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Canadian Literature's Issue 214 (Autumn 2012) is now available. The issue features articles by Germaine Warkentin, Susan Gingell, Deanna Reder, Allison Hargreaves, Daniel Heath Justice, Kristina Fagan Bidwell, Jo-Ann Episkenew, Andrea King, Joanne Leow, and Ana María Fraile, and new Canadian poetry & book reviews.

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#141 (Summer 1994)
Strangers & Strange Voices

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Editorial

W. H. New

Articles

Marie Vautier

John Clement Ball

David Lucking

Keith Harrison

Klay Dyer

Poems

Sue Ann Johnston

Anna Mozga

Anne Le Dressay

Liliane Welch

Candas Jane Dorsey

Josef Timar

Patrick Lane

Patrick Lane

Steven Heighton

Shari Andrews

Stephanie Bolster

Christopher Patton

Cam McAlpine

Cam McAlpine

Tom Wayman

John Reibetanz

George Woodcock

Book Reviews

Reviews section PDF available

Between Cultures (p. 107 - 0)

by Dieter Riemenschneider

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Fadimatu by Jennifer Mitton
  2. Mumshaib: A Novel in Stories by Anne Montagnes

Subjects: Afro-Canadian, Short Fiction

Old Wines, New Bottles (p. 109 - 110)

by David Thomson

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Heterology and the Postmodern: Bataille, Baudrillard, and Lyotard by Julian Pefanis
  2. Postmodern Genres by Marjorie Perloff
  3. Prefaces to the DIaphora: Rhetorics, Allegory, and the Interpretation of Postmedernity by Peter Carravetta

Subjects: Literary Theory, Postmodernism

Generation (p. 110 - 113)

by P. J. Gerbrecht

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Mother, not mother by Di Brandt
  2. The Deconstruction of Wesley Smithson by Sarah Murphy

Subjects: Poetry, Short Fiction

Women's Histories (p. 113 - 114)

by Deborah Blenkhorn

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Agnes Mcphail: Reformer by Doris Pennington
  2. Kate Rice: Prospector by Helen Duncan

Subjects: Biography, Women's Studies

Photographic Mixtures (p. 115 - 116)

by Lorraine M. York

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Light in the Company of Women by Keith Maillard

Subjects: Novel, Photography

Uncomfortable Tradition (p. 116 - 117)

by Dorothy F. Lane

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Into Africa with Margaret Laurence by Fiona Sparrow
  2. Silence Made Visible: Howard O'Hagan and Tay John by Margery Fee

Subjects: Afro-Canadian, Biography, Literary Criticism

Home Fires (p. 118 - 119)

by Richard Stevenson

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Burning the Dead by Kevin Irie
  2. New and Selected Poems by Michael Harris
  3. This Only Home by Dennis Cooley

Subjects: Poetry

A Dance of All the isms (p. 120 - 121)

by Marta Dvorak

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. 15 Years in Exile by Barry Callaghan
  2. Exile's Exiles, the Happy Few by Barry Callaghan

Subjects: Publishing

The Author Speaks (p. 121 - 123)

by Nancy Roberts

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. "An Interview with Margaret Atwood" by Margaret Atwood
  2. Margaret Atwood reading "Unearthing Suite" by Margaret Atwood
  3. Margaret Atwood reads from A Handmaid's Tale and talks about this futuristic fable of misogyny as compared to Orwell's 1984 by Margaret Atwood

Subjects: Authorship

Creating Collectively (p. 123 - 125)

by Neil Carson

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Playwrights of Collective Creation (The Canadian Dramatist, Vol. II) by Christopher Innes
  2. The Plays of Codco by Helen Peters

Subjects: Drama

Rising Playwrights (p. 125 - 126)

by Paul Malone

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Live Bird In Its Jaws by Jeanne-Mance Delisle
  2. Escape Acts: Seven Canadian One-Acts by Colleen Curran
  3. Urban Myths: Anton & No Cycle by Harry Standjofski

Subjects: Drama

Individual Native Voices (p. 126 - 128)

by Mava Jo Powell

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The White Lines: : Poems by Daniel David Moses
  2. Without Reserve: Stories from Urban Natives by Lynda Shorten

Subjects: First Nations, Poetry, Short Fiction, Urban Novel

The Real Goddess (p. 128 - 129)

by Sandra Filippelli

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Waiting for Li Ming by Alan Cumyn

Subjects: Asian Canadian, Novel

Studies of the Majors (p. 129 - 132)

by Douglas Barbour

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Sourcery for Books 1 and 2 of bpNichol's The Martyrology by Irene Niechoda
  2. The Topology of Being: The Poetics of Charles Olson by Judith Halden-Sullivan

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Poetry

Emotions and Facts (p. 132 - 134)

by Kathy Chung

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Discovery of Canadian Theatre Archives by Heather McCallum and Ruth Pincoe
  2. Lions in the Streets by Judith Thompson

Subjects: Drama, Theatre History

Theatrical Biographies (p. 134 - 136)

by Kathy Chung

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Heroines by Joyce Doolittle
  2. House Humans by Daniel MacIvor

Subjects: Drama

On Endings (p. 136 - 138)

by Jill Franks

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Nice Gazebo by Robyn Sarah
  2. Out of Love by Roy MacSkimming

