Editorial

Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy by Arturo Arias

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Post-Colonial Transformation by Bill Ashcroft
  • The Quest for Postcolonial Utopia: A Comparative Introduction to the Utopian Novel in the New English Literatures by Ralph Pordzik

Seeing Space (p. 95-97)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Death's Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy by Ariella Azoulay
  • The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place by Scott MacDonald

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Zero Hour by Kristjana Gunnars
  • Trauma and Dreams by Deirdre Barrett

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mondialisation et Identité by Alain Baudot and Christine Dumitriu-Van Saanen
  • La Québécoite by Regine Robin

Blue Diamond Burial (p. 100-101)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • What We All Want by Michelle Berry

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Entering the Landscape by Eric Henderson and Madeline Sonik
  • The Notebooks: Interviews and New Fiction from Contemporary Writers by Michelle Berry and Natalie Caple
  • Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast by Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane

Many and Other (p. 103-105)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • An Ark of Koans by E.D. Blodgett
  • Five Part Invention: A History of Literary History in Canada by E.D. Blodgett

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le passé antérieur by Michel Tremblay
  • Impromptu on Nun's Island by Michel Tremblay and Linda Gaboriau
  • Rêver la lune by André Brochu

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Diaries of Girls and Women: A Midwestern American Sampler by Suzanne L. Bunkers
  • The Farm on the North Talbot Road by Allan G. Bogue

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Write Turns: New Direction in Canadian Fiction by Joy Gugeler
  • Islands West: Stories from the Coast by Keith Harrison
  • The Journey Prize Anthology 2000 by Catherine Bush, Marc Glassman and Hal Niedzviecki

On Returns (p. 111-113)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Cryptomimesis: The Gothic and Jacques Derrida's Ghost Writing by Jodey Castricano
  • Anarcho-Modernism: Toward a New Critical Theory by Ian Angus

Humming with Gould (p. 113-115)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • McLuhan in Space: A Cultural Geography by Richard A. Cavell

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'Émergence des classiques by Daniel Chartier
  • La Langue et le nombril by Chantal Bouchard

In Living Colour (p. 117-119)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • African Diaspora and Autobiographics: Skeins of Seifand Skin by Chinosole
  • Black and Asian Plays by Cheryl Robson

Atlantic Myths (p. 119-120)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Atlantica: Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland by Lesley Choyce
  • Alistair MacLeod: Essays on His Work by Irene Guilford

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Writing the Hyphen: The Articulation of Interculturalism in Contemporary Chinese-Canadian Literature by Susanne Hilf
  • Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora by Kandice Chuh and Karen Shimakawa

Ordure and Ornament (p. 122-124)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Salamander by Thomas Wharton
  • Saints of Big Harbour by Lynn Coady

Modes and Discourse (p. 124-126)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality by Jonathan Ned Katz
  • Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing by Diana Crane

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory by David E. Sutton
  • Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America by Hasia R. Diner

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rainbow Dancer by Heather Harris
  • green girl dreams Mountains by Marilyn Dumont

Lovely Damn Things (p. 129-131)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Robert Creeley: A Biography by Ekbert Faas and Maria Trombacco

Varied Voices (p. 131-133)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bogman's Music by Tammy Armstrong
  • Grace and Poison by Karen Connelly
  • Iron Mountain by Mark Frutkin

Baroness Elsa (p. 133-134)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Baroness Elsa. Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity. A Cultural Biography by Irene Gammel

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Alternative Modernities by Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar
  • Antimodernism and Artistic Experience: Policing the Boundaries of Modernity by Lynda Jessup

Queer and Now (p. 137-138)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • In a Queer Country: Gay and Lesbian Studies in the Canadian Context by Terry Goldie

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Kappa Child by Hiromi Goto

Loss and Longing (p. 139-141)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Time of Her Life by David Helwig
  • Purple for Sky by Carol Bruneau
  • Martin Sloane by Michael Redhill

Seams of Language (p. 141-143)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Man from Saskatchewan by Gerald Hill
  • The Fifth Window by Russell Thornton
  • A Blue with Blood in It by Elizabeth Philips

Lyric Distances (p. 143-145)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Her Festival Clothes by Mavis Jones
  • Rehearsing the Miracle by Linda Rogers
  • A Geography of Souls by Kathleen McCracken

