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Canadian Literature's Spring 2010 issue (CL#204), "50th Anniversary Interventions", looks back on Canadian Literature's 50th Anniversary Gala, and celebrates Canadian culture with papers about Duncan Campbell Scott, book policies, copyright, civil war poetry, and new Québecois literature.

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#198 (Autumn 2008)
Canada and Its Discontents

Editorial

Glenn Deer

  • Canada and Its Discontents (p. 6 - 10)

Articles

Brian Johnson

  • Simulacra and Stimulations: Cocksure, Postmodernism, and Richler's Phallic Hero (p. 12 - 27) Show/hide Abstract

    • This essay reevaluates Mordecai Richler's neglected novel Cocksure (1968) by locating its satire of bourgeois bohemia and of the film and publishing industries within and against theoretical accounts of desire and representation in postmodernity by Fredric Jameson, Jean Baudrillard, and Arthur and Marilouise Kroker.  Intervening in the largely dismissive critical evaluation of the novel's phallic economy and the more general critical tendency to confine Richler's work to the framework of ethnic minority writing, it reads Cocksure as a parody of James Bond films that presciently allegorizes of the fate of the liberal humanist subject in postmodernism.  Richler's account of the destruction of this subject by a global commercial media network whose simulations of reality amount to a "murder of the real" both anticipates and challenges similar formulations by Jameson and Baudrillard.  In a self-implicating gesture, Richler's diagnosis of postmodern simulation also questions the moral efficacy of satire once its "obscene" provocations become indistinguishable from the pornographic media spectacle they critique.

  • (LITERATURE - 20th Century) (POSTMODERNISM)

Stephen Dunning

  • What Would Sam Waters Do? Guy Vanderhaeghe and Soren Kierkegaard (p. 29 - 45) Show/hide Abstract

    • Guy Vanderhaeghe is probably best known today as a regional, western Canadian writer, with a strong bent towards historical fiction that undercuts grand narratives legitimizing various forms of oppression. This authorial agenda has led many to read Vanderhaeghe as a thoroughly secular, post-modern author in Jean-Francios Lyotard's sense of the word, namely one deeply suspicious of all metanarrative-including, of course, religious metanarrative. Though Sue Sorensen's recent essay on Vanderhaeghe's religious sympathies proves a notable exception, it effectively ignores what are arguably the most significant writings for such a study: "Man Descending" and "Sam, Soren and Ed" from Man Descending (1982) and My Present Age (1984), which, as Vanderhaeghe makes clear, are significantly informed by Soren Kierkegaard, a seminal existentialist theologian.  Indeed, as the current essay argues, Kierkegaard provides the key to understanding the personal and cultural disasters depicted within these works, as well as the remedies towards which they gesture.

  • (LITERATURE - 20th Century)

Sophie Bastien

  • Les grandes marées, dans le roman de Jacques Poulin (p. 48 - 56) Show/hide Abstract

    • Cet article se propose de revisiter un classique de la littérature québécoise, Les grandes marées (1978) de Jacques Poulin, pour montrer qu'il réactive, dans une forme très originale, l'ancienne dialectique nature/culture et l'antinomie connexe solitude/collectivité. La petite île sauvage où réside le personnage principal, tout en profitant de la richesse écologique de ce lieu réel du golfe du Saint-Laurent, reconduit la dimension mythique de l'espace insulaire. Le roman se présente comme une robinsonnade en son début, jusqu'à ce qu'arrivent à tour de rôle, en même temps que les grandes marées, des personnages secondaires qui reflètent certains phénomènes sociaux contemporains. C'est ainsi que l'expression titrale « les grandes marées », qui désigne un phénomène naturel, en vient à prendre une connotation contraire au niveau littéral et à sous-entendre l'artifice qu'apporte la mentalité de consommation. En regard de ces deux idées antithétiques - nature et culture, l'auteur prend position par une ironie sociologique et suscite une réflexion philosophique sur les concepts de bonheur et de paradis perdu (Socken).

