Editorial

Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Fair Exotics: Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature, 1720-1850 by Rajani Sudan
  • Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1842-82 by Najia Aarim-Heriot

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Swimming in the Ocean by Catherine Jenkins
  • The Haunting of L by Howard Norman
  • Margery Looks Up by Meredith Andrew

Home and Away (p. 90-92)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Passages: Welcome Home to Canada by Westwood Creative Artists
  • Domesticity, Imperialism, and Emigration in the Victorian Noval by Diana C. Archibald
  • Destination Canada: Immigration Debates and Issues by Peter S. Li

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Night Watch by Susan Zettell
  • The Maleness of God by Brenda Baker

Canadian Letters (p. 93-94)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A New Anthology of Canadian Literature in English by Russell Morton Brown and Donna Bennett

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Manifest Perdition: Shipwreck Narrative and the Disruption of Empire by Josiah Blackmore
  • The Sea Voyage Narrative by Robert Foulke

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Des steaks pour les élèves by François Désalliers
  • Les petits soldats by Camille Bouchard

Orbiting Toronto (p. 97-98)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Thirsty by Dionne Brand

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Women and the White Man's God by Myra Rutherdale
  • Modern Women Modernizing Men: The Changing Missions of Three Professional Women in Asia and Africa, 1902-69 by Ruth Compton Brouwer

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Labyrinth of Desire by Rosemary Sullivan
  • Writing in the Feminine in French and English Canada: A Question of Ethics by Marie Carrière

Odysseys (p. 102-103)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Odysseys Homes: Mapping African-Canadian Literature by George Elliott Clarke

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 49th Parallel Psalm by Wayde Compton

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature by Wayde Compton
  • Kipligat's Chance by David N. Odhiambo

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Shameless by Marlene Cookshaw
  • Salvage by Daphne Marlatt
  • Silence of the Country by Kristjana Gunnars

A Burnt-Out Case (p. 108-109)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Down the Coaltown Road by Sheldon Currie

Beyond Ethnography (p. 111-112)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Transcultural Reinventions: sian American and Asian Canadian Short Story Cycles by Rocío G. Davis

Writes of Passage (p. 112-114)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mothering Across Cultures: Postcolonial Representations by Angelita Reyes
  • Passport Photos by Amitava Kumar
  • Canonization, Colonization, Decolonization: A Comparative Study of Political and Critical Works by Seodial F.H. Deena

Lives in Art (p. 114-116)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Back Flip by Anne Denoon
  • Private View by Jean McNeil

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Well: New and Selected Poems by Kenneth Sherman
  • moving to the clear by Jason Dewinetz
  • Shadowcrossing by Lea Harper
  • Full Magpie Dodge by Lyle Neff

Book(s) Reviewed

  • the soft signature by Lise Downe
  • Disturbances of Progress by Lise Downe

Almosting (p. 119-120)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Apocrypha by Stan Dragland

A Distinguished Man (p. 120-122)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Professing English: A Life of Roy Daniells by Sandra Djwa

Books of Beast (p. 122-124)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Alphabeasts by Wallace Edwards
  • Baby Elephant by Wayne Lynch and Aubrey Lang
  • Baby Lion by Wayne Lynch and Aubrey Lang
  • Baby Fox by Wayne Lynch and Aubrey Lang

Searching for Home (p. 124-125)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Box Girl by Sarah Withrow
  • Pick-Up Sticks by Sarah Ellis

Sage and Silly (p. 125-127)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Down by Jim Long's Stage: Rhymes for Children and Young Fish by Pam Hall and Al Pittman
  • Messengers of Rain and Other Poems for Latin America by Rafael Yockteng and Claudia M. Lee
  • The Night Walker by Martin Springett and Richard Thompson
  • Two Shoes, Blue Shoes, New Shoes! by Farida Zaman and Sally Fitz-Gibbon

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dry Bone Memories by Cecil Foster

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The University of Toronto: A History by Martin L. Friedland
  • Creating Carleton by Don McEown and Blair Neatby

Art of Translation (p. 131-132)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Volta by Susan Gillis
  • Colville's People by Carol Malyon
  • From Dark Horse Road by Ellen McGinn

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Flint & Feather: The Life and Times of E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake by Charlotte Gray

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Womanizer: A Man of His Time by Rick Salutin
  • Rogue's Wedding by Terry Griggs

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hurricanes Over London by Charles Reid
  • A Company of Fools by Deborah Ellis
  • Irish Chain by Barbara Haworth-Attard

