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

Editorial

Jane Everett

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

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 (p. 12 - 28)

Lee Brotherson

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

Lianne Moyes

Writing the Montreal Mountain (p. 45 - 66)

Roxanne Rimstead

Used People (p. 68 - 94)

Jean Morency

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

Agnes Whitfield

Behind the “Powderworks” (p. 111 - 128)

Poetry

Alexandre Lizotte

Port de Voix (p. 10 - 11)

A. Mary Murphy

The Wings of Young Fairies (p. 29)

Roger Nash

SHADOWS (p. 44)

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

Concepts of Culture: art, politics & society by Adam Muller. Reviewed by Len Findlay (p. 174 - 175)

Luck by Joan Barfoot. Reviewed by Jennifer Fraser (p. 129 - 130)

Thémes et variations. Regards sur la littérature franco-ontarienne by Johanne Melançon and Lucie Hotte. Reviewed by Louise H. Forsyth (p. 130 - 132)

Appartenances dans la littérature francophone d'Amérique du Nord by Larry Steele, Sophie Beaulé, and Joëlle Cauville. Reviewed by Louise H. Forsyth (p. 130 - 132)

Transpoètique. Éloge du nomadisme by Hédi Bouraoui. Reviewed by Louise H. Forsyth (p. 130 - 132)

Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam. Reviewed by Maria N. Ng (p. 132 - 133)

You’re in Canada Now . . . A Memoir of Sorts by Susan Musgrave. Reviewed by Leila Bryce (p. 133 - 134)

Rediscovering the Prairies: Journeys By Dog, Horse, and Canoe by Norman Henderson. Reviewed by Jenny Kerber (p. 134 - 136)

Reading the River: A Traveller’s Companion to the North Saskatchewan River by Myrna Kostash and Duane Burton. Reviewed by Jenny Kerber (p. 134 - 136)

The True Blue of Islands by Pamela Mordecai. Reviewed by Katherine Verhagen (p. 136 - 137)

Calling Cards: New Poetry from Caribbean/Canadian Women by Pamela Mordecai. Reviewed by Katherine Verhagen (p. 136 - 137)

Back Talk: Plays of Black Experience by Louise Delisle. Reviewed by Katherine Verhagen (p. 136 - 137)

How to be a Green Liberal: Nature, Value and Liberal Philosophy by Simon Hailwood. Reviewed by Graham Good (p. 137 - 139)

Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s New Poets by Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane. Reviewed by Moberley Luger (p. 139 - 141)

The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry by Carmine Starnino. Reviewed by Moberley Luger (p. 139 - 141)

Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry by Derek Beaulieu, Jason Christie, and Angela Rawlings. Reviewed by Moberley Luger (p. 139 - 141)

Six Words You Never Knew Had Something to Do with Pigs by Katherine Barber. Reviewed by Ramona Montagnes (p. 141 - 142)

The Violin Lover by Susan Glickman. Reviewed by Emily Doucet (p. 142 - 143)

The Shape I Gave You by Martha Baillie. Reviewed by Emily Doucet (p. 142 - 143)

Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada’s Colonial Past by Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherdale. Reviewed by Janice Fiamengo (p. 143 - 145)

Baby Khaki’s Wings by Anar Ali. Reviewed by Kit Dobson (p. 145 - 147)

The Song of Kahunsha by Anosh Irani. Reviewed by Kit Dobson (p. 145 - 147)

Hand Luggage by P.K. Page. Reviewed by Sara Jamieson (p. 147 - 148)

Bright Centre by Elizabeth Brewster. Reviewed by Sara Jamieson (p. 147 - 148)

Les mains si blanches de Pye Chang by Francine Allard. Reviewed by Simona Emilia Pruteanu (p. 148 - 150)

Genèse de l’oubli by Clara Ness. Reviewed by Simona Emilia Pruteanu (p. 148 - 150)

La femme-homme by Simone Piuze. Reviewed by Simona Emilia Pruteanu (p. 148 - 150)

Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen. Reviewed by Ira Nadel (p. 150 - 151)

Panoptikon by Francis Catalano. Reviewed by Noële Racine (p. 151 - 152)

L’oiseau tatoué by Herménégilde Chiasson. Reviewed by Noële Racine (p. 151 - 152)

Un homme de trop by Antonio D’Alfonso. Reviewed by Noële Racine (p. 151 - 152)

La chasse spirituelle by Fulvio Caccia. Reviewed by Noële Racine (p. 151 - 152)

Trois fois passera by Françoise Clément-Bowden. Reviewed by Paul Genuist (p. 152 - 153)

Écran total by Laurent Chabin. Reviewed by Laurent Poliquin (p. 153 - 154)

Romans de la poésie by Yves Boisvert. Reviewed by Laurent Poliquin (p. 153 - 154)

JPod by Douglas Coupland. Reviewed by Brett Josef Grubisic (p. 154 - 156)

Mandorla by Nancy Holmes. Reviewed by Tim Conley (p. 156 - 158)

He Claims He Is the Direct Heir by Lazar Sarna. Reviewed by Tim Conley (p. 156 - 158)

Hurt Thyself by Andrew Steinmetz. Reviewed by Tim Conley (p. 156 - 158)