  • (LITERATURE - Francophone)

Jenny Kerber

  • Monocultures, Monopolies, and Militarism: The Environmental Legacy of "Greater Production" in Robert Stead's Grain (p. 58 - 73) Show/hide Abstract

    • This article considers Robert Stead's 1926 novel Grain as a text of continuing importance for the way we think and write about environmental challenges facing Western Canada today, particularly as those challenges relate to agriculture.  The reading of the novel I propose here explores the merger of military and agricultural discourses in Stead's literary depiction of First World War era prairie agriculture.  It also examines current debates about grain production, marketing, and environmental sustainability against the backdrop of the federally sponsored Greater Production Campaign.  I argue that Grain functions as more than an historical document or piece of prairie "realist" fiction; it also presents a prescient form of environmental critique that addresses contemporary concerns with the long-term ecological impacts of intensive monocultures and ever-larger economies of scale.

  • (CANADIAN CULTURE - 20th Century) (CANADIAN STUDIES) (ECOCRITICISM) (LITERARY GENRES - Historical)

Amelia DeFalco

  • "And then": Narrative Identity and Uncanny Aging in The Stone Angel (p. 75 - 89) Show/hide Abstract

    • This essay explores narrative-based identity theories, particularly those invested in the therapeutic potential of life review, alongside Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel.  Much like Robert Butler's model of "life review," Hagar Shipley recalls her past from the vantage of old age in order to establish and understand a coherent life story.  But despite her repeated attempts to manage, divide and restrict the self according to binaries of past and present, young and old, authentic and distorted, Hagar is gradually confronted with the unsettling uncanniness of an ever-shifting identity. Her efforts at managed selfhood begin to falter as she becomes increasingly aware of her own mutability, an awakening to the repercussions of temporality and narrativity.

  • (LITERATURE - 20th Century)

Benjamin Lefebvre

  • Agency, Belonging, Citizenship: The ABCs of Nation-Building in Contemporary Canadian Texts for Adolescents (p. 91 - 101) Show/hide Abstract

    • The objective in this paper is to pinpoint the ways in which discourses of agency, belonging, and citizenship are staged in a handful of Canadian texts for adolescents published in the last twenty-five years: Beatrice Culleton's April Raintree (1984), Marlene Nourbese Philip's Harriet's Daughter (1988), Deborah Ellis's Parvana's Journey (2002), Glen Huser's Stitches (2003), and Martine Leavitt's Heck Superhero (2004). These novels depict young people who are marginalized due to oppressive discourses such as racism, patriarchy, homophobia, poverty, and the dissolution of the nuclear family, and thus lack the support systems of the status quo. At the same time, they appear to broach larger questions about the construction of the Canadian nation alongside the story of a central protagonist's growth from relative immaturity to relative maturity. Undercutting the dominant fantasy of a liberal and diverse nation-state, these narratives refuse to resolve or settle oppressive discourses that conflict with official policies of multiculturalism, keeping the ideal nation within sight but out of reach.

  • (CANADIAN STUDIES) (CHILDHOOD STUDIES) (LITERATURE - Children's) (MULTICULTURALISM)

Poems

Alan Hill

  • In Condominium We Trust (p. 11) Show/hide Poem

    • It is a siege fort of swan bone steel
      and six pack muscle glass that is
      throwing a wasps nest of skin tone
      shadow across a line of pasty Cedars,
      hardening itself behind the barbeque
      cladding of its buttressed battlements
      that are sterile and glinting with the
      disinterested sincerity of well scrubbed
      bedpans or the sharpened instruments
      of an over confident surgeon.

      A hijacked jet of living space that has
      crashed itself into the brain stem of
      a million private places, a hermaphrodite
      of high rise reproducing itself through
      a telegraphic frottage of wire and
      chrome, throwing out the shapes of
      newborn speech, the words of new
      community, of sentences and slogans
      yet compiled that have shot themselves
      alive out of the mouths of the battlefield
      artillery of molded and unstable reasoning’s,
      out in to the feeble wooden colonies
      of the mind, out in to the new frontiers
      of internal space, to pour their molten
      polymers of neighborhood, guide their
      freshly pressed utopians, their plastic
      peace core devotees, into a blindfold
      spacewalk, in to the napalm spitting
      eye of an irritated nothingness.

