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On the Other Side(s) of 150

Untold Stories and Critical Approaches to History, Literature, and Identity in Canada

edited by Linda M. Morra & Sarah Henzi

Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2021
Category
Canadian Studies, Canadian, Indigenous Studies
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781771125130
    Publish Date
    Apr 2021
    List Price
    $89.99
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781771125154
    Publish Date
    May 2021
    List Price
    $27.99

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On the Other Side(s) of 150 explores the different literary, historical and cultural legacies of Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations. It asks vital questions about the ways that histories and stories have been suppressed and invites consideration about what happens once a commemorative moment has passed.
Like a Cubist painting, this modality offers a critical strategy by which also to approach the volume as dismantling, reassembling, and re-enacting existing commemorative tropes; as offering multiple, conditional, and contingent viewpoints that unfold over time; and as generating a broader (although far from being comprehensive) range of counter-memorial performances.
The chapters in this volume are thus provisional, interconnected, and adaptive: they offer critical assemblages by which to approach commemorative narratives or showcase lacunae therein; by which to return to and intervene in ongoing readings of the past from the present moment; and by which not necessarily to resolve, but rather to understand the troubled and troubling narratives of the present moment. Contributors propose that these preoccupations are not a means of turning away from present concerns, but rather a means of grappling with how the past informs or is shaped to inform them; and how such concerns are defined by immediate social contexts and networks.

About the authors

Linda M. Morra, an associate professor at Bishopâ??s University, specializes in Canadian literature and Canadian studies. Her research focuses on women and the publishing industry in Canada. Her publications include Corresponding Influence: Selected Letters of Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth (2006), [http://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Catalog/morra.shtml Troubling Tricksters: Revisioning Critical Conversations (co-editor with Deanna Reder, WLU Press, 2010), and an edition of Jane Ruleâ??s autobiography, Taking My Life (2011).

Jessica Schagerlâ??s research focuses on Canadian studies, drawing heavily on archival material; she is also invested in questions of professional concern, including mentoring and the futures of arts and humanities. She is the alumni and development officer for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Western Ontario.

Linda M. Morra's profile page

Sarah Henzi is a settler scholar and Assistant Professor of Indigenous Literatures in the Department of French and the Department of Indigenous Studies at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. Her translation of An Antane Kapesh’s Je suis une maudite sauvagesse (1976) and Qu’as-tu fait de mon pays? (1979) was published in 2020 with Wilfrid Laurier University Press as I Am a Damn Savage; What Have You Done to My Country?

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Awards

  • Winner, Canadian Studies Network Best Edited Collection in Canadian Studies

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