Book Reviews

Psychanalyse (p. 111-112)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Between Feminism & Psychoanalysis by Teresa Brennan
  • Thinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, & Postmodernism in the Contemporary West by Jane Flax
  • Jacques Lacan & Co.: A History of Psychoanalysis in France, 1925-1985 by Elisabeth Roudinesco

Core Samples (p. 112-114)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Secular Grail: Paradigms of Perception by Christopher Dewdney

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Vision of Canada: Herman Voaden's Dramatic Works 1928-1945 by Anton Wagner

Power Relations (p. 115-116)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Painting Women: Victorian Women Artists by Deborah Cherry
  • Firing the Heather: The Life and Times of Nellie McClung by Mary Hallett and Marilyn Davis

Metafiction (p. 117-119)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Decolonizing Tradition: New Views of Twentieth-Century "British" Literary Canons by Karen R. Lawrence
  • Moral Metafiction: Counterdiscourse in the Novels of Timothy Findley by Donna Palmateer Pennee

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Literature and Society in the Canadas 1817-1850 by Mary Lu MacDonald
  • Challenges, Projects, Texts: Canadian Editing: Twenty-fifth Conference on Editorial Problems, November 17-18, 1989. Défis, projets et textes dans l'édition critique au Canada: Vingt-cinquième Congrès sur l'édition critique 17-18 novembre 1989 by John Lennox and Janet M. Paterson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Without Benefit of Words by Kathleen Wall
  • À l'ɉcoute de l'Écoumène by Gilles Hénault
  • The New Pagans by Patricia Keeney
  • Andromède Attendra by Gilles Cyr
  • Nuclear Seasons by Ramabai Espinet
  • Les fleurs du siècle à venir by Michel Muir

Places Re-known (p. 124-126)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia by Carol A. Breckenridge and Peter van der Veer
  • Place/Culture/Representation by James S. Duncan and David Ley

Old Habits Die Hard (p. 126-128)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • no visual scars by Angela Hryniuk
  • Black Cup by Theresa Kishkan
  • Grasping Men's Metaphors by Sharon H. Nelson
  • A Fine Grammar of Bones by Méira Cook
  • Old Habits by Rhona McAdam

Montreal as Centre (p. 128-131)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Letters of John Sutherland, 1942-1956 by Bruce Whiteman
  • The Letters of Conrad Aiken and Malcolm Lowry, 1929-1954 by Cynthia Sugars

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Arresting Images: Impolitic Art and Uncivil Actions by Steven C. Dubin
  • Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic by Elisabeth Bronfen
  • The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity and Sexuality by Lynda Nead

Book(s) Reviewed

  • George Grant: A Bibliography by William Christian

Scopophobia (p. 135-136)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought by Martin Jay
  • The Optical Unconscious by Rosalind E. Krauss

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Marie-Anna Roy, une voix solitaire by Paul Genuist and Monique Genuist
  • Le cycle manitobain de Gabrielle Roy by Carol J. Harvey

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Learning from Mount Hua. A Chinese Physician's Illustrated Travel Record and Painting Theory by Kathlyn Maurean Liscomb
  • A Tiger on Dragon Mountain by Helen Fraser MacRae

Pizza Pizza (p. 140-141)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Puppeteer by Robert Kroetsch

Courage de femme (p. 141-143)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Léonise Valois, femme de lettres by Louise Warren

New Talent (p. 143-144)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Visible Light by Carol Windley
  • A Circle of Birds by Hayden Trenholm
  • Stories From Blood & Aphorisms by Timothy Paleczny

Romance Frontiers (p. 144-146)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Feminization of Quest-Romance by Dana A. Heller
  • Becoming a Woman Through Romance by Linda K. Christian-Smith

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Revenge of Ishtar by Ludmila Zeman
  • The Secret of the White Buffalo by C.J. Taylor

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La nouvelle: écriture(s) et lecture(s) by Agnès Whitfield and Jacques Cotnam

Looking South (p. 149-150)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Dixon Cornbelt League and Other Baseball Stories by W. P. Kinsella
  • Homing Instinct by S. L. Sparling

Feminisms? (p. 151-151)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Feminisms, A Reader by Maggie Humm

Images & Echoes (p. 151-153)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Literary Images of Ontario by W. J. Keith
  • Echoes in Silence by W. J. Keith

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Holy Forest by Robin Blaser
  • The Moustache: Memories of Greg Curnoe by George Bowering

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Place and the Politics of Identity by Michael Keith and Steve Pile
  • The Cultural Studies Reader by Simon During

Joined Worlds (p. 158-160)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Egyptian Jukebox by Nick Bantock
  • The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes by Nick Bantock

(M)others’ Voices (p. 160-162)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Frog Moon by Lola Lemire Tostevin
  • Wild Mother Dancing: Maternal Narrative in Canadian Literature by Di Brandt

Passages (p. 162-164)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • To Scatter Stones by M. T. Dohaney
  • Drowning in Darkness by Peter Oliva
  • Sex and Character by F. G. Paci

Same Old Deal (p. 164-166)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Visions of Kerouac by Ken McGoogan
  • Black Light by Ron Shaw

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Blow up the Trumpet in the New Moon by Douglas How
  • Summer's Idyll by Don Gutteridge

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Conceptions by Jane Dick
  • Emma's Dead by Carol Malyon

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Thresholds of Difference: Feminist Critique, Native Women's Writings, Postcolonial Theory by Julia Emberley
  • Ravensong by Lee Maracle

Cultural Policies (p. 173-175)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Meaning Over Memory: Recasting the Teaching of Culture and History by Peter N. Stearns
  • Relocating Cultural Studies: Developments in Theory and Research by Valda Blundell, John Shepherd and Ian Taylor
  • Is Literary History Possible? by David Perkins

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Representing War: Form and Ideology in First World War Narratives by Evelyn Cobley
  • Intimate Enemies: English and German Literary Reactions to the Great War 1914-1919 by Franz K. Stanzel and Martin Loschnigg
  • When Your Number's Up: The Canadian Soldier in the First World War by Desmond Morton

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canadian Exploration Literature: An Anthology by Germaine Warkentin

Authentic Lodging? (p. 179-181)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Myth & Milieu: Atlantic Literature and Culture 1918-1939 by Gwendolyn Davies

Memoirs (p. 181-182)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Travels by Night: A Memoir of the Sixties by Douglas Fetherling
  • Bloodlines: A Journey into Eastern Europe by Myrna Kostash

Book(s) Reviewed

  • George: George Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian Fiction by George Woodcock
  • Sounding Differences: Conversations with Seventeen Canadian Women Writers by Janice Williamson