Land/Relations

Smaro Kamboureli is a professor and the Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature in the English Department at the University of Toronto. She is the founder of the TransCanada series of books, published by WLU Press, originating from interdisciplinary conferences that initiated collaborative research on the methodologies and institutional structures and contexts that inform and shape the production, dissemination, teaching, and study of Canadian literature. Her most recent publications include Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies (WLU Press 2012), co-edited with Robert Zacharias and Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace (WLU Press, 2013), co-edited with Kit Dobson. Larissa Lai is the author of two novels, When Fox Is a Thousand and Salt Fish Girl. A recipient of the Astraea Foundation Emerging Writers' Award, she has been shortlisted for the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Tiptree Award, and the Dorothy Livesay Prize. She is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia.

• Storying Land / Relations: An Introduction in Two Voices - Smaro Kamboureli and Larissa LaiAgency, Urgency, Insurgency [poem] - Lillian AllenPositioning Intergenerational Trauma: Nisga'a Nationalism and the Materiality of Marius Barbeau's Totem Poles - Jordan AbelNeoliberal Gothic, Settler Social Imaginaries, and the Case for Decolonization on Two Fronts - Jennifer HendersonListing Waters: The Poetics of Solidarity in Darwish and Wong - Dina Al-KassimCLI and CLII [prose poems] - Sonnet L'AbbéBack to the Future: Black Canada's Past and Present; or the Changing Same - Rinaldo WalcottDeliberate Vulgarity: Performing the Demotic, Transforming Cultural Space? The Six Books [poems] - Pamela Mordecai'Making Things Right': Black Settlement and the Politics of Territory - Karina VernonFrom Islamophobia to Islamophilia: Dancing Orientalisms, Islamizing Muslims, and the Unspeakability of the Muslim Woman Subject - Sedef Arat-KoçLiterature, Language, Culture: At Mikinaakominis / TransCanadas 2017 - Eileen AntoneListening at Mikinaakominis / TransCanadas 2017 - Erín MoureBetween Empire and Nation: Synchronicity and Revolution in Chinese Canadian Writing - Chris LeeDiplomacy before Reconciliation - Margery FeeFederal State, Feral Culture: (Not)Withstanding Canada around its 150th Year - Len FindlayWhat Next? Asserting Peace Against the Odds - Rita WongLiving on Unceded Indigenous Territories: Vancouver as a Site of Conflict in Building Alliance and Autonomy in Decolonial Struggles - Sophie McCallRe-storying and Restoring the Buffalo to the Indigenous Plains - Tasha HubbardLandsensing: Body, Territory, Relation - Warren Cariou