Tammy Armstrong

  • Flight Stop - After Michael Snow's Eaton Centre Installation (p. 28) Show/hide Poem

    • From their vantage point they navigated poorly:
      this black cherubim in the glass house,
      in the majestic fray of neo-market stalls and food courts—
      fibreglass geese far from land of a thousand lakes
      into the rib-work of the shopping district.

      Overnight they claimed the fall,
      the white-out fields
      rounded as a boiled egg—
      so simple to follow a given horizon, a driving light.

      But this peregrination...
      management wanted red ribbons lacing their necks,
      wanted the geese, caught above the silk hydrangeas
      festive for Christmas,
      saw nothing odd with installation as decoration.

      A flight stop in debate
      above escalators and a PA system
      with its scroll of lost children.
      It was unappreciated velocity.
      It was a gaggle through the glass house—
      so many over-head to remind the shoppers below:
      look beyond,
      at least look
      to see you are missing the point.

John Barton

  • The Haircut (p. 46 - 47) Show/hide Poem

    • Egg tempera on gesso panel, 1986

       

      His hands with clipped nails trim your hair
      Shining and dense
      As massed fibres of ice, snow blown and drifted

      Down either side of your eyes, his
      Fingers arching, an aureole
      Above your head, scissors and red comb

      Poised, the first severed filaments of hair about to
      Drop, catch in the stiff
      Chrysalis of white about your shoulders

      Your exposed forearms relaxed and crossed at the wrists
      Against your chest, a gargoyle
      Cut from stone and not ready to be

      Mortared into the wall of a medieval churchyard
      But sitting upon a stool to face
      Down death, you watch its approach

      In the mirror, noting how your knuckles
      Gnarl, the sheet pulled close about prosaic loose
      Fleshed bones while he remains

      Naked and younger, your sculpted
      Neoclassic lover unselfconscious in his skin
      Body for now not holding any

      Pose, marbled and warm as he hones with exact
      Scissor-strokes the down-turning
      White bowl

      Of your hair, his light-footed shift
      In stance to being stationed behind you
      Rather than lying before not only mastery

      But a sign of how he observes, what he makes
      His own after being watched through
      The millennia you have drawn him—and draw

      Him still—his longing so quiet and workman-like
      You are humble but never
      Overcome, the respect each snip invokes

      Real and expressed in skill, a persistent
      Modernity you share, held
      Gaze for gaze, his eyes intent

      On scissors and hair not abstracted and unempty
      Of agapé while you notice everything
      Private within you

      Sharpen, ageless with his shaping.

Vincent Charles Lambert

  • Exode (p. 57) Show/hide Poem

    • Les statues partirent les premières.
      Mais leurs ombres restèrent comme des aveugles
      attendent une main pour traverser la rue (c’est elles alors qui vous emportaient)
      ou glissaient de feuillage en vitrine, ou reniflaient près des vidanges.

      Des âmes à la recherche de nos corps. Après quoi
      fut, inaudible, la grande procession des instruments
      à vent, ce fut le tour des notes
      mais les partitions restèrent et se confondirent aux feuilles blanches.

      Il arriva qu’un navire entra si loin au port
      que sa déchirure atteignit le seuil de ma porte—tout au fond du paysage.
      Mais je ne suis pas là. Je suis
      sorti très tôt, et j’ai ramassé les vers qui baignaient dans l’eau de pluie.

      Peinture écaillée de la barque de personne.
      Le lac est resté sans nom—des orgies de truites et de poissons-lunes ont nettoyé
      les os du dernier cartographe.
      Un silence frais, préservé, montait des fosses.
      Se répandait sur nos terres en réveillant les chouettes au plus noir des troncs.

      En drapant tout—montrait l’intérieur.
      L’intérieur: un enfant s’est penché pour boire et son visage est toujours là. Cieux
      et forêts. Crapauds retournés pierres parmi les pierres.
      Jusqu’à la prochaine fois.

