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#203 (Winter 2009)
Home, Memory, Self

Subjects in this issue

(AFRICA) (AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Memoir) (AUTOBIOGRAPHY (see LIFE WRITING)) (BIOGRAPHY (see LIFE WRITING)) (CULTURAL STUDIES) (DRAMA) (GEOGRAPHY) (HISTORIOGRAPHY) (HISTORY) (JOURNALS) (LITERARY CRITICISM) (LITERARY GENRES - Historical) (LITERARY GENRES - Mystery/Detective) (LITERATURE - 21st Century) (LITERATURE - Asian-Canadian) (LITERATURE - Children's) (LITERATURE - Francophone) (LITERATURE - Novel) (LITERATURE - Quebec - 20th Century) (LITERATURE - Quebec - 21st Century) (LITERATURE - Short Fiction) (MEDICINE/ILLNESS) (NATIVE STUDIES) (POETRY - Articles) (POETRY - Poems) (POETRY - Reviews) (QUEBEC STUDIES) (WOMEN'S STUDIES) (WRITING AND WRITERS)

Editorial

Margery Fee

• Home, Memory, Self (p. 6 - 9)

Articles

Katie Mullins

• Questioning Comics: Women and Autocritique in Seth's It's A Good Life, If You Don't Weaken (p. 11 - 27) Show/hide Abstract
  • This paper explores modes of autocritique in Seth’s picture novella It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken. As part of Seth’s endeavour to pay homage to the comics tradition, his female characters challenge ethical problems in the history of comics by evoking the counter-traditions that emerged in response to these issues. The result is a critical depiction of comics history, which is fraught with rebellious attempts to oppose its misogynistic and myopic tendencies. This autocritique not only highlights the central character’s limitations and his potential to move beyond them, but also motions towards the need for modern comics to address important ideological concerns, and for readers to think critically about comics and their broader implications. In this way, It’s a Good Life inspires a progression away from negative ideologies and encourages a critical awareness when both reading and creating graphic narratives.

Peter Jaeger

• "But Could I Make A Living From It": Jeff Derksen's Modular Form (p. 30 - 39) Show/hide Abstract
  • This article considers the Canadian poet Jeff Derksen’s writing, with a special focus on his long poem “But Could I Make A Living From It” (2003). One of the key features of this poem is its use of short, sometimes aphoristic units or “modules” as a scaffolding to articulate political struggles surrounding issues of subjectivity, citizenship, and the public discourse of Neoliberalism. The article situates Derksen’s use of modular form in relation to his interest in architecture, contemporary poetics, and literary theory, and then further investigates how the poem foregrounds contradictions among global, national, and local socio-economic conditions. Modular form provides Derksen with a means to practice a hybrid mode of theory / research / poetry which specifically focuses on Canada in relation to the neoliberal situation.

Wendy Roy

• The Word is "Colander": Language Loss and Narrative Voice in Fictional Canadian Alzheimer's Narratives (p. 41 - 61) Show/hide Abstract
  • A relatively long tradition of Canadian fiction addresses the effects of Alzheimer’s disease on language and narrative, including Jane Rule’s Memory Board (1987), Michael Ignatieff’s Scar Tissue (1993), Mordecai Richler’s Barney’s Version (1997), and Sandra Sabatini’s The One with the News (2000). These books all deal with the disease seriously, demanding that their readers recognize that Alzheimer’s causes its victims to lose not just the ability to remember life stories but also the ability to narrate them through written and, eventually, spoken language. This paper argues that while Alzheimer’s and its effects on human relationships are sometimes the main subjects of these Canadian books and at other times, as Sharon Synder and David Mitchell suggest about disability narratives in general, more clearly plot or narrative devices, all four works posit language as essential for life narration at the same time as they challenge the idea that loss of narrative ability necessarily signals loss of human selfhood.

