Canadian Fantastic in Focus

Allan Weiss is an associate professor of English and humanities at York University in Toronto. He edited two previous proceedings volumes for the conference, Perspectives on the Canadian Fantastic and Further Perspectives on the Canadian Fantastic, and his short-story collection Living Room appeared in 2001.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction—Allan WeissKeynote AddressesWhy I Read Canadian Speculative Fiction: The Social Dimension of Reading—Robert RuntéThe Body on the Slab—Veronica HollingerCanadian Science FictionCybernetic Opium Eating, the Kantian Use of Human Beings and Neuromancing the Gothic Imagination: A Narrative Link—David MilmanOne Thing After Another—Dominick GraceHere Be Monsters: Posthuman Adaptation and Subjectivity in Peter Watts’ Starfish—Clare WallRobert Charles Wilson’s Mysterium: Thoughts on the Modern Reception of Gnosticism—Michael KalerNew ­Half-Way Tree and the Second World: Themes of Nation and Colonization in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber—Brecken HancockCanadian Fantasy and Dark FantasySacred Cities: Charles de Lint’s Newford Books and the Mythologizing of the North American Urban Landscape—Cat AshtonThe Word and the Flesh: Natural Law vs. Catholic Dogma in Rikki Ducnornet’s The Stain—Tammy DastiWriting About Invented Places: Esther Rochon’s Archipelago of Vrénalik—Maude Deschênes-PradetSpeculating Diversity: Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring and the Use of Speculative Fiction to Disrupt Singular Interpretations of Place—Derek ­Newman-Stille“God’s Country,” Evil’s Playground: Susie Moloney, Michael Rowe, Brian Horeck and the Northern Ontario Gothic—Cat AshtonCan the Witch Speak? The Supernatural Subaltern in Kelley Armstrong’s Otherworld—Adam GuzkowskiNavigating the Darkness: Blindness and Vampirism in Tanya Huff’s Blood Books—Derek ­Newman-StilleMedia ExpressionsScott Pilgrim vs. the Megacity—Chester N. ScovilleFrom “Space Oddity” to Canadian Reality—Isabelle FournierFrom Monstrous Mommies to Hunting Heroines: The Evolution of Women on Supernatural—Lisa Macklem About the ContributorsIndex

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