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#192 (Spring 2007)
Gabrielle Roy contemporaine/The Contemporary Gabrielle Roy

Editorial

Jane Everett and Nathalie Cooke

• Gabrielle Roy contemporaine/The Contemporary Gabrielle Roy (p. 6 - 8)

Articles

Lori Saint-Martin

• De Gabrielle Roy à La Mémoire de l’eau de Ying Chen: histoire d’une rencontre littéraire (p. 12 - 28)

Lee Brotherson

• News and Gender in Gabrielle Roy (p. 30 - 43)

Lianne Moyes

• Writing the Montreal Mountain: Below the Thresholds at which Visibility Begins (p. 45 - 66)

Roxanne Rimstead

• Used People: La Rivière sans repos as Postcolonial Poverty Narrative (p. 68 - 94)

Jean Morency

• La figure de Gabrielle Roy chez Jacques Poulin et Michel Tremblay (p. 97 - 109)

Agnes Whitfield

• Behind the “Powderworks”: Hannah Josephson and The Tin Flute (p. 111 - 128)

Poems

Alexandre Lizotte

• Port de Voix (p. 10 - 11)

A. Mary Murphy

• The Wings of Young Fairies (p. 29)

Roger Nash

• SHADOWS (p. 44) Show/hide Poem

  • I
    
    A mule and its shadow lengthen themselves
    down the track, carrying sacks
    of darkness and oranges. The farmer casts
    a giant insect before him, which leads him
    as though he were blind. Their heads bow
    in prayer or nostalgia, as the angelus tolls
    from memories of shadows of a church in the valley.
    Echoes of the bells ring from reflections
    in the mirrors of neon-lit bars in town.
    
    
    
    II
    
    A gypsy lights a cigarette in the square.
    He ascends and blows away with its smoke.
    The moon gave him his silken suit.
    His ivory eyes perfectly unbutton
    his imperfectly lit lot. A telephone
    in an empty booth hangs up on itself

Marie Carrière

• Fée (p. 67)

Shane Rhodes

• If it was the sea we heard (p. 95 - 96)

Rebecca Keillor

• Grey exchange (p. 110)

Books in Review

Luck of the Draw (p. 129 - 130)

by Jennifer Fraser

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Luck by Joan Barfoot (Knopf Canada)

New Francophone Writing (p. 130 - 132)

by Louise H. Forsyth

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Thémes et variations. Regards sur la littérature franco-ontarienne by Johanne Melançon and Lucie Hotte (Prise de Parole)
2. Appartenances dans la littérature francophone d'Amérique du Nord by Larry Steele, Sophie Beaulé, and Joëlle Cauville (Le Nordir)
3. Transpoètique. Éloge du nomadisme by Hédi Bouraoui (Mémoire d’encrier)

Doctors in Distress (p. 132 - 133)

by Maria N. Ng

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam (Doubleday Canada Limited)

Memoirs and Musings (p. 133 - 134)

by Leila Bryce

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. You’re in Canada Now . . . A Memoir of Sorts by Susan Musgrave (Thistledown Press)

Going Downstream (p. 134 - 136)

by Jenny Kerber

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Rediscovering the Prairies by Norman Henderson (Touchwood Editions)
2. Reading the River by Myrna Kostash and Duane Burton (Coteau Books)

Black and Bruised Blues (p. 136 - 137)

by Katherine Verhagen

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. The True Blue of Islands by Pamela Mordecai (Sandberry)
2. Calling Cards by Pamela Mordecai (Sandberry)
3. Back Talk by Louise Delisle (Roseway)

Green Liberalism (p. 137 - 139)

by Graham Good

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. How to be a Green Liberal by Simon Hailwood (McGill-Queen's University Press)

What’s New? (p. 139 - 141)

by Moberley Luger

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Breathing Fire 2 by Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane (Nightwood Editions)
2. The New Canon by Carmine Starnino (Véhicule Press)
3. Shift & Switch by Derek Beaulieu, Jason Christie, and Angela Rawlings (Mercury Press)

