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#156 (Spring 1998)

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Editorial

Margery Fee

• Quebec Again (p. 5 - 10)
• Subjects: Francophone, Language/Linguistics, Quebec
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Articles

Valerie Raoul

• Straight or Bent: Textual/Sexual T(ri)angles in As for Me and My House (p. 13 - 28)
• Subjects: Gender, Novel, Prairie Writing, Sexuality
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David R. Williams

• The Politics of Cyborg Communications: Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, and The English Patient (p. 30 - 55)
• Subjects: Media & Communications, Novel, Postcolonialism
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Gordon E. Slethaug

• "The Coded Dots of Life": Carol Shields's Diaries and Stones (p. 59 - 81)
• Subjects: Life Writing, Novel
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Linda Warley

• Unbecoming a dirty savage: Jane Willis’s Geneish: An Indian Girlhood (p. 83 - 103)
• Subjects: Autobiography, Education/Pedagogy, First Nations, Native Studies, Postcolonialism
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Poems

Paddy McCallum

• from The Poems of Emily Montague: Passage (p. 11)

Paddy McCallum

• from The Poems of Emily Montague: Sentences For A White Church (p. 11)

David Zieroth

• What He Owns (p. 29)

Jay Ruzesky

• The Laying on of Hands (p. 56 - 58)

Monika Lee

• a mother's dying (p. 82)

Rüdiger Krause

• thirteen other ways of looking at Stevens' blackbird (p. 104 - 105)

Harold Rhenisch

• The Deciphering of the Code of Time (p. 106 - 107)

Book Reviews

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Verse in the Bush (p. 108 - 110)

by Warren Stevenson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Jean Baptiste: A Poetic Olio, in II Cantos by Tracy Ware and Levi Adams
2. Poetry by John Strachan by John Strachan and Wanda Campbell

Subjects: Poetry, Scottish-Canadian, Settler Writing

Partners in Crime (p. 110 - 113)

by Aritha van Herk

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Subjects: Novel

Living as Spirits (p. 113 - 114)

by Catherine Rainwater

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Big Bear (Mistahimusqua): A Biography by J. R. Miller
2. Chiwid by Sage Birchwater
3. Gatherings Vol. VI: The En'owkin Journal of First North American Peoples by Don Fiddler and Linda Jaine

Subjects: Biography, First Nations, Journals, Novel

Improvisations and Rehearsals (p. 114 - 116)

by Jon Kertzer

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano by E. D. Blodgett

Subjects: Poetry

Remembering the Great War (p. 116 - 119)

by Peter Buitenhuis

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Dismembering the Male: Men's Bodies, Britain and the Great War by Joanna Bourke
2. The Mobilization of Intellect: French Scholars and Writers in the Great War by Martha Hanna

Subjects: Body & Health, British, Francophone, Gender, World War I

In a Minor Key (p. 119 - 120)

by Linda Lamont-Stewart

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Footnotes to the Book of Job by Elizabeth Brewster

Subjects: Poetry

Visions and Voices (p. 120 - 122)

by Laurie Kruk

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Eye Wuz Here: Stories By Women Writers Under 30 by Shannon Cooley

Subjects: Short Fiction, Women's Literature

Wilderness Dwellers (p. 122 - 124)

by Rebecca Raglon

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Clayoquot: The Sound of My Heart by Betty Shiver Krawczyk
2. Diary of a Wilderness Dweller by Chris Czajkowski

Subjects: Autobiography, Nature Writing, Settler Writing

Ferron and the Other (p. 124 - 126)

by Mary Ellen Ross

Book(s) reviewed:

1. L'Autre Ferron by Ginette Michaud
2. Le Contentieux de l'Acadie by Jacques Ferron

Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Biography, Francophone

Oral Tradition in Print (p. 126 - 127)

by Lynn (J.R.) Wytenbroek

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Dancing at the Crossroads by Joan Finnigan
2. The Dreamer Awakes by Alice Kane

