Unframing Topographies: Multidisciplinary Surveys (edited by Weronika Suchacka and Bartosz Wójcik; published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht) is a collection of essays by acclaimed and widely published international scholars of ‘space’ working within different disciplines, such as social sciences, history, applied sciences and media theory, literary and cultural studies (American, Canadian, French, German, Mexican-American, and Polish). Their contributions substantiate the argument that the debate on ‘space’ has produced a polyphony of argumentation which resulted in the multiplication and diversification of perspectives and interpretations of the studied concept. The volume captures the present state of the most recent debate on ‘space,’ exploring the importance of its multifaceted nature evinced by the abundance of research on such related terms as ‘border,’ ‘boundary,’ and/or ‘region.’
Essays on/about Canada:
Geneviève Susemihl (Kiel University) “Cultural Connections in Borderlands: Indigenous Sovereignty and Sustainability in the American South and the Canadian North” (Chapter 6)
Caroline Rosenthal (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena) “The ‘Westness of West’: Calgary as ‘storied place’” (Chapter 8)
Janne Korkka (University of Turku) “Non-Human Others and Spatial Knowledge in Canadian Prairie Writing” (Chapter 11)
Michał Obszyński (University of Warsaw) “From Heterotopias to Heterotopic Blurring: Reinventing Colonized Spaces in Bianca Joubert’s and Juliana Léveillé-Trudel’s Writings” (Chapter 13)
