Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Canada and Its Americas -- DEFENDING THE NATION? -- 1 Worlding the (Postcolonial) Nation: Canada's Americas -- 2 Hemispheric Studies or Scholarly NAFTA? The Case for Canadian Literary Studies -- 3 Counter-Worlding A/américanité -- INDIGENOUS REMAPPINGS OF AMERICA -- 4 Representations of the Native and the New World Subject -- 5 Indigeneity and Diasporic Belonging: Three New World Readings of Chief Sitting Bull -- 6 Outer America: Racial Hybridity and Canada's Peripheral Place in Inter-American Discourse -- POSTSLAVERY ROUTES -- 7 Eyeing the North Star? Figuring Canada in Postslavery Fiction and Drama -- 8 "May I See Some Identification?" Race, Borders, and Identities in Any Known Blood -- QUEBEC CONNECTIONS -- 9 Translating in the Multilingual City: Montreal as a City of the Americas -- 10 "Lucky to be so bilingual": Québécois and Chicano/a Literatures in a Comparative Context -- 11 Louis Dantin's American Life -- 12 Transculturation and National Identity in the Novel Rojo, amarillo y verde by Alejandro Saravia -- 13 Looking beyond the Elephant: The Mexican Connection in Francine Noël's La Conjuration des bâtards -- Contributors -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.