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#200 (Spring 2009)
Strategic Nationalisms

Editorial

Laura Moss

Articles

Tony Tremblay

The Canadian Little Magazine Past and Present: Can Digitizing a Literary Subculture Make a Movement? (p. 16 - 35) Show/hide Abstract
- This essay investigates the literary subculture of Canada's little magazines as a pretext to asking a timely question about media and reception: namely, whether the cultivation of voice, readership, and literary ethos in the relatively closed, high-modern "nationalist" world of the printed little magazines of mid century is transferable to the more open, polysemous post-modern spheres of today's digitized online magazines. It asks, in other words, if spatial conventions associated with print and digital form and distribution alter the characteristics and engagements of the author/reader that produces/receives little-magazine text, the most important of those characteristics in any subculture being the ability to use language with ideological intent. In short, to paraphrase Ezra Pound, can on-line little magazines create a literary subculture in ways that print magazines did?

Erica Kelly

"Was Ever an Adventure Without its Cost?": The Price of National Unity in E.J. Pratt's Towards the Last Spike (p. 37 - 54) Show/hide Abstract
- E.J. Pratt's "Towards the Last Spike" deserves critical reconsideration. Pratt's epic poem documents the history of the Canadian railway, but not, as critics have generally conceded, in a blanket celebration of the nation's achievements: rather, Pratt allows the darker moments of railway history into his retelling, challenging the unifying impulse of projects of national definition.
(CANADIAN CULTURE - 19th Century) (CANADIAN STUDIES) (LITERARY CRITICISM)

Janice Fiamengo

"Seeing religiously that his socks were always darned": Serving Idols in As For Me and My House (p. 56 - 71) Show/hide Abstract
- As For Me and My House has been read as a documentary about the Depression, an unreliable narrative by a deceived and self-deceiving wife, and a narrative of gender, power, and creativity, to name only a few recent approaches. It has rarely been read seriously as what it purports to be: a story about the consequences of unbelief. Sinclair Ross had himself been offered the chance to attend university if he would commit to becoming a minister and had refused; his imagining of what such a life could become was the germ of the novel. I read the narrative as a sustained account of the loss of God in which misplaced yearning for the infinite (for an immortal art in Philip's case and a transcendent love in his wife's) condemns the two main characters to loneliness and self-loathing. Examining the novel's biblical references and images-from its ironic title to its motif of idol worship-I explore how the problem of meaning without faith is at the heart of the novel's resonance and enduring interest.
(LITERATURE - 20th Century)

Tim MaIntyre

"The Way the Stars Really Do Come Out at Night": The Trick of Representation in Alice Munro's "The Moons of Jupiter" (p. 73 - 88) Show/hide Abstract
- This article focuses on Alice Munro's "The Moons of Jupiter," a key work in her oeuvre. The article analyzes the story as a formal, artistic achievement, one which moves from separation, to unity, to separation, thereby providing a cathartic staging of emotion. The article also examines the subtle metafictive sensibility that runs through "Moons" without compromising its mimetic effect and follows its philosophical examination of the power and inadequacy of representation.
(LITERATURE - 20th Century)

Joubert Satyre

Fantômes du passé chez Émile Ollivier et Gérard Étienne: de l'écriture comme exorcisme (p. 90 - 104) Show/hide Abstract
- L'œuvre romanesque d'Émile Ollivier et de Gérard Étienne tire ses motifs et ses thèmes de deux traumas qui sont dans rapport de cause à effet : la dictature et l'exil. Le passé douloureux des deux romanciers déploie dans leurs textes ses fantômes et ses hantises dont la puissance obsédante semble inépuisable. À cet effet, l'écriture est pour eux un rituel d'exorcisme qui tente de donner forme et corps à l'informe, non pas pour chasser ce passé, mais pour le rendre accessible au logos et, ainsi, en atténuer le potentiel macabre. L'omniprésence spectrale du passé prend diverses dans l'œuvre des deux écrivains : désir du retour au pays natal mais en même temps impossible retour chez Émile Ollivier; hallucinations chez Étienne, folie et cauchemars chez les deux. Le but de cet article est d'analyser la présence de ces figures mémoratives dans quelques romans des auteurs susmentionnés.
(CULTURAL STUDIES) (DIASPORA STUDIES) (LITERATURE - Francophone)

