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#149 (Summer 1996)
Postcolonial Identities

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Editorial

Iain Higgins

• Inhibiting the Interstices (p. 4 - 8)
• Subjects: Journals, Poetry, Publishing
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Articles

Neil ten Kortenaar

• The Trick of Divining a Postcolonial Canadian identity: Margaret Laurence Between Race and Nation (p. 11 - 33)
• Subjects: Nationalism, Novel, Postcolonialism, Twenty-First Century
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Daniel Coleman

• Writing Dislocation: Transculturalism, Gender, Immigrant Families: A Conversation with Ven Begamudré (p. 36 - 51)
• Subjects: Authorship, Gender, Immigrant, Multiculturalism, Postcolonialism
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David Williams

• Cyberwriting and the Borders of Identity: "What's in a Name?" in Kroetsch's The Puppeteer and Mistry's Such a Long Journey (p. 55 - 71)
• Subjects: Cultural Studies, Media & Communications, Memory & Identity, Novel, Science
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Misao Dean

• The Construction of Masculinity in Martin Allerdale Grainger's Woodsmen of the West (p. 74 - 87)
• Subjects: British Columbia, Gender, Novel, Working Class
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Kathleen McConnell

• Textile Tropes in The Afterlife of George Cartwright (p. 91 - 109)
• Subjects: Colonialism, Cultural Studies, Native Studies
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Poems

Opiyo Oloya

• the zebra mask (p. 9 - 10)

Susan Ioannou

• The Comfort of Elders (p. 34)

Deirdre Dwyer

• 2533 in the Buddhist Era (p. 35)

Michael Wilson

• Post Modern (p. 52)

Janice Larson

• One Morning My Mother Awoke (p. 53 - 54)

Tom Wayman

• The Dreams of the Clown (p. 72)

Margo Button

• Fractal Landscapes (p. 73)

Nicholas von Maltzahn

• From Hudson's Bay (p. 88 - 89)

Kevin Roberts

• Underpin (p. 90)

Cornelia C. Hornosty

• Inner Romaine (p. 110 - 111)

Book Reviews

Reviews section PDF available

Coming of Age (p. 112 - 113)

by Timothy Dow Adams

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Funny Boy: A Novel in Six Stories by Shyam Selvadurai

Subjects: Indian/South Asian, Sexuality, Short Fiction

Unfinished Business (p. 113 - 114)

by Rosalie Murphy Baum

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Birds of Passage by Linda Leith

Subjects: Eastern European, Feminism, Nationalism, Novel

Warming up Bellies (p. 114 - 116)

by Guy Beauregard

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Bellydancer by Sky Lee
2. Chorus of Mushrooms by Hiromi Goto

Subjects: Asian Canadian, Novel, Short Fiction

Location, Location (p. 116 - 118)

by Julie Beddoes

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Vancouver: Representing the Postmodern City by Paul Delany

Subjects: British Columbia, Postmodernism

Play with an Agenda (p. 118 - 120)

by Mark Blagrave

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Eureka! Seven One-Act Plays for Secondary Schools by Dianne Warren and Jacquie Johnston Lewis
2. Other Schools of Thought by Morris Panych
3. Wanna Play? Three Plays for High Schools by Tony Hamill

Subjects: Drama

Through a Gloss Darkly (p. 120 - 122)

by Richard Cavell

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking-Glass by James Reaney
2. The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era by William J. Mitchell

Subjects: Children's Literature, Drama, Photography

The Poetics of Hubris (p. 122 - 124)

by Mark Cochrane

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Gospel: A Poem by Stephen Scobie
2. Vehicule Days: An Unorthodox History of Montreal's Vehicule Poets by Ken Norris

Subjects: Multimedia, Poetry

Gender in Science (p. 124 - 126)

by Dawn Currie

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Secrets of Life, Secrets of Death: Essays on Language, Gender and Science by Evelyn Fox Keller
2. Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women's Lives by Sandra Harding

Subjects: Feminism, Language/Linguistics, Science, Social Sciences, Women's Studies

Trickster Critics (p. 127 - 129)

by Margery Fee

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Coyote Country: Fictions of the Canadian West by Arnold E. Davidson
2. Looking at the Words of Our People: First Nations Analysis of Literature by Jeannette C. Armstrong

Subjects: First Nations, Literary Criticism, Native Studies, Western

Recovering Lost Voices (p. 129 - 130)

by Janice Fiamengo

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Aspiring Women: Short Stories by Canadian Women by Sandra Campbell and Lorraine McMullen
2. The (Other) American Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers by Joyce W. Warren

Subjects: Nineteenth Century, Short Fiction, Women's Literature

Compassion & Solipsism (p. 131 - 132)

by Jill Franks

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Lives of the Mind Slaves by Matt Cohen
2. To Be There with You by Gayla Reid

