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Intro; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1 Introduction: Bridging the Solitudes as a Critical Metaphor; The Development of Scholarly Writing on Canadian SF, Fantasy, and Horror Literatures; Part I, Prologue; Part II, Bridging Borders: Transnationalism and Postcolonialism in Canadian Speculative Fiction; Part III, Building Bridges: Constructing Myths of the Canadian Nation; Part IV, Bridging the Gender Gap: Transnational and Transsexual Identities in Canadian SF; Part V, Bridging the Species Divide: Technological, Animal, Extraterrestrial, and Post-human Sentience
Part VI, Bridging the Slipstream: Generic Fluidity in Canadian Speculative FictionPart VII, Epilogue; References; Part I Prologue; Chapter 2 Colonial Visions: The British Empire in Early Anglophone and Francophone Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy; References; Part II Bridging Borders: Transnationalism and Postcolonialism in Canadian Speculative Fiction; Chapter 3 Nevermind the Gap: Judith Merril Challenges the Status Quo; Merril and Science; Merril and Nation; Merril and Gender; Merril and the New Wave; Conclusion; References
Chapter 4 Two Solitudes, Two Cultures: Building and Burning Bridges in Peter Watts's NovelsTwo Cultures; Two Solitudes; Conceptualizing Bridges; Bridging Solitudes in Watts's Work; The Weaponization of Language; References; Chapter 5 The Affinity for Utopia: Erecting Walls and Building Bridges in Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities; Another Brick in the Wall; Bridge to Better Days; References; Chapter 6 The Art of Not Dying: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel and Oscar De Profundis by Catherine Mavrikakis; The Apocalypse as "Fiction Machine"
The Before, the After, and the In-Between-TimesA "Des Esseintes" for the Future; Under the Aegis of the "Bard"; Intermediary Points; The Disappearance of Canada; References; Part III Building Bridges: Constructing and Deconstructing Myths of the Canadian Nation; Chapter 7 When Are We Ever at Home? Exile and Nostalgia in the Work of Guy Gavriel Kay; References; Chapter 8 Reconciliation, Resistance, and Biskaabiiyang: Re-imagining Canadian Residential Schools in Indigenous Speculative Fictions; References
Chapter 9 Indigenous Futurist Film: Speculation and Resistance in Jeff Barnaby's Rhymes for Young Ghouls and File Under MiscellaneousBridging Canadian Solitudes and Jeff Barnaby's Work; Aila's Demon Theory: Rhymes for Young Ghouls; Neo(n)Colonial Futures: File Under Miscellaneous; Conclusion: Stories of/for the Future; References; Part IV Bridging the Gender Gap: Transnational and Transsexual Identities in Canadian SF; Chapter 10 Building Hope Through Community in Élisabeth Vonarburg's The Maerlande Chronicles; Politics of Oppression; Liminality as Agent of Change
Part VI, Bridging the Slipstream: Generic Fluidity in Canadian Speculative FictionPart VII, Epilogue; References; Part I Prologue; Chapter 2 Colonial Visions: The British Empire in Early Anglophone and Francophone Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy; References; Part II Bridging Borders: Transnationalism and Postcolonialism in Canadian Speculative Fiction; Chapter 3 Nevermind the Gap: Judith Merril Challenges the Status Quo; Merril and Science; Merril and Nation; Merril and Gender; Merril and the New Wave; Conclusion; References
Chapter 4 Two Solitudes, Two Cultures: Building and Burning Bridges in Peter Watts's NovelsTwo Cultures; Two Solitudes; Conceptualizing Bridges; Bridging Solitudes in Watts's Work; The Weaponization of Language; References; Chapter 5 The Affinity for Utopia: Erecting Walls and Building Bridges in Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities; Another Brick in the Wall; Bridge to Better Days; References; Chapter 6 The Art of Not Dying: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel and Oscar De Profundis by Catherine Mavrikakis; The Apocalypse as "Fiction Machine"
The Before, the After, and the In-Between-TimesA "Des Esseintes" for the Future; Under the Aegis of the "Bard"; Intermediary Points; The Disappearance of Canada; References; Part III Building Bridges: Constructing and Deconstructing Myths of the Canadian Nation; Chapter 7 When Are We Ever at Home? Exile and Nostalgia in the Work of Guy Gavriel Kay; References; Chapter 8 Reconciliation, Resistance, and Biskaabiiyang: Re-imagining Canadian Residential Schools in Indigenous Speculative Fictions; References
Chapter 9 Indigenous Futurist Film: Speculation and Resistance in Jeff Barnaby's Rhymes for Young Ghouls and File Under MiscellaneousBridging Canadian Solitudes and Jeff Barnaby's Work; Aila's Demon Theory: Rhymes for Young Ghouls; Neo(n)Colonial Futures: File Under Miscellaneous; Conclusion: Stories of/for the Future; References; Part IV Bridging the Gender Gap: Transnational and Transsexual Identities in Canadian SF; Chapter 10 Building Hope Through Community in Élisabeth Vonarburg's The Maerlande Chronicles; Politics of Oppression; Liminality as Agent of Change