Digital Memory Agents in Canada

Matthew Cormier is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the Université de Moncton. Amanda Spallacci is Lecturer in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta.

• Introduction | MATTHEW CORMIER, AMANDA SPALLACCI1 | Digital History Making during a Crisis: A COVID-19 Archive | JIM CLIFFORD, ERIKA DYCK, CRAIG HARKEMA2 | From Counter-Memory to Legislative Reform: Sexual Assault Activism on Social Media in Canada | AMANDA SPALLACCI3 | “I Make In Rem—Against the World—the Following Order”: Survivor Agency and Refusal in the Independent Assessment Process’s Digital Memory | CAROLINE HODES4 | Virtual Museum Tours: Queer Nostalgic Pasts and Utopic Futures in Canadian Nightlife Memories | BRAIDON SCHAUFERT5 | Counter-Cartographies and Activist Archives: Navigating Petrocultural Memory in Brian Holmes’ Petropolis | JORDAN B. KINDER6 | Socially Mediatized Identities versus The Law of the Heart: Posthuman Memory in Sophie Deraspe’s Antigone | RUSSELL J.A. KILBOURN7 | “You Are Not One Thing”: Narrative and Memory in Zalika Reid-Benta’s Frying Plantain | UCHECHUKWU PETER UMEZURIKE8 | Toward a Literary Métis Homeland: A Digital Analysis of Gregory Scofield’s Louis and Marilyn Dumont’s The Pemmican Eaters | MATTHEW TÉTREAULT AND STEPHEN WEBB9 | Beyond the Borders of the City and te Digital Space: Queer (Un)belonging and Memory Work in Dionne Brand’s Thirsty | ANNA KOZAK10 | Through the Digital Prism of Acadian Identity: Aesthetics, Politics, and Counterculture | MATTHEW CORMIERContributors

“The subject of this volume is the next frontier of memory studies.” Julia Creet, York University