Editing as Cultural Practice in Canada focuses on the varied and complex roles that editors have played in the production of literary and scholarly texts in Canada. Contributors offer analyses of the cultural and publishing politics of editorial practices that question inherited paradigms of literary and scholarly values.

Table of Contents for
Editing as Cultural Practice in Canada, edited by Dean Irvine and Smaro Kamboureli

1. Literary and Editorial Theory and Editing Marian Engel | Christl Verduyn

2. "We think differently. We have a different understanding": Editing Indigenous Texts as an Indigenous Editor | Kateri Akiwenzie

3. Toward Establishing an-or the-"Archive" of African-Canadian Literature | George Elliott Clarke

4. Project Editing in Canada: Challenges and Compromises | Carole Gerson

5. Editing in Canada: The Case of L.M. Montgomery | Irene Gammel and Benjamin Lefebvre

6. The Material and Cultural Transformation of Scholarly Editing in Canada | Zailig Pollock

7. Editing Without Author(ity): Martha Ostenso, Periodical Studies, and the Digital Turn | Hannah McGregor

8. Editing the Letters of Wilfred and Sheila Watson, 1956-1961: Scholarly Edition as Digital Practice | Paul Hjartarson, Harvey Quamen, and EMiC UA

9. The Politics of Recovery and the Recovery of Politics: Editing Canadian Writing on the Spanish Civil War | Bart Vautour

10. Keeping the Code: Narrative and Nation in Donna Bennett and Russell Brown's An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English | Robert Lecker

11. Performing Editors: Juggling Pedagogies in the Production of Canadian Literature in English: Texts and Contexts | Laura Moss and Cynthia Sugars

12. Labours of Love and Cutting Remarks: The Affective Economies of Editing | Heather Milne and Kate Eichhorn

13. bpNichol, editor | Frank Davey

14. Air, Water, Land, Light, and Language: Reflections on the Commons and Its Contents | Robert Bringhurst

15. The Ethically Incomplete Editor | Darren Wershler