Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Material Cultures in Canada, edited by Thomas Allen and Jennifer Blair
Introduction: Material Cultures in Canada, Material Cultures Now | Thomas Allen and Jennifer Blair
Part I Materialities
1. The Work of the Beaver | Jody Berland
2. Night in a Box: Anne Carson's Nox and the Materiality of Elegy | Tanis MacDonald
3. Maxims and Contraries: Notes from a Project in Process | Alison Calder
4. The Geranium in the Window: One Plant's Literary Hardiness in the Canadian Imagination | Shelley Boyd
Part II Immaterialities
5. Is It Still a Cinch? The Transformational Properties of Objects in Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing | Susan Birkwood
6. Obama's Playlist: Materializing Transnational Desire at the CBC | Mark Simpson
7. Grinning Things: Object Lessons in Violent Labour | Michael Epp
8. Moses Cotsworth and the Authenticity of Time | Thomas Allen
9. Materializing Climate Change: Images of Exposure, States of Exception | Nicole Shukin
10. Waters as Potential Paths to Peace | Rita Wong
Part III Materials Of and For Spaces
11. The Biotopographies of Seth's George Sprott (1894-1975) | Candida Rifkind
12. Woodrow: Memory and Nostalgia at Play | Jessa Alston-O'Connor
13. Plaques and Persons: Commemorating Canada's Authors | Carole Gerson
14. Archaeological Detritus and the Bulging Archive: The Staging of He Named Her Amber at the Art Gallery of Ontario | May Chew
15. Poetry and Globalized Cities: A Material Poetics of Canadian Urban Space | Jeff Derksen
Afterword: Endless Material: The Future of Things in Canada | Thomas Allen and Jennifer Blair
Contributors
Index