Eileen Lokha

Diaspora, anti-souchitude ou les écrivains sans frontière(s) (p. 107 - 119) Show/hide Abstract
- Comment concevoir la littérature dans un monde de plus en plus déterritorialisé sur le plan culturel ? En utilisant la poétique du nomadisme, telle que la conçoit Rosi Braidotti, nous proposerons de considérer la littérature francographique en décloisonnant les classifications actuelles pour souligner les liens rhizomatiques entre les écrivains d'espaces géographiques divers, par delà les frontières. J'examinerai d'abord la notion de frontière(s) et de territoire pour souligner les maintes façons par lesquelles la culture globalisante du monde moderne les transgresse. Je parlerai ensuite du magnétisme d'un imaginaire façonné ailleurs pour faire ressortir l'entre-deux de l'écriture propre aux communautés disaporales, entre-deux qui exacerbe l'effet de push and pull, de tension créatrice avec la communauté d'accueil. Les propos de François Paré me seront utiles pour tenter de comprendre la "distance habitée" par les écrivains des diasporas francophones au Canada. Je me pencherai enfin sur une vision plus inclusive, telle qu'elle est exprimée par Rosi Braidotti, et qui permet d'effacer les frontières dans et par les mots.
(DIASPORA STUDIES) (LITERATURE - Afro-Canadian) (LITERATURE - Francophone)

Poems

Russell Thornton

The Shapes They've Made in the Sky (p. 15) Show/hide Poem
- the shapes they've made in the sky
  cannot be reduced
  —Pat Lowther, “Coastal Range”
  
  Drive and vault north over the Lions Gate Bridge,
  you see the houses going higher and higher
  up the forested mountainsides west and east—
  teeth chewing away on their own, pants both ballooning
  and cinching themselves. Traffic lights, as on stilts,
  cars like speeding briefcases, follow.
  Through it all,
  the mountains still lay down their vast shadows
  and still lift their dark blue-green and silver.
  They are patient, they do not move—beyond anger,
  they weight in with a heavy peace. They halt huge clouds,
  array them like canopies, and rest. They ravel rain,
  and unravel it in rivers and creeks. At the same time,
  they sit seemingly lost, gone blank, imperturbable.
  For the months they are snow-covered, you see
  their inscrutable white smile.
  Somehow you know
  that inside them, they are your picture of them—
  they forgive you that much. You hitch chair-lifts,
  ski-tows, skyrides, up and over them, ski down them,
  as if trying to open a safe. The safe will not open—
  it is a pure, endless lock. Longer ago than you
  can imagine, the sky here was shaped to their bulks.
  Their faces that are no-faces—the closer you go to them,
  the more they recede from you. You go up to the tops
  of them, and they reduce you. You are all of you
  the insects you saw from below—binoculars prove it.

Richard Harrison

Now is the Winter (p. 36) Show/hide Poem
- With the last ounces of his grace
  my father stands up from his wheelchair,
  turns towards the bed as though
  the floor is ice; he tilts his spine,
  knees bent, and waits to shift
  his weight to mine, and
  I lay him on the blanket
  and kiss his lips. We talk
  of Shakespeare whoc arried him
  line by line through tropic wars
  to the final surgery on his failing hips.
  Now is the winter of our discontent,
  he recites from the inerasable pages
  of his brain, the words the prayer
  of one who has no god to hear
  his cries, his powers spent.
  When he asks, I promise
  to be with him when he dies,
  and winter stirs in the broken fingers
  of my left hand that healed
  the cold into mended bone.
  My father sleeps as the land sleeps—
  to teach us that nothing is immortal
  and awake forever. Outside,
  the young gods, green, and knowing only what they see,
  take their sticks and pucks and
  lean into their shots while
  the god of winter dreams the water
  beneath their feet as
  final and beginning as his will.

