Explores the value of attending to narratorial, lyric, and theatrical conventions in dialogue with questions of epistemological and social justice. Demonstrates how literary and critical conventions and theories operate within and across cultures.

Table of Contents for
Crosstalk: Canadian and Global Imaginaries in Dialogue, edited by Diana Brydon and Marta Dvorák

1. Introduction: Negotiating Meaning in Changing Times | Diana Brydon and Marta Dvorák

2. "Whirlwinds Coiled at My Heart": Voice and Vision in a Writer's Practice" | Olive Senior

Section One: Collaboration, Crosstalk, Improvisation

3. Voicing the Unforeseeable: Improvisation, Social Practice, Collaborative Research | Ajay Heble and Winfried Siemerling

4. Epistemological Crosstalk: Between Melancholia and Spiritual Cosmology in David Chariandy's Soucouyant and Lee Maracle's Daughters Are Forever | Daniel Coleman

5. Native Performance Culture, Monique Mojica, and the Chocolate Woman Workshops | Ric Knowles

6. Collaboration and Convention in the Poetry of Pain Not Bread | Alison Calder

Section Two: Dialogism, Polyphony, Voice

7. Rejoinders in a Planetary Dialogue: J.M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, Lloyd Jones et al. in Dialogue with Absent Texts | Marta Dvorák

8. Not Just Representation: The Sound and Concrete Poetries of the Four Horsemen | Frank Davey

9. Portraits of the Artist in Dionne Brand's What We All Long For and Madeleine Thien's Certainty | Pilar Cuder-Domínguez

10. Unsettling Voices: Dionne Brand's Cosmopolitan Cities | Sandra Regina Goulart Almeida

11. Questions of Voice, Race, and the Body in Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms and Larissa Lai's When Fox Is a Thousand | Charlotte Sturgess

Section Three: Space, Place, and Circulation

12. The Artialisation of Landscape in Jane Urquhart's The Whirlpool | Claire Omhovère

13. Ghostly Voices and Arctic Blanks: From Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights to Jane Urquhart's Changing Heaven | Catherine Lanone

14. "You must see to understand...": Orientalist Clichés and Transformation in Robert Lepage's The Dragons' Trilogy | Christine Lorre-Johnston

15. Diasporic Appropriations: Exporting South Asian Culture from Canada | Chelva Kanaganayakam

16. Negotiating Belonging in Global Times: The Hérouxville Debates | Diana Brydon

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