In the landmark 1997 Delgamuukw land claim brought before the Supreme Court of Canada (Delgamuukw v. British Columbia<\/em>), the Court ruled that traditional Indigenous story was admissible in court as evidence of land ownership, legitimizing a kind of literary land claim. This special issue of\u00a0Canadian Literature\u00a0<\/em>examines the way literary texts claim space and explore questions of belonging for Indigenous, diaspora, and settler populations.<\/p>\n The issue will consider narratives from communities in Canada that assert or contest relations between land, story, ownership and belonging\u2014whether it be in rural or urban environments, and in forms as varied as traditional Indigenous stories or hip hop\u2019s practice of paying tribute to home through \u201creppin\u2019.\u201d Processes of claiming or challenging narratives of belonging are clearly different for Indigenous, diaspora and settler populations, since one consists of original inhabitants; another of immigrants with ties to elsewhere; and a third of settler populations who examine an uneasy colonial relationship to the land, which ultimately contributes to either a sense of national belonging or alienation. Okanagan scholar, author, and activist Jeannette Armstrong writes, \u201cI am claimed and owned by this land, this Okanagan\u201d (174), and her poetry and prose embody that relationship. In\u00a0Literary Land Claims (2015)<\/em>, settler scholar Margery Fee traces how texts use strategies to claim \u2013 or problematize the act of claiming \u2013 land, story, and belonging. How do other populations describe their belonging in territories claimed by Canada?<\/p>\n Black scholar Rinaldo Walcott, in his essay \u201cTowards a Poetics of Black Space(s) in Canada,\u201d signals the importance of such an undertaking: \u201cIt seems that one of the challenges facing contemporary Black Canadian art is to move beyond the discourse of nostalgia for an elsewhere and toward addressing the politics of its present location\u201d (46-7). By centring the politics of the present, this issue seeks to demonstrate the ways writers address the politics of place through literary land claims. Connecting community to place in the multiple national imaginaries both engenders and demonstrates belonging, helping us redress systemic racism and assert the right to safe spaces. We will consider the politics of claiming stolen land, and the ways that class, race, cultural practice, gender, sexuality, and disability intersect into questions of territorial belonging, nationhood, and connection to place.<\/p>\n All papers examining space and place in relation to belonging in Canada are welcome, in particular those examining questions of race, cultural practice, gender, sexuality and disability. Papers dealing with \u201cthird space\u201d or \u201climinal space\u201d are also encouraged.<\/p>\n We particularly encourage submissions from emerging scholars. In an effort to include a wide range of perspectives and approaches, this issue will include shorter-form submissions combined with longer forms, and an opportunity for emerging scholars to engage in a mentorship process in implementing editorial comments after the double-anonymized peer-review process.<\/p>\n Submission Guidelines<\/strong><\/p>\n All submissions to\u00a0Canadian Literature<\/em>\u00a0must be original, unpublished work. Essays should follow current MLA bibliographic format (MLA Handbook<\/em>, 9th ed.). Word length for articles is 4,000-8,000 words, which includes endnotes and works cited.<\/p>\n Please feel free to contact the journal editor, Christine Kim, at\u00a0cl.editor@ubc.ca<\/a>, or the special issue guest editors, Heather Macfarlane (hcm1@queensu.ca<\/a>), Sophie McCall (smccall@sfu.ca<\/a>) or Basmah Rahman (13bsr@queensu.ca<\/a>) to discuss ideas ahead of time. Submissions should be uploaded to\u00a0OJS<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0by the deadline of\u00a0January 1, 2024. Our Submission Guidelines can be found at\u00a0canlit.ca\/submissions<\/strong><\/a>. General questions about the special issue may be directed to\u00a0can.lit@ubc.ca<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Please limit images accompanying the submission to those receiving substantial attention in the article. Note that contributors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce images in their article, and must pay any permission costs. The journal can provide a sample template for permission requests. Permissions must be cleared before publication. Please send low resolution images (small jpegs), in separate attachments. 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