Amy J. Ransom

• Ce Zombi égaré est-il un Haïtien ou un Québécois?: Le vaudou chez les écrivains haïtiano-québécois (p. 64 - 83) Show/hide Abstract
  • Dans les ouvrages des écrivains haïtiano-canadiens on remarque la forte présence du vaudou, et du zombi comme métaphore de l’Haïtien aliéné aussi bien que de l’exilé haïtien. Cet essai analyse la fonction de ces figures dans des textes de quatre écrivains : Gérard Étienne (Le Nègre crucifié, 1974; La Pacotille, 1991; et Vous n’êtes pas seul, 2001), Émile Ollivier (Passages, 1985), Dany Laferrière (Le Cri des oiseaux fous, 2000) et Stanley Péan (La Plage des songes et autres récits d’exil, 1988; Le Tumulte de mon sang, 1991; La Mémoire ensanglantée, 1993; et Zombi Blues, 1996). Dans l’œuvre de ce dernier, qui rentre sous la rubrique de l’horreur fantastique, le vodou et le zombi fonctionnent à introduire l’élément insolite qui définit ce genre populaire. Cet auteur partage cependant le même intérêt de communiquer, d’écrire l’horreur indicible de la violence duvaliériste que les autres écrivains qui font l’objet de cette étude.

Jimmy Thibeault

• Fuir le regard de l'Autre ou apprendre à habiter l'espace d'immigration: la quête du Soi dans Ce pays qui est le mien de Didier Leclair (p. 85 - 102) Show/hide Abstract
  • La problématique identitaire associée à la littérature migrante renvoie souvent à un rapport d’incompréhension entre les communautés d’immigrants et d’accueil. Aussi, l’immigrant se sent souvent victime d’un regard qui le catégorise selon son origine ethnique. Mais cette catégorisation ne provient pas uniquement du regard de la société d’accueil, l’immigrant la retrouve aussi chez ses compatriotes qui chercheront en lui les signes d’un attachement à un lieu de reconnaissance. Chez Didier Leclerc, ce double regard est amené à se briser afin permettre au soi de s’exprimer non plus selon son appartenance à un groupe identitaire, mais plutôt dans son individualité et dans son humanité. Ce n’est que dans cette humanisation du soi qu’il sera possible pour l’immigrant d’apprendre à habiter l’espace d’accueil, sans pour autant nier son passé personnel. Cet article s’intéresse au processus par lequel le personnage, Apollinaire, parvient à rompre avec le regard de l’Autre (du pays d’accueil et de la communauté de l’origine) et à habiter son nouvel espace d’habitation.

Christa Zeller Thomas

• "I had never seen such a shed called a house before": The Discourse of Home in Susanna Moodie's Roughing It in the Bush (p. 105 - 121) Show/hide Abstract
  • This paper argues that Susanna Moodie’s Roughing It in the Bush relies on a complex discourse of home, which turns on two different and competing specifications: in the manifestation of home as house (and in the broader sense, as homeland), the discourse of home is cast as a failure of homecoming; in the manifestation of home as family, it deploys a narrativity that focuses on Moodie’s husband and children in order to reproduce a “home matrix” otherwise lost. This familial discourse serves as the basis for an attempted system of self-location, aimed at making herself feel “at home.” My analysis, however, finds that Moodie’s maternal and spousal narrativity fails her and that “home” in Canada, therefore, remains out of reach.

Poems

Tom Wayman

• Letting Nature Run Her Course (p. 28 - 29) Show/hide Poem

  • The English Department Chair was all for approving it,
    since ecocriticism was in more demand
    each year, and not just among undergraduates, either.
    "But what are her credentials?" one senior faculty member demanded
    when the matter was brought to the monthly Department meeting.
    "We've built our academic reputation
    on intellectual rigor. This sounds to me like
    something more suitable for Continuing Ed or a community college."
    "Is there any evidence," concurred another full professor,
    "she isn't going to just tell the class a bunch of yarns
    about her years in the business? I have a friend over in Economics
    and he has two or three horror stories about Special Lecturers like this
    hired on the basis of so-called 'real-life learning'
    —as if what we do isn't real. These chaps proved to be total disasters
    right up to delegations to the dean
    and petitions by students for a tuition refund."

