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Acknowledgements This work is the result of a three-year international research project on contemporary Canadian fiction funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education with the participation of Canadian literature specialists from Spain, Canada, and the UK. The project’s title was “Penelope’s Embroidery: Literary Tradition, Cultural Identities, and Theoretical Discourses in the AngloCanadian Fiction of the Late 20th Century” (Code: HUM2006-09288FIL, 2007–2010: http://penelopewebproject.googlepages.com/penelopeproject). I wish to thank all the contributors to this collection for their work and their patience with the revision process. Special thanks go to Coral Ann Howells, for her creative energy and helpful suggestions, and to Smaro Kamboureli, for her constant support and generosity, in particular for hosting one of this project’s workshops at the TransCanada Institute, which she directs, and for funding, through her Canada Research Chair, the index of this book. I am also very grateful to Brian McMorrow for letting me use his photographic work and for his love. This page intentionally left blank ...

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