Land/Relations - 9781771125109

Land/RelationsPossibilities of Justice in Canadian Literature\nAuthor(s): Smaro Kamboureli, Larissa Lai\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Canada\nImprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press\nISBN-13: 9781771125109, 978-1771125109\nSynopsis\nPrimary audience is Canadian literature scholars\nContributes directly to current conversations in both contemporary Canadian media and academic circles around the relationship between bodies and land. For instance, Jordan Abel's piece addresses the possibilities and difficulties of reclaiming Nishga/Nisga'a identity in the aftermath of the residential school experience. Karina Vernon's essay addresses how Black subjects might respond in a moment when they learn that the home they've been longing for is already inhabited. Dina Al-Kassim's essay addresses kinships of dispossession. \nThis book is an effort to steer Canadian literatures out of controversy for controversy's sake, and into a flow of productive, relation-buy