    Yet junior faculty proved more supportive, and the two student reps
    were enthusiastic. "Green is in," was stated several times
    as proponents assured the gathering the new course would be
    oversubscribed, and represented a clear message
    to majors and non-majors alike
    about the Department's commitment to oppose global warming.
    The motion in favor passed handily

    Nor could any fault be found,
    despite extra scrutiny, with the instructor's proposed syllabus.
    The section filled as predicted, with a lengthy wait list.
    As the semester ticked past, however, the Department executive
    became aware that, one by one, class members
    were withdrawing. When the Associate Chair for Undergrad Programming
    tried to contact the dropouts to conduct an exit interview,
    he discovered former enrollees had not only quit the course
    but appeared to have abandoned university studies
    entirely. None returned phone or email messages
    and the Registrar confirmed they had left no forwarding contact information.
    Confronted with the dwindling enrollment figures
    the instructor had only shrugged, the Chair advised a hushed Department meeting
    in June. Out of the whole class, he reported in shaken tones,
    at the end not one student was left.

Clint Burnham

• Dim Son (p. 40) Show/hide Poem

  • I blank annual test
    at my far-out favourist
    McJihad run
    broke slave'm party whip
    da burn they'r females
    give him hurt for what
    far from politing to the
    grub to the gloomy hope
    I don't flub's forgotten me
    Scotty's refu hurrah going
    masses Irish ear my
    father the virgin phone cells
    surrounded by easing
    away from the's insect
    Hey gender woley sec
    Just a scribbtes in it
    oh unhappy mim you, my
    long lot youth loan
    problem land show tape
    play is mod hour
    what what heryers
    dimes'll spi crazy quilt quit

David Solway

• Master of Instruments (p. 62 - 63) Show/hide Poem

  • These are my instruments glittering in their kit
    fit to my hand and will.
    First the needle silvered with anaesthetic essence.
    Then the pen probe with carbide nib on one end
    and a Duraspond cap on the other
    to prepare the way for scalar and curette
    with their knurled corrugated shanks
    and their angled tips and toes.
    Now the dressing tool to transfer debris to the dish.
    Next the rhodium-coated cone socket mirror
    to check on the results.
    And here are the spoons, hatchets and trimmers
    for carving and tamping composite,
    the lovely burnishers to polish the amalgam,
    the double-notched cord packers plying thick tissue,
    flat spatulas for loading plumb
    and tapered flutes to tap the crown down solid
    and lute the inlay tight,
    curved chisels to mold the stubborn cusp ridges,
    gingival wedges and lariats of floss and smooth heron-billed pluggers
    and even the humble rubber dam and clamps
    to shield the tongue from the serrated forceps.
    And O! the hoes, files, mallets and probes,
    burs and drills, gouges and packets
    all beveled and grooved and milled to the finest of tolerances.
    Is there anything more beautiful than a sickle scraper
    or a sharpening stone gleaming with lubricant?

    With the help of my instruments
    planed to perfection and wielded with aplomb
    I reach every distal surface,
    I repair malformations,
    I scour rot,
    I cut and contour bone,
    I quarter and extract, slit and stitch,
    I insert implants where none but Nature has racheted before.
    And I give you your smile and your bite back.

John Slater

• Snowball Effect (p. 84) Show/hide Poem

  • When my side-armed curve-ball took his
    toque off by its pom-pom Mr. Albery
    turned and shouted: something about
    causing concussions or cracking open
    someone's skull. At the time I thought he'd
    over-reacted—there was a tremor in his voice
    fear concentrate with a mix of anger
    as if he detected (well before I did)
    the rage beneath the playful gesture, bared
    fangs turned into eager smile, my
    teasing a disguise of violence—but the way
    things later developed, I expect he was right,
    that he'd caught a glimpse of the Mr. Hyde
    who'd begun to hide out in my closet.
    At night on the dry lip of sleep you can
    hear him rummaging about in the basement,
    clink of test-tubes, fizz of chemicals,
    seeking his original face.

