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Current Issue: 50th Anniversary Interventions (#204)
Canadian Literature's Spring 2010 issue (CL#204), "50th Anniversary Interventions", looks back on Canadian Literature's 50th Anniversary Gala, and celebrates Canadian culture with papers about Duncan Campbell Scott, book policies, copyright, civil war poetry, and new Québecois literature.
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In the Family
Andreas Schroeder (Author)
Renovating Heaven. Oolichan Books
Elizabeth Kelly (Author)
Apologize, Apologize!. Knopf Canada
Roberta Rees (Author)
Long After Fathers. Coteau Books
Reviewed by Alex Ramon
To different degrees, and within contrasting cultural contexts, each of these books takes family life and the struggle to assert individual identity within it as their subject, exploring the often fraught relations between parents and children. Drawing on his own background, Andreas Schroeder's Renovating Heaven documents the coming-of-age of Peter Niebuhr, whose reaction against a strict, insular Mennonite upbringing provides the main thrust of the novel's plot. Peter is only a year [...]
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