Land/Relations examines colonial, national, historical, and social relations that have given shape to a body of literature in Canada and the politics and possibilities of solidarity across geography and communities, bridging genres and critical methods to propose new directions for cultural accountability and critique.

Smaro Kamboureli is a professor and the Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature in the English Department at the University of Toronto. She is the founder of the TransCanada series of books, published by WLU Press, originating from interdisciplinary conferences that initiated collaborative research on the methodologies and institutional structures and contexts that inform and shape the production, dissemination, teaching, and study of Canadian literature. Her most recent publications include Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies (WLU Press 2012), co-edited with Robert Zacharias and Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace (WLU Press, 2013), co-edited with Kit Dobson.

Table of Contents
Storying Land / Relations: An Introduction in Two Voices - Smaro Kamboureli and Larissa Lai
Agency, Urgency, Insurgency [poem] - Lillian Allen
Positioning Intergenerational Trauma: Nisga'a Nationalism and the Materiality of Marius Barbeau's Totem Poles - Jordan Abel
Neoliberal Gothic, Settler Social Imaginaries, and the Case for Decolonization on Two Fronts - Jennifer Henderson
Listing Waters: The Poetics of Solidarity in Darwish and Wong -Dina Al-Kassim
CLI and CLII [prose poems] - Sonnet L'Abbé
Back to the Future: Black Canada's Past and Present; or the Changing Same - Rinaldo Walcott
Deliberate Vulgarity: Performing the Demotic, Transforming Cultural Space? The Six Books [poems] - Pamela Mordecai
"Making Things Right": Black Settlement and the Politics of Territory - Karina Vernon
From Islamophobia to Islamophilia: Dancing Orientalisms, Islamizing Muslims, and the Unspeakability of the Muslim Woman Subject - Sedef Arat-Koç
Literature, Language, Culture: At Mikinaakominis / TransCanadas 2017 - Eileen Antone
Listening at Mikinaakominis / TransCanadas 2017 - Erín Moure
Between Empire and Nation: Synchronicity and Revolution in Chinese Canadian Writing - Chris Lee
Diplomacy before Reconciliation - Margery Fee
Federal State, Feral Culture: (Not)Withstanding Canada around its 150th Year - Len Findlay
What Next? Asserting Peace Against the Odds - Rita Wong
Living on Unceded Indigenous Territories: Vancouver as a Site of Conflict in Building Alliance and Autonomy in Decolonial Struggles - Sophie McCall
Re-storying and Restoring the Buffalo to the Indigenous Plains - Tasha Hubbard
Landsensing: Body, Territory, Relation - Warren Cariou