Paul Huebener

  • Memory II: Clouds (p. 74) Show/hide Poem

    • Particle physics explains the little things,
      like how two clouds of probability
      can never touch; there is no unifying
      theory to stop a hand touching
      its own skin, trying not to, kept on a leash
      to make sure it doesn’t get too close, yet
      the context of this love makes me
      weary, grazes me, puts me
      a little on edge.

      In a large iron pan one day you made the sun:
      a simmering orb bursting thickly its scarlet
      tomato lava, indistinct with heat, setting
      our eyes aglow. Cover it with a lid
      so it doesn’t dry out.

      Outside in the clinging pall
      knuckled and gnarled I’ll blow
      the damp off my lips, aggressively
      pruning lavender in soaking denim
      fingernails to the weight of my kisses
      on your face.

Aaron Giovannone

  • untitled (p. 90) Show/hide Poem

    • I thought hard, put hand to chin
      What’s the date, and you revealed
      your forehead your eyes

      This is how sad I am
      Your smile pulls the corners of my mouth
      and underline this now she’s looking
      as the day curls away at the edges
      and thickens with stars

      We slept in my brother’s old room
      because mom was too sick to climb the stairs

      So what’s the difference you said
      So what’s the difference I said
      then kissed you so quickly on the porch
      even the motion-light missed it

Books in Review

Un ouvrage de référence incontournable (p. 102 - 103)

by Louise Frappier

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Histoire de la littérature québécoise by Michel Biron, François Dumont, and Élisabeth Nardout-Lafarge (Éditions du Boréal)

(LITERATURE - Francophone)

Qu’est-ce qui ne vas pas? (p. 103 - 105)

by Réjean Beaudoin

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. La culture québécoise est-elle en crise? by Gérard Bouchard and Alain Roy (Éditions du Boréal)

(QUEBEC STUDIES)

Immigration Re-told (p. 106 - 107)

by Juliane Okot Bitek

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Drums of My Flesh by Cyril Dabydeen (TSAR Publications)
  2. Governor of the Northern Province by Randy Boyagoda (Viking Press)

(LITERATURE - Afro-Canadian)

The Aesthetics of Commemoration (p. 107 - 108)

by Rebecca Campbell

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Art or Memorial? by Laura Brandon (University of Calgary Press)

The Energy of Reading Body and Mind (p. 108 - 109)

by Robert Budde

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. A Newer Wilderness by Roseanne Carrara (Insomniac Press)
  2. Mother Time by Joanne Arnott (Ronsdale Press)
  3. Soft Geography by Gillian Wigmore (Caitlin Press)

Langue et culture en contexte minoritaire (p. 110 - 110)

by Cécile B. Vigouroux

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Langue et culture by Benoît Cazabon (Prise de Parole)

(LITERATURE - Francophone)

Transforming Literature (p. 111 - 112)

by Natasha Dagenais

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Canadian Cultural Exchange / Échanges culturels au Canada by Norman Cheadle and Lucian Pelletier (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)

(CULTURAL STUDIES)

L’exigence littérale du Messie (p. 112 - 114)

by Stéphane Inkel

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Poétiques du Messie by Anne Élaine Cliche (XYZ Éditeur / XYZ Publishing)

Two Takes, Different Worlds (p. 114 - 115)

by Karl Jirgens

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland (Random House)
  2. Dead Man in the Orchestra Pit by Tom Osborne and Tom Osborne (Anvil Press)

(LITERATURE - Novel)

Children and Death (p. 115 - 116)

by Hilary Turner

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Mr. Gauguin's Heart by Marie-Danielle Croteau and Isabelle Arsenault (Tundra Books)
  2. Marja's Skis by Jean E. Pendziwol and Jirina Marton (Groundwood)
  3. Light Foot / Pies Ligeros by Natalia Toledo, Francisco Toledo, and Elisa Amado (Groundwood)

(LITERATURE - Children's)

The Poetics of Love and Death (p. 117 - 118)

by Anderson Araujo

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Full Depth by Micheline Maylor (Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd)
  2. Love Where the Nights Are Green by Rienzi Crusz (Pasdeloup)

