Eva Darias-Beautell is associate professor of American and Canadian literatures at the University of La Laguna (Spain). She has been Visiting Scholar at the Universities of Toronto, Ottawa, and British Columbia. She is the author of several books notably Graphies and Grafts: (Con)Texts and (Inter)Texts in the Fictions of Four Canadian Women Writers (2001), chosen as one of the ""30 most notable books in Canadian Studies"" by the International Council for Canadian Studies.

• Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts: Narratives of English Canada, edited by Eva Darias-BeautellIntroduction: Why Penelopes? How Unruly? Which Ghosts? Narratives of English Canada Eva Darias-BeautellONE: Rewriting Tradition: Literature, History, and Changing Narratives in English Canada since the 1970s Coral Ann HowellsTWO: (Reading Closely) Calling for the Formation of Asian Canadian Studies Smaro KamboureliTHREE: When Race Does Not Matter, ""except to everyone else"": Mixed Race Subjectivity and the Fantasy of a Post-Racial Canada in Lawrence Hill and Kim Barry Brunhuber Ana María FraileFOUR: Of Aliens, Monsters, and Vampires: Speculative Fantasy's Strategies of Dissent (Transnational Feminist Fiction) Belén Martín-LucasFIVE: The Production of Vancouver: Termination Views in the City of Glass Eva Darias-BeautellSIX: Jane Rule and the Memory of Canada Richard CavellSEVEN: Confession as Antidote to Historical Truth in River Thieves María Jesús Hernáez LerenaEIGHT: Indigenous Criticism and Indigenous Literature in the 1990s: Critical Intimacy Michèle LacombeContributorsIndex

"These scholarly essays do not wait patiently. They do not long for peace, order, and good government in Canadian literary criticism. They are not haunted by 'our lack of ghosts.' A testament to the power of unruly imaginings, this collection rips into the fabric of Canadian literary history and its cognitive institutions and weaves new possibilities for our global self-positioning. Argumentative, readable, ultimately hopeful--this is what critical scholarship can look like in the service of genuine social change." -- Stephen Slemon, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta