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    Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory

    Edited by Cynthia Sugars and Eleanor Ty

    Introduction
    Thinking Beyond Nostalgia: Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory 1
    Cynthia Sugars (Ottawa) and Eleanor Ty (Wilfrid Laurier)

    PART I: Sites of Memory: Cultural Amnesia and the Demands of Place


    1 Globalization and Cultural Memory: Perspectives from the Periphery on the Post-National
    Disassembly of Place 23
    Tony Tremblay (St. Thomas)
    2 Putting Things in Their Place: The Syncrude Gallery of Aboriginal Culture and the Idiom of
    Majority History 39
    Kimberly Mair (Lethbridge)

    3 Lieux d’oubli: The Forgotten North of Canadian Literature 53


    Renée Hulan (St. Mary’s)
    4 Design and Disappearance: Visual Nostalgias and the Canadian Company Town 68
    Candida Rifkind (Winnipeg)

    5 Preserving “the echoing rooms of yesterday”: Al Purdy’s A-frame and the Place of Writers’
    Houses in Canada 84
    Brooke Pratt (Wilfrid Laurier)

    PART II: Memory Transference: Postmemory, Re-Memory, and Forgetting


    6 Learning Sauerkraut: Ethnic Food, Cultural Memory, and Traces of Mennonite Identity in
    Alayna Munce’s When I Was Young and In My Prime 103
    Robert Zacharias (Toronto)
    7 “Their Dark Cells”: Transference, Memory, and Postmemory in John Mighton’s Half Life 118
    Marlene Goldman (Toronto)
    8 Remembering Poverty: Bannock, Beans, and Black Tea, a Tale of Two Lives 134
    Linda Warley (Waterloo)
    9 Postmemory and Canadian Poetry of the 1970s 151
    J.A. Weingarten (McGill)
    10 “Exhibit me buckskinned”: Indigenous Legacy and Rememory in Joan Crate’s Pale as Real
    Ladies: Poems for Pauline Johnson 169
    Tanis Macdonald (Wilfrid Laurier)

    11 Scrapbooking: Memory and Memorabilia in Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s The Cure for Death by
    Lightning and Turtle Valley 183
    Cynthia Sugars (Ottawa)

    Part III: Re-Membering History: Memory Work as Recovery


    12 Ethnography, Law, and Aboriginal Memory: Collecting and Recollecting Gitxsan Histories in
    Canada 201
    Marc Fortin (Queen’s)
    13 Between Elegy and Taxidermy: Archibald Lampman’s Golden Lady’s Slippers 215
    Peter Hodgins (Carleton)

    14 Under Other Skies: Personal and Cultural Memory in E. Pauline Johnson’s Nature Lyrics and
    Memorial Odes 230
    Jesse Archibald-Barber (First Nations U)
    15 Indigenous Diasporas and the Shape of Cultural Memory: Reframing Anahareo’s Devil in
    Deerskins 244
    Sophie McCall (Simon Fraser)
    16 Yours to Recover: Mound Burial in Alice Munro’s “What Do You Want to Know For?” 260
    Shelley Hulan (Waterloo)

    17 Romancing Canada in Best-Sellerdom: The Case of Quebec’s Disappearance 274


    Dennis Duffy (Toronto)
    18 Collective Memory, Cultural Transmission, and the Occupation(s) of Quebec:
    Jean Provencher and Gilles Lachance’s Québec, Printemps 1918 289
    Marissa McHugh (Ottawa)

    PART IV: The Compulsion to Remember: Trauma and Witnessing


    19 Under Surveillance: Memory, Trauma and Genocide in Madeleine Thien’s Dogs at the
    Perimeter 309
    Robyn Morris (Wollongong, Australia)

    20 “I didn’t want to tell a story like this”: Cultural Inheritance and the Second Generation in David
    Chariandy’s Soucouyant 322
    Farah Moosa (McMaster)
    21 Confronting the Legacy of Canada’s Indian Residential School System: Cree Cultural

    ii
    Memory and the Warrior Spirit in David Alexander Robertson and Scott B. Henderson’s 7
    Generations Series 337
    Doris Wolf (Winnipeg)
    22 Recovering Pedagogical Space: Trauma, Education, and The Lesser Blessed 354
    Robyn Green (Carleton)

    PART V: Cultural Memory in a Globalized Age


    23 “I have nothing soothing to tell you”: Dionne Brand's Inventory as Global Elegy 373
    Alexis Motuz (Wilfrid Laurier)
    24 Now and Then: Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For, the Desire to Forget, and the Urban
    Archive 389
    Joel Baetz (Trent)

    25 Haunted/Wanted in Jen Sookfong Lee’s The End of East: Canada’s Cultural Memory Beyond
    Nostalgia 402
    Eva Darias-Beautell (La Laguna, Spain)
    26 Rethinking Postcolonialism and Canadian Literature Through Diasporic Memory: Reading
    Helen Humphrey’s Afterimagei 415
    Jennifer Andrews (New Brunswick)
    27 Transnational Memory and Haunted Black Geographies: Esi Edugyan’s The Second Life of
    Samuel Tyne 432
    Pilar Cuder-Domínguez (Huelva, Spain)

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