From Nova Scotia to the Cosmos (p. 118 - 119)

by Bert Almon

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Earthly Pages: The Poetry of Don Domanski by Don Domanski and Brian Bartlett (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
  2. Gaspereau Gloriatur: Liber Beati Anni Decimi, Volume 1 by Michael deBeyer, Kate Kennedy, and Andrew Steeves (Gaspereau Press)

Three Readers Writing (p. 120 - 121)

by Adam Dickinson

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Children of the Outer Darkness by Karl E. Jirgens and Christopher Dewdney (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
  2. The Bindery by Shane Rhodes (NeWest Press)
  3. Earth's Crude Gravities by Patrick Friesen (Harbour Publishing)

Migrations (p. 121 - 123)

by Jodi Lundgren

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Stealing Nasreen by Farzana Doctor (Inanna)
  2. Room Tone by Gale Zoë Garnett (Quattro)
  3. The Goldfish Dancer by Patricia Robertson (Biblioasis)

(LITERATURE - Novel)

Wonder and the Sacred (p. 123 - 124)

by Paul Milton

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. All Our Wonder Unavenged by Don Domanski (Brick Books)
  2. Poetry and the Sacred by Don Domanski (Institute for Coastal Research)

Time Travels Convincing (p. 124 - 126)

by J. R. Wytenbroek

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Winds of L'Acadie by Lois Donovan (Ronsdale Press)
  2. Leaving Simplicity by Claire Carmichael (Annick Press)

(LITERARY GENRES - Science Fiction)

The Writer and the Beast (p. 126 - 127)

by Heinz Antor

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Other Selves by Janice Fiamengo (University of Ottawa Press)

(LITERARY CRITICISM)

Prairie Past, Prairie Present (p. 127 - 129)

by Ryan Porter

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. The Prairie West as Promised Land by R. Douglas Francis and Chris Kitzan (University of Calgary Press)
  2. All This Town Remembers by Sean Johnston (Gaspereau Press)

(LITERATURE - Novel)

Pebbles and Panes (p. 129 - 130)

by Beverley Haun

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. The Woman Who Walks on Glass by Christiane Frenette and Sheila Fischman (Cormorant Books)
  2. Glass Voices by Carol Bruneau (Cormorant Books)

(LITERATURE - Novel)

Letters and Migration (p. 130 - 131)

by Ursula Mathias-Moser

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Envoyer et recevoir by Yves Frenette and Marcel Martel (PUL)

(LITERATURE - Francophone)

Shelter from the Storm (p. 131 - 132)

by J. A. Wainwright

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Safe Haven by Larry Gaudet (Random House)

(LITERATURE - Novel)

Œkoumènes endogènes du conte (p. 133 - 134)

by Emir Delic

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Treize contes fantastiques québécois by Claude Gonthier and Bernard Meney (XYZ Éditeur / XYZ Publishing)
  2. Contes du Détroit by Joseph-Médard Carrière, Marcel Bénéteau, and Donald Deschênes (Prise de Parole)
  3. Mon oncle Émile conte by Ange-Émile Maheu (Prise de Parole)

(LITERATURE - Francophone)

Generations (p. 134 - 135)

by Katherine Verhagen

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Who’s Who in Black Canada 2 by Dawn P. Williams (Self Published)
  2. From Harvey River by Lorna Goodison (McClelland & Stewart Ltd.)

(LITERATURE - Afro-Canadian)

From Trogs to Blogs (p. 136 - 137)

by A. Mary Murphy

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Biography by Nigel Hamilton (Harvard University Press)

(LIFE WRITING - Criticism and Theory)

Saving Generations (p. 137 - 138)

by Jennifer Fraser

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Ragged Islands by Don Hannah (Knopf Canada)
  2. The Valley by Gayle Friesen (Key Porter Books)

(LITERATURE - Novel)

Two Tales of a City (p. 138 - 140)

by Maia Joseph

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. The Story of Dunbar by Peggy Schofield (Ronsdale Press)
  2. City Making in Paradise by Sean Rossiter, Ken Cameron, and Mike Harcourt (Douglas & McIntyre)

(CULTURAL STUDIES)

Out of Bounds (p. 140 - 141)

by Andrea Wasylow

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Searching for Billie by Freda Jackson (Touchwood Editions)
  2. The Girls Who Saw Everything by Sean Dixon (Coach House Books)

