Unruly Penelopes and the ghosts : narratives of English Canada / Eva Darias-Beautell, editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Why Penelopes? How Unruly? Which Ghosts? Narratives of English Canada / Eva Darias-Beautell -- Rewriting Tradition: Literature, History, and Changing Narratives in English Canada since the 1970s / Coral Ann Howells -- (Reading Closely) Calling for the Formation of Asian Canadian Studies / Smaro Kamboureli -- When Race Does Not Matter, "except to everyone else": Mixed Race Subjectivity and the Fantasy of a Post-Racial Canada in Lawrence Hill and Kim Barry Brunhuber / Ana María Fraile -- Of Aliens, Monsters, and Vampires: Speculative Fantasy's Strategies of Dissent (Transnational Feminist Fiction) / Belén Martín-Lucas -- The Production of Vancouver: Termination Views in the City of Glass / Eva Darias-Beautell -- Jane Rule and the Memory of Canada / Richard Cavell -- Confession as Antidote to Historical Truth in River Thieves / María Jesús Hernáez Lerena -- Indigenous Criticism and Indigenous Literature in the 1990s: Critical Intimacy / Michèle Lacombe.

A collection of essays that studies the cultural and literary contexts of narrative texts produced in English Canada over the last forty years. Through their readings of representative primary texts, their contextual analysis, and their selected methodological tools, it offers a tapestry of alternative approaches to that process of dismantlement.

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