This special journal issue will examine literary approaches to suburban life in Canada across a range of mediums, genres, and periods, paying attention to the suburbs as both an imaginative and a material form. We are especially interested in considering how the mid-twentieth-century popular representation of the suburb as a white, middle-class, automobiled enclave has been written otherwise across varied experiences of racialization, diaspora, and generation—and in the era of fossil-fueled climate change. Read More.
How do artistic explorations of topics such as migrant labour, international students, and offshore extraction industries illuminate the extra-national ecologies of racial capitalism and settler colonialism? How do Canadian environmentalism and/or ecocriticism engage or obscure extra-national issues of social/environmental justice? How do environmental, industry and energy policies naturalize and regulate cross-border relations in support of settler colonialism and racial capitalism? Read more.