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West Coast LINE 59 | Citizenship and Cultural Belonging

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West Coast Line 59 vol 42.3, Fall 2008

Citizenship and Cultural Belonging

Special Issue edited by Sophie McCall and David Chariandy

David Chariandy & Sophie McCall | Introduction: Citizenship and Cultural Belonging
Tracy Kulba | Citizen Crusaders: Social Hygiene and the Production of the Female Citizen in
Post-World War One Canada
David Khang | A Wrong Place (Greening the dmz)
Katja Sarkowsky | Nesei Negotiations: Citizenship and the Nation in Japanese Canadian Writing
Roy Miki | Raw Data
Alessandra Capperdoni | Feminist Progenies-Unlawful Citizenship: Reproduction, Technology and the Spectres of the Nation in Margaret Atwood and Larissa Lai
Sam McKegney | Tenuous Tolerance: The Politics of Inconvenience From Kanehsatake to Caledonia
Erín Moure | Beacons
People’s Hist ory of Canada/Kanada Poster Project (2007) | a collaboration between No One Is
Illegal-Vancouver and grassroots artists
Armand Garnet Ruffo | Celebrating Canada’s Centennial (from Norval Morrisseau: Man Changing Into
Thunderbird)
Sharron Proulx-Turner | her voice like downpour on cement
Deborah L Madsen | 100 ‘Mo No Boy’: The Negative Rhetoric of Nation in the work of Wayson Choy
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber | Super Citizens (2005)
Lariss a Lai | Community Action, Global Spillage: Writing the Race of Capital
Jamelie Hassan & Tyson Haller | Still from documentary film, Sister Speak to Me-A Tribute to Zahra Kazemi (2003)
Sonnet L’Abbé | Love Amid the Angloculture
Beverley Curran | Citizenship, Interrupted: The Dialogic Interpreter in Obasan
Gillian Roberts | “The Greatest Hotel on Earth”: Citizenship, Nationality, and the Circulation of Canadian Literature
Trish Salah | water borders white money

West Coast LINE 58 | Active Geographies

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WCL 58 42.1 (Spring 2008)

Active Geographies: Women and Struggle on the Left Coast

Special Issue Edited by Jo-Ann Lee & Rita Wong

Jo-Ann Lee & Rita Wong | Introduction: A Germ of an Idea Blossoms
Michelle Sylliboy | changes occur for those who look
Dorothy Christian | Remapping Activism (transcript of talk given on August 28, 2004)
Harsha Walia | Resisting Displacement, North & South: Indigenous & Immigrant Struggles
Cecilia Diocson | Reonceptualizing the Women’s Movement: Vancouver, August 2004
Lily Yuriko | Ganbatte!
Fiona Jeffries | Tomorrow Begins Today: Cartographies of Anti-Fear, Lexicons of Refusal Amidst the New Enclosures
MISCELLANEOUS Productions | Photography from e-race by Chris Randle
Marilyn Dumont | Not Just a Platform for my Dance
Mary Chan’s story | An interview with Mary Chan
Bessie Lee’s story | An interview with Bessie Lee
Darlene Marzari | Presentation: at Women Warriors’ Workshop
Cindy Chan Piper | Accidental Activist (presentation at Women Warriors’ Workshop)
Michiko Midge Ayukawa | Early Japanese Women in the Strathcona Area: Their Contributions to the Community, Their Strengths and Their Legacy
Margaret Mitchell | Women in Community Development
Jaimie Robson & Maya Ersan | Our Community Story
Joanne Arnott | Time-Wise/Waving Across the Way
Meredith Quartermain | Walk for Beans
Song Written by a Fujianese Migrant Woman while incarcerated in the Burnaby Correctional Centre for Women
and on hunger strike in November 1999
Tania Willard | A portrait of Nellie Red Owl
Rice Girls | The 2000 Refugee Olympics
Harsha Walia | Colonialism, Capitalism & the Making of the Apartheid System of Migration in Canada
SKY Lee | Sweatshop
Jenn Lo | Emergency
Jen Lam | On the Island of Falling Apart
Xiaoping Li | No Stranger to the Scene: A Brief Look at Activism Among Asian Canadian Women
Shirley Bear | Flight
Joanne Arnott | On Apron Flapping
Tania willard | Liberty Leading the People
Lee Maracle | Goodbye, Snauq
Kirsten Em iko McAllister | Between Generations: Landscapes of Memory
Donna Lee | Still from the film Broken Families
Larissa Lai | The Identity of the Body Has Not Yet Been Confirmed
Hui Ling Lin | Putting Identities in Question: A Brief Introduction of Queer Asian Filmmakers in Vancouver
Cecily Nicholson | Day Shifts: Working With the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Connie Fife | A New World Poem

West Coast Line 57 | MIKI

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West Coast LINE 56

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WCL 56 41.4 (Spring 2008)

RACHEL ZOLF | Travailing Gerry Shikatani’s Protean Poetics

JUDITH COPITHORNE | Graphic Interventions

LAWRENCE ARONSEN AND JULIAN BENEDICT | Liberating Higher Education: The Vancouver Free University, 1969-1974

IVAN DRURY | Chainlink’d

HILARY SMITH | Naming Ceremony

STEPHEN COLLIS | Dear Common: Picture Vancouver

MEGAN LAU | Woodwards: Photographic Archives Building Social Memory of the
Downtown Eastside

DON BOURNE | Resistance To Neoliberalism In Laura Elrick’s Fantasies In Permeable Structures

NEALE BARNHOLDEN | Future Generations: Shirley Bear and The Making Of A New Place

RANDY LEE CUTLER | Documenta 12, Kassel 2007

CHINMOY BANERJEE | Thinking Through Tragi-comedy In Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s Eklavya: The Royal Guard

Back Issues

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Coast Line publishes work by writers and artists who are experimenting
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are interested in work engaged with problems of representation, race,
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themselves with the journal, and with the work of our recent contributors.

Recently we have published poetry by Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Wayde
Compton, Dan Farrell, Max Gadd, Hiromi Goto, Erin Mouré, Lisa Robertson,
Fred Wah; essays by Di Brandt, Margot Leigh Butler, Peter Culley, Paul Kelley,
Scott Mc Farlane, Larissa Lai, Roy Miki, Janice Williamson, Rita Wong; visual
art by David Garneau, Laiwan, Ashok Mathur, Monique Mees, Cindy Mochizuki, Chick
Rice, Jan Wade.

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writing, extended and serial forms, poetics, excerpts from long-poems; translations
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