Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies

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CONTENTS Acknowledgements vii Introduction 1 Smaro Kamboureli Belief as/in Methodology as/in Form: Doing Justice to CanLit Studies 29 Roy Miki Trans-Systemic Constitutionalism in Indigenous Law and Knowledge 49 Sa’ke’j Henderson The Accidental Witness: Indigenous Epistemologies and Spirituality as Resistance in Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach 69 Julia Emberley Ambidextrous Epistemologies: Indigenous Knowledge within the Indigenous Renaissance 83 Marie Battiste Epistemologies of Respect: A Poetics of Asian/Indigenous Relation 99 Larissa Lai Acts of Nature: Literature, Excess, and Environmental Politics 127 Catriona Sandilands Ecocriticism in the Unregulated Zone 143 Cheryl Lousley Disturbance-Loving Species: Habitat Studies, Ecocritical Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature 161 Laurie Ricou Translocal Representation: Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, Nello “Tex” Vernon-Wood, and CanLit 175 Julie Rak vi Contents Jazz, Diaspora, and the History and Writing of Black Anglophone Montreal 199 Winfried Siemerling Tradition and Pluralism in Contemporary Acadia 215 François Paré Critical Allegiances 227 Christl Verduyn Notes 241 Works Cited 253 Contributors 269 Index 275 ...