Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts: Narratives of English Canada Book

Acknowledgements vii

Introduction Why Penelopes? How Unruly? Which Ghosts? Narratives of English Canada Eva Darias-Beautell 1

1 Rewriting Tradition: Literature, History, and Changing Narratives in English Canada since the 1970s Coral Ann Howells 19

2 (Beading Closely) Calling for the Formation of Asian Canadian Studies Smaro Kamboureli 43

3 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 Maria Fraile 77

4 Of Aliens, Monsters, and Vampires: Speculative Fantasy's Strategies of Dissent (Transnational Feminist Fiction) Belén Martín-Lucas 107

5 The Production of Vancouver: Termination Views in the City of Glass Eva Darias-Beautell 131

6 Jane Rule and the Memory of Canada Richard Cavell 157

7 Confession as Antidote to Historical Truth in River Thieves María Jesús Hernáez Lerena 183

8 Indigenous Criticism and Indigenous Literature in the 1990s: Critical Intimacy Michèle Lacombe 199

Contributors 225

Index 229