Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Stories of the Road Allowance People by Sherry Farrell Racette and Maria Campbell
  • A Tortured People: The Politics of Colonization by Howard Adams

Book(s) Reviewed

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

Etudes québecoises (p. 119-121)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Etudes québécoises: bilan et perspective by Hans-Josef Niederehe
  • Pour une lecture du roman québécois by Aurélien Boivin

Book(s) Reviewed

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

Giants in the Land (p. 125-127)

Book(s) Reviewed

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

Book(s) Reviewed

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

Book(s) Reviewed

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

Two Solitudes (p. 132-134)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Silent Partner by Herb Curtis
  • Chump Change by David Eddie

Book(s) Reviewed

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

Book(s) Reviewed

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

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Doctor's House by Cary Fagan
  • The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp
  • A Year of Lesser by David Bergen

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Actes du colloque international "Gabrielle Roy" by André Fauchon

Book(s) Reviewed

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

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Conception of Winter by Claire Harris
  • Fables from the Women's Quarters by Claire Harris
  • Dipped in Shadow by Claire Harris

Book(s) Reviewed

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

Book(s) Reviewed

  • You Never Know by Isabel Huggan
  • Driving Me Mad by Elise Levine
  • Broken Windows by Patricia Nolan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Goldberg Variation by Nancy Huston
  • Starting from Porcupine by William Aide

Power Works (p. 151-153)

Book(s) Reviewed

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

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canadian Writers and Their Works: Fiction Series, Volume 12 by Robert Lecker, Jack David and Ellen Quigley
  • Writing on Trial: Timothy Findley's Famous Last Words by Diana Brydon
  • A Portrait of the Artist: Ernest Buckler's The Mountain and the Valley by Barbara Pell

Book(s) Reviewed

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

Image and Text (p. 157-158)

Book(s) Reviewed

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

History Comes Alive (p. 159-160)

Book(s) Reviewed

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

Graceful Clarities (p. 160-163)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hologram by P. K. Page

Book(s) Reviewed

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

The Trials of Youth (p. 165-167)

Book(s) Reviewed

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

Between the Images (p. 167-168)

Book(s) Reviewed

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

Past and Present (p. 168-170)

Book(s) Reviewed

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

Dreaming of Sport (p. 170-172)

Book(s) Reviewed

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

Book(s) Reviewed

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

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Investigating Women by David Skene-Melvin
  • The Anastasia Connection by Veronica Ross

Approaching Earth (p. 176-178)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Bride of Texas by Josef Skvorecky
  • On Earth As It Is by Steven Heighton

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Garden of Earthly Intimacies by Meeka Walsh
  • Season of Apples by Ann Copeland
  • Honour by Ann Decter

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Day Marlene Dietrich Died by Rachel Wyatt
  • Crackpot by Rachel Wyatt