Lolette Kuby

The Last Goodbye (p. 55) Show/hide Poem
- Constellations of goodbyes: one
  leaps a hurdle on an evening
  encrusted with moons and keeps on
  running, one aims an arrow toward
  unnamed land but never looses
  the bow, one pours from an empty
  vase into someone who receives
  it forever. Our goodbye was
  a Rube Goldberg—a foot slammed a door,
  a door pulled a cord, a cord cracked
  the heart glass, the heart glass let in
  the wind, the wind rattled the door,
  etcetera, etcetera.
  This went on for years. Then again
  the hello door was opened.
  
  Statistically, there are an equal
  number of hellos—echoing
  through canyons, climbing over hills,
  coruscating from behind clouds.
  
  But the backs of all the hellos
  are goodbyes: one scurries squeaking
  into its hole, one slinks into
  underbrush, one burrows deeper,
  one is an abandoned well
  whose first hello, even, was hollow,
  was musty, one sends a letter
  with no return address, one sends
  a letter with a dollar inside.

Helen Guri

Richard Harrison

Cell Phone (p. 89) Show/hide Poem
- Don't ring. Little switchblade of language
  clipped to my belt, don't sound off, don't
  chime, don't sing. Don't ring. I broke my vow
  long ago to use you for the momentous call
  alone: my wife in labour, come home,
  come home, or later our first child
  in the hospital. Long ago I ordered pizza
  or forgot what we needed in the grocery aisle
  and took your space-explorer numbers quite
  in vain. Don't ring. Even though the few
  who call this number do to say I love you,
  how's your day, the truth I'm always putting away
  is my father lodged among the demented
  a mountain chain away, and word of his dying
  and the promise that I made. Don't ring.
  Every day I put aside my duties
  and pretend I am just a child, there's
  always play, but you, the perfect measuring tape,
  always know the distance bad news needs to
  leap from a mouth to the ear in hiding miles away.
  I can barely think when I think of what you bring.
  Don't ring today. Don't ring.

Dave Margoshes

Ellis Island (p. 105 - 106) Show/hide Poem
- after Jan Zwicky's “Robinson's Crossing”
  and Robert Kroetsch's “The New World and Finding It”
  
  1.
  My father said they walked for seven days sustained by a lucnh of
  sausage, black bread, raw potatoes and cold tea in a can, a feast in the
  first days, then a meal barely fit to eat. It was summer and they found
  wormy apples beside the road, so delicious, slept beneath their
  fragrance. On the brow of hill overlooking the Odessa harbour, his
  mother, my buba, fell on her knees and wept, but my father said “don't
  cry, mama, it is only wheat,” a deep, long field of blue wheat rolling in
  the wind, that's how the sea seemed to him, his boyish eyes. The Black
  Sea, blue.
  
  2.
  Ellis Island. It's not like Long Island, a place where people live. Not
  like Coney Island, where you go for the day, to have a good time.
  More like Devil's Island, for some, right from the ship into quarantine
  and back again, good riddance.
  
  It's a museum now. My cousin Susanna sends me an email with the
  website. She has found our mothers' names on the manifest of a ship
  sailing from Southampton, 1912. A woman, our grandmother, and two
  children, Berte, 5, and Mars, 4. When I see this on the screen,
  something stops in my heart.
  
  3.
  I grew up only a few miles from it but I've never been there. I never
  heard my mother mention it and, as for my father, just this tale: “When
  we came off the boat, they took us aside and gave us showers, made us
  wash our hair, looking for lice. All the louses they let in,” my father
  said, “but not any on us.”
  
  But I have come to understand just lately that it is my home, as much
  my home as anywhere else I've been or haven't been, this immigrant's
  life. My friends here in Saskatchewan speak of “the family farm,” “the
  homestead,” the place their grandparents came to, their first new
  home. I have come to think of Ellis Island that way, a homestead, a
  home instead, a place that will hold me in good stead, should I choose
  ever to go there.
  
