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Extra-Canadian Ecologies | Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC) Conference | Wilfrid Laurier University | June 2024
This panel focuses on what might be metaphorically described as the externalities—extra-national side effects—of the production (ecological, cultural, political, technological, economic) of Canada as a settler colonial nation. More broadly, it aims to illuminate material relations that exceed the country’s territorial boundaries through atmospheric, oceanic, and other planetary systems, as well as the offshoring of…
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What the World Might Look Like by Susie O’Brien
Susie O’Brien’s What the World Might Look Like: Decolonial Stories of Resilience and Refusal (McGill-Queen’s University Press, May 2024) exposes the complexities and limits of resilience and questions the concept of resilience, highlighting how Black and Indigenous novelists can offer different decolonial ways of thinking about and with resilience to imagine things “otherwise.”
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Book Launch: Restoring Relations through Stories by Renae Watchman
When: May 7, 2024 – 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Where: McMaster University, ISS Ceremonial Room – LRW 1811 Restoring Relations Through Stories: From Dinétah to Denèndeh (University of Regina Press, May 2024) introduces, synthesizes, and analyzes traditional stories by Diné and Dene storytellers in orature and film. The book conceptualizes narrative autonomy as hane’tonomy and visual…
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Suburb Nation | The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) Conference | McGill University | June 2024
If Canada is a suburban nation, what are its suburban stories? What dreams and diasporas land immigrant communities in suburbs?