Tacoma Narrows by Mitchell Parry. Reviewed by Rick Gooding (p. 158 - 159)

The Village of Sliding Time by David Zieroth. Reviewed by Rick Gooding (p. 158 - 159)

Then Again: Something of a Life by Iain Higgins. Reviewed by Rick Gooding (p. 158 - 159)

Who Named the Knife: A Book of Murder and Memory by Linda Spalding. Reviewed by Kathryn Carter (p. 159 - 161)

Clio’s Warriors: Canadian Historians and the Writing of the World Wars by Tim Cook. Reviewed by Marlene Briggs (p. 161 - 162)

Weather’s Edge: Women in Newfoundland and Labrador: A Compendium by Linda Cullum, Carmelita McGrath, and Marilyn Porter. Reviewed by Jennifer Delisle (p. 162 - 164)

Tattoo Joint by Jason Gileno. Reviewed by Ingrid Mündel (p. 164 - 166)

Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout by Tomson Highway. Reviewed by Ingrid Mündel (p. 164 - 166)

Yahrzeit by Alex Poch-Goldin. Reviewed by Ingrid Mündel (p. 164 - 166)

Saltwater City: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver by Paul Yee. Reviewed by Christopher Lee (p. 166 - 167)

what the auntys say by Sharon Proulx-Turner. Reviewed by Erin Wunker (p. 167 - 169)

breathing for breadth by Salimah Valiani. Reviewed by Erin Wunker (p. 167 - 169)

Gardening in the Tropics by Olive Senior. Reviewed by Erin Wunker (p. 167 - 169)

Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest by Rudy Wiebe. Reviewed by Amy Kroeker (p. 169 - 171)

Blue Feast by Shawna Lemay. Reviewed by Crystal Hurdle (p. 171 - 173)

Sooner by Margaret Christakos. Reviewed by Crystal Hurdle (p. 171 - 173)

This Way the Road by Nina Berkhout. Reviewed by Crystal Hurdle (p. 171 - 173)

A History for the Future: Rewriting Memory and Identity in Quebec by Phyllis Aronoff, Jocelyn Létourneau, and Howard Scott. Reviewed by Adele Holoch (p. 173 - 174)

Bringing Back the Dodo: Lessons in Natural and Unnatural History by Wayne Grady. Reviewed by Charles Dawson (p. 176 - 177)

A Place Between the Tides: A Naturalist’s Reflections on the Salt Marsh by Harry Thurston. Reviewed by Charles Dawson (p. 176 - 177)

Momentary Dark: New Poems by Margaret Avison. Reviewed by Hilary Clark (p. 177 - 179)

Inventory by Dionne Brand. Reviewed by Hilary Clark (p. 177 - 179)

Before the First Word: The Poetry of Lorna Crozier by Catherine Hunter. Reviewed by Hilary Clark (p. 177 - 179)

In a World Created by a Drunken God by Drew Hayden Taylor. Reviewed by John Moffatt (p. 179 - 180)

Pursued by a Bear: Talks, Monologues, and Tales by Daniel David Moses. Reviewed by John Moffatt (p. 179 - 180)

The Innocent Eye Test by Michael Healey. Reviewed by Shannon Hengen (p. 180 - 182)

Cold Meat Party by Brad Fraser. Reviewed by Shannon Hengen (p. 180 - 182)

The Ventriloquist by Larry Tremblay. Reviewed by Shannon Hengen (p. 180 - 182)

Théâtre comique de Régis Roy (1864-1944) by Mariel O’Neill-Karch and Pierre Karch. Reviewed by Eric Paul Parent (p. 182 - 183)

Épinal by Robert Marinier. Reviewed by Eric Paul Parent (p. 182 - 183)

La Meute by Esther Beauchemin. Reviewed by Eric Paul Parent (p. 182 - 183)

Le Christ est apparu au Gun Club by Herménégilde Chiasson. Reviewed by Eric Paul Parent (p. 182 - 183)

‘Pictures Bring Us Messages’ /Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa: Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation by Alison K. Brown and Laura Peers, with members of the Kainai Nation. Reviewed by Dee Horne (p. 183 - 185)

Inter Alia by David Seymour. Reviewed by Antje M. Rauwerda (p. 185 - 187)

A Bad Year for Journalists by Lisa Pasold. Reviewed by Antje M. Rauwerda (p. 185 - 187)

The Lightness Which is Our World, Seen from Afar by Ven Begamudré. Reviewed by Antje M. Rauwerda (p. 185 - 187)

Writing Between the Lines: Portraits of Canadian Anglophone Translators by Agnes Whitfield. Reviewed by Glen Nichols (p. 187 - 188)

Mitchell: The Life of W.O. Mitchell: The Years of Fame–1948-1998 by Barbara Mitchell and Ormond Mitchell. Reviewed by Frances W. Kaye (p. 188 - 189)

Judith Thompson: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre. Volume Three by Ric Knowles. Reviewed by Anne Nothof (p. 189 - 191)

Vers le sud by Dany Laferriere. Reviewed by Mark Harris (p. 191 - 192)

Juno Beach: 3rd Canadian and 79th Armoured Divisions by Tim Saunders. Reviewed by Chris Leach (p. 192 - 193)

Opinions & Notes

Jessica Langston

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

Paul G. Socken

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

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