Queer As Folk Etymology (p. 141 - 142)

by Ramona Montagnes

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Six Words You Never Knew Had Something to Do with Pigs by Katherine Barber (Oxford University Press)

Beauty and the World (p. 142 - 143)

by Emily Doucet

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. The Violin Lover by Susan Glickman (Goose Lane Editions)
2. The Shape I Gave You by Martha Baillie (Knopf Canada)

Histories of Contact (p. 143 - 145)

by Janice Fiamengo

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Contact Zones by Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherdale (University of British Columbia Press)

From Dar es Salaam to Bombay to Calgary (p. 145 - 147)

by Kit Dobson

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Baby Khaki’s Wings by Anar Ali (Viking Press)
2. The Song of Kahunsha by Anosh Irani (Doubleday Canada Limited)

The Privilege of Age (p. 147 - 148)

by Sara Jamieson

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Hand Luggage by P.K. Page (Porcupine's Quill)
2. Bright Centre by Elizabeth Brewster (Oberon Press)

Vers une esthétique de l’altérité (p. 148 - 150)

by Simona Emilia Pruteanu

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Les mains si blanches de Pye Chang by Francine Allard (Éditions Triptyque)
2. Genèse de l’oubli by Clara Ness (XYZ Éditeur / XYZ Publishing)
3. La femme-homme by Simone Piuze (Éditions David)

Leonard Cohen: Travels with the “Tourist of Beauty” (p. 150 - 151)

by Ira Nadel

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen (McClelland & Stewart Ltd.)

Donner à voir (p. 151 - 152)

by Noële Racine

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Panoptikon by Francis Catalano (Éditions Triptyque)
2. L’oiseau tatoué by Herménégilde Chiasson (Eaux-fortes de David Lafrance. La courte �chelle)
3. Un homme de trop by Antonio D’Alfonso (Éditions du Noroît)
4. La chasse spirituelle by Fulvio Caccia (Éditions du Noroît)

Une enfance mémorable (p. 152 - 153)

by Paul Genuist

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Trois fois passera by Françoise Clément-Bowden (Prise de Parole)

Au pays de l’inexistence (p. 153 - 154)

by Laurent Poliquin

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Écran total by Laurent Chabin (Éditions Triptyque)
2. Romans de la poésie by Yves Boisvert (XYZ Éditeur / XYZ Publishing)

Surface Dwellers (p. 154 - 156)

by Brett Josef Grubisic

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. JPod by Douglas Coupland (Random House)

Sacred Pains (p. 156 - 158)

by Tim Conley

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Mandorla by Nancy Holmes (Ronsdale Press)
2. He Claims He Is the Direct Heir by Lazar Sarna (Porcupine's Quill)
3. Hurt Thyself by Andrew Steinmetz (McGill-Queen's University Press)

That Tyrant, I (p. 158 - 159)

by Rick Gooding

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Tacoma Narrows by Mitchell Parry (Goose Lane Editions)
2. The Village of Sliding Time by David Zieroth (Harbour Publishing)
3. Then Again by Iain Higgins (Oolichan Books)

Writing and Violence: Mnemography (p. 159 - 161)

by Kathryn Carter

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Who Named the Knife by Linda Spalding (McClelland & Stewart Ltd.)

Conflicts in History (p. 161 - 162)

by Marlene Briggs

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Clio’s Warriors by Tim Cook (University of British Columbia Press)

Diverse Voices (p. 162 - 164)

by Jennifer Delisle

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Weather’s Edge by Linda Cullum, Carmelita McGrath, and Marilyn Porter (Killick)

Trois voix / voies féminines (p. 164 - 166)

by Ingrid Mündel

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Tattoo Joint by Jason Gileno (Guernica Editions)
2. Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout by Tomson Highway (Talon Books)
3. Yahrzeit by Alex Poch-Goldin (J. Gordon Shillingford)

An Impossible History (p. 166 - 167)

by Christopher Lee

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Saltwater City by Paul Yee (Douglas & McIntyre)

