Check out our session at MLA 2014:

Indigeneity and Diaspora: Exploring Intersections through Canadian Literature


Saturday, 11 January, 2014
1:45–3:00 p.m.

Indiana-Iowa room of the Chicago Marriott

Presiding: Pauline Wakeham, Univ. of Western Ontario

1. “Reaching Gold Mountain: Rereading Labor Narratives in Chinese Canadian Literature,” Malissa Phung, McMaster Univ.

2. “Toward an Ethics of Reconciliation: Reading against Apology in Burning Vision and The Kappa Child,” Janey Lew, Univ. of California, Berkeley

3. “The Limits of Recognition: Possibilities of Indigenous and Diasporic Solidarity in Tessa McWatt’s Out of My Skin,” Paul Barrett, Univ. of Toronto