Subjects: Short Fiction

Native Heritage (p. 132 - 134)

by Bryan N. S. Gooch

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Haida Monumental Art [:] Villages of the Queen Charlotte Islands by George F. MacDonald and Bill Reid
2. Indian Artists at Work by Ulli Steltzer

Subjects: Art, First Nations

Visions (p. 134 - 136)

by Susanne Goodison

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Woman's Comedy by Beth Herst
2. Big Time Women from Way Back When. Jehanne of the Witches by Sally Clark
3. Literature as Pulpit: The Christian Social Activism of Nellie McClung by Randi R. Warne

Subjects: Drama, Religion, Women's Literature

Multiple Discoveries (p. 136 - 137)

by Sherrill Grace

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Discovery of Strangers by Rudy Wiebe

Subjects: First Nations, Historical Fiction, Novel

Matrix (p. 138 - 139)

by Cynthia Hahn

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Dancing With Goddesses: Archetypes, Poetry, and Empowerment by Annis Pratt
2. Incriminations: Guilty Women/Telling Stories by Karen S. McPherson

Subjects: Crime & Detective, Feminism, Poetry, Women's Studies

Other People's Motives (p. 140 - 141)

by Mark Harris

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Civilization by Paul Quarrington
2. David Cronenberg: A Delicate Balance by Peter Morris

Subjects: Biography, Film, Novel

Firework (p. 141 - 142)

by Tim Heath

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Mimic Fires: Accounts of Early Long Poems on Canada by D. M. R. Bentley

Subjects: Poetry

Types & Functions (p. 143 - 144)

by Gabriele Helms

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Englische Literaturgeschichte by Hans Ulrich Seeber
2. Körpersprache in der Literatur: : Theorie und Geschichte am Beispiel englischer Erzählprosa by Barbara Korte

Subjects: Language/Linguistics, Postcolonialism

Essays (p. 145 - 146)

by Catherine Hunter

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Freedom from Culture: Selected Essays 1982-92 by John Metcalf
2. Writing Home: Selected Essays by David Carpenter

Subjects: Authorship, Essays, Literary Criticism

Indispensable Companion (p. 146 - 147)

by Eva-Marie Kröller

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States by Cathy N. Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin

Subjects: United States, Women's Literature

L'art de la nouvelle (p. 148 - 149)

by André Lamontagne

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Guerre by Luc Asselin
2. Le recueil de nouvelles by Jean-Pierre Boucher
3. Lettre imaginaire à la femme de mon amant by Lori Saint-Martin
4. Nouvelles de Montréal by Micheline Lafrance

Subjects: Francophone, Novel, Quebec

Canadian "Posts" (p. 149 - 151)

by Jennifer Lawn

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Postmodern Fiction in Canada by Hans Bertens and Theo D'haen
2. Re-Siting Queen's English: Text and Tradition in Post-Colonial Literatures by Gillian Whitlock and Helen Tiffin

Subjects: Language/Linguistics, Postcolonialism, Postmodernism

Colonialism Retold (p. 151 - 153)

by Amin Malak

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Book of Secrets by M. G. Vassanji

Subjects: Afro-Canadian, Novel

Revenge of the Dead Author (p. 153 - 154)

by Paul M. Malone

Book(s) reviewed:

1. I Can Fix Anything by Gary Whitehead
2. The Rain Barrel by George Bowering

Subjects: Short Fiction

Fictions of the Mind (p. 155 - 157)

by Kevin McNeilly

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Narcissism and the Novel by Jeffrey Berman
2. Reading the Other: Novels and the Problem of Other Minds by
3. Telling Tales: the Hysteric's Seduction in Fiction and Theory by Katherine Cummings

Subjects: Body & Health, Literary Theory

Mors Tue, Vita Mea (p. 157 - 159)

by Grazia Merler

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Anne Hébert, son oeuvre, leurs exils (essai) by Neil B. Bishop
2. Aurélien, Clara, Mademoiselle et le Lieutenant anglais (récit) by Anne Hébert

Subjects: Authorship, Feminism, Francophone

Museums and Empire (p. 159 - 161)

by Cynthia Messenger

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Museum Makers: The Story of the Royal Ontario Museum by Lovat Dickson
2. Too Good To Be True: Toronto in the 1920's by Randall White

Subjects: History, Ontario

Confrontation with Morality (p. 161 - 162)

by John Moss

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Walking through the Valley: An Autobiography by George Woodcock

Subjects: Autobiography

Fahrenheit 451 (p. 163 - 165)

by Lachlan Murray

Book(s) reviewed:

1. City of Orphans by Patricia Robertson
2. The Animals' Waltz by Cary Fagan
3. The Black Diamond Ring by Patricia Seaman

