Acknowledgements

This volume emerged from the triennial conference of the Association of Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies (ACLALS), “Ruptured Commons,” held at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2022 on ‘Dish With One Spoon Territory.’ The Dish With One Spoon is a treaty between the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas, and Haudenosaunee that bound them to share the territory and protect the land. Subsequent Indigenous Nations and peoples, Europeans, and all newcomers have been invited into this treaty in the spirit of peace, friendship, and respect. Ruptured Commons was supported by a Connections Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and partnership funding from Toronto Metropolitan University (Toronto), University of Toronto (Toronto), University of British Columbia (Vancouver), Lakehead University (Thunder Bay), St. Jerome’s University (Waterloo), Saint Mary’s University (Halifax), and the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton). Special thanks to Betsy Birmingham, whose support was essential to ACLALS’s tenure at Lakehead University. Thanks to Asma Sayed, Laura Moss, John Ball, Henghameh Saroukhani, Judith Leggatt, Karina Vernon, Neil ten Kortenaar, Sarah Dowling, Hyacinth Simpson, and Anne-Marie Lee-Loy for being a wonderful conference team, and to Mariah Toset, conference administrator extraordinaire. Gratitude to Michael Domonchuk who provided research assistance for this collection. And thanks kindly to John Benjamins – the FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures series and its editor Haun Saussy in particular – and its peer reviewers for their time and encouragement.