Indexing Vancouver: Image Bank’s International Image Exchange Directory
Abstract: The Image Bank International Image Exchange Directory claims to have been published by Talonbooks in 1972, but it does not feature in histories of that quintessential west coast press. As a response to this absence, this article explores the intermedial practices and social scenes surrounding the press, Vancouver’s Intermedia Society (1967-1972), and related sites where the city’s countercultures and neo-avant-garde came into contact. A visual analysis of two photographic images printed in the Directory, one urban, one rural, reveals a social imaginary for Vancouver in which the city flips into different registers of semiotic coding at local, national and transnational levels. The city features in the imaginary geographies of a neo-avant-garde interested in the psychological and cultural impact of media technologies, as per Marshall McLuhan’s “global village,” of transnational media space. Conversely, given a context of post-Centennial cultural nationalism, the Directory also indexes the city within a counter-environment where a utopian state of queer futurity could thrive.
Indigeneity and Diversity in Eden Robinson’s Work
Abstract: Indigeneity and Diversity in Eden Robinson’s Work Kit Dobson Readers approaching Eden Robinson’s work from within contemporary colonial ...
Indigenizing Author Meets Critics: Collaborative Indigenous Literary Scholarship
Abstract: Part 4 of "Thinking Together: A Forum on Jo-Ann Episkenew’s Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing."
The original live forum on Jo-Ann Episkenew’s Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing brought together the author of only the second monograph by an Indigenous literary critic in Canada with three critics, who discussed her recently published work in front of members of the Canadian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (CACLALS) and the Association of Bibliotherapy and Applied Literatures (IABAL). Following the live event, the panelists submitted written versions of their contributions to the convenors of the forum, allowing all centrally involved to reflect further on the thoughts of the other panelists and of those in the audience who offered further ideas.
The original live forum on Jo-Ann Episkenew’s Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing brought together the author of only the second monograph by an Indigenous literary critic in Canada with three critics, who discussed her recently published work in front of members of the Canadian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (CACLALS) and the Association of Bibliotherapy and Applied Literatures (IABAL). Following the live event, the panelists submitted written versions of their contributions to the convenors of the forum, allowing all centrally involved to reflect further on the thoughts of the other panelists and of those in the audience who offered further ideas.
Infanticide, Suicide, Matricide, and Mother-Daughter Love: Suzanne Jacob’s L’obéissance and Ying Chen’s L’ingratitude
Abstract: Fiction has the power to create a space where theunspeakable can be represented and explored. One of our greatest taboos, ...
Infinite Signs: Alberto Kurapel and the Semiotics of Exile
Abstract: “Las luces se apagan solo queda una zona atrâs junto al desfiladero donde tendre que reventar y maquillarme maquillarme y ...
Influences
Abstract: IT WAS ONLY AFTER ι PUBLISHED A BOOK that I was forced to consider the question of influence on my ...
Initiation and Quest: Early Canadian Journals
Abstract: Τ[HE EARLIEST of the Canadian captives to write a narrativein IHE English was Pierre-Esprit Radisson who was captured by the ...
Inside the Trade: An Editor’s Notes
Abstract: FMY EARLIEST YEARS I wanted to be an editor. If an • ROM anxious aunt had asked me, “What are ...
Insite: Place d’Armes
Abstract: SCOTT SYMONS’ Place d’Armes is an experimental novel whose typographical variety, maps and diary format reflect a McLuhanesque aesthetic sense ...
Internalized Racism: Physiology and Abjection in Kerri Sakamoto’s The Electrical Field
Abstract: This paper addresses physiological responses to psychological trauma. It argues that the narratorâs experience in a World War II internment camp disrupts not only her mental processes and her ability to narrate traumatic events but that it interrupts her physical aging process (the body's narrative) as well. Sakamoto's novel demonstrates that internalized racism can reveal itself externally on the body. Traumatized individuals in the novel come to understand themselves as figures of abjection at community and national levels as the polity attempts to expel those whom it sees as harmful to the social body.