Digital Memory Agents in Canada

Digital Memory Agents in Canada explores memory performances and representations with different cultural and spatial relationships to Canada. It moves from discourses on place to focus on the digital or virtual space and on how certain cultures, subjectivities, or positionalities use digital media to document or represent their recollections. Embracing interdisciplinary approaches, the contributors investigate how digital media, like memories, can transcend space and time to impact individuals and communities. Chapters examine memorialization, documentation, and online activism; aesthetic productions and counter-productions of identity in literature, film, and beyond; queer and feminist archiving and consciousness-raising; and Indigenous, Métis, and Black narratives of resistance. These are narratives and research models that disrupt Canadian, hegemonic, colonial, white-centric, and patriarchal beliefs. Digital Memory Agents in Canada will be of interest to scholars and students specializing in memory studies, digital humanities, film and media studies, and cultural studies.






Contributors: Jim Clifford, Matthew Cormier, Erika Dyck, Craig Harkema, Caroline Hodes, Russell J. A. Kilbourn, Jordan B. Kinder, Anna Kozak, Braidon Schaufert, Amanda Spallacci, Matthew Tétreault, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, Stephen Webb Essays that explore how the digital traces of counter-memories-the stories that society has historically and presently tried to silence-leave their mark on various cultures, policies, discourses, and ideologies in Canada. Essays that explore how the digital traces of counter-memories-the stories that society has historically and presently tried to silence-leave their mark on various cultures, policies, discourses, and ideologies in Canada. 20 images "The subject of this volume is the next frontier of memory studies." Julia Creet, York University "The contributors develop critical perspectives on issues of settler colonialism and racism, and advance politically informed perspectives on queer issues, identitarian issues, and social justice." Joshua Synenko, Trent University



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• Introduction MATTHEW CORMIER, AMANDA SPALLACCI


• 1 Digital History Making during a Crisis: A COVID-19 Archive JIM CLIFFORD, ERIKA DYCK, CRAIG HARKEMA


• 2 From Counter-Memory to Legislative Reform: Sexual Assault Activism on Social Media in Canada AMANDA SPALLACCI


• 3 "I Make In Rem-Against the World-the Following Order": Survivor Agency and Refusal in the Independent Assessment Process's Digital Memory CAROLINE HODES


• 4 Virtual Museum Tours: Queer Nostalgic Pasts and Utopic Futures in Canadian Nightlife Memories BRAIDON SCHAUFERT


• 5 Counter-Cartographies and Activist Archives: Navigating Petrocultural Memory in Brian Holmes' Petropolis JORDAN B. KINDER


• 6 Socially Mediatized Identities versus The Law of the Heart: Posthuman Memory in Sophie Deraspe's Antigone RUSSELL J.A. KILBOURN


• 7 "You Are Not One Thing": Narrative and Memory in Zalika Reid-Benta's Frying Plantain UCHECHUKWU PETER UMEZURIKE


• 8 Toward a Literary Métis Homeland: A Digital Analysis of Gregory Scofield's Louis and Marilyn Dumont's The Pemmican Eaters MATTHEW TÉTREAULT AND STEPHEN WEBB


• 9 Beyond the Borders of the City and te Digital Space: Queer (Un)belonging and Memory Work in Dionne Brand's Thirsty ANNA KOZAK


• 10 Through the Digital Prism of Acadian Identity: Aesthetics, Politics, and Counterculture MATTHEW CORMIER


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