Darkness Visible (p. 136-138)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Swimming into Darkness by Gail Helgason

Whiteout (p. 138-139)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Discourses of Domination: Racial Bias in the Canadian English-Language Press by Frances Henry and Carol Tator

Nothing Like That (p. 139-140)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • North Spirit: Travels among the Cree and Ojibway Nations and their Star Maps by Paulette Jiles

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Between Literature and Science: Poe, Lem and Explorations in Aesthetics, Cognitive Science, and Literary Knowledge by Peter Swirski
  • Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the British Empire by Peder Anker
  • The Living Prism: Itineraries in Comparative Literature by Eva Kushner

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le rouge et le bleu une anthologie de la pensée politique au Québec de la Conquête à la Révolution tranquille by Claude Corbo and Yvan Lamonde

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rouge malsain by Luc Lecompte
  • Boulevard Raspail by Robert Baillie

Needing to Forget (p. 145-147)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Wound Ballistics by Steven Manners
  • The Ability to Forget by Norman Levine

Lyrical Arguments (p. 147-148)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Thinking and Singing by Tim Lilburn

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Clinical Studies by George Slobodzian
  • Manitoba Highway Map by rob mclennan
  • Shaken by Physics by John MacKenzie

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Amour et pince-monseigneur by François Désalliers
  • Styx by Roger Magini

Strong Voices (p. 153-154)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Necessary Betrayals by Guillaume Vigneault
  • The Cameraman by Bill Gaston
  • The Clarinet Polka by Keith Maillard

Family and Forever (p. 154-156)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Loving This Man by Althea Prince
  • Daughters are Forever by Lee Maracle

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen by Kate Taylor
  • Your Mouth is Lovely by Nancy Richler
  • Shahnaz : A Novel by Hiro Mcllwraith

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Oneida-English/English-Oneida Dictionary by Karin Michelson and Mercy Doxtator

Exit/Enter bpNichol (p. 159-160)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Meanwhile by Roy Miki
  • bpNichol Comics by Carl Peters

Taboo Intimacies (p. 160-162)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America by Renee C. Romano
  • Interracial Intimacy: the Regulation of Race and Romance by Rachel F. Moran

Improving Reading (p. 162-163)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Come, Bright Improvement! : The Literary Societies of Nineteenth-Century Ontario by Heather Murray

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Caribbean Autobiography : Cultural Identity and Self-Representation by Sandra Pouchet Paquet
  • Portugese Women in Toronto by Wenona Giles

Amazonia Revisted (p. 165-166)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Trade Mission by Andrew Pyper

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Beginnings: Stories of Canada's Past by Ann Walsh
  • Winds through Time: An Anthology of Canadian Historical Young Adult Fiction by Ann Walsh
  • The Name of the Child by Don Kilby and Marilynn Reynolds
  • Sacred Sarah by Mary Alice Downie and Muriel Wood

The Natural (p. 167-169)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Birdheart by Elana Woldd
  • Holding Pattern by Shane Rhodes
  • Wanting in Arabic by Trish Salah
  • The Goddess in the Garden by Carolyn Zonailo
  • A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking by matt robinson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mes jours sont vos heures by Geneviève Robitaille
  • Rouge, mère et fils by Suzanne Jacob

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Narrative Deconstruction of Gender in Works by Audrey Thomas, Daphne Marlatt, and Louise Erdrich by Caroline Rosenthal
  • Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction by Dee Goertz and Edward Eden

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The One with the News by Sandra Sabatini
  • Mona Lisa Smiled a Little by Rachel Wyatt

Reappraisals (p. 174-176)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Seven Journeys of Emily Carr by Doris Shadbolt
  • Tom Thomson by Dennis Reid

Subversion by Sound (p. 176-177)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Electra by Sophocles and Anne Carson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Rhetoric of Canadian Writing by Conny Steenman-Marcusse

Life-Writing (p. 178-180)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Invisible Shadows: A Black Woman's Life in Nova Scotia by Verna Thomas
  • Lambsquarters by Barbara McClean

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Memoirs of a Less Travelled road: A Historian's Life by Marcel Trudel

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M. G. Vassanji

Book(s) Reviewed

  • For Joshua: An Ojibway Father Teaches His Son by Richard Wagamese
  • The Setting Lake Sun by S.E. Stewart and J. R. Lévillé
  • The Great Gift of Tears by Heather Hodgson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sweeter Than All the World by Rudy Wiebe

The Road Home (p. 186-187)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sweeter Life by Tim Wynveen
  • Balloon by Tim Wynveen