Introduction Myra Bloom and Kasia Van Schaik Section 1: Indigenous and decolonial approaches to land and space Reflections on The Rouge: Intersections between Indigeneity and Diaspora in David Chariandy''s Brother Kelly Baron "We All Want a World": A Conversation on Community, Connection and Refuge Billy-Ray Belcourt, David Chariandy, and Lily Cho Against Text as Shelter: Jordan Abel''s De-Storying Research Ryan Fitzpatrick Seasons and Stories: Michel Jean''s Indigenous Landscapes of Shelter Sarah Gordon and Caroline Lavoie Aubade: A moment of light Kristi Leora Gansworth "We All Want a World": A Conversation on Community, Connection and Refuge Billy-Ray Belcourt, David Chariandy, and Lily Cho Section 2: Gothic Returns and Dystopian Hauntings Library Books for the End of the World Heather Jessup Outsider Affects and Ordinary Care: Radical Love as Shelter in Claudia Dey''s Heartbreaker Erin Wunker "The ghosts haunted; they did not help or encourage": WWII, Spectrality, and Gothic Space in At Mrs. Lippincote''s by Elizabeth Taylor Kayla Penteliuk Unhomely Sweet Home: Phyllis Brett Young''s Uncanny Domestic Imaginaries Kathryn Franklin Shelter You Seek Holly Vestad Library Books for the End of the World Heather Jessup Section 3: Dwellings and (Un)real Estate Contemporary fictions of stymied inheritance and domestic exclusion: Projections of home in Sarah Waters'' The Little Stranger and Ann Patchett''s The Dutch House Jennifer Lawn Rewriting the City: The Matter of Collective Revision in Sachiko Murakami''s Project Rebuild Shannon Griffin-Merth Religion, Caste and Class in Indian Apartment Block Fiction Anna Guttman Love is where the Home is: The Domestic as Queer Space of/for Intimacy in Contemporary Indian Gay Romance Fiction in English Anil Pradhan Paper-Spaces: A Poetics of Habitation Geneviève Robichaud Section 4: Cities and Public Spaces On Project Bookmark Canada, Or: Reading a Few Pages of Ondaatje on Canada''s Literary Trail Robert Zacharias Can the text ''shelter'' everyone? Space, Desire and Discursive Pluralities in Dionne Brand''s What We All Long For and Marie-Claire Blais''s Soifs Sophie Feng Debris Growing Skyward: The Sheltered Fl'neuse of Gail Scott''s Main Brides Jessi MacEachern Six Quarantines Andrew David King Contributor bios Acknowledgments.
Shelter in Text : Essays on Dwelling and Refuge