Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Prologue: Writing Home
Introduction: Homemaking the Prairies
1. Imperial Inscriptions
Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese
Robert J.C. Stead's Grain
Kelly Rebar's Bordertown Cafe
Ian Ross's fareWel
2. Relative Geographies
Kristjana Gunnars's Zero Hour
David Arnason's Marsh Burning
Laura Goodman Salverson's Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter
3. Centres of Gravity
Frederick Philip Grove's Over Prairie Trails
Lorna Crozier's Inventing the Hawk
Dennis Cooley's this only home
4. Displacement and Replacement
Emma Lee Warrior's "Compatriots"
Maria Campbell's Halfbreed
Rudy Wiebe's Peace Shall Destroy Many
Uma Parameswaran's Trishanku
5. Placing the Self in Motion
Robert Kroetsch's Completed Field Notes
Aritha van Herk's No Fixed Address: An Amorous Journey
Fred Wah's Alley Alley Home Free
Epilogue: Reading Region
Notes
Works Cited