Aloys N.M. Fleischmann - Narratives of Citizenship: Indigenous and Diasporic Peoples Unsettle the Nation-State

The cover shows a grainy black-and-white film still with a tan background featuring half the face of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, an American writer and artist of South Korean origin. The still is a close-up of the left side of her face and neck. She faces the camera and has long dark hair. The title features in large white letters across the middle of the cover, and the subtitle features in small black letters under the word Citizenship. The editors names feature in white in a long line toward the bottom of the cover.

Narratives of Citizenship
Aloys N.M. Fleischmann & Nancy Van Styvendale

Obasan meets Salt Fish Girl
Robert Zacharias

Enfolding Citizenship and Mussolinis Demographic Politics
Dorothy Woodman

Citizenship and a Traffic of Mixed-Race Women and Children in Tsimshian-Area Missionary Narratives
Aloys N.M. Fleischmann

Insecurity and the Crisis of Citizenship in Nollywood Movies
Paul Ugor

The Materiality of Melancholia
Lily Cho

The Home Country as Dead Lover in Myrna Kostashs The Doomed Bridegroom
Lindy Ledohowski

Wayne Johnstons Baltimores Mansion and the Newfoundland Diaspora
Jennifer Bowering Delisle

Canadian White Civility and the Two Row Wampum of the Six Nations
Daniel Coleman

Narration Through Photography in Hawaii
Sydney L. Iaukea

The White Paper and the Whitewash in the Press
Carmen Robertson

The Incomplete, Resistant Translation of Language and Culture in Theresa Hak Kyung Chas Dictee
Laura Schechter

Peruvians, Japanese Perhaps, and the Dekasegi
Marco Katz

David Chariandy

David Chariandy is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. His areas of research include Caribbean, Black Atlantic, and English Canadian literatures, as well as interdisciplinary theories of postcoloniality, diaspora, and race.

Lily Cho is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. Her recent publications include Citizenship and the Bonds of Affect: the Passport Photograph, Photography and Culture (2009), and Future Perfect Loss: Richard Fungs Sea in the Blood, Screen (2008). Her book, Eating Chinese: Culture on the Menu in Small Town Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2010), examines the relationship between Chinese restaurants and diaspora culture.

Daniel Coleman, Professor of Canadian Literature, carries out teaching and research on critical race studies, whiteness studies, reading theory, and on epistemological dialogue between Indigenous, Diasporic, and Euro-Canadian literary cultures. He has been a recipient of the Polanyi Prize, the Klibansky Prize, and a Canada Research Chair.

Jennifer Bowering Delisle is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at McMaster University, where she studies Canadian Literature and Diaspora.

Aloys N.M. Fleischmann is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Alberta and also teaches English at the University of Saskatchewan. His primary area of research is the rhetoric of redress and reconciliation in Japanese-Canadian and First Nations literatures.

Sydney Iaukea is based in the Department of Education, Hawaii, where she is a Hawaiian Studies Specialist. She was awarded a Mellon-Hawaii Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2009.

Marco Katz has lived a diasporic life as a musician and writer in New York, California, Madrid, and Edmonton. He currently teaches literature at the University of Alberta.

Lindy Ledohowski is an Assistant Professor of contemporary Canadian literature in the Department of English at St. Jeromes University in the University of Waterloo.

Cody McCarroll is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Alberta. His dissertation is entitled The Smallholder Project: A Rhetoric of Capital Accumulation. He teaches English at the University of Albertas Augustana Campus in Camrose, Alberta.

Carmen Robertson is an Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Visual Arts, University of Regina. She currently holds a standard SSHRC grant: Colonized Bodies and the Art of Norval Morrisseau.

Laura Schechter is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Alberta in the Department of English and Film Studies. Her primary research is in early modern studies, including travel and exploration literature, poetry, translations, and texts written by or focussed on women.

Paul Ugor is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham (UK) where he researches the politics of youth culture in contemporary Nigeria.

Nancy Van Styvendale is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan. Her primary area of research is Native North American literatures.

Dorothy Woodman is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Alberta. Her primary areas of research and teaching as a principal instructor are in medical and cultural rhetoric, corporeal feminisms, world literatures, and Aboriginal literatures.

Robert Zacharias is a Doctoral Student in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, where he works out of TransCanada Institute. His research focusses on theories of migration, Mennonite literature, literary theory, and critical pedagogy.

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The editors of this volume gratefully acknowledge the financial assistance of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Aid to Scholarly Publications Program. Thanks also to Laura Schechter for her copy editing work during the books initial stages, and to the staff of the University of Alberta PressPeter Midgley, Mary Lou Roy, April Hickmore, Alan Brownoff, and Cathie Crooksfor their dedication and, above all, good humour.