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#157 (Summer 1998)
(Thomas Raddall, Alice Munro & Aritha van Herk)

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Editorial

Eva-Marie Kröller

• Canadian Literature? (p. 5 - 11)
• Subjects: Canadian Studies, First Nations, Multiculturalism, Nationalism, Publishing
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Articles

Maureen Moynagh

• Africville, an Imagined Community (p. 14 - 34)
• Subjects: Afro-Canadian, Atlantic Canada, Cultural Studies, Nationalism, Postcolonialism
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Susan Knutson

• From Marichette to Rosealba and La Sagouine: A Genealogy au féminin for Acadian Theatre (p. 36 - 53)
• Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Drama, Oral , Women's Literature
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Glenn Willmott

• The Frontier beyond Empire: East of Everything in Thomas Raddall’s The Nymph and the Lamp (p. 56 - 78)
• Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Colonialism, Novel, Western
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Karin Beeler

• Shifting Form: An Interview with Aritha van Herk (p. 80 - 96)
• Subjects: Authorship
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Asta Mott

• Aritha van Herk’s Places Far From Ellesmere: The Wild and Adventurous North? (p. 99 - 111)
• Subjects: Northern Canada, Novel, Women's Studies
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Poems

George Elliott Clarke

• Antiphony (p. 12)

George Elliott Clarke

• Absurdio (p. 13)

George Elliott Clarke

• Reading Trudeau's Cheminements de la politique in May 1979 (p. 35)

Thomas O'Grady

• Fox Tongs (p. 54)

Sherry Johnson

• fovea centralis (p. 55)

David Barton

• Sage Man (p. 79)

Beverley Brahic-Bie

• Luck (p. 97)

Andrew Steeves

• Ghazal xxiii (p. 98)

Derk Wynand

• Tribute (p. 112)

Mark Sinnett

• At the track, or Dog chases rabbit (p. 113)

Book Reviews

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Speaking to Colonization (p. 114 - 116)

by Emma LaRocque

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Tortured People: The Politic of Colonization by Howard Adams
2. Stories of the Road Allowance People by Maria Campbell and Sherry Farrell Racette

Subjects: Colonialism, First Nations, Language/Linguistics, Oral

L'Artiste et la réception (p. 117 - 119)

by Grazia Merler

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Artistes immigrants, societé québécoise: un bateau sur le fleuve by Juan C. Aguirre
2. De l'interprétation en arts visuels by Nycole Paquin

Subjects: Art, Quebec

Etudes québecoises (p. 119 - 121)

by Guy Poirier

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Etudes québécoises: bilan et perspectives by Hans-Josef Niederehe
2. Pour une lecture du roman québécois by Aurélien Boivin

Subjects: Francophone, Literary Criticism

Transatlantic Multiculturalisms (p. 121 - 125)

by Winfried Simerling

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Immigration and Ethnicity in Canada--Immigration et Ethnicité au Canada by Anne Laperrière, Tamara Palmer Seiler, and Varpu Lindström
2. Multiculturalism in North America and Europe: Social Practices--Literary Visions by Wolfgang Klooss and Braun Hans
3. The Guises of Canadian Diversity: : New European Perspectives--Les masques de la diversité canadienne: Nouvelles perspectives européennes by Serge Jaumain and Marc Maufort

Subjects: Canadian Studies, Ethnic History, Immigrant, Multiculturalism

Giants in the Land (p. 125 - 127)

by Cedric May

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Clair génie du vent by Françios Charron
2. Danse de l'oeuf by Paul Savoie
3. Oasis by Paul Savoie
4. Particulièrement la vie change by André Brochu
5. Peut-il rêver celui qui s'endort dans la gueule des chiens by Robert Fortin

Subjects: Francophone, Poetry

Le suspense au féminin (p. 127 - 129)

by Daniela Di Cecco

Book(s) reviewed:

