Downtown Canada : : Writing Canadian Cities / / Douglas Ivison, Justin D. Edwards.

The vast majority of Canadians live in cities, yet for the most part, discussions of Canadian literature have failed to actively engage with the country's urban experience. Canada's prevalent myths continue to be about nordicity and the wilderness, and, stereotypically at least, its litera...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Writing Canadian Cities / Ivison, Douglas / Edwards, Justin D.
  • 'An Ordered Absence': Defeatured Topologies in Canadian Literature / Cavell, Richard
  • 'Orient Dreams': Urbanity and the Post-Confederation Literary Culture of Ottawa / Artelle, Steven
  • Post-colonial Historicity: Halifax, Region, and Empire in Barometer Rising and The Nymph and the Lamp / Armstrong, Christopher J.
  • La ville en vol/City in Flight: Tracing Lesbian E-Motion through Jovette Marchessault's Comme un enfant de la terre / Godard, Barbara
  • Cities and Classrooms, Bodies and Texts: Notes towards a Resident Reading (and Teaching) of Vancouver Writing / Dickinson, Peter
  • Lost in the City: The Montreal Novels of Régine Robin and Robert Majzels / Beneventi, Domenic
  • Building and Living the Immigrant City: Michael Ondaatje's and Austin Clarke's Toronto / Stolar, Batia Boe
  • Divided Cities, Divided Selves: Portraits of the Artist as Ambivalent Urban Hipster / Salem-Wiseman, Lisa
  • Rewriting White Flight: Suburbia in Gerald Lynch's Troutstream and Joan Barfoot's Dancing in the Dark / Milton, Paul
  • Duelling and Dwelling in Toronto and London: Transnational Urbanism in Catherine Bush's The Rules of Engagement / Ball, John Clement
  • Epilogue / Edwards, Justin D. / Ivison, Douglas
  • Works Cited
  • Contributors