Unhomely States: Theorizing English-Canadian PostcolonialismCynthia Sugars Unhomely States is the first collection of foundational essays of Canadian postcolonial theory. The essays span the period from 1965 to the present day and approach broad issues of Canadian culture and society. They represent the impassioned conflicts, dissonances, and intersections among postcolonial theorists in English Canada. Theories of Canadian postcolonialism are various and often contending. The questions proliferate: Is Canada postcolonial? Who in Canada is postcolonial? Are some Canadians more postcolonial than others? Together, the essays in this collection demonstrate both the historical development of this vigorous debate and its most prominent current perspectives. The anthology comprises work originally written in English, selected and arranged in order to demonstrate the dynamic nature of these discussions. Included here are essays by many well-known writers and theorists, such as George Grant, Northrop Frye, Margaret Atwood, Dennis Lee, Robert Kroetsch, Linda Hutcheon, Diana Brydon, Thomas King, Terry Goldie, Arun Mukherjee, Smaro Kamboureli, Stephen Slemon, and Roy Miki. The collection covers such topics as anti-colonial nationalism, settler-invader theory, First Nations contexts, postcolonial pedagogy, and critiques of Canadian postcolonialism. A general introduction surveying the current field of postcolonial discourse in English Canada is also included. |
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Contents
The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism 1965 | 3 |
Editorial to the Journal of Canadian Fiction 1975 | 37 |
Writing in Colonial Space 1973 | 43 |
A Canadian Strategy 1989 | 61 |
PostColonialism and Postmod | 71 |
Contamination as Literary Strategy | 94 |
English Canadas Postcolonial Complexities 199394 | 107 |
Resistance Theory for the Second World | 139 |
The PostColonial Imagination 1992 | 204 |
Surviving the WhiteOuts 1987 | 221 |
Canadian Ethnic Minority Writing | 235 |
How Shall We Read South Asian Canadian Texts? 1998 | 249 |
What Use is Ethnicity to Aboriginal Peoples in Canada? 1995 | 267 |
On Being an InsiderOutsider to the Canadian | 289 |
Is This the Question? | 323 |
Postcolonialism Pedagogy and Politics 1997 | 335 |
Postcolonial Theory and the Settler Subject 1995 | 151 |
Reading Postcoloniality Reading Canada 1995 | 165 |
Godzilla vs PostColonial 1990 | 183 |
The Diasporic Critics Self Location | 349 |
The Radical Humanities in the Postcolonial | 367 |