Tim Prior

• water (p. 103 - 104) Show/hide Poem

  • there was water everywhere in late february
    oozing through a swamp on the side road,
    where the property was a wire fence,
    a scrappy stand of twisted cedar; water spreading out
    over 15 acres of marsh grass,
    rising over the culverts
    and filling the channels cared by tires on that long lane way;
    this for several days, the water sliding through fences, over fields;
    having let go for miles around,
    and then during the last cold snap,
    in one night it would freeze
    again, and morning would find us
    marooned behind a lake of bright sky ice and
    no getting the car through at all.

    but after the ice went, and the air warmed, there were ducks sometimes,
    blasting from the cover of long grass in the glittering shallows, or
    beavers, scattering saplings, building a dam back in the woods;
    the pond that was dredged out by an impatient
    backhoe, bucking and yawing among the trees,
    because maybe a bigger pond would
    keep the flood back; it didn't,
    so a second one was dug a few years later,
    further along; with no change, but we floated
    in a dingy over their surfaces;
    and by august, the water courses were dried mud
    and moss-caked limestone, a dense earthy-grass smell;
    in the smaller pond, the mud cracking,
    buzzing with large flies;
    further back among the trees, a hockey net pinned
    in the long marsh grass;
    the dried muck black in that place,
    with the water gone, some primordial reality there,
    flies clustering
    down upon the deep organic mass.

    and the house on the rise bearing witness
    through generations to that doubled reality:
    the desiccated watercourses, the sweltering still
    afternoons, or the ice with the fields in its
    grip, holding everything away from any use at all, except the moonscape of snow—
    the mind flooded with these pictures
    and the water's endless flowing
    (coming across a stream trickling out of the roots
    of a tree up in the bush, on the hottest days,
    the watered grass where it flowed a green moment,
    or the black ice we played hockey on,
    the trapped creek moving down there);
    even now, blood memory hearing it
    late at night in march, the water washing down over front fields,
    funneling through the culverts, the dark ropes of its flux
    and surge, roaring steadily as one drifted out to sleep
    by moonlight, the racing waters shimmering,
    ice cold, endless murmur over
    rock and earth

Books in Review

Editing Archives (p. 123 - 124)

by Jody Mason

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Waste Heritage by Irene Baird and Colin Hill (University of Toronto Press)
2. Dry Water by Robert J.C. Stead (University of Ottawa Press)

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Jésus de Nazareth-revu et corrigé (p. 124 - 125)

by René La Fleur

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Ceci est mon corps by Jean-François Beauchemin (Éditions Québec Amérique)

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Une quête critique lacunaire (p. 125 - 126)

by Renald Bérubé

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. La quête érotique d'Yves Théruault by Mark Benson (Peter Lang Publishing Group)

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Petites existences (p. 126 - 127)

by David Dorais

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Êtes-vous mariée à n psychopathe? by Nadine Bismuth (Éditions du Boréal)
2. Jour de chance by Nicolas Charette (Éditions du Boréal)

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Forms and Functions (p. 127 - 129)

by Beverley Haun

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (Doubleday Canada Limited)
2. Effigy by Alissa York (Random House Canada)
3. Remembering the Bones by Frances Itani (HarperCollins)

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Quelques bonnes nouvelles (p. 129 - 130)

by Stéphane Girard

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Mégot mégot petite mitaine by Johanne Alice Côté (Éditions Triptyque)
2. Le Bonheur est une couleur by Aurélie Resch (Interligne)
3. Enfance et autres fissures by Marie Cadieux (Interligne)

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Obscur désir (p. 129 - 129)

by Yves Laroche

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. La Rive solitaire by Denise Brassard (Éditions du Noroît)

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178 secondes ou plus (p. 130 - 131)

by Laure Tollard

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. 178 Secondes by Katia Canciani (Éditions David)
2. R.I.P. by Claude Forand (Éditions David)

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La fondation incertaine : uchronie et fantômes de l’histoire (p. 131 - 133)

by Stéphane Inkel

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Le livre des fondations by Jacques Cardinal (Éditions Asticou)

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The School of Life (p. 133 - 134)

by Gisèle M. Baxter

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. The Shepherd's Granddaughter by Anne Laurel Carter (Groundwood)
2. The Saver by Edeet Ravel (Groundwood)
3. Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood)

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Canadian Theatre of War (p. 134 - 136)

by Marissa McHugh

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. a nanking winter by Majorie Chan (Playwrights Canada Press)
2. Canada and the Theatre of War by Donna Coates and Sherrill Grace (Playwrights Canada Press)

