Canadian Literary Environments
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- Indigenous spectrality and the politics of postcolonial ghost stories. Cameron, Emilie // Cultural Geographies;Jul2008, Vol. 15 Issue 3, p383
This essay considers the politics of describing Indigenous peoples as ghostly or haunting presences. Focusing on the history of haunting tropes in Canadian cultural production and the recent re-emergence of the spectral Indigenous figure in, among other places, a wilderness park in southwestern...
- INTRODUCTORY NOTE. // Portuguese Studies;2009, Vol. 25 Issue 1, p5
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- Editor's Note. Marais, Mike // English in Africa;May2008, Vol. 35 Issue 1, p5
The article states that the essays within this issue were originally presented at the conference "A World Elsewhere: Orality, Manuscript and Print in Colonial and Post-Colonial Cultures," which was held in Cape Town, South Africa in April 2006. The author thanks John Gouws, the conference...
