Nightmares of the National Imaginary: Surveillance and Sousveillance in Canadian Literature

Nightmares of the National Imaginary explores how Canadian literature challenges and complicates our national identity. Surveillance often sorts people into a series of reductive categories while downplaying or ignoring the complexities of their lived experience. Literature demands that readers spend prolonged periods of time with characters who may seem simple at first glance, but after investing time in the author’s world, are revealed to be more than the categories they have been assigne...