Examining various cultural products-music, cartoons, travel guides, ideographic treaties, film, and especially the literary arts-the contributors of these thirteen essays invite readers to conceptualize citizenship as a narrative construct, both in Canada and beyond. Focusing on indigenous and diasporic works, along with mass media depictions of Indigenous and diasporic peoples, this collection problematizes the juridical, political, and cultural ideal of universal citizenship. Readers are asked to envision the nation-state as a product of constant tension between coercive practices of exclusion and assimilation. Narratives of Citizenship is a vital contribution to the growing scholarship on narrative, nationalism, and globalization. Contributors: David Chariandy, Lily Cho, Daniel Coleman, Jennifer Bowering Delisle, Aloys N.M. Fleischmann, Sydney Iaukea, Marco Katz, Lindy Ledohowski, Cody McCarroll, Carmen Robertson, Laura Schechter, Paul Ugor, Nancy Van Styvendale, Dorothy Woodman, and Robert Zacharias.
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Introduction: Narratives of Citizenship / Aloys N.M. Fleischmann & Nancy Van Styvendale
Part One | The Iconography of the Anti-Citizen
1 Citizens of the Exception: Obasan meets Salt Fish Girl / Robert Zacharias
2 Grazia Deledda’s The Church of Solitude: Enfolding Citizenship and Mussolini’s Demographic Politics / Dorothy Woodman
3 “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. Fleischmann
4 Failed States and the Militarization of Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insecurity and the Crisis of Citizenship in Nollywood Movies / Paul Ugor
Part Two | The Melancholic Canadian
5 Affecting Citizenship: The Materiality of Melancholia / Lily Cho
6 “I am Enchanted”: The Home Country as Dead Lover in Myrna Kostash’s The Doomed Bridegroom / Lindy Ledohowski
7 A Citizen of Story: Wayne Johnston’s Baltimore’s Mansion and the “Newfoundland Diaspora” / Jennifer Bowering Delisle
Part Three | Envisioning Indigenous Citizenship
8 Imposing subCitizenship: Canadian White Civility and the Two Row Wampum of the Six Nations / Daniel Coleman
9 Camera Ready: Narration Through Photography in Hawai‘i / Sydney L. Iaukea
10 Imaginary Citizens: The White Paper and the Whitewash in the Press / Carmen Robertson
Part Four | Race and the Diasporic Re/turn
11 “Cracked tongue. Broken tongue”: The Incomplete, Resistant Translation of Language and Culture in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee / Laura Schechter
12 Whose Diaspora is This Anyway?: Peruvians, Japanese Perhaps, and the Dekasegi / Marco Katz
13 Black Canadas and the Question of Diasporic Citizenship / David Chariandy
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