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La dissidence comme auto-fiction (p. 136 - 137)

by François Paré

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Sahéliennes by Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo (Interligne)
2. Polis lisses by Tina Charlebois (Interligne)
3. Si longtemps déjà by Rose Després (Prise de Parole)

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La réalité et ses ailleurs (p. 137 - 138)

by Pamela V. Sing

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Un enfant à ma porte by Ying Chen (Éditions du Boréal)
2. Certitude by Hélène Rioux and Madeleine Thien (XYZ Éditeur / XYZ Publishing)

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Beyond Repair (p. 138 - 140)

by Dorothy F. Lane

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Evidence by Ian Colford (Éditions Asticou)
2. Elysium by Pamela Stewart (Anvil Press)
3. The Cult of Quick Repair by Dede Crane (Coteau Books)

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Disenfranchised Grief (p. 140 - 141)

by Dorothy F. Lane

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. The Darren Effect by Libby Creelman (Goose Lane Editions)
2. Happiness and other Disorders by Ahmad Saidullah (Key Porter Books)

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Autopsy of the Anatomy (p. 141 - 144)

by Graham Nicol Forst

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Northrop Frye's Notebooks for "Anatomy of Criticism" by Robert D. Denham (University of Toronto Press)
2. Interviews with Northrop Frye by Jean O'Grady (University of Toronto Press)
3. Northrop Frye's Fiction and Miscellaneous Writings by Robert D. Denham and Michael Dolzani (University of Toronto Press)

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Les variations du monde (p. 144 - 145)

by Mariloue Sainte-Marie

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Porte dérobée by Louise Deschênes (Éditions Triptyque)
2. Lumière aux aguets by Marcelle Roy (Éditions du Noroît)

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Of Obscurity and Signposts (p. 145 - 146)

by Jesse Patrick Ferguson

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Palilalia by Jeffrey Donaldson (McGill-Queen's University Press)
2. Daughters of Men by Brenda Leifso (Brick Books)
3. Aubade by rob mclennan (Broken Jaw Press)

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Is That a Joke? (p. 146 - 147)

by Tim Blackmore

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Hall of Best Knowledge by Ray Fenwick (Fantagraphics Books)

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Artful Dodgers (p. 147 - 148)

by Donna Coates

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Crossing Lines by Allan Briesmaster and Michael Berzensky (Seraphim Editions)
2. Erratic North by Mark Frutkin (Dundurn Press)

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Recueil de nouvelles en traduction (p. 148 - 149)

by Patricia Godbout

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Nouvelle noirceur by Len Gasparini (Interligne)

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Lethal Chat (p. 149 - 150)

by Tanis MacDonald

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Brother Dumb by Sky Gilbert (ECW Press)

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Fiction et réalité sociale (p. 150 - 151)

by Sophie Bastien

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Trois visions du terroir by C. H. Grignon, G. Guèvremont, A. Laberge, Ringuet , and A. Rivard (XYZ Éditeur / XYZ Publishing)
2. La terre promise, Remember! by Noël Audet (XYZ Éditeur / XYZ Publishing)

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Isn't That Funny? (p. 151 - 153)

by Lisa Close

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Humor in Contemporary Native North American Literature by Eva Gruber (Camden House)
2. Drew Hayden Taylor by Robert Nunn (Guernica Editions)
3. Me Sexy by Drew Hayden Taylor (Douglas & McIntyre)

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Destination Canada: the Dream and the Nightmare (p. 153 - 154)

by Carrie Dawson

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Odori by Darcy Tamayose (Cormorant Books)
2. Cockroach by Rawi Hage (House of Anansi Press)

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Teen Wives and Mothers (p. 154 - 155)

by Elizabeth A. Galway

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. The Lit Report by Sarah N. Harvey (Orca Book Publishers)
2. Sister Wife by Shelley Hrdlitschka (Orca Book Publishers)

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Charting Indigenous Pasts and Futures (p. 155 - 157)

by Keavy Martin

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Lines Drawn upon the Water by Karl S. Hele (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
2. Where the Pavement Ends by Marie Wadden (Douglas & McIntyre)