1. C'est pour mieux t'aimer, mon enfant by Christine Brouillet
2. Détail de la mort by Anne Legault

Subjects: Francophone, Novel

Widening the Margins (p. 129 - 132)

by Peter Dickinson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Plush: Selected Poems by Sky Gilbert, Courtnay McFarlane, Jeffrey Conway, David Trinidad, and R. M. Vaughan
2. Queer View Mirror: Lesbian and Gay Short Short Fiction by James C. Johnstone and Karen X. Tulchinsky
3. The Ethics of Marginality: A New Approach to Gay Studies by John Champagne

Subjects: Gay/Lesbian, Poetry, Short Fiction

Two Solitudes (p. 132 - 134)

by Lawrence Mathews

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Chump Change by David Eddie
2. The Silent Partner by Herb Curtis

Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Novel

Arctic and Human Remains (p. 134 - 136)

by Renée Hulan

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Long Way from Home: The Tuberculosis Epidemic among the Inuit by Pat Sandiford Grygier
2. Confessions of an Igloo Dweller by James Houston
3. Lobsticks and Stone Cairns: Human Landmarks in the Arctic by Richard C. Davis

Subjects: Art, Autobiography, Body & Health, First Nations, Northern Canada

Imaginary Geographies (p. 136 - 138)

by N. E. Currie

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A World Under Sentence: John Richardson and the Interior by Dennis Duffy
2. Hamatsa: The Enigma of Cannibalism on the Pacific Northwest Coast by Jim McDowell

Subjects: Body & Health, Life Writing, Northern Canada

Intimations of Grace (p. 138 - 140)

by Michael Greene

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Year of Lesser by David Bergen
2. The Doctor's House by Cary Fagan
3. The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp

Subjects: First Nations, Novel

Liberté surveillée (p. 142 - 143)

by Mylène Lévesque

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Betsi Larousse ou l'ineffable eccéité de la loutre by Louis Hamelin
2. Un sourire incertain by Bernard Lévy

Subjects: Francophone, Novel

De la rêverie au cauchemar (p. 145 - 147)

by Daniel Chouinard

Book(s) reviewed:

1. La Foire aux fauves by Guy Lavigne
2. Un oiseau dans la tête by Marie-France Hébert

Subjects: Children's Literature, Crime & Detective, Francophone

Bliss in Never Knowing (p. 147 - 149)

by Andrew Lesk

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Broken Windows by Patricia Nolan
2. Driving Me Mad by Elise Levine
3. You Never Know by Isabel Huggan

Subjects: Short Fiction

Performer and Audience (p. 149 - 151)

by Bryan N. S. Gooch

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Starting from Porcupine by William Aide
2. The Goldberg Variation by Nancy Huston

Subjects: Autobiography, Life Writing, Music

Power Works (p. 151 - 153)

by Maria Noëlle Ng

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Cultural Politics: Class, Gender, Race and the Postmodern World by Chris Weedon and Glenn Jordan
2. Engendering China: Women, Culture and the State by Christina K. Gilmartin, Gail Hershatter, Lisa Rofel, and Tyrene White

Subjects: Asian Culture, Cultural Studies, Gender, Postmodernism, Women's Studies

Promoting Canadian Writers (p. 153 - 155)

by Heather Sanderson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Portrait of the Artist: Ernest Buckler's The Mountain and the Valley by Barbara Pell
2. Canadian Writers and their Works: Fiction Series, Volume Twelve by Robert Lecker, Ellen Quigley, and Jack David
3. Writing on Trial: Timothy Findly's Famous Last Words by Diana Brydon

Subjects: Life Writing, Literary Criticism

Specificity, Métissage (p. 155 - 157)

by Susan Knutson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. New Perspectives on Margaret Laurence: Poetic Narrative, Multiculturalism, and Feminism by Greta M. K. McCormick Coger
2. Postcolonial Subjects: Francophone Women Writers by Mary Jean Green, Karen Gould, Micheline Rice-Maximin, Keith L. Walker, and Jack A. Yeager