  4.
  It is the place we all come from, the place we go, the place where we
  pause in the moment as we live from moment to moment, the place
  where the road divides. Ellis Island is the purr of rain on grass, the
  rumble of rain's knuckles on the tin roof, it is the thrum of cicadas
  singing the ancient song, the pulse of blood in the well at the base of
  your lover's throat, the beginning of things and the end, the
  unexpected metaphor, the period at the end of the sentence. Ellis
  Island is the place we never reach, never can reach, the point just
  beyond knowing. It is what we see if we look too long upon the sun
  the panoply of stars behind the lids of our eyes, the last sound we hear
  after we've turned out the light.
  
  5.
  Ellis Island. It is not a cry.
  Not a map, a blueprint.
  It is a footprint. Just one.
  In wet sand.
  Facing west.

Neile Graham

Aged Black, Morning Green (p. 120 - 121) Show/hide Poem
- —Edinburgh—
  
  ever-shifting thin green light
  black branches gnarled dark as centuries
  (soot on sandstone) islands of green
  close to where lives piled high
  in the tenements of the Royal Mile
  paralleled rail-lines in a hollow once lake
  
  height shifts everywhere we climb
  through the post-tenement tourist mill
  into St. Giles' Thistle chapel
  we almost fall inside (its warm wooden
  nest) spend hours lining our sights
  to catch the beasts cavorting there
  
  fish & chips brown sauce we eat
  in a park on stone steps from bags
  smuggled into our room whatever's cheap
  (we carry spoons and a knife)
  battered sausage meat pies
  more fish more chips gooseberry fool
  
  our guidebook Edinburgh's Antiquarian
  Bookshops old pages dry our fingers
  dust our noses make our bags os heavy
  (no one has the Carmina Gaedelica)
  we return home to unload before
  we hit the streets again
  
  at night we walk as streets go quiet
  climb Calton Hill pass the younglings
  (nothing there for us) the crowds
  come out from the live Trainspotting
  chat laugh elbow the sophisticate
  theatrical turn into smoky pub-light
  
  we return to our room count our
  treasures' pages (spoon a fool)
  in morning light an artist chalks
  the sidewalk swirling colour while
  black dust in the wind deviled
  his corner peppered my face
  
  explore the small dead-ends of closes
  varied light on varied stone the store
  and house above called Gladstone's Land
  (its kitchen a heart a hearth) bedroom's
  painted ceiling repeats in and out of beams
  flowers dust dark flash of red flash of green

Books in Review

Total Recall (p. 122 - 123)

by Shelley Hulan

Book(s) Reviewed:

The Book of Emma by Marie-Célie Agnant (Insomniac Press)
Return to Arcadia by H. Nigel Thomas (TSAR Publications)

(LITERATURE - Novel)

Forest Memoirs (p. 123 - 124)

by Laurie Ricou

Book(s) Reviewed:

What's All This Got to do with the Price of 2 x 4's? by Mike Apsey, Ken Drushka, and Matt Hughes (University of Calgary Press)
Blue Valley by Luanne Armstrong (Maa Press)

(NATURE WRITING)

Core Storytelling (p. 124 - 125)

by Madelaine Jacobs

Book(s) Reviewed:

Indigenous Storywork by Jo-ann Archibald / Q'um Q'um Xiiem (University of British Columbia Press)
The Red Indians by Peter Kulchyski (Arbeiter Ring)

(NATIVE STUDIES)

Omnia vanitas (p. 126 - 127)

by Nathalie Warren

Book(s) Reviewed:

Les gens fidèles ne font pas les nouvelles by Nadine Bismuth (Éditions du Boréal)
Scrapbook by Nadine Bismuth (Éditions du Boréal)
Histoires de s'entendre by Suzanne Jacob (Éditions du Boréal)
L'espèce fabulatrice by Nancy Huston (Éditions Leméac)

(LITERATURE - Quebec - 21st Century)

When the World Was New (p. 127 - 129)

by Keavy Martin

Book(s) Reviewed:

Trail of the Spirit by George Blondin (NeWest Press)
Tales from Moccasin Avenue by Morgan Stafford O'Neal (Totem Books)

(NATIVE STUDIES)

La mémoire blanche (p. 129 - 129)

by Nelson Charest

Book(s) Reviewed:

Pierre Blanche by Stéphanie Bolster and Daniel Canty (Éditions du Noroît)
M'accompage by Marc André Brouillette (Éditions du Noroît)
Arbres lumière by Michel Pleau (Éditions David)