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D'un étang gelé aux étoiles (p. 157 - 158)

by Benoit Doyon-Gosselin

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Frères d'hiver by Michel Ouellette (Prise de Parole)
2. Le Chuchotement des étoiles by Maurice Henrie (Prise de Parole)

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(Black) Community Historiography (p. 158 - 160)

by Maureen Moynagh

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Crossing the Border by Sharon Hepburn (University of Illinois Press)
2. Loyalists and Layabouts by Stephen Kimber (Anchor Canada)

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Three Men and a Feminist (p. 160 - 162)

by Emily Carr

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. We Are Here by Niels Hav (Book Thug/Literary Press Group of Canada)
2. Notebook of Roses and Civilization by Nicole Brossard, Robert Majzels, and Erín Moure (Coach House Books)
3. My Human Comedy by Gerald Hill (Coteau Books)
4. Repose by Adam Getty (Nightwood Editions)

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Men in the Trees (p. 162 - 163)

by Cate Mortimer-Sandilands

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Listening to Trees by Andreas Kare Hellum (NeWest Press)
2. Early in the Season by Edward Hoagland (Douglas & McIntyre)

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Two Women, Two Writers (p. 163 - 165)

by Veronica Thompson

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. A Memoir of Friendship by Blanche Howard and Allison Howard (Viking Press)
2. The Staircase Letters by Arthur Motyer, Elma Gerwin, and Carol Shields (Random House Canada)

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Québec réécrit ses influences (p. 165 - 165)

by Ariane Tremblay

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Romanica Silesiana, no. 2 by Krzysztof Jarosz (Presses Universitaires de Silésie)

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Of Cottages and Women (p. 166 - 167)

by Julie Cairnie

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Ex-Cottagers in Love by J. M. Kearns (Key Porter Books)

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Into Africa? (p. 167 - 168)

by Suzanne James

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. The Uncertain Business of Doing Good by Larry Krotz (University of Manitoba Press)
2. Where Bones Dance by Nina Newington (University of Wisconsin Press)

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Questions de filiation (p. 168 - 169)

by Julie Gaudreault

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. La rivière du loup by Andrée Laberge (XYZ Éditeur / XYZ Publishing)
2. Le fin fond de l'histoire by Andrée Laberge (XYZ Éditeur / XYZ Publishing)

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L’historienne condition (p. 169 - 170)

by Maxime Prévost

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Historien et citoyen by Yvan Lamonde (Éditions Fides)

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Communities of Print (p. 170 - 171)

by Eva-Marie Kröller

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. History of the Book in Canada: Volume Two by Yvan Lamonde, Patricia Lockhart Fleming, and Fiona A. Black (University of Toronto Press)
2. History of the Book in Canada: Volume Three by Carole Gerson and Jacques Michon (University of Toronto Press)

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Narrating Tragedy (p. 172 - 175)

by Lisa Grekul

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Red Dog, Red Dog by Patrick Lane (McClelland & Stewart Ltd.)
2. Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant (Random House Canada)
3. February by Lisa Moore (House of Anansi Press)

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Lieu de mémoire (p. 172 - 172)

by Louise Frappier

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Jakob, fils de Jakob by Alain Gagnon (Éditions Triptyque)
2. Un vendredi du mois d’août by Antonio D’Alfonso (Éditions Leméac)
3. Les Fantômes de la Pointe-Platon by Marie-Andrée Lamontagne (Éditions du Noroît)

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Mitraille littéraire et balles perdues chez Céline et Ducharme (p. 175 - 175)

by Stéphane Inkel

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Poétique de l'invective romanesque by Marie-Hélène Larochelle (XYZ Éditeur / XYZ Publishing)

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A Smashing Undertaking (p. 176 - 177)

by Lindsay Milligan

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Giant and Other Gaelic Poems / Famhair agus dàin Ghàidhlig eile by Lewis MacKinnon / Lodaidh MacFhionghain (Cape Breton University Press)

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Drôles d’angoisses (p. 176 - 176)

by Kinga Zawada

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Roger Roger by Mélanie Léger (Prise de Parole)

