Nightmares of the National Imaginary

Tom Halford is a visiting assistant professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Grenfell.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Nightmares of the National Imaginary1.1 The National Imaginary, Surveillance, Sousveillance, and Literature: The Last Word1.2 The Canadian National Imaginary: The Dream of a Good and Decent People1.3 Counter-Narratives of the National Imaginary: Nightmares of the Excluded Other1.4 Surveillance as Social Sorting: Categories Change the Future1.5 Sousveillance as Dialogue: Looking Back at the Powerful1.6 Overview of the Sections to FollowSection One: Developing an Ethics of Sousveillance 2.1 Michael Winters’s This All Happened: The Artist as Imperfect Model for Sousveillance2.2 Please Tell Me What the Poets Are Saying: Cyborgs, Flowers, and Impossible Metaphors in the Poetry of Ken Babstock, A.F. Moritz, Larissa Lai, and Rita Wong 2.3 Different Modes of Sousveillance in Lynn Coady’s Writing: Community, Literary, and DigitalSection Two: Vulnerable People in Canada and the Damage of Surveillance3.1 David Chariandy’s Brother: Systemic Racism, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Urban Policing3.2 Sharon Bala’s The Boat People: Bureaucracy and Two Faces of Canadian Immigration3.3 Justin Ling's Missing from the Village: The Failure to See the Vulnerable OtherSection Three: How Should We Look at Those Who Surveil?4.1 David Adams Richards’s Principles to Live By: Principles to Sort By4.2 Broken Principles: One Police Officer’s Relationship to Indigenous Identity in Katherena Vermette’s The Break4.3 Foreign Radical: Watch Yourself!Conclusion: Enter the Nuance MachineWorks CitedIndex

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