The Homing Place calls for a vital process of listening to the stories that Indigenous peoples have been telling about this continent since before the arrival of European Settlers centuries ago. Moreover, the text performs this process, creating a model for listening and incorporating Indigenous stories, throughout.

Rachel Bryant is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2019) in the Department of English at Dalhousie University in K'jipuktuk.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Inscriptions of Possession and Place

Cultural Iconoclasm: John Gyles?s Atlantic Canadian Captivity Narrative

Canadian Exceptionalism: Finding Anna Brownell Jameson in the Anglo Atlantic World

Longing across the Line: Cultural Storytelling in the Northeast Borderlands

Making Words Walk: Jos¿phine Bacon?s Poetic Tshissinuatshitakana

"A wigwam on the hill": Meeting Rita Joe in Native Space

Cartographic Dissonance: Between Geographies in Douglas Glover?s Elle

Conclusion: The Homing Place

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