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sisters of Grass by Theresa Kishkan
  • Speak Mandarin Not Dialect by Elizabeth Haynes
  • Gravity Lets You Down by Maggie Helwig
  • Girls around the House by M.A.C. Farrant

Flattening Us Up (p. 148-149)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Jeff Wall: Figures & Places: Selected Works from 1978-2000 by Rolf Lauter

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Censorship in Canadian Literature by Mark Cohen
  • The Dame in the Kimono: Hollywood, Censorship, and the Production Code by Leonard J. Leff and Jerold L. Simmons

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dominant Impressions by Angela Arnold and Gerald Lynch
  • Pull Gently, Tear Here by Alexandra Leggat

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Academic Instincts by Marjorie Garber
  • Power, Race and Gender in Academe: Strangers in the Tower? by Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Maria Herrera-Sobek

Mixed Bag for Kids (p. 155-156)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Saturday Appaloosa by Thelma Sharp and Georgia Graham
  • In Spite of Killer Bees by Julie Johnston
  • Waiting for the Sun by Alison Lohans, Marilyn Mets and Peter Ledwon
  • We'll All Go Sailing by Maggee Spicer, Richard Thompson and Kim LaFave

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Music for Contortionist by Morwyn Brebner
  • The Bush Ladies: In Their Own Word by Molly Thom
  • Monster by Daniel Maclvor and Daniel Brooks

Picture Books (p. 159-160)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Little Rooster and the Diamond Button by Celia Barker Lottridge and Joanne Fitzgerald
  • House Calls: The True Story of a Pioneer Doctor by Ainslie Manson and Mary Jane Gerber
  • The Great Canoe: A Karina Legend by Maria Elena Maggi, Gloria Calderon and Elisa Amado
  • The Pot of Wisdom by Adwoa Badoe and Baba Wagué Diakité

Compositions (p. 160-162)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Eh? To Zed: A Canadian Abecedarium by Kevin Major
  • Stormy Night by Michèle Lemieux
  • The Composition by Antonio Skármeta and Alfonso Ruano

National Cinema (p. 162-164)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World by Esther C. M. Yau
  • Weird Sex and Snowshoes and Other Canadian Film and Phenomena by Katherine Monk
  • Screening Ireland: Film and Television Representation by Lance Pettitt

Everything Within (p. 165-166)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies by Timothy F. Murphy

Kinetic Creations (p. 166-167)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Human Bodies: New and Collected Poems 1987-1999 by Marilyn Bowering
  • What the Small Day Cannot Hold by Susan Musgrave

Loving and Leaving (p. 167-169)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Lover's Progress by David Solway
  • Leaving Holds Me Here: Selected Poems by Glen Sorestad
  • Dove Legend by Richard Outram

Book(s) Reviewed

  • That Summer by David French
  • Earshot by Morris Panych
  • The Heart As It Lived by Mansel Robinson

Désirs tumultueux (p. 171-173)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les six degrés du désir by Marc Fisher
  • Le tumulte de mon sang by Stanley Péan

Identités volées (p. 173-174)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Soudain le Minotaure by Marie Hélène Poitras
  • Still. Tirs groupés by Pierre Ouellet

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers: The Cha-Cha Years by Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco
  • Calendar Boy by Andy Quan

Notez bien! (p. 176-177)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Enjeux des genres dans les écritures contemporaines by Robert Dion and et al
  • Lieux et réseaux de sociabilité littéraire au Québec by Pierre Rajotte

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Well by Sinclair Ross
  • Whir of Gold by Sinclair Ross
  • Sawbones Memorial by Sinclair Ross

Preoccupied Spaces (p. 179-181)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mapping Canadian Cultural Space: Essays on Canadian Literature by Danielle Schaub
  • Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space by Stacy Alaimo

Pas de Deux (p. 181-182)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Margaret Laurence: Critical Reflection by David Staines
  • Robertson Davies: A Mingling of Contrarieties by Camille La Bossiere and Linda Morra

Amour et fatalité (p. 182-184)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les jours de lumière by Carmen Strano
  • Itinérances by Marc Ménard

A Cruel Separation (p. 184-185)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Fiddle for Angus by Budge Wilson and Susan Tooke
  • The True Story of Trapper Jack's Left Big Toe by Ian Wallace and Harvey Chan
  • Ghost Train by Paul Yee

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Henderson's Spear by Ronald Wright
  • Hippolyte's Island by Barbara Hodgson