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Canada and Beyond -- Vol. 07 (2018)
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The Unsettling Portrayal of Migrant Existence in Rawi Hage’s Urban Fiction
(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
(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 ... -
“The best tradition of womanhood”: Negotiating and Reading Identities in Emma Donoghue’s Landing
(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
(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
(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
(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. ... -
Apocalypses Now: Two Modes of Vulnerability in Last Night and The Mist
(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 ...