Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to search

Social Science General

Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Québec

edited by Roxanne Rimstead & Domenic A. Beneventi

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2019
Category
General, General, General, Canadian, Canadian
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781442629905
    Publish Date
    Feb 2019
    List Price
    $108.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442629929
    Publish Date
    Mar 2019
    List Price
    $108.00

Classroom Resources

Where to buy it

Description

Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Québec explores strategies for reading space and conflict in Canadian and Québécois literature and cultural performances, positing questions such as: how do these texts and performances produce and contest spatial practices? What are the roles of the nation, city, community, and individual subject in reproducing space, particularly in times of global hegemony and neocolonialism? And in what ways do marginalized individuals and communities represent, contest, or appropriate spaces through counter-narratives and expressions of culture from below?

 

Focusing on discord rather than harmony and consensus, this collection disturbs the idealized space of Canadian multicultural pluralism to carry literary analysis and cultural studies into spaces often undetected and unforeseen – including flophouses and "slums," shantytowns and urban alleyways, underground spaces and peep shows, and inner-city urban parks as they are experienced by minorities and other marginalized groups. These essays are the products of sustained, high-level collaboration across French and English academic communities in Canada to facilitate theoretical exchange on the topic of space and contestation, uncover geographies of exclusion, and generate new spaces of hope in the spirit of pioneering works by Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau, Doreen Massey, David Harvey, and other prominent theorists of space.

About the authors

Roxanne Rimstead is a professor in the D�partement Lettres et communications, Universit� de Sherbrooke.

Roxanne Rimstead's profile page

Domenico A. Beneventi is an associate professor in the D�partement Lettres et communications, Universit� de Sherbrooke.

Domenic A. Beneventi's profile page

Editorial Reviews

"This excellent collection of fifteen essays by renowned scholars focuses on contested spaces and alternative or counternarratives. It invites rereading or reinterpreting of well-trodden ground and explores different voices and spaces in the discussion of the social meaning around space."

<em>Journal of Contemporary Drama in English</em>