No Escape from the Past (p. 130 - 131)

by Suzanne James

Book(s) Reviewed:

Unsettling Narratives by Clare Bradford (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)

(LITERARY CRITICISM) (POSTCOLONIALISM)

Global Communities? (p. 131 - 133)

by Kit Dobson

Book(s) Reviewed:

Renegotiating Community by Diana Brydon and William D. Coleman (University of British Columbia Press)
A Report on the Afterlife of Culture by Stephen Henighan (Biblioasis)

(CANADIAN STUDIES)

Glorious Lives (p. 133 - 134)

by Linda Morra

Book(s) Reviewed:

A Glorious and Terrible Life with You by Margaret Burgess (University of Toronto Press)

Maternal Transformations (p. 134 - 136)

by Adrienne Kertzer

Book(s) Reviewed:

Double Lives by Shannon Cowan, Fiona Tinwei Lam, and Cathy Stonehouse (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Becoming My Mother's Daughter: by Erika Gottlieb (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)

Loving It and Losing It (p. 136 - 137)

by Karen Crossley

Book(s) Reviewed:

Bow Grip by Ivan E. Coyote (Arsenal Pulp Press)
The Famished Lover by Alan Cumyn (Goose Lane Editions)

(LITERATURE - Novel)

A Feast of Literature and a Helping of Literary Criticism (p. 137 - 139)

by Niigonwedom J. Sinclair

Book(s) Reviewed:

Two Houses Half-Buried in Sand by Beryl Mildred Cryer and Chris Arnett (Talon Books)
Reasoning Together by Janice Acoose, Lisa Brooks, Tol Foster, LeAnne Howe, Daniel Heath Justice, Philip Carroll Morgan, Kimberley Roppolo, Cheryl Suzack, Christopher B. Teuton, Sean Teuton, Robert Warrior, and Craig Womack (University of Oklahoma Press)

(NATIVE STUDIES)

Trait d'union (p. 139 - 140)

by Eric Paul Parent

Book(s) Reviewed:

Le chant du Dire-Dire by Danis Daniel (Éditions Leméac)
Assoiffés by Wajdi Mouawad (Éditions Leméac)
Floes et D'Alaska (suite Nordique) by Sébastien Harrisson (Dramaturges Éditeurs)
Le Long de la Principale by Steve Leplante (Dramaturges Éditeurs)
Souliers de Sable by Suzanne Lebeau (Éditions Leméac)

Notorious Ruby and his Wrecking Crew (p. 140 - 141)

by Phinder Dulai

Book(s) Reviewed:

Daaku by Ranj Dhaliwal (New Star Books)

Holocaust Anonymous (p. 142 - 143)

by Janice Morris

Book(s) Reviewed:

I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors by Bernice Eisenstein (McClelland & Stewart Ltd.)

(HOLOCAUST)

Reverberating Verse (p. 143 - 144)

by Katrin Urschel

Book(s) Reviewed:

The Echoing Years by John Ennis, Randall Maggs, and Stephanie McKenzie (WIT School of Humanities Press)

(ANTHOLOGIES)

Literary Exchanges (p. 144 - 146)

by Louise Ladouceur

Book(s) Reviewed:

In Translation by Jane Everett (University of Toronto Press)
A Secret Between Us by Daniel Poliquin and Donald Winkler (Douglas & McIntyre)

(LITERATURE - Novel)

Deficit Disorders (p. 146 - 148)

by Tim Conley

Book(s) Reviewed:

Surplus by Roger Farr (LINEbooks)
Courage, My Love by Reg Johanson (LINEbooks)
accrete or crumble by Natalie Simpson (LINEbooks)
All Things Said & Done by Marita Dachsel (Caitlin Press)

L'écho humain (p. 148 - 149)

by Jean-Sébastien Ménard

Book(s) Reviewed:

L'autre corps by Michèle Gagné (Éditions du Noroît)
Ce tremblement singulier by Agnès Riverin (Éditions du Noroît)
L'œil au ralenti by Denise Desautels (Éditions du Noroît)

