All the Feels / Tous les sens presents research into emotion and cognition in Canadian, Indigenous, and Québécois writings in English or French. Affect is both internal and external, private and public; with its fluid boundaries, it represents a productive dimension for literary analysis. The emerging field of affect studies makes vital claims about ethical impulses, social justice, and critical resistance, and thus much is at stake when we adopt affective reading practices. The contributors ask what we can learn from reading contemporary literatures through this lens. Unique and timely, readable and teachable, this collection is a welcome resource for scholars of literature, feminism, philosophy, and transnational studies as well as anyone who yearns to imagine the world differently.
Contributors: Nicole Brossard, Marie Carrière, Matthew Cormier, Kit Dobson, Nicoletta Dolce, Louise Dupré, Margery Fee, Ana María Fraile-Marcos, Smaro Kamboureli, Aaron Kreuter, Daniel Laforest, Carmen Mata Barreiro, Ursula Mathis-Moser, Heather Milne, Eric Schmaltz, Maïté Snauwaert, Jeanette den Toonder
Marie Carrière is Professor of English and Vice Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta.
Ursula Mathis-Moser est professeure émérite au Département de langues romanes et directrice du Centre d’études canadiennes à l’Université d’Innsbruck.
Kit Dobson lives and works in Calgary / Treaty 7 territory in southern Alberta. His previous books include Malled: Deciphering Shopping in Canada and he is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. He grew up in many places across Canada, but returned again and again to the landscapes of northern Alberta where his family members settled – and that continue to animate his thinking.
Acknowledgments / Remerciements
Introduction
Writing Affect in Canadian, Indigenous, and Québécois Literatures /
Écrire l’affect dans les littératures canadiennes, autochtones et québécoises
Marie Carrière, Ursula Mathis-Moser, Kit Dobson
Traduction par Dominique Hétu et Marie Carrière
I NEGATIVE AFFECTS / AFFECTS NÉGATIFS
1 | Theorizing the Apocalyptic Turn in the Literatures of Canada: Un/Veiling the Apocalyptic Direction in Affect Studies | Matthew Cormier
2 | Free Will, Moral Blindness, and Affective Resilience in Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last | Ana Maria Fraile-Marcos
3 | From Disgust to Desire: A Poetics of Subterfuge | Eric Schmaltz
II CARE AND AFFECT / SOIN ET AFFECTS
4 | Apprendre à dire la fin: Care et poétique du deuil dans L’album multicolore de Louise Dupré et Nocturne de Helen Humphreys | Maïté Snauwaert
5 | Grand-mère et petite-fille, « des doublons désaccordées » : Réflexions sur une éthique du care dans Mère-grand de Tassia Trifiatis | Ursula Mathis-Moser
6 | Le corps en crise : Littérature et système de santé au Canada | Daniel Laforest
III AFFECTS OF MEMORY / AFFECTS DE LA MÉMOIRE
7 | The Circuitry of Grief: Queer Time, Killjoy Politics, and Mourning in Sina Queyras’s M x T | Heather Milne
8 | Vétiver de Joël des Rosiers : Où les souffrances encore affleurent | Nicoletta Dolce
9 | Écrire la blessure, relire la vie: Louise Dupré, Marie-Célie Agnant et Denise Desautels | Carmen Mata Barreiro
IV AFFECTS OF RESISTANCE / AFFECTS DE LA RÉSISTANCE
10 | Écriture autochtone au féminin: Savoir affectif et valeurs relationnelles dans Kuessipan de Naomi Fontaine | Jeanette den Toonder
11 | Respect or Empathy? Affect/Emotion in Indigenous Stories | Margery Fee
12 | Jewish Affect During the Second Intifada: Terror, Love, and Procreation in Ayelet Tsabari’s “Tikkun”| Aaron Kreuter
V WRITING THROUGH AFFECT / ÉCRIRE AU FIL DE L’AFFECT
13 | Émotion vraie, sensation de fiction | Nicole Brossard
14 | Maladies of the Soul: Field Notes on My Research Imagination | Smaro Kamboureli
15 | Des fantômes dans les yeux | Louise Dupré
Contributors / Collaborateurs