Subjects: Feminism, Francophone, Multiculturalism, Postcolonialism, Women's Literature

Image and Text (p. 157 - 158)

by Stephen Guy-Bray

Book(s) reviewed:

1. In/Different Spaces: Place and Memory in Visual Culture by Victor Burgin
2. The Future of the Book by Geoffrey Nunberg

Subjects: Media & Communications, Memory & Identity, Publishing

History Comes Alive (p. 159 - 160)

by Lynn (J.R.) Wytenbroek

Book(s) reviewed:

1. If It Rains again Tomorrow, Can We Go Home? by Frank O'Keefe
2. Rebellion: A Novel of Upper Canada by Marianne Brandis
3. The Secret under the Whirlpool by Elaine Breault Hammond

Subjects: History, Young Adult

Graceful Clarities (p. 160 - 163)

by Kevin McNeilly

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Hologram by P. K. Page

Subjects: Poetry

Fictions de Québecoises (p. 163 - 165)

by Louise H. Forsyth

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Le roman québécois au féminin (1980-1995) by Gabrielle Pascal

Subjects: Francophone, Novel, Quebec, Twentieth Century, Women's Literature

The Trials of Youth (p. 165 - 167)

by Gernot R. Wieland

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Fly Named Alfred by Don Trembath
2. Alphabet Soup: A Novel for Young Adults by Kerry Rauch
3. Three Against Time by Margaret Taylor

Subjects: History, Young Adult

Between the Images (p. 167 - 168)

by Peter Geller

Book(s) reviewed:

1. I Have Lived Here Since the World Began: An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People by Arthur J. Ray

Subjects: Canadian Studies, First Nations, Native Studies

Past and Present (p. 168 - 170)

by Bryan N. S. Gooch

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Dead Men's Watches by Hugh Hood
2. The Box Social and Other Stories by James Reaney

Subjects: Short Fiction

Dreaming of Sport: Memories and Cartoons (p. 170 - 172)

by Andrew Bartlett

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Hockey Dreams: Memories of a Man Who Couldn't Play by David Adams Richards
2. Home Game by Paul Quarrington

Subjects: Life Writing, Novel, Sports Writing

Through This Glass Eye (p. 172 - 174)

by Diane Stiles

Book(s) reviewed:

1. P.K. Page: A Special Issue by Jay Ruzesky

Subjects: Authorship, Journals, Poetry

Crime & Canadian Women (p. 174 - 176)

by Heta Pyrhönen

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Investigating Women: Female Detectives by Canadian Writers. An Eclectic Sampler by David Skene-Melvin
2. The Anastasia Connection by Veronica Ross

Subjects: Canadian Studies, Crime & Detective, Feminism, Novel, Short Fiction, Women's Studies

Approaching Earth (p. 176 - 178)

by Tamas Dobozy

Book(s) reviewed:

1. On Earth As It Is by Steven Heighton
2. The Bride of Texas by Josef Skvorecky

Subjects: Novel, War

Essential Intimacies (p. 178 - 181)

by Lisa Salem-Wiseman

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Honour by Ann Decter
2. Season of Apples by Ann Copeland
3. The Garden of Earthly Intimacies by Meeka Walsh

Subjects: Feminism, Novel, Short Fiction, Women's Literature

Tributes to Friendship (p. 181 - 183)

by Elizabeth Greene

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Crackpot by Rachel Wyatt
2. The Day Marlene Dietrich Died by Rachel Wyatt

Subjects: Drama, Novel, Short Fiction

Opinions & Notes

W. H. New

• Occasional Notes (p. 184 - 185)
• Subjects: Australasian, Caribbean-Canadian , Colonialism, Postcolonialism

Laurie Ricou

• Imprinting Landscapes (p. 185 - 189)
• Subjects: Authorship, Ecocriticism, Landscape/Space, Nature Writing