Unarrested Archives

Linda M. Morra is an associate professor in the Department of English at Bishop’s University and the current president of the Quebec Writers’ Federation. She edited the collected letters of Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth published with the University of Toronto Press (2006), and edited and annotated Jane Rule’s Taking my Life (2011).

• Introduction1. The Archive of Embodiment: Pauline Johnson’s “ A Cry from an Indian Wife”2. Her “Eye” Was Her “I”: Emily Carr, Autobiography, and the Archive of Kinship3. “It’s What You [Don’t] Say”: Sheila Watson, the Imminent Narrative, and the Archive of Displacement4. Jane Rule and the Archive of Activism: Negotiating Imaginative – and Literal – Space for a Nation5. The Minor Archive: M. NourbeSe Philip and Mediations of Race and Gender in CanadaConclusion

‘Through its range of genres and cultural periods, meticulous scholarship, and respect for the public life of women writers’ documents, Unarrested Archives recalibrates perspectives on what might be uncovered and what must be preserved.’- Patricia Demers (BC Studies February 2016) ‘Morra hopes that her book will encourage researchers to think more broadly about archives’ formations, their locations, and the relationships they organize and epitomize. Her case studies provide a sustained engagement with these issues, although each could be read as a fascinating stand-alone piece.’- Andrea Beverley (English Studies in Canada vol 41:04:2015) ‘An excellent introduction to textual feminism as a materialist practice…. This book will remind readers of why we need feminism in the second decade of the twenty-first century.’- Tanis MacDonald (Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature vol 35:01:2016) ‘This minutely researched and thoroughly engaging study expands scholarly understanding of how literary archives are shaped by national institutions.’- Cristina Ivanovici (British Journal of Canadian Studies vol 29:02:2016)