(LITERATURE - Quebec - 21st Century)

More About Anne (p. 149 - 150)

by Janice Fiamengo

Book(s) Reviewed:

Looking for Anne by Irene Gammel (Key Porter Books)

Capturing CanLit (p. 150 - 151)

by Alison Calder

Book(s) Reviewed:

Canadian Literature by Faye Hammill (Edinburgh University)

(LITERARY CRITICISM)

Women Writing Celebrity (p. 151 - 152)

by Lorraine York

Book(s) Reviewed:

Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture Between the Wars by Faye Hammill (University of Texas Press)

(CULTURAL STUDIES) (WOMEN'S STUDIES)

In the City (p. 152 - 154)

by Greg Doran

Book(s) Reviewed:

Girls Fall Down by Maggie Helwig (Coach House Books)
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (Knopf Canada)

(LITERATURE - Novel)

YA First Person Narratives Uneven (p. 154 - 155)

by Lynn (J.R.) Wytenbroek

Book(s) Reviewed:

My One Hundred Adventures by Polly Horvath (Groundwood)
Would You by Marthe Jocelyn (Tundra Books)

(LITERATURE - Children's)

Fluidity on Ice (p. 155 - 156)

by Myrl Coulter

Book(s) Reviewed:

The Frozen Thames by Helen Humphreys (McClelland & Stewart Ltd.)

Voracious for Life (p. 157 - 158)

by Linda Quirk

Book(s) Reviewed:

The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor by Sally Armstrong (Random House)
Watermelon Syrup by Annie Jacobson, Jane Finlay-Young, and Di Brandt (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)

(LITERARY GENRES - Historical)

21th Century Fantasy (p. 158 - 159)

by J. Kieran Kealy

Book(s) Reviewed:

Beyond Window-Dressing? by K.V. Johansen (Sybertooth Inc.)

(LITERARY CRITICISM) (LITERATURE - Children's)

Ce que nous réserve le passé (p. 159 - 160)

by Pascal Riendeau

Book(s) Reviewed:

Le retour de Lorenzo Sánchez by Sergio Kokis (XYZ Éditeur / XYZ Publishing)
Ragueneau le Sauvage by Pierre Manseau (Éditions Triptyque)

(LITERATURE - Quebec - 21st Century)

Fulgurance du « logos » (p. 161 - 161)

by Noële Racine

Book(s) Reviewed:

L’Inquisitoriale by Michaël La Chance (Éditions Triptyque)
Le souffle du passage by Denise Brassard (VLB éditeur)

(LITERARY CRITICISM) (LITERATURE - Francophone)

Traduction et dialogue interculturel (p. 162 - 163)

by Catherine Leclerc

Book(s) Reviewed:

Making the Scene by Louise Ladouceur (Nota Bene)

The Narrow Road to Montreal (North) (p. 163 - 164)

by Mark Harris

Book(s) Reviewed:

Je suis un écrivain japonais by Dany Laferrière (Éditions du Boréal)

(LITERATURE - Quebec - 21st Century)

Snapshot of a Discipline (p. 165 - 166)

by Judith Leggatt

Book(s) Reviewed:

Expressions in Canadian Native Studies by Ron F. LaLiberte, et. al (University Extension Press (U of Saskatchewan))

(NATIVE STUDIES)

Deux promesses de calme (p. 166 - 167)

by Nathalie Warren

Book(s) Reviewed:

Douze bêtes aux chemises de l’homme by Tania Langlais (Les Herbes Rouges)
La clarté s’installe comme un chat by Tania Langlais (Les Herbes Rouges)

(LITERATURE - Quebec - 21st Century)

Une plongée dans l'ombre (p. 167 - 167)

by Ariane Tremblay

Book(s) Reviewed:

Debout en clair-obscur by Laurette Lévy (Éditions Prise de Parole)

(LITERATURE - Quebec - 21st Century)

Looking for the Roots (p. 167 - 169)

by Barbara Dancygier

Book(s) Reviewed:

The Extended Mind by Robert K. Logan (University of Toronto Press)

(LANGUAGE/LINGUISTICS)

A Very Mixed Bag (p. 169 - 170)

by Douglas Barbour

Book(s) Reviewed:

Ragtime for Beginners by Moberley Luger (Killick)
Orphic Politics by Tim Lilburn (McClelland & Stewart Ltd.)
The Given by Daphne Marlatt (McClelland & Stewart Ltd.)