Subjects: Irish-Canadian , Short Fiction

History and Writing in Indonesia (p. 127 - 128)

by Tineke Hellwig

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Telling Lives, Telling History. Autobiography and Historical Imagination in Modern Indonesia by Susan Rodgers
2. Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future, History as Prophecy in Colonial Java by Nancy K. Florida

Subjects: Australasian, Life Writing, Poetry

The Narrative Cure (p. 129 - 131)

by David Leahy

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Bella Combe Journal by Bill Gaston
2. Butterfly Lovers by Charles Foran

Subjects: Novel

Man of the Far Right (p. 131 - 133)

by Michael H. Keefer

Book(s) reviewed:

1. What's Right: The New Conservatism and What It Means for Canada by David Frum

Subjects: Politics

Twice the Culture Cringe (p. 133 - 136)

by Kevin McNeilly

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Very Richness of That Past : Canada Through the Eyes of Foreign Writers. Volume II by Greg Gatenby
2. The Wild Is Always there: Canada Through the Eyes of Foreign Writers by Greg Gatenby

Subjects: Canadian Studies, Comparative

Burning Down the House (p. 136 - 138)

by Jim Ellis

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Reclaiming Sodom by Jonathan Goldberg

Subjects: Gay/Lesbian, Sexuality

Melancholy Memories (p. 138 - 139)

by Stefan Haag

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Rose Garden: Reading Marcel Proust by Kristjana Gunnars

Subjects: Life Writing, Philosophy, Postmodernism

Dance of Difference? (p. 139 - 141)

by Guy Beauregard

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Idols of Otherness: The Rhetoric and Reality of Multiculturalism by Evelyn J. Hinz
2. Writing Ethnicity: Cross-Cultural Consciousness in Canadian and Québécois Literature by Winfried Siemerling

Subjects: Ethnic History, Multiculturalism, Quebec

Disaplacements (p. 141 - 143)

by Sherry Simon

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Making a Difference : Canadian Multicultural Literature by Smaro Kamboureli

Subjects: Canadian Studies, Multiculturalism

Kleinland and Coalbanks (p. 143 - 145)

by Norman Ravvin

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Notebooks: Selections from the A.M. Klein Papers by A. M. Klein, Zailig Pollock, and Usher Caplan
2. Shlepping the Exile by Michael Wex

Subjects: Authorship, Jewish-Canadian

Talking Writing (p. 145 - 147)

by David Creelman

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Likely Story: the writing life by Robert Kroetsch
2. Interviews to Literature by Jean Royer
3. More Writers & Company by Eleanor Wachtel

Subjects: Authorship

Dismembered Culture (p. 147 - 149)

by Robert Bringhurst

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Haida Art by George F. MacDonald

Subjects: Art, First Nations

Excelsior! Religion and Reform in Nineteenth Century Canada (p. 149 - 151)

by Misao Dean

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Revivals and Roller Rinks: Religion, Leisurre and Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Small-Town Ontario by Lynne Marks
2. Roland Graeme, Knight by Carole Gerson and Agnes Maule Machar

Subjects: Memory & Identity, Nineteenth Century, Novel, Ontario, Religion, Women's Studies

Ivory Thoughts (p. 151 - 154)

by Renée Hulan

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Ancient People of the Arctic by Robert McGhee
2. From Talking Chiefs to a Native Corporate Elite : The Birth of Class and Nationalism Among Canadian Inuit by Marybelle Mitchell

Subjects: Archaeology, First Nations, Nationalism, Native Studies

Embracing Truths, Lies (p. 154 - 156)

by Brett Josef Grubisic

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Measure of Time by Karl Jirgens
2. Long Distance Calls by Dave Margoshes
3. Telling My Love Lies by Keath Fraser

Subjects: Novel

Italian-Canadian Diversity (p. 156 - 158)

by Joseph Pivato

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Rage of Love by Alda Merini
2. L'Esilio della Poesia: Poeti italo-canadesi by Marilia Bonincontro
3. The Rooming-House by F. G. Paci
4. Vinnie and Me by Fiorella De Luca Calce