Subjects: Novel

Of Loss and Hope (p. 165 - 166)

by Ruth Panofsky

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Milton's Elements by Cordelia Strube
2. The Winter Helen by W. P. Kinsella

Subjects: Novel

Others' Histories (p. 166 - 168)

by Donna Palmateer Pennee

Book(s) reviewed:

1. 'We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up': : Essays in African Canadian Women's History by Dionne Brand and et al.
2. Miscegenation Blues: Voices of Mixed Race Women by Carol Camper

Subjects: Afro-Canadian, Feminism, Historiography, History

Borderlands (p. 168 - 170)

by Lisa Pottie

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Barrios and Borderlands: Cultures of Latinos and Latinas in the United States by Denis Lynn Daly Heyck
2. Surface Tension by Marisa De Franceschi

Subjects: Latin-American, Novel, United States

Negotiating Cultural Boundaries (p. 170 - 172)

by Catherine Rainwater

Book(s) reviewed:

1. One Good Story, That One by Thomas King
2. The Native Creative Press by Jeannette Armstrong and Douglas Cardinal

Subjects: First Nations, Native Studies, Short Fiction

Unhappy Endings (p. 173 - 174)

by Norman Ravvin

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Just Say the Words by David Helwig

Subjects: Novel

Gay Writing and Queer Theory (p. 174 - 176)

by Helmut Reichenbä€cher

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Meanwhile, in Another Part of the Forest: Gay Stories from Alice Munro to Yukio Mishima by Alberto Manguel and Craig Stephenson
2. Writing AIDS: Gay Literature, Language and Analysis by Timothy F. Murphy and Suzanne Poirier

Subjects: Body & Health, Gay/Lesbian, Language/Linguistics, Literary Criticism, Queer Theory, Short Fiction

Metonymies of Desire (p. 176 - 178)

by Alan Richards

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Designs From the Interior by John Barton
2. Earth Prime by Bert Almon

Subjects: Poetry

La Québec et sa culture (p. 178 - 179)

by Alain-Michel Rocheleau

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Le roman contemporain au Québec (1960-1985) by et al. and François Gallays
2. Territoires de la culture québécoise by Yvan Lamonde

Subjects: Cultural Studies, Quebec, Twentieth Century

"Littérature-ra-rité" (p. 180 - 181)

by Alain-Michel Rocheleau

Book(s) reviewed:

1. L'instituion du littéraire au Québec by Lucie Robert
2. La littérarité by Louise Milot and Fernand Roy

Subjects: Literary Theory

Fate and Native Experience (p. 182 - 183)

by William Scheick

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Lasagna: The Man Behind the Mask by Ronald Cross and Hélène Sévigny
2. The Amazing Death of Calf Shirt and Other Blackfoot Stories by Hugh A. Dempsey

Subjects: First Nations, Short Fiction

Postimperial Identities (p. 184 - 185)

by Wanda Taylor

Book(s) reviewed:

1. An Island is a World by Samuel Selvon
2. The Third Infinitive by Lakshmi Gill

Subjects: Novel

Late Debates (p. 185 - 187)

by Penny Van Toorn

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin by Karen Hohne and Helen Wussow
2. An Ethics of Sexual Difference by Gillian C. Gill, Luce Irigaray, and Carolyn Burke

Subjects: Feminism, Literary Theory

Writing Canadian Relations (p. 187 - 189)

by Julie E. Walchli

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Beach in Maine by Suzanne Jacob and Susanna Finnell
2. Any Time At All and Other Stories by Joyce Marshall
3. Take Me to Coney Islan by Miriam Packer

Subjects: Short Fiction

All the Stages a World (p. 189 - 191)

by Jerry Wasserman

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Escape from Happiness by George F. Walker
2. Glenn by David Young
3. I Had a Job I Liked by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Subjects: Drama

A Sense of Wrong (p. 191 - 193)

by K. Jane Watt

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Bear Bones and Feathers by Louise Halfe
2. Half the Sky by Judith Krause
3. Hard Candy by Linda Rogers

Subjects: Poetry

East Coast Writing (p. 193 - 195)

by Claire Wilkshire

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Heart's Longing: Newfoundland, New York and the Distance Home by Lawrence O'Toole
2. Kelusutiek: Original Women's Voices of Atlantic Canada by Renate Usmiani
3. Twentieth-Century Newfoundland: Explorations by James Hiller and Peter Neary

Subjects: Atlantic Canada, First Nations, Life Writing

Extremities (p. 195 - 196)

by Herb Wyile

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Extremities: Fiction from the Burning Rock by Michael Winter
2. Survival Gear by Rita Moir

Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Short Fiction, Travel Writing

Opinions & Notes

Iain Higgins

• Earle Birney, 1904-1995 (p. 197 - 199)
• Subjects: Biography

W. H. New

• Reading 1995 (p. 200 - 204)
• Subjects: Publishing