• “The best tradition of womanhood”: Negotiating and Reading Identities in Emma Donoghue’s Landing 

  Mikalson, Kaarina (Universidad de Huelva, 2018)

  This article reads Emma Donoghue's 2007 novel Landing as an intersectional romance. The novel's conflict emerges not only from the distance between the two lovers, the Irish flight attendant Síle and the Canadian curator ...

  

• Now I am Become Death”: Japanese and Canadian Industrial Contamination in Michiko Ishimure’s Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow: Our Minamata Disease and Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle 

  Ganz, Shoshannah (Universidad de Huelva, 2018)

  Canada and Japan share a history of industrial contamination that has resulted in mercury poisoning; the inhabitants of both Minamata, Japan and the Indigenous community of Grassy Narrows, Ontario have suffered from what ...

  

• Controlled Bodies, Mental Wounds: Vulnerability in Mariko and Jillian Tamaki’s Skim 

  Díaz Cano, Coral Anaid (Universidad de Huelva, 2018)

  This paper provides a study of vulnerability in Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki’s Skim (2008), a graphic novel about Kimberly Keiko Cameron (known as Skim), a Japanese Canadian teenage girl interested in Wicca and struggling ...

  

• Chinatown Children during World War Two in The Jade Peony 

  Liu, Zhen (Universidad de Huelva, 2018)

  In The Jade Peony (1995) Wayson Choy captured vividly the lives of three children growing up in Vancouver’s Chinatown during the 1930s and 1940s when the Depression and the Second World War constituted the social backdrop. ...

  

• The Unsettling Portrayal of Migrant Existence in Rawi Hage’s Urban Fiction 

  Staels, Hilde (Universidad de Huelva, 2018)

  This essay considers the function of the grotesque mode in Rawi Hage’s novels Cockroach (2008) and Carnival (2012). The grotesque is a provocative tool with which Hage draws attention to the predicament of the class of ...

  

• The Life of Others: Narratives of Vulnerability 

  Darias-Beautell, Eva (Universidad de Huelva, 2018)

  This special issue of Canada and Beyond looks into contemporary Canadian cultural production in English through the Butlerian notions of vunerability and precarity. It aims to provide a critical view of the field with an ...

  

• Apocalypses Now: Two Modes of Vulnerability in Last Night and The Mist 

  Orán Llarena, Fabián (Universidad de Huelva, 2018)

  This paper draws on Judith Butler’s notions of vulnerability, precarity, and grievability to examine two filmic texts: the Canadian Last Night (Don McKellar, 1998) and the American The Mist (Frank Darabont, 2007). Both ...

  

• Representations of Home in Obasan and Nihonjin: The Issei, Nisei, Sansei of Canada and Brazil 

  Raynor, Cecily (Universidad de Huelva, 2017)

  Joy Kogawa’s Obasan (1981) and Oscar Nakasato’s Nihonjin (2011) are two novels that narrate the lives of Japanese diaspora in Canada and Brazil respectively. Both countries share a rich tradition of Japanese migration ...

  

• “Matando o Desconhecimento”: The Role of Culture in Brazil’s Relations with Canada and Beyond 

  Hewitt, W. E.; Gomes, Inês C. (Universidad de Huelva, 2017)

  In recent years, observers in both Canada and Brazil have pointed to the benefits of further developing relations between the two countries. Despite diplomatic efforts to promote productive interchange however, levels of ...

  

• "It’s some cannibal thing": Canada and Brazil in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy 

  Jacobson Konefall, Jessica (Universidad de Huelva, 2017)

  Brazilian modernist Oswald de Andrade’s artistic and philosophical manifesto of Brazilian cannibalism best enables readers to grasp Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s trilogy MaddAddam, in terms of its treatment of settler ...

  

• Introduction. Canada, Brazil, and Beyond: extending the dialogue 

  Brydon, Diana; Nunes, Vanessa (Universidad de Huelva, 2017)

  The history of relations between Canada and Brazil has been erratic, full of stops and starts, “advances and setbacks” (Hewitt and Gomes, this issue) and often marred by misunderstandings, business rivalries, and the very ...

  

• In the Rhythm of Cree Samba: transculturality and decolonization in Tomson Highway´s Theatre 

  Cunha, Rubelise da (Universidad de Huelva, 2017)

  The voice that comes from Indigenous artists, writers and activists in the Americas, in artistic works which can be related to Mary Louise Pratt’s concept of autoethnographic expression (1992), inevitably engages with ...

  

• In the altitudes of elation ‘we look up and hold the folds of language inside us without any word for wind’1: at the start of the light we ask, what is Secession/Insecession? 

  Robichaud, Geneviève (Universidad de Huelva, 2017)

  

• Bahai Cuisine and Other Delicacies: Canadian-Brazilian Cultural Encounters and the Invisible Neighbour 

  Braz, Albert (Universidad de Huelva, 2017)

  Although activities like travel and translation are supposed to expand one’s cultural horizons, it is widely accepted that one is not always able to escape the imprint of one’s own society. Perhaps more critical, in the ...

  

• Another piece of reassuring plastic: 8 notes on what the noigandres group taught me 

  Beaulieu, Derek (Universidad de Huelva, 2017)

  

• “Canadian, Please”: The Intimate Space of YouTube Racism 

  Sugars, Cynthia (Universidad de Huelva, 2015)

  

• Liminality and (Trans)Nationalism in the Rethinking of the African Canadian Subjectivity: Esi Edugyan’s The Second Life of Samuel Tyne 

  Cucarella-Ramón, Vicent (Universidad de Huelva, 2015)

  

• Joanna McClelland Glass’ Mrs. Dexter and Her Daily and the Inter-play among Age, Gender and Class 

  Casado-Gual, Núria (Universidad de Huelva, 2015)

  

• Taking Vimy Ridge: Jane Urquhart's The Stone Carvers and Canada as "Warrior Nation" 

  Wyile, Herb (Universidad de Huelva, 2014)

  

• “Through a glass, darkly”: The metaphor of the lens in public discussions about the Canadian Museum for Human Rights 

  Lynn Struch, Joanne (Universidad de Huelva, 2014)

  

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