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The Oxford Handbook Of Canadian Literature Provides A Broad-ranging Introduction To Some Of The Key Critical Fields, Genres, And Periods In Canadian Literary Studies -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction / Cynthia Sugars -- Part I: Reflections On The Discipline: Constructing Canadian Literature: A Retrospective / Frank Davey -- National Literature: Canadian Criticism, And National Character / Frank Davey -- Remembering Canada: The Politics Of Cultural Memory / Richard Cavell -- Canadian Celebrity: Authorship Moves On / Lorraine York -- Toward A Planetary Poetics: Canadian Poetries After Globalization / Erin Wunker -- Canadian Studies In Canada: Past, Present, And Future / Imre Szeman And Andrew Pendakis -- Part Ii: Indigenous Literatures And Contexts: Contemporary Metis Literature: Resistance, Roots, Innovation / Emma Larocque -- From Profound Silences To Ethical Practices: Aboriginal Writing And Reconciliation / Jonathan Dewar -- Indigenous Autobiography In Canada: Uncovering Intellectual Traditions / Deanna Reder -- What Lnuit Will Think: Keavy Martin And Taqralik Partridge Talk Inuit Literature / Keavy Martin And Taqralik Partridge -- In/hospitable Aboriginalities In Contemporary Indigenous Women's Writing / Julia Emberley -- Part Iii: Literary Periods And Genres: Reading, Writing, And Speaking Of Contact: Explorations From Both Sides / Jennifer S.h. Brown And Frieda Esau Klippenstein -- Eighteenth And Nineteenth-century French-canadian Literature / Andrea Cabajsky -- English-canadian Narratives Of Settlement / Janice Flamengo -- British Poets, Classical Myths, Canadian Literature / D.m.r. Bentley -- Cosmopolitan Nationalism: Canadian Literature Of The Confederation Period, 1867-1914 / Tracy Ware -- Modernist Poetry In Canada, 1920-1960 / J.a. Weingarten -- Mid-century Modernity And Fiction By Women, 1920-1960 / Carole Gerson -- Mainstream Magazines: Home And Mobility / Faye Hammill And Michelle Smith -- Canadian Drama And The Nationalist Impulse / Craig Walker -- The Stratford Festival And Canadian Cultural Nationalism / Ian Rae -- The Not So Quiet, Nor Short, Revolution Tranquille / David Leahy -- The Canadian Short Story In English: Aesthetic Agency, Social Change, And The Shifting Canon / Alexander Macleod -- The English-canadian Novel: Counter-memory And The Claims Of History, 1950-2000 / Cynthia Sugars -- Fracture Mechanics: Canadian Poetry Since 1960 / Tanis Macdonald -- Humour And Irony In Quebec Women's Writing, 1970-2010: Taking The Pulse Of A Resistance / Lucie Joubert -- The Digital Turn In Canadian And Quebecois Literature / Kate Eichhorn -- Part Iv: Intra-national Perspectives And Traditions: Diasporic Citizenship And De-formations Of Citizenship / Lily Cho -- Black Canadian Literature: Fieldwork And Post-race / David Chariandy -- (east And Southeast) Asian Canadian Literature: The Strange And The Familiar / Eleanor Ty -- South Asian Canadian Geographies Of Voice: Flagging New Critical Mappings / Marian Pirbhai -- You Say You've Od'd On Leonard Cohen: Canadian Jewish Writing And The Mainstream / Norman Ravvin -- For Better Or For Worse: Revisiting Ecriture Migrante In Quebec / Marie Carriere And Catherine Khordoc -- On The Poetics Of Arab-canadian Literature In French And English / Elizabeth Dahab -- People Are Made Of Places: Perspectives On Region In Atlantic-canadian Literature / Tony Tremblay -- If I Were A Rugged Beauty...: Contemporary Newfoundland Fiction / Paul Chafe -- Retracing Prairie Literature / Alison Calder -- Canadian Literature On The Pacific Coast / Nicholas Bradley -- Part V: Critical Fields And New Directions: Ecocriticism In Canada / Pamela Banting -- Canadian Postcolonialisms / Diana Brydon And Bruno Cornellier -- Reading Historiography And Historical Fiction In Twentieth-century Canada / Renee Hulan -- Canadian Book History / Eli Maclaren -- Canadian Auto/biography: Life Writing, Biography And Memoir / Julie Rak -- Canadian Children's Literature In English / Deirdre Baker -- Canadian Feminist Literary Criticism And Theory In The Second Wave / Cecily Devereux -- Gay And Lesbian Literature In Canada / Terry Goldie And Lee Frew -- Survival Of The Fittest: Canlit And Disability / Sally Chivers -- Canadian Literature In The Neoliberal Era / Herb Wyile. Edited By Cynthia Sugars. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.