(LITERATURE - Novel)

Nature Red in Tooth and Claw (p. 142 - 143)

by Sarika P. Bose

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. The Painted Circus by Wallace Edwards (Kids Can Press)
  2. Other Goose by Barbara Wyn Klunder (Groundwood)
  3. Stones, Bones and Stitches by Shelley Falconer and Shawna White (Tundra Books)
  4. Jack Pine by Christopher Patton and Cybèle Young (Groundwood)

(LITERATURE - Children's)

L’art de la biographie (p. 143 - 144)

by Melanie E. Collado

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Approches de la biographie au Québec by Dominique Lafon, Rainier Grutman, Marcel Olscamp, and Robert Vigneault (Éditions Fides)

(LITERATURE - Criticism)

In His Own Words (p. 144 - 146)

by Alison Calder

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Over Canadian Trails by Klaus Martens (Königshausen & Neumann)

Emerging Edge (p. 146 - 147)

by Kate Morris

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Dirtbags by Teresa McWhirter (Anvil Press)
  2. Bottle Rocket Hearts by Zoe Whittal (Cormorant Books)
  3. Indigenous Beasts by Nathan Sellyn (Raincoast Books)

(LITERATURE - Novel)

Celebrating the Unsung (p. 147 - 148)

by Sudeep Ghosh

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. The Silent Raga by Ameen Merchant (Douglas & McIntyre)

(LITERATURE - Indian/South Asian)

Whose Bones? (p. 149 - 151)

by Fiona Polack

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Cloud of Bone by Bernice Morgan (Knopf Canada)

(LITERATURE - Novel)

L’enfance sans voix (p. 149 - 149)

by Julie Gaudreault

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Les Rouleurs by Madeleine Monette (Éditions Hurtubise HMH)

(LITERATURE - Francophone)

Surfing the Fragments (p. 151 - 152)

by Meredith Quartermain

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Transversals for Orpheus & the untitled 1-13 by Garry Thomas Morse (LINEbooks)
  2. A Few Words Will Do by Lionel Kearns (Talon Books)
  3. ths is erth thees ar peopul by bill bissett (Talon Books)

The Recompense of Memory (p. 152 - 153)

by Wendy Roy

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. The Reckoning of Boston Jim by Claire Mulligan (Brindle & Glass)

(LITERATURE - Novel)

Romance of Ambiguity (p. 153 - 154)

by Therí Alyce Pickens

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. The Orange Trees of Baghdad by Leilah Nadir (Key Porter Books)

He Bacame His Admirers (p. 154 - 156)

by Robert Thacker

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Robert Weaver by Elaine Kalman Naves (Véhicule Press)

Trudeau Biographers (p. 156 - 158)

by George Egerton

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Young Trudeau by Max Nemni, Monique Nemni, and William Johnson (Douglas Gibson)

Writing Black Canadas (p. 158 - 159)

by Maureen Moynagh

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Revival by Donna Bailey Nurse (McClelland & Stewart Ltd.)
  2. The African Diaspora in Canada by Wisdom J. Tettey and Korbla P. Puplampu (University of Calgary Press)

Témoignages d’existence (p. 160 - 160)

by Pénélope Cormier

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Dictionnaire des citations littéraires de l’Ontario français depuis 1960 by Mariel O'Neill-Karch and Pierre Karch (Interligne)
  2. Arcadian Christmas Traditions by Georges Arsenault (Acorn Press Canada)

(CULTURAL STUDIES)

La fatalité de l’autofiction fabulatrice (p. 161 - 161)

by Louis Patrick Leroux

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Willy Graf by Michel Ouellette (Prise de Parole)

(LITERATURE - Novel)

Papiers couchés (p. 162 - 162)

by Thierry Bissonnette

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Dépositions by Pierre Ouellet (Éditions du Noroît)

(LITERATURE - Francophone)

Transcending the Body (p. 162 - 163)

by Cynthia Messenger

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Up on the Roof by P. K. Page (Porcupine's Quill)

(LITERATURE - Short Fiction)