Subjects: Italo-Canadian , Novel, Poetry

Jobbery and Snobbery (p. 158 - 160)

by Ronald Rompkey

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney, 1862-65 by Allan Pritchard
2. White Tie and Decorations: Sir John and Lady Hope Simpson in Newfoundland, 1934-1936 by Peter Neary

Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Colonialism, Correspondence

Trapped Tales (p. 160 - 162)

by Dee Horne

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Traplines by Eden Robinson

Subjects: First Nations, Short Fiction

Villages, nouvelles (p. 162 - 164)

by Marie Vautier

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Quebec Anthology, 1830-1991 by Matt Cohen and Wayne Grady
2. Villages imaginaires: Edouard Montpetit, Jacques Ferron et Jacques Poulin by Pamela V. Sing

Subjects: Postmodernism, Quebec

L'éclosion de plans (p. 164 - 165)

by Matthew Manera

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Histoire d'oeufs by Michel Saint-Germain and Sharon L. Sparling
2. La division de l'intérieur by Mireille Calle-Gruber

Subjects: Francophone, Novel

Elusive Moodie (p. 165 - 167)

by Carole Gerson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Work of Words: The Writing of Susanna Strickland Moodie by John Thurston

Subjects: Life Writing, Literary Criticism

Things as They Were? (p. 167 - 169)

by Julie Beddoes

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Englishman's Bay by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Subjects: Novel, Prairie Writing

Victorian Periodicals (p. 169 - 171)

by Corey Coates

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Periodicals of Queen Victoria's Empire: An Exploration by J. Don Vann and Rosemary T. VanArsdel
2. Toward a Working-Class Canon: Literary Criticism in British Working-Class Periodicals, 1816-1858 by Paul Thomas Murphy

Subjects: Australasian, British, Canadian Studies, Colonialism, Indian/South Asian, Journals, Literary Criticism, Media & Communications, Nineteenth Century, Working Class

Rattling a Noisy Hyphen (p. 171 - 172)

by Guy Beauregard

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Diamond Grill by Fred Wah

Subjects: Asian Canadian, Novel

Seeing Emily, Seeking Carr (p. 173 - 175)

by Rober Thacker

Book(s) reviewed:

1. This Woman in Particular: Contexts for the Biographical Image of Emily Carr by Stephanie Kirkwood Walker

Subjects: Art, Biography, Life Writing

Webb's Into/Inter Space (p. 175 - 176)

by John Hulcoop

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Nothing But Brush Strokes: Selected Prose by Phyllis Webb

Subjects: Essays

The Return of the Subject (p. 176 - 178)

by Bina Toledo Freiwald

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Daughters of Self-Creation: The Contemporary Chicana Novel by Annie O. Eysturoy
2. Life-Writing: A Glossary of Terms in Biography, Autobiography, and Related Forms by Donald J. Winslow
3. Writing Selves: Contemporary Feminist Autography by Jeanne Perreault

Subjects: Autobiography, Biography, Feminism, Life Writing, Novel

Dissent in the Audience (p. 179 - 180)

by Sharon Fuller

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Constructing Danger: : the Mis/representation of Crime in the News by Chris McCormick
2. Deadlines and Diversity: Journalism Ethics in a Changing World by Valerie Alia, Brian Brennan, and Barry Hoffmaster
3. Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News by James Winter

Subjects: Crime & Detective, Journalism, Media & Communications

Opinions & Notes

Jan Zwicky

• Being, Polyphony, Lyric: An Open Letter to Robert Bringhurst (p. 181 - 184)
• Subjects: Correspondence, Poetry

Sean Kane

• Polyphonic Myth: A Reply to Robert Bringhurst (p. 184 - 192)
• Subjects: Poetry

Christoph Irmscher

• Everybody's Laocoon (p. 192 - 198)
• Subjects: Correspondence, Life Writing

Last Pages

Eva-Marie Kröller

• Far-Fetched Facts (p. 200 - 201)
• Subjects: Gender, Postcolonialism, Travel Writing

Eva-Marie Kröller

• Imperial Leather (p. 201 - 203)
• Subjects: Colonialism, Gender, Sexuality