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Abstract: ?IHE VOICES OF THE UNHEARD cannot help but be of value,” states Lee Maracle onI HthEe first page oí I ...

Abstract: This paper investigates Jeff Derksen’s citational poetics in The Vestiges, and how this text’s creative practice critically examines the processes of neoliberalization in the present. With citational poetics, I see Derksen’s writing copy and comment on multiple textual forms in order to depict the poem’s role in social observation alongside its ability mobilize and array these textual forms against structures that far exceed the structure of the poem itself. The Vestiges in turn displays how the disparate materials of the long neoliberal moment and the traces of its manifold processes—from critical theory and chart topping hits to overthrown governments—can be brought to bear on the present, and specifically how mobilizing these different kinds of textual and historical matter locate citational poetics within a wider project of anti-capitalist research.

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Abstract: In this paper, Dani Spinosa looks to the semantic and metaphorical connotations of Jim Andrews’ “Seattle Drift” (1997) as a litmus test in order to define the uniquely Canadian, specifically Vancouverite, and transnational, transgeneric contributions to the fields of electronic literature and digital poetics. This paper tries to situate a work that “used to be poetry” but “drifted from the scene” to begin to theorize the role of place (Seattle, Vancouver) and national discourse (American, Canadian) in a digital literary world that increasingly works to blur borders and collapses national and generic conventions alike.

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Abstract: ‘oHN GALT CAME ?? CANADA IN 1825 seething with ideas for practical improvements in canals, mills, and roads, and also ...

Abstract: I??? GLASSCO CULTIVATED THE LYRIC and erotic muses — Euterpe and Erato. He was, above all, in his later years, ...

Abstract: TLHE HISTORIAN OF IDEAS IN CANADA quickly discovers how central the philosophy studied at Canadian universities was in helping to ...

Abstract: Le 26 janvier 1983 II est neuf heures vingt-quatre et assise à ma table de travail, je cherche à éviter ...

Abstract: 1,N THE FIRST WEEK of the second world war, going on thirty years now, Wyndham Lewis followed me, in ignorance, ...

Abstract: This paper examines the intricate theme of “returning home” in Philip Huynh's short story “Toad Poem.” It argues that this story, with its focus on a character who enacts a return visit to Vietnam, allows for a greater appreciation of the active and ongoing connections between Vietnamese Canadians, their homeland, and its complicated history marked by Western imperialism. Importantly, these connections work to disrupt the discourse of the “grateful refugee”—a discourse formulated by the Canadian nation-state that suggests the refugee’s war-torn past has been resolved and replaced by a peaceful and prosperous present. Alternatively, “Toad Poem” suggests how Vietnamese Canadians can remain haunted by losses incurred during the Vietnam War. Diem has not simply left a “communist” Vietnam to flourish in a “free” Canada; rather, his memories and thoughts of the past continue to shape his decisions. Thus, his return to Vietnam denotes a movement back in time, as well as a passage across the Pacific Ocean, to reveal what has been excised from Canada’s state-sanctioned discourse.

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Abstract: A„NNA, SUSANNA, AND CATHARINE PARR TRAILL” their names bounce together with the rhythm of a good musical-comedy title song. Certainly ...