Session Details

Friday, 28 December

200. Reconfiguring Land- and Cityscapes in Contemporary Canadian Writing and Film

10:15–11:30 a.m., Stetson B and C, Hyatt Regency

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Canadian Literature in English

Presiding: Eleanor R. Ty, Wilfrid Laurier Univ.

1. “The Driving Sense of the Global and the Urban Turn in Modern Canadian Fiction,” Myles K. Chilton, Chiba Univ.

2. “Alanis Obomsawin and Oka: Indigenous Transformations of the Canadian Landscape,” Penelope M. Kelsey, Western Illinois Univ.

3. “The Afterlife of the Cityscape in Lisa Robertson’s Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture and Meredith Quartermain’s Vancouver Walking,” Maia Joseph, Univ. of British Columbia

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