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Echoing the pandemic-era phrase "shelter in place," and extending beyond it, this collection examines how writing can create, illuminate, and complicate ideas about dwelling, belonging, or finding safe harbour. Through an engaging blend of academic essays and creative nonfiction, contributors interrogate the connections between the concepts of shelter and text, centering questions of care, disability, and housing inequality. How does the physical infrastructure of the city interact with literary form and how do stories bring attention to our built environments? Did the experience of lockdown (re)shape our interiorities, imaginations, and reading habits? Can Indigenous and decolonial approaches to land and storytelling and an inclusive practice of shelter-making through narrative enable a more sustainable future? While many of the works and writers discussed in the volume are Canadian, the scope extends beyond national borders to create a transnational dialogue on diverse and non-traditional approaches to topics of land, space, and shelter. Shelter in Text will appeal to literary scholars, particularly those working in the fields of Canadian literature, Indigenous studies, contemporary literature, ecocriticism, gothic fiction, Queer studies, feminist studies, disability studies, translation, and literary theory. Contributors: Kelly Baron, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Myra Bloom, David Chariandy, Lily Cho, Sophie Feng, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Kristi Leora Gansworth, Sarah Gordon, Shannon Griffin-Merth, Anna Guttman, Heather Jessup, Andrew David King, Caroline Lavoie, Jennifer Lawn, Jessi MacEachern, Kayla Penteliuk, Anil Pradhan, Geneviève Robichaud, Kasia Van Schaik, Holly Vestad, Erin Wunker, and Robert Zacharias.
Contents
Introduction
Myra Bloom and Kasia Van Schaik
Section 1: Indigenous and decolonial approaches to land and space
Reflections on The Rouge: Intersections between Indigeneity and Diaspora in David Chariandy's Brother
Kelly Baron
"We All Want a World": A Conversation on Community, Connection and Refuge
Billy-Ray Belcourt, David Chariandy, and Lily Cho
Against Text as Shelter: Jordan Abel's De-Storying Research
Ryan Fitzpatrick
Seasons and Stories: Michel Jean's Indigenous Landscapes of Shelter
Sarah Gordon and Caroline Lavoie
Aubade: A moment of light
Kristi Leora Gansworth
Section 2: Gothic Returns and Dystopian Hauntings
Library Books for the End of the World
Heather Jessup
Outsider Affects and Ordinary Care: Radical Love as Shelter in Claudia Dey's Heartbreaker
Erin Wunker
"The ghosts haunted; they did not help or encourage": WWII, Spectrality, and Gothic Space in At Mrs. Lippincote's by Elizabeth Taylor
Kayla Penteliuk
Unhomely Sweet Home: Phyllis Brett Young's Uncanny Domestic Imaginaries
Kathryn Franklin
Shelter You Seek
Holly Vestad
Section 3: Dwellings and (Un)real Estate
Contemporary fictions of stymied inheritance and domestic exclusion: Projections of home in Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger and Ann Patchett's The Dutch House
Jennifer Lawn
Rewriting the City: The Matter of Collective Revision in Sachiko Murakami's Project Rebuild
Shannon Griffin-Merth
Religion, Caste and Class in Indian Apartment Block Fiction
Anna Guttman
Love is where the Home is: The Domestic as Queer Space of/for Intimacy in Contemporary Indian Gay Romance Fiction in English
Anil Pradhan
Paper-Spaces: A Poetics of Habitation
Geneviève Robichaud
Section 4: Cities and Public Spaces
On Project Bookmark Canada, Or: Reading a Few Pages of Ondaatje on Canada's Literary Trail
Robert Zacharias
Can the text 'shelter' everyone? Space, Desire and Discursive Pluralities in Dionne Brand's What We All Long For and Marie-Claire Blais's Soifs
Sophie Feng
Debris Growing Skyward: The Sheltered Flâneuse of Gail Scott's Main Brides
Jessi MacEachern
Six Quarantines
Andrew David King
Contributor bios
Acknowledgments
