Acknowledgements
Introduction: Reading Space Through Conflict
ROXANNE RIMSTEAD and DOMENICO A. BENEVENTI (Université de Sherbrooke)
Part I: Contested Urban Spaces
Chapter 1 : Culture and Critique During Mega-Events: The 2010 Olympics and the Right to the City
JEFF DERKSEN (Simon Fraser University)
Chapter 2: The Ambivalence of Enclosed Spaces in Immigrant Fiction: Between Refuge and Prison
AMARYLL CHANADY (Université de Montréal)
Chapter 3: Montreal Marginalities: Revisiting Boulevard Saint-Laurent
SHERRY SIMON (Concordia University)
Chapter 4: Heterotopia and Its Discontents: Exploring Spatial, Social, and Textual Liminality in Rawi Hage’s Cockroach
RITA SAKR (University of London)
Chapter 5: "Laisser-aller": Homelessness and Contained Space in Kobo Abe’s The Box Man and Robert Majzels’s City of Forgetting
SIMON HAREL (Université de Montréal)
Part II : Counter-Narratives and Spaces of the Nation/State
Chapter 6: Unruly and Unremarked: Theatrical Spectatorship from Below in Nineteenth-Century Canada
ALAN FILEWOD (University of Guelph)
Chapter 7: Women’s Space in Postcolonial Perspective: France Théoret’s Une belle éducation and Assia Djebar’s Nulle part dans la maison de mon père
MARY JEAN GREEN (Dartmouth College)
Chapter 8: For King and Country? : War and Indigenous Masculinity
DEENA RYMHS (University of British Columbia)
Chapter 9: Reclaiming Indigenous Space through Testimonial Life Writing: An Antane Kapesh’s Je suis une maudite Sauvagesse as Territorial Imperative
NATASHA DAGENAIS (Université de Sherbrooke)
Chapter 10: Norman Bethune and the Contested Spaces of Canadian Public Memory
CANDIDA RIFKIND (University of Winnipeg)
Part III: Culture from Below
Chapter 11 : Knowing the Urban Other: Notes on the Ethics and Epistemology of Slumming in Novels and Reportage
ROXANNE RIMSTEAD (Université de Sherbrooke)
Chapter 12: "You Should Think about It, Think What It Means": Working Girls in Canadian Women’s Writing
PATRICIA DEMERS (University of Alberta)
Chapter 13: Border-Crossings and Alternative Social Spaces in Gabrielle Roy’s Bonheur d’occasion / The Tin Flute
D. M. R. BENTLEY (Western University)
Chapter 14: Growing Up Poor and Female in Montreal, 1930-1960: Women’s Autobiographies as Counter-Narratives
PATRICIA SMART (Carleton University)
Chapter 15: Tramping Across the Nation: Homeless Embodiment in Canadian Literature
DOMENICO A. BENEVENTI (Université de Sherbrooke)
Afterword