Subjects: Novel

The Prison of the Self (p. 138 - 139)

by Dick Harrison

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. For Art's Sake by W. O. Mitchell

Subjects: Novel

Expansions (p. 139 - 140)

by Claire Wilkshire

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Dorothy Livesay: Patterns in a Poetic Life by Peter Stevens
  2. The Fourth Archangel by Sharon Butala

Subjects: Biography, Novel, Poetry, Speculative Fiction

Centre and Periphery (p. 141 - 142)

by David Rampton

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Paradise: Essays on Myth, Art, and Reality by Louis Dudek
  2. The Eternal Act of Creation: Essays, 1979-1990 by Northrop Frye

Subjects: Literary Criticism

Bold Omissions (p. 142 - 144)

by Jennifer Lawn

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Framer Framed by Trinh T. Minh-ha
  2. When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender and Cultural Politics by Trinh T. Minh-ha

Subjects: Film, Literary Criticism

Variance (p. 144 - 146)

by Lynne Malsand

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Lost Goddess of Early Greece: A Collection of Pre-Hellenic Myths by Charlene Spretnak
  2. The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions by Paula Gunn Allen
  3. The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture by Walter L. Williams

Subjects: First Nations, Gender, Mythology, Native Studies, Sexuality, Women's Studies

Southern Dreaming (p. 146 - 149)

by Catherine Addison

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Nights in the Yungas by
  2. The Only Snow in Havana by Elizabeth Hay

Subjects: Latin-American, Poetry

Nation & Communauté(s) (p. 149 - 151)

by Leif Tufte

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Criss d'octobre! by Richard Poulin
  2. La crise d'octobre et les médias: : le miroir à dix faces by Bernard Dagenais
  3. Métamorphoses d'une utopie by Fulvio Caccia and Jean-Michel Lacroix

Subjects: Francophone, History, Multiculturalism

Canadian Experience (p. 151 - 152)

by Mary Lu MacDonald

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Canadian Brothers or The Prophecy Fulfilled, A Tale of the Late American War by Donald Stephens and John Richardson

Subjects: Novel, War

Translations (p. 152 - 154)

by Gabriele Helms

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Acts of Concealment. Mennonite/s Writing in Canada by Hildi Froese Tiessen and Peter Hinchcliffe
  2. Literaturubersetzen: Englisch by Herwig Friedl, Albert-Reiner Glaap, and Klaus Peter Müller

Subjects: Comparative, Language/Linguistics, Mennonite

Cultural Transformation (p. 154 - 156)

by Evelyn Cobley

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture by Samuel Hynes
  2. The Nation's Cause: French, English and German Poetry of the First World War by Elizabeth A. Malsand
  3. Writing War : Fiction, Gender & Memory by Lynne Hanley

Subjects: British, Cultural Studies, Francophone, Gender, Memory & Identity, Poetry, War , World War I

Surfaces and Depths (p. 156 - 157)

by

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Hell and Other Novels by Beverley Daurio
  2. Three by Three by Anne Dandurand, Luise Von Flotow, and Helene Rioux

Subjects: Quebec, Short Fiction

Eco-Criticism (p. 158)

by Francis Mainsbridge

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Gay/Grey Moose: Essays on the Ecologies and Mythologies of Canadian Poetry 1690-1990 by D. M. R. Bentley

Subjects: Ecocriticism, Mythology, Poetry

Spirit of the Flesh (p. 159 - 160)

by Beth Janzen

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. standing all the night through by Audrey Poetker-Thiessen

Subjects: Poetry

Direction & Clarity (p. 160 - 163)

by Bernard Selinger

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Discourses: Conversations in Postmodern Art and Culture by Russell Ferguson
  2. Nationalism and Sexualities by Andrew Parker, Mary Russo, Doris Summer, and Patricia Yaeger

Subjects: Art, Cultural Studies, Nationalism, Postmodernism, Sexuality

Two Perspectives (p. 163 - 165)

by Judith Plessis

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. In the National Interest: A Chronicle of the National Film Board of Canada from 1949 to 1989 by Gary Evans
  2. Sentimental Modernism: Women Writers and the Revolution of the Word by Suzanne Clark

Subjects: Film, Modernism, Women's Literature

The Morning After (p. 165 - 166)

by J. Kieran Kealy

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Nobody's Son by Sean Stewart

Subjects: Novel

Prophetic Voices (p. 166 - 168)

by Hilda L. Thomas

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Maritime Union: A Political Tale by Stewart L. Donovan
  2. The Last Landscape by Miriam Waddington

Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Novel, Poetry

In Pain (p. 166 - 168)

by Lee Maracle

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Sundogs by
  2. The Last Landscape by Miriam Waddington

In Pain (p. 168 - 169)

by Robin McGrath

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Whole Brass Band by Anne Cameron
  2. Sundogs by Lee Maracle

Subjects: Novel

[Untitled] (p. 169)

by Laurie Ricou

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Yankee Professor's Guide to Life in Nova Scotia by Philip Milner

Subjects: Atlantic Canada

Opinions & Notes

Laurie Ricou

Last Pages

Laurie Ricou



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