Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 550 g
Essays on Dwelling and Refuge
Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 550 g
ISBN: 978-1-77212-829-1
Verlag: University of Alberta Press
Echoing the pandemic-era phrase “shelter in place,” and extending beyond it, this collection examines how writing can create, illuminate, and complicate ideas about dwelling, belonging, or finding safe harbour. Through an engaging blend of academic essays and creative nonfiction pieces, contributors interrogate the connections between the concepts of shelter and text, centering questions of care, disability, and housing inequality. How does the physical infrastructure of the city interact with literary form and how do stories bring attention to our built environments? Did the experience of lockdown (re)shape our interiorities, imaginations, and reading habits? Can Indigenous and decolonial approaches to land and storytelling and an inclusive practice of shelter-making through narrative enable a more sustainable future? While many of the works and writers discussed in the volume are Canadian, the scope extends beyond national borders to create a transnational dialogue on diverse and non-traditional approaches to topics of land, space, and shelter. Shelter in Text will appeal to literary scholars, particularly those working in the fields of Canadian literature, Indigenous studies, contemporary literature, ecocriticism, gothic fiction, Queer studies, feminist studies, disability studies, translation, and literary theory.
Contributors: Kelly Baron, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Myra Bloom, David Chariandy, Lily Cho, Sophie Feng, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Kristi Leora Gansworth, Sarah Gordon, Shannon Griffin-Merth, Anna Guttman, Heather Jessup, Andrew David King, Caroline Lavoie, Jennifer Lawn, Jessi MacEachern, Kayla Penteliuk, Anil Pradhan, Geneviève Robichaud, Kasia Van Schaik, Holly Vestad, Erin Wunker, and Robert Zacharias.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
Weitere Infos & Material
- Introduction
- Myra Bloom and Kasia Van Schaik
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- Section 1: Indigenous and decolonial approaches to land and space
- Reflections on The Rouge: Intersections between Indigeneity and Diaspora in David Chariandy’s Brother
- Kelly Baron
- “We All Want a World”: A Conversation on Community, Connection and Refuge
- Billy-Ray Belcourt, David Chariandy, and Lily Cho
- Against Text as Shelter: Jordan Abel’s De-Storying Research
- Ryan Fitzpatrick
- Seasons and Stories: Michel Jean’s Indigenous Landscapes of Shelter
- Sarah Gordon and Caroline Lavoie
- Aubade: A moment of light
- Kristi Leora Gansworth
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- Section 2: Gothic Returns and Dystopian Hauntings
- Library Books for the End of the World
- Heather Jessup
- Outsider Affects and Ordinary Care: Radical Love as Shelter in Claudia Dey’s Heartbreaker
- Erin Wunker
- “The ghosts haunted; they did not help or encourage”: WWII, Spectrality, and Gothic Space in At Mrs. Lippincote’s by Elizabeth Taylor
- Kayla Penteliuk
- Unhomely Sweet Home: Phyllis Brett Young’s Uncanny Domestic Imaginaries
- Kathryn Franklin
- Shelter You Seek
- Holly Vestad
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- Section 3: Dwellings and (Un)real Estate
- Contemporary fictions of stymied inheritance and domestic exclusion: Projections of home in Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger and Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House
- Jennifer Lawn
- Rewriting the City: The Matter of Collective Revision in Sachiko Murakami’s Project Rebuild
- Shannon Griffin-Merth
- Religion, Caste and Class in Indian Apartment Block Fiction
- Anna Guttman
- Love is where the Home is: The Domestic as Queer Space of/for Intimacy in Contemporary Indian Gay Romance Fiction in English
- Anil Pradhan
- Paper-Spaces: A Poetics of Habitation
- Geneviève Robichaud
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- Section 4: Cities and Public Spaces
- On Project Bookmark Canada, Or: Reading a Few Pages of Ondaatje on Canada’s Literary Trail
- Robert Zacharias
- Can the text ‘shelter’ everyone? Space, Desire and Discursive Pluralities in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For and Marie-Claire Blais’s Soifs
- Sophie Feng
- Debris Growing Skyward: The Sheltered Flâneuse of Gail Scott’s Main Brides
- Jessi MacEachern
- Six Quarantines
- Andrew David King
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- Contributor bios
- Acknowledgments
