Canada’s dual and antithetical roles: An interview with Kit Dobson about We Are Already Ghosts

Abstract

Kit Dobson’s work focusses on several controversial issues in Canadian indigenous history. The effects of oil capitalism on the environment is at the core of Field Notes on Listening (2022), while Malled: Deciphering Shopping in Canada (2017) addresses the socio-economic impacts of malls in Canada. Transnational Canadas: Anglo-Canadian Literature and Globalization (2009), examines Canadian literary traditions in the context of globalization, and We Already Ghosts (2024), tackles issues of Indigenous identities and the current politics surrounding the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. All these, and Dobson’s edited works, Please, No More Poetry: The Poetry of Derek Beaulieu (2013), Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace (2013), Transnationalism, Activism, Art (2013), Dissonant Methods: Undoing Discipline in the Humanities Classroom (2020), and All the Feels: Affect and Writings in Canada (2021), serve as a springboard for this interview in tracing his diverse viewpoints about Canada’s evolution from a colonial past .