Circle of Abuse (p. 170 - 172)

by Myrl Coulter

Book(s) Reviewed:

The Writing Circle by Rozena Maart (TSAR Publications)

A Human Wilderness (p. 172 - 173)

by Jocelyn Thorpe

Book(s) Reviewed:

Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park by I.S. MacLaren (University of Alberta Press)

(ECOCRITICISM)

To Be Surprised Every Day (p. 173 - 174)

by Daniel Burgoyne

Book(s) Reviewed:

Why Are You So Sad? by David F. McFadden and Stuart Ross (Insomniac Press)
The Incorrection by George McWhirter (Oolichan Books)

Here, There, and Nowhere (p. 175 - 177)

by Andre Furlani

Book(s) Reviewed:

There by Roy Miki (New Star Books)
Museum Absconditum by Robert Moore (Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd)
Come-by-Chance by Carl Leggo (Breakwater Books)

The Poet's Quandaries (p. 177 - 178)

by Amanda Lim

Book(s) Reviewed:

The Sentinel by A.F. Moritz (House of Anansi Press)
Sparrow Talk by Raymond Souster (The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box)

Time Changes (p. 178 - 180)

by Douglas Barbour

Book(s) Reviewed:

Along a Snake Fence Riding by W.H. New (Oolichan Books)
Finding Ft. George by Rob Budde (Caitlin Press)
The Shovel by Colin Browne (Talon Books)

Controversial Donne (p. 180 - 181)

by Elizabeth Hodgson

Book(s) Reviewed:

Conceit by Mary Novik (Doubleday Canada Limited)

(LITERARY GENRES - Historical) (LITERATURE - Novel)

Un moi à la dérive (p. 181 - 182)

by Patricia Smart

Book(s) Reviewed:

Autofiction et dévoilement de soi by Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska (XYZ Éditeur / XYZ Publishing)

(ESSAYS) (LITERATURE - Francophone)

Recherche poétique dans le miracle rose de la ruine (p. 183 - 184)

by Sylvain Marois

Book(s) Reviewed:

Le Vertigo du tremble by Laurent Poliquin (Plaines)
Au lieu de l’abandon / Mes êtres by Patrick Lafontaine (Éditions du Noroît)
Fruits et frontières by Gilles Cyr (Éditions de l'Hexagone)

(LITERATURE - Francophone)

There's No Place Like Home (p. 184 - 185)

by Benjamin Lefebvre

Book(s) Reviewed:

Home Words by Mavis Reimer (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)

(LITERARY CRITICISM) (LITERARY THEORY) (LITERATURE - Children's)

Échappatoires (p. 185 - 187)

by Caroline Dupont

Book(s) Reviewed:

Impostures by Dany Rossignol (Éditions David)
Parce que chanter c'est trop dur by Michèle Vinet (Prise de Parole)
Moi, vous savez, les génuflexions et les salamalecs . . . by Claude Boisvert (CRAM)
Plagiste by Maggie Blot (Éditions Triptyque)

(LITERATURE - 21st Century) (LITERATURE - Francophone)

Gabrielle Roy's Journalism (p. 187 - 187)

by Paul G. Socken

Book(s) Reviewed:

Heureux les nomades et autres reportages, 1940-1945 by François Ricard, Gabrielle Roy, and Antoine Boisclair (Éditions du Boréal)

(QUEBEC STUDIES)

A Triumph of Scholarship (p. 188 - 189)

by Christopher G. Anderson

Book(s) Reviewed:

The Triumph of Citizenship by Patricia E. Roy (University of British Columbia Press)

(CULTURAL STUDIES)

Indigenous Defamiliarizations (p. 189 - 191)

by Kit Dobson

Book(s) Reviewed:

