Beautell 1 O N E Rewriting Tradition: Literature, History, and Changing Narratives in English Canada since the 1970s Coral Ann Howells 19 T W O (Reading Closely) Calling for the Formation of Asian Canadian Studies Smaro Kamboureli 43 T H R E E When Race Does Not Matter, “except to everyone else”: Mixed Race Subjectivity and the Fantasy of a Post-Racial Canada in Lawrence Hill and Kim Barry Brunhuber Ana María Fraile 77 v i c o n t e n t s F O U R Of Aliens, Monsters, and Vampires: Speculative Fantasy’s Strategies of Dissent (Transnational Feminist Fiction) Belén Martín-Lucas 107 F I V E The Production of Vancouver: Termination Views in the City of Glass Eva Darias-Beautell 131 S I X Jane Rule and the Memory of Canada Richard Cavell 157 S E V E N Confession as Antidote to Historical Truth in River Thieves María Jesús Hernáez Lerena 183 E I G H T Indigenous Criticism and Indigenous Literature in the 1990s: Critical Intimacy Michèle Lacombe 199 Contributors 225 Index 229 ...