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Jeux d'esquive (p. 177 - 178)

by Nathalie Warren

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Omaha Beach by Catherine Mavrikakis (Éditions Héliotrope)
2. Le ciel de Bay City by Catherine Mavrikakis (Éditions Héliotrope)

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Salutaire confession (p. 178 - 178)

by Caroline Dupont

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. La terre sans mal by Melchior Mbonimpa (Prise de Parole)

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A Question of Representation (p. 179 - 180)

by Sarah Galletly

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Gwethalyn Graham by Barbara Meadowcroft (Women's Press)
2. Margaret Atwood by Branko Gorjup (Éditions Asticou)

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Regards croisés sur l’œuvre poliquinienne (p. 180 - 181)

by Emir Delic

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Lire Poliquin by François Ouellet (Prise de Parole)

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Lectures en miroir (p. 181 - 182)

by André Lamontagne

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Louis Hamelin et ses doubles by François Ouellet (Nota Bene)

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De l'espace et du temps (p. 182 - 183)

by Emmanuel Bouchard

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. La Grande Sortie by Pierre Raphaël Pelletier (Interligne)
2. Sur le parvis des nuages by Marcil Cossette (Éditions David)
3. L'étincelle suffit à la constellation by Guy Cloutier, René Laubiès, Frédèric Benrath, and Julius Baltazar (Éditions du Noroît)

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At the Centre of the Storm (p. 183 - 184)

by Susan Butlin

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Beaverbrook by Jacques Poitras (Goose Lane Editions)

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Matrices et Dédales (p. 184 - 185)

by Émilie Théorêt

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Le même souffle by Normand Glénois (Éditions du Noroît)
2. Miniatures, balles perdues et autres désorres by Monique Deland (Éditions du Noroît)
3. Dictature de la solitude by Joël Pourbaix (Éditions du Noroît)
4. En haute rumeur des siècles by Robert Berrouet-Oriol (Éditions Triptyque)

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« À l'endroit du noeud » (p. 185 - 186)

by Matthew Jordan Schmidt

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. La Maison des temps rompus by Pascale Quiviger (Éditions du Boréal)

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Leftist Women Writers (p. 186 - 187)

by Louise H. Forsyth

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Comrades and Critics by Candida Rifkind (University of Toronto Press)

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À tire-d'aile (p. 187 - 188)

by Emmanuel Bouchard

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Les oiseaux se taisent et me regardent by Edgard Gousse (Éditions Triptyque)
2. Un oiseau moqueur sur l'épaule by Martin Thibault (Éditions du Noroît)

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History as Narrative (p. 188 - 190)

by Ryan Porter

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. The Wolf's Head by Peter Unwin (Viking Press)
2. Coal Black Heart by John Demont (Doubleday Canada Limited)
3. The Old Lost Land of Newfoundland by Wayne Johnston (NeWest Press)

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Women Who Roughed It (p. 192 - 194)

by Janice Fiamengo

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Marie-Anne by Maggie Siggins (McClelland & Stewart Ltd.)
2. A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada by Barbara Williams (University of Toronto Press)

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Textual Paradoxes (p. 194 - 195)

by Valerie Raoul

Book(s) Reviewed:

1. Nomade by Mila Younes (Éditions David)

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Opinions and Notes

Niigonwedom J. Sinclair

• Inks of Knowledge, Permanence, and Collectivity: A Response to Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry (p. 196 - 200) Show/hide Abstract
  • In 2008, Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard published Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation.  In it, they attempt to resurrect anthropological theories of human “cultural evolution” along progressivist lines to make arguments that Native societies were “savage,” “neolithic” and “barbaric,” while Europeans were at a more complex and advanced “stage of cultural development.” These one-dimensional politics, ahistoricism, and century-old arguments are known well by First Nations peoples and communities, who continue to endure ongoing instances of erasure and violence on their personal, communal, and national sovereignties. In this short piece, the author considers what ethics and responsibilities emerge in the wake of this scholarship and what is the evidence of North American Indigenous permanence ignored by these writers. As well, the issue of what can be done when work such as this arises is discussed.