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Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reading Space through Conflict; PART I: Contested Urban Spaces; 1 Culture and Critique during Mega-Events: The 2010 Olympics and the Right to the City; 2 The Ambivalence of Enclosed Spaces in Immigrant Fiction: Between Refuge and Prison; 3 Montréal Marginalities: Revisiting Boulevard Saint-Laurent; 4 Heterotopia and Its Discontents: Exploring Spatial, Social, and Textual Liminality in Rawi Hage's Cockroach |
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5 "Laisser-aller": Homelessness and Contained Space in Kobo Abe's The Box Man and Robert Majzels's City of ForgettingPART II: Counter-narratives and Spaces of the Nation/State; 6 Unruly and Unremarked: Theatrical Spectatorship from Below in Nineteenth-century Canada; 7 Women's Space in Postcolonial Perspective: France Théoret's Une belle éducation and Assia Djebar's Nulle part dans la maison de mon père; 8 For King and Country? War and Indigenous Masculinity |
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9 Reclaiming Indigenous Space through Testimonial Life Writing: An Antane Kapesh's Je suis une maudite Sauvagesse as Territorial Imperative10 Norman Bethune and the Contested Spaces of Canadian Public Memory; PART III: Culture from Below; 11 Knowing the Urban Other: Notes on the Ethics and Epistemology of Slumming in Novels and Reportage; 12 "You Should Think about It, Think What It Means": Working Girls in Canadian Women's Writing; 13 Border-Crossings and Alternative Social Spaces in Gabrielle Roy's Bonheur d'occasion / The Tin Flute |
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14 Growing Up Poor and Female in Montréal, 1930-1960: Women's Autobiographies as Counter-narratives15 Tramping across the Nation: Homeless Embodiment in Canadian Literature; Afterword; Contributors; Index |
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9781442629905 (hardcover) |
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1442629908 |
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9781442629912 (electronic bk.) |
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1442629916 (electronic bk.) |
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