Narratives of Citizenship

Aloys N.M. Fleischmann is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. He lives in Saskatoon. Nancy Van Styvendale is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan. She lives in Saskatoon. Cody McCarroll is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. He lives in Camrose, Alberta.

Scholars of English literature generally and of Canadian literature in particular explore attitudes about citizenship by people who are close to the border of it, on one side or the other. They cover the iconography of the anti-citizen, the melancholic Canadian, envisioning indigenous citizenship, and race and the diasporic re/turn. Among the topics are enfolding citizenship and Mussolini's demographic politics, the home country as dead lover in Myrna Kostash's The Doomed Bridegroom, narration through photography in Hawai'i, and Black Canadians and the questions of diasporic citizenship. Reference and Research Book News

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Narratives of Citizenship / Aloys N.M. Fleischmann & Nancy Van StyvendalePart One | The Iconography of the Anti-Citizen1 Citizens of the Exception: Obasan meets Salt Fish Girl / Robert Zacharias2 Grazia Deledda’s The Church of Solitude: Enfolding Citizenship and Mussolini’s Demographic Politics / Dorothy Woodman3 “Some of Course Married Them, which was Better”: Citizenship and a Traffic of Mixed-Race Women and Children in Tsimshian-Area Missionary Narratives / Aloys N.M. Fleischmann4 Failed States and the Militarization of Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insecurity and the Crisis of Citizenship in Nollywood Movies / Paul UgorPart Two | The Melancholic Canadian5 Affecting Citizenship: The Materiality of Melancholia / Lily Cho6 “I am Enchanted”: The Home Country as Dead Lover in Myrna Kostash’s The Doomed Bridegroom / Lindy Ledohowski7 A Citizen of Story: Wayne Johnston’s Baltimore’s Mansion and the “Newfoundland Diaspora” / Jennifer Bowering DelislePart Three | Envisioning Indigenous Citizenship8 Imposing subCitizenship: Canadian White Civility and the Two Row Wampum of the Six Nations / Daniel Coleman9 Camera Ready: Narration Through Photography in Hawai‘i / Sydney L. Iaukea10 Imaginary Citizens: The White Paper and the Whitewash in the Press / Carmen RobertsonPart Four | Race and the Diasporic Re/turn11 “Cracked tongue. Broken tongue”: The Incomplete, Resistant Translation of Language and Culture in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee / Laura Schechter12 Whose Diaspora is This Anyway?: Peruvians, Japanese Perhaps, and the Dekasegi / Marco Katz13 Black Canadas and the Question of Diasporic Citizenship / David ChariandyContributorsIndex