1. Introduction: Bridging the Solitudes as a Critical Metaphor
Amy J. Ransom, Central Michigan University
Dominick Grace, Brescia University
Prologue
2. Colonial Visions: The British Empire in Early Anglophone and
Francophone Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy
Allan Weiss, York University
Part I Bridging Borders:
Transnationalism and Postcolonialism in Canadian Speculative Fiction
3. Nevermind the Gap: Judith Merril Challenges the Status Quo
Ritch Calvin, SUNY - Stony Brook
4. Two Solitudes, Two Cultures: Building and Burning Bridges in Peter Watts's Novels
Michele Braun, Mount Royal University
5. The Affinity for Utopia: Erecting Walls and Building Bridges in Robert
Charles Wilson's The Affinities
Graham J. Murphy, Seneca College
6. The Art of Not Dying: Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven and Catherine
Mavrikakis's Oscar De Profundis
Patrick Bergeron, University of New Brunswick
(Translated by Amy J. Ransom)
Part II Building Bridges:
Constructing and Deconstructing Myths of the Canadian Nation
7. When Are We Ever at Home?: Exile and Nostalgia in the Work of Guy
Gavriel Kay
Susan Johnston, University of Regina
8. Reconciliation, Resistance and Biskaabiiyang: Re-Imagining Canadian
Residential Schools in Indigenous Speculative Fictions Judith Leggatt, Lakehead University
9. Indigenous Futurist Film: Speculation and Resistance in Jeff Barnaby's
Rhymes for Young Ghouls and File Under Miscellaneous
Kristina Baudemann, Europa-Universität, Flensberg
Part III Bridging the Gender Gap:
Transnational and Transsexual Identities in Canadian SF
10. Building Hope through Community in Élisabeth Vonarburg's Maerlande
Chronicles
Caroline Mosser, Utah State University
11. Cruising Canadian SF's Queer Futurity: Hiromi Goto's The Kappa Child and
Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl
Wendy Gay Pearson, University of Western Ontario
12. Crossing the (Trans)Gender Bridge: Exploring Intersex and Trans Bodies in
Canadian Speculative Fiction
Evelyn Deshane, University of Waterloo
Part IV Bridging the Species Divide:
Technological, Animal, Extraterrestrial and Posthuman Sentience
13. A Maelstrom of Replication: Peter Watts's Glitching Textual Source Codes
Ben Eldridge, University of Sydney
14. The Missing Link: Bridging the Species Divide in Margaret Atwood's
MaddAddam Trilogy
Dunja Mohr, University of Erfurt
15. 'I can't believe this is happening!': Bear Horror, the Species Divide, and the
Canadian Fight for Survival in a Time of Climate Change Michael Fuchs, Un
About the Author:
Amy J. Ransom is Chair of World Languages and Cultures at Central Michigan University, USA. She has published over two dozen articles on Québécois popular genre literatures and film and is the author of Science Fiction from Québec (2009) and Hockey PQ (2014).
Dominick Grace is Professor of English at Brescia University, Canada. He is the author of The Science Fiction of Phyllis Gotlieb (2015) and several articles on Canadian literature of the fantastic, and coeditor of several collections of interviews with cartoonists, a volume on Canadian comics, and a volume on Twin Peaks.