Speaking, Pausing for Breath, and Gardening (p. 167 - 169)

by Erin Wunker

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. what the auntys say by Sharon Proulx-Turner (McGilligan Books)
2. breathing for breadth by Salimah Valiani (TSAR Publications)
3. Gardening in the Tropics by Olive Senior (Insomniac Press)

Scar Tissue (p. 169 - 171)

by Amy Kroeker

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Of This Earth by Rudy Wiebe (Knopf Canada)

Blk, Wht, Read All Over (p. 171 - 173)

by Crystal Hurdle

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Blue Feast by Shawna Lemay (NeWest Press)
2. Sooner by Margaret Christakos (Coach House Books)
3. This Way the Road by Nina Berkhout (NeWest Press)

How Should We Remember? (p. 173 - 174)

by Adele Holoch

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. A History for the Future by Phyllis Aronoff, Jocelyn Létourneau, and Howard Scott (McGill-Queen's University Press)

Culture Up and Away (p. 174 - 175)

by Len Findlay

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Concepts of Culture by Adam Muller (University of Calgary Press)

Keeping watch, seeing home (p. 176 - 177)

by Charles Dawson

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Bringing Back the Dodo by Wayne Grady (McClelland & Stewart Ltd.)
2. A Place Between the Tides by Harry Thurston (Greystone Books)

Poems of Witness (p. 177 - 179)

by Hilary Clark

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Momentary Dark by Margaret Avison (McClelland & Stewart Ltd.)
2. Inventory by Dionne Brand (McClelland & Stewart Ltd.)
3. Before the First Word by Catherine Hunter (Laurier Poetry Series)

The Ties that Bind (p. 179 - 180)

by John Moffatt

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. In a World Created by a Drunken God by Drew Hayden Taylor (Talon Books)
2. Pursued by a Bear by Daniel David Moses (Exile Editions)

Desire and Art (p. 180 - 182)

by Shannon Hengen

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. The Innocent Eye Test by Michael Healey (Playwrights Canada Press)
2. Cold Meat Party by Brad Fraser (Playwrights Canada Press)
3. The Ventriloquist by Larry Tremblay (Talon Books)

Humour et tragédies (p. 182 - 183)

by Eric Paul Parent

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Théâtre comique de Régis Roy (1864-1944) by Mariel O’Neill-Karch and Pierre Karch (Éditions David)
2. Épinal by Robert Marinier (Prise de Parole)
3. La Meute by Esther Beauchemin (Prise de Parole)
4. Le Christ est apparu au Gun Club by Herménégilde Chiasson (Prise de Parole)

Collaborative Research (p. 183 - 185)

by Dee Horne

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. ‘Pictures Bring Us Messages’ /Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa by Alison K. Brown and Laura Peers, with members of the Kainai Nation (University of Toronto Press)

Renaming Stillness and Travel (p. 185 - 187)

by Antje M. Rauwerda

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Inter Alia by David Seymour (Brick Books)
2. A Bad Year for Journalists by Lisa Pasold (Frontenac)
3. The Lightness Which is Our World, Seen from Afar by Ven Begamudré (Frontenac)

Translators Uncovered (p. 187 - 188)

by Glen Nichols

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Writing Between the Lines by Agnes Whitfield (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)

Jesus Christ, Merna! (p. 188 - 189)

by Frances W. Kaye

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Mitchell by Barbara Mitchell and Ormond Mitchell (McClelland & Stewart Ltd.)

Plays in Theory (p. 189 - 191)

by Anne Nothof

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Judith Thompson by Ric Knowles (Playwrights Canada Press)

Rueful Affirmative (p. 191 - 192)

by Mark Harris

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Vers le sud by Dany Laferriere (Éditions du Boréal)

Back to Juno (p. 192 - 193)

by Chris Leach

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Juno Beach by Tim Saunders (McGill-Queen's University Press)

Opinions and Notes

Jessica Langston

• What about Gabrielle Roy? (p. 199 - 200)

Paul G. Socken

• Gabrielle Roy and the Question of Canada (p. 200 - 206)