From the Iron House by Deena Rymhs (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
Taxidermic Signs by Pauline Wakeham (University of Minnesota Press)
Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal by Julia V. Emberley (University of Toronto Press)

(NATIVE STUDIES)

Plus qu’un outil pédagogique (p. 191 - 192)

by Daniela Di Cecco

Book(s) Reviewed:

Robert Soulières by Noëlle Sorin (Éditions David)

(LITERARY CRITICISM) (LITERATURE - Francophone)

"I Had a Taste of My Own" (p. 192 - 194)

by Michael Peterman

Book(s) Reviewed:

Robertson Davies by Jennifer Surridge (Penguin Books Canada)
Robertson Davies by Jennifer Surridge (Penguin Books Canada)

Searching for Truth (p. 194 - 195)

by Roberta Birks

Book(s) Reviewed:

Palace of the End by Judith Thompson (Playwrights Canada Press)
Silverwing by Kim Selody (Playwrights Canada Press)
Dreams by Wajdi Mouawad and Linda Gaboriau (Playwrights Canada Press)

(DRAMA)

Out of Control (p. 196 - 197)

by Paul Denham

Book(s) Reviewed:

The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews (Knopf Canada)
The Killing Circle by Andrew Pyper (Doubleday Canada Limited)

(LITERATURE - 21st Century) (LITERATURE - Novel)

The Tosses and Turns of History (p. 197 - 198)

by Nadine Sivak

Book(s) Reviewed:

The Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan (Random House Canada)

(LITERATURE - Indian/South Asian)

Old New Dimensions (p. 198 - 199)

by Tim Blackmore

Book(s) Reviewed:

Tesseracts Ten by Robert Charles Wilson and Edo van Belkom (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)
Tesseracts Eleven by Cory Doctorow and Holly Phillips (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)

(LITERARY GENRES - Science Fiction)

Crossing Borders (p. 200 - 200)

by Jonquil Covello

Book(s) Reviewed:

Yellowknife by Steve Zipp (Res Teluris)

(LITERATURE - 21st Century)

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Issue Archives

#200 (Spring 2009)Strategic Nationalisms

Editorial

Articles

Poems

Books in Review

Total Recall (p. 122 - 123)

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Forest Memoirs (p. 123 - 124)

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Core Storytelling (p. 124 - 125)

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Omnia vanitas (p. 126 - 127)

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When the World Was New (p. 127 - 129)

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La mémoire blanche (p. 129 - 129)

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No Escape from the Past (p. 130 - 131)

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Global Communities? (p. 131 - 133)

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Glorious Lives (p. 133 - 134)

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Maternal Transformations (p. 134 - 136)

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Loving It and Losing It (p. 136 - 137)

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A Feast of Literature and a Helping of Literary Criticism (p. 137 - 139)

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Trait d'union (p. 139 - 140)

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Notorious Ruby and his Wrecking Crew (p. 140 - 141)

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Holocaust Anonymous (p. 142 - 143)

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Reverberating Verse (p. 143 - 144)

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Literary Exchanges (p. 144 - 146)

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Deficit Disorders (p. 146 - 148)

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L'écho humain (p. 148 - 149)

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More About Anne (p. 149 - 150)

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Capturing CanLit (p. 150 - 151)

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Women Writing Celebrity (p. 151 - 152)

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In the City (p. 152 - 154)

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YA First Person Narratives Uneven (p. 154 - 155)

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Fluidity on Ice (p. 155 - 156)

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Voracious for Life (p. 157 - 158)

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21th Century Fantasy (p. 158 - 159)

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Ce que nous réserve le passé (p. 159 - 160)

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Fulgurance du « logos » (p. 161 - 161)

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Traduction et dialogue interculturel (p. 162 - 163)

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The Narrow Road to Montreal (North) (p. 163 - 164)

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Snapshot of a Discipline (p. 165 - 166)

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Deux promesses de calme (p. 166 - 167)

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Une plongée dans l'ombre (p. 167 - 167)

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Looking for the Roots (p. 167 - 169)

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A Very Mixed Bag (p. 169 - 170)

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Circle of Abuse (p. 170 - 172)

#200 (Spring 2009)
Strategic Nationalisms