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#152-153 (Spring/Summer 1997)
The Sixties

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Editorial

Margery Fee, Iain Higgins, Eva-Marie Kröller, and Alain-Michel Rocheleau

• Remembering the Sixties: A Quartet (p. 4 - 10)
• Subjects: Twentieth Century
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Articles

Jeanne Demers

• Autour de la question linguistique: le manifeste québécois des années '60 - '70 (p. 17 - 35)
• Subjects: Language/Linguistics, Nineteenth Century, Quebec
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Eva-Marie Kröller

• Expo '67: Canada's Camelot? (p. 36 - 51)
• Subjects: Canadian Studies, Twentieth Century
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Stephen Scobie

• Racing the Midnight Train: Leonard Cohen in Performance (p. 52 - 68)
• Subjects: Music, Novel
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Howard Adelman

• Rochdale College: Power and Performance (p. 69 - 92)
• Subjects: Education/Pedagogy, Politics
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Jonathan Hart

• Northrop Frye and the 1960s: The Crisis in Canadian Education (p. 93 - 106)
• Subjects: Education/Pedagogy, Literary Theory
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E. D. Blodgett

• George Grant, the Uncertain Nation and Diversity of Being (p. 107 - 123)
• Subjects: Canadian Studies, Nationalism
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Gary Boire

• Theatres of Law: Canadian Legal Drama (p. 124 - 144)
• Subjects: Drama, Law & Prison
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Fernande Saint-Martin

• Fonctions de l'art dans la culture québécoise (p. 145 - 159)
• Subjects: Art, Quebec
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Pierre Théberge

• London Recaptured (p. 160 - 166)
• Subjects: Art, Ontario
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Lutz Hartmut

• Canadian Native Literature and the Sixties: A Historical and Bibliographical Survey (p. 167 - 191)
• Subjects: Colonialism, First Nations, Native Studies, Poetry, Twentieth Century, Women's Studies
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Garry Neill Kennedy

• The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and the Sixties: A Memoir (p. 192 - 204)
• Subjects: Art, Atlantic Canada, Education/Pedagogy
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Poems

Debbie Waters-Wright

• the game, 2 frenchmen, arrival (p. 11)

Damian Lopes

• in the cool shade of concrete (p. 12)

Erica Cameron

• Concrete Poem (p. 13)

David Solway

• Pawns and Pieces (p. 14)

Laurie Kruk

• The Sound of You, Forgetting me (p. 15)

Mary Cameron

• One Hundred Insects (p. 16)

M. Travis Lane

• Paddle (p. 205)

Chad Norman

• The Applauding Swimmer (p. 206)

Thomas O'Grady

• A Poem Leaves No More Mark (p. 207)

M. Travis Lane

• For Bulkington (p. 208)

Book Reviews

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Psychanalyse: un bon usage? (p. 209 - 210)

by Neil B. Bishop

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Le père vaincu, la Méduse et les fils castrés by Andre Vanasse
2. Oedipe à  l'université ou les liaisons dangereuses entre professeurs d'université et étudiantes by Monique Lafortune

Subjects: Education/Pedagogy, Francophone

Farewell to Nova Scotia (p. 210 - 212)

by Pat Byrne

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia by Ian McKay

Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Cultural Geography, Modernism, Twentieth Century

Reading, Representations, and the Ethnography of Philosophy (p. 212 - 214)

by Blanca Chester

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Realism and Representation: Essays on the Problem of Realism in Relation to Science, Literature, and Culture by George Levine
2. The Ethnology of Reading by Jonathan Boyarin

Subjects: Cultural Studies, Oral , Philosophy, Science

Realism Revisited (p. 214 - 216)

by Mark Cohen

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Love Minus One & Other Stories by Norma Harrs
2. Under Glass by Grant Buday

Subjects: Novel, Sexuality, Short Fiction

Cohen's Various Lives (p. 216 - 217)

by Douglas Fetherling

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen by Ira Bruce Nadel

Subjects: Biography

Dispassionate Witnesses (p. 218 - 219)

by Graham Nicol Forst

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Beyond the Provinces: Literary Canada at Century's End by David Staines
2. The Fin de Siècle Spirit: Walter Blackburn Harte and the American/Canadian Literary Milieu of the 1890s by

Subjects: Canadian Studies, Nineteenth Century, Postcolonialism, United States

Dramatic Depression (p. 219 - 221)

by Frances Frazer

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Claudius by Ken Gass
2. Colonial Tongues by Mansel Robinson
3. Three in the Back, Two in the Head by Jason Sherman