Deux musiciens (p. 163 - 164)

by Catherine Lefrançois

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Piccoletta by Clermont Pépin (Éditions Triptyque)
  2. Notes d’espoir d’un « joueur de piano » by Pierre Jasmin and Jeanne Gagnon (Éditions Triptyque)

(LITERATURE - Francophone)

Pictures of Other Worlds (p. 165 - 166)

by Karen Crossley

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Once Upon a Full Moon by Elizabeth Quan (Tundra Books)
  2. Mee-An and the Magic Serpent by Baba Wagué Diakité (Groundwood)
  3. Sky Blue Accident/Accidente celeste by Jorge Luján, Elisa Amado, and Piet Grobler (Groundwood)

(LITERATURE - Children's)

Une nouvelle littérature en ébullition (p. 166 - 167)

by Kathleen Kellett-Betsos

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Perspectives sur la littérature franco-ontarienne by Ali Reguigui and Hedi Bouraoui (Prise de Parole)

(LITERATURE - Criticism)

Essais polémiques (p. 167 - 168)

by Christian Vandendorpe

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Chroniques d’un temps loufoque by François Ricard (Éditions du Boréal)

(LITERATURE - Francophone)

Games and Gifts (p. 169 - 171)

by Owen Percy

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Playing the Inside Out/Le jeu des apparences by David Adams Richards (Goose Lane Editions)
  2. Abundance by Robert Kroetsch and John Lent (Kalamalka Press)
  3. Imagination in Action by Carol Malyon (Mercury Press)

(LITERATURE - Criticism)

Impossible nostalgie (p. 171 - 172)

by Adeline Caute

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. La maison mémoire by Sandra Rompré-Deschênes (Éditions Triptyque)
  2. Bayou mystère by Daniel St-Onge (Éditions Triptyque)

(LITERATURE - Francophone)

Into the Wild, Again (p. 172 - 173)

by Suzanne James

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor (Annick Press)
  2. Borderline by Bonnie Rozanski (Porcupine's Quill)
  3. Gemini Summers by Iain Lawrence (Delacorte Press)

(LITERATURE - Novel)

Adventures in Ontario (p. 173 - 174)

by Rick Gooding

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Into the Ravine by Richard Scrimger (Tundra Books)
  2. Death in Kingsport by Curtis Parkinson (Tundra Books)
  3. When the Bough Breaks by Irene N. Watts (Tundra Books)

(LITERATURE - Children's)

Words across the West (p. 175 - 176)

by Neil Querengesser

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Blood and Bone, Ice and Stone by Glen Sorestad (Thistledown Press)
  2. Wood Mountain Poems by Andrew Suknaski (Hagios)
  3. Writing the Terrain by Robert M. Stamp (University of Calgary Press)

Persistence through Pedagogy (p. 176 - 177)

by Sam McKegney

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. The New Buffalo by Blair Stonechild (University of Manitoba Press)
  2. Healing Wounded Hearts by Fyre Jean Graveline (Fernwood)

(NATIVE STUDIES)

New Short Fiction (p. 178 - 179)

by Heidi Darroch

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. The Journey Prize Stories 19 by David Bezmozgis and Dionne Brand (McClelland & Stewart Ltd.)
  2. Home Schooling by Carol Windley (Cormorant Books)

(LITERATURE - Short Fiction)

You Can Never Go Home Again (p. 179 - 180)

by Marlene Goldman

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Finding Home by Eric Wright (Cormorant Books)
  2. Turtle Valley by Gail Anderson-Dargatz (Knopf Canada)

(LITERATURE - Novel)

Canadian Adventures (p. 180 - 182)

by Stephanie Dickison

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Probing Minds, Salamander Girls and a Dog Named Sally by Harrison Wright (Gaspereau Press)
  2. Ride the Rising Wind by Barbara Kingscote (NeWest Press)

Dreaming Toronto, Then and Now (p. 182 - 183)

by Maia Joseph

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. The Torontonians by Phyllis Brett Young (McGill-Queen's University Press)
  2. Coureurs de Bois by Bruce MacDonald (Cormorant Books)

(LITERATURE - Novel)


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