Subjects: Drama

Acting Like A Man: Kinds of Performance (p. 221 - 222)

by Stephen Guy-Bray

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Acting Male: Masculinities in the Films of James Stewart, Jack Nicholson, and Clint Eastwood by Dennis Bingham
2. Classical Hollywood Comedy by Henry Jenkins and Kristine Brunovska Karnick
3. Male Impersonators: Men Performing Masculinity by Mark Simpson

Subjects: Film, Gender

Star Apprentices (p. 222 - 224)

by Hildegard Kuester

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Hemingway: The Toronto Years, 1920-1924 by William Burrill
2. Morley Callaghan: Literary Anarchist by

Subjects: Biography, Short Fiction

The Anatomy of Toronto (p. 224 - 226)

by Martin Kuester

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies

Subjects: Novel

'Reviews Are Not Written For The Author' (p. 226 - 228)

by Jill Lebihan

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Margaret Atwood's Novels: A Study of Narrative Discourse by Hilde Staels
2. Various Atwoods: Essays on the Later Poems, Short Fiction, and Novels by Lorraine M. York

Subjects: Literary Criticism

Heavy Haliburton (p. 228 - 229)

by Mary Lu MacDonald

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Clockmaker. Series One, Two and Three by George Parker

Subjects: Novel

Anxiety Shared and Staged (p. 229 - 230)

by Paul M. Malone

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Serpent Kills by Blake Brooker and Jim Millan
2. Shared Anxiety: Selected Plays by George F. Walker
3. Singular Voices: Plays in Monologue Form by Tony Hamill

Subjects: Drama

Life as an Aftertaste (p. 231 - 232)

by Cedric May

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Il n'y a plus de chemin avec cinq dessins de l'auteur by Jacques Brault

Subjects: Poetry

Shall it be Ours Again? (p. 232 - 233)

by Kenneth McRobbie

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Death of Socialism and Other Poems by Robin Mathews
2. Treason of the Intellectuals by Robin Mathews

Subjects: Poetry

Time to Break Glass (p. 234 - 235)

by John Moss

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Making It Real: The Canonization of English-Canadian Literature by Robert Lecker

Subjects: Literary Criticism

Justification Fiction (p. 236 - 237)

by Kathleen O'Donnell

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Breathing Each Other's Air by Florence McNeil
2. Casino and Other Stories by Bonnie Burnard

Subjects: Novel, Short Fiction

Two for the Record (p. 237 - 239)

by John Orange

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Dear Marian, Dear Hugh by Christl Verduyn
2. Pursuits Amateur and Academic: The Selected Prose of E.J. Pratt by Susan Gingell

Subjects: Correspondence, Short Fiction

Artifice and Artifacts (p. 239 - 241)

by Lisa Pottie

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Cultural Artifacts and the Production of Meaning: The Page, the Image, and the Body by Margaret J. M. Ezell and Katherine O'Brien O'Keefe
2. Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media by Majorie Perloff

Subjects: Body & Health, Cultural Studies, Media & Communications, Poetry

Enormous Verbs (p. 241 - 242)

by Catherine Rainwater

Book(s) reviewed:

1. North Spirit: Travels Among the Cree and Ojibway Nations and Their Star Maps by Paulette Jiles

Subjects: First Nations, Northern Canada, Travel Writing

Two Futures (p. 242 - 244)

by R. W. Stedingh

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Popular Anatomy by Keath Fraser
2. The Age of Improv by Rick Salutin

Subjects: Novel, Speculative Fiction

A Hunger Not For Food (p. 244 - 247)

by Diana Stiles

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen by Rosemary Sullivan
2. The Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen: The Early Years by Margaret Atwood and Barry Callaghan
3. The Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen: The Later Years by Margaret Atwood

Subjects: Biography, Poetry

Writing Webs of History (p. 247 - 248)

by Ulrich Teucher

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Erzählungen by Karl Wilhelm Loggen

Subjects: Short Fiction, Travel Writing

Performing Selves (p. 249 - 250)

by Penny Van Toorn

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Notebooks 1960-1994 by
2. River of Stone by Rudy Wiebe

Subjects: Life Writing, Short Fiction

Children and Politics (p. 250 - 251)

by Alexandra Wieland

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Face at the Window by Vivien Alcock
2. Torn Away by James Heneghan

Subjects: Children's Literature, Politics

Intersections (p. 251 - 253)

by Herb Wyile

Book(s) reviewed:

1. National Culture and the New Global System by Frederick Buell
2. Thinking Through: Essays on Feminism, Marxism, and Anti-Racism by Himani Bannerji

Subjects: Cultural Geography, Cultural Studies, Feminism, Multiculturalism, Nationalism

Opinions & Notes

Alain-Michel Rocheleau

• Hommage à Gaston Miron (p. 254)
• Subjects: Life Writing