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#158 (Autumn 1998)
New Directions

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Editorial

Neil K Besner

• Articulating New (p. 5 - 9)
• Subjects: Authorship, Biography, Education/Pedagogy
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Articles

Stephen Slemon

• Climbing Mount Everest: Postcolonialism in the Culture of Ascent (p. 15 - 35)
• Subjects: Exploration, Landscape/Space, Postcolonialism
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Penny Van Toorn

• Stories to Live In: Discursive Regimes and Indigenous Canadian and Australian Historiography (p. 42 - 63)
• Subjects: Australasian, Canadian Studies, First Nations, Historiography, Native Studies
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Tamas Dobozy

• Designed Anarchy in Mavis Gallant’s The Moslem Wife and Other Stories (p. 65 - 88)
• Subjects: Postmodernism, Short Fiction
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Carole Gerson

• The Most Canadian of all Canadian Poets: Pauline Johnson and the Construction of a National Literature (p. 90 - 107)
• Subjects: Canadian Studies, Native Studies, Poetry
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David Ingham

• Neo-Platonism, Integration, Identity: Malcolm Lowry’s The Forest Path to the Spring (p. 109 - 126)
• Subjects: Memory & Identity, Philosophy, Short Fiction
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Poems

Linda Rogers

• The Saning (p. 10 - 11)

Laurie Ricou

• Plum Dried Out (p. 12 - 13)

Iain Higgins

• Aerial (p. 36 - 41)

Robert Kroetsch

• Hornbook #15 (p. 64)

Deborah Schnitzer

• The Walls Are Too High (p. 89)

Susan Glickman

• Envy: A Botanical Description (p. 108)

Margaret Avison

• Within the Family (p. 127 - 128)

Book Reviews

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Reading India (p. 129 - 131)

by Vijay Mishra

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia by Lawrence A. Babb and Susan S. Wadley
2. Word, Sound, Image: The Life of the Tamil Text by Saskia Kersenboom

Subjects: Indian/South Asian, Media & Communications, Religion

Transcendental Praxis (p. 131 - 133)

by Don Fisher

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Self Beyond Self: Ethel Wilson and Indian Philosophical Thought by Anjali Bhelande

Subjects: Indian/South Asian, Philosophy, Religion

Ways of Going North (p. 133 - 135)

by Sherrill Grace

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure by James West Davidson and John Rugge
2. Light for a Cold Land: Lawren Harris's Work and Life--An Interpretation by Peter Larisey

Subjects: Art, Atlantic Canada, Biography, Northern Canada

Northrop Frye (p. 135 - 139)

by Germaine Warkentin

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp 1932-1939 by Robert D. Denham

Subjects: Correspondence, Life Writing

Trois romans jeunesse à la courte échelle (p. 139 - 141)

by Anne Scott

Book(s) reviewed:

1. La jeune fille venue du froid by Sylvie Desrosiers
2. Les ténèbres piégées by Bertrand Gauthier
3. Véloville by Raymond Plante

Subjects: Children's Literature, Francophone

Peripheral Visions (p. 141 - 143)

by Maureen Milburn

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Copying People: Photographing British Columbia First Nations 1860-1940 by Daniel Francis
2. Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s to the Present by Liz Heron and Val Williams

Subjects: British Columbia, First Nations, Nineteenth Century, Photography, Twentieth Century, Women's Literature

(Ap)praising Milton Acorn (p. 143 - 145)

by Thomas O'Grady

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Out of This World: The Natural History of Milton Acorn by Chris Gudgeon
2. The Road to Charlottetown by Cedric Smith and Milton Acorn
3. To Hear the Faint Bells by Milton Acorn and Gilda Mekler

Subjects: Biography, Life Writing, Poetry

The English Anne Hébert (p. 145 - 147)

by Leslie Harlin

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Aurélien, Clara, Mademoiselle, and the English Lieutenant by Anne Hebert
2. Shaping the Novel: Textual Interplay in the Fiction of Malraux, Hébert, and Modiano by Constantina Mitchell and Paul Raymond Côté

Subjects: Francophone, Novel

Worlds Within Worlds (p. 148 - 149)

by Allan Brown

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Random Gospel by David Helwig
2. Science Lessons by W. H. New
3. Too Spare, Too Fierce by Patrick Lane

Subjects: Poetry

Framing the Past (p. 149 - 152)

by Norman Ravvin

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States by Matthew Frye Jacobson
2. The Aftermath: A Survivor's Odyssey Through War-torn Europe by Henry Lilienheim

Subjects: Diaspora, Eastern European, Holocaust, Irish-Canadian , Jewish-Canadian , United States, World War II

A Pretty Kettle of Fish (p. 152 - 153)

by Ronald Rompkey

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
2. The Voyage of the Matthew: John Cabot and the Discovery of North America by Peter Firstbrook

Subjects: Animal Studies, Exploration, History

Apocalyptic (Re)Visions (p. 153 - 155)

by Stefan Haag

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Club Chernobyl by Dianne Warren
2. Mad Boy Chronicle by Michael O'Brien
3. The Glace Bay Miners' Museum: (A Stage Play Based on the Novel by Sheldon Currie) by Wendy Lill

Subjects: Drama, History

A Divinity of Self (p. 155 - 156)

by Andréa Cole

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Catching the Wind in a Net: The Religious Vision of Robertson Davies by David Little

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Religion

Economy and Art (p. 157)

by Brent MacLaine

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Master's Wife, Facsimile of 1939 by Ian Ross Robertson and Sir Andrew Macphail

Subjects: History, Life Writing, Settler Writing

North-South Passages (p. 158 - 159)

by John Clement Ball

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Black Jesus and Other Stories by Cyril Dabydeen
2. Homer in Flight by Rabindranath Maharaj

Subjects: Caribbean-Canadian , Immigrant, Novel, Short Fiction

Ethnic at Large (p. 159 - 162)

by Tseen-Ling Khoo

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Ethnic Literature and Culture in the USA, Canada, and Australia by Igor Maver
2. Precarious Present/Promising Future?: Ethnicity and Identities in Canadian Literature by Janice Kulyk Keefer, Danielle Schaub, and Richard E. Sherwin

Subjects: Australasian, Canadian Studies, Ethnic History, Memory & Identity, Postcolonialism, United States

Call for Change (p. 162 - 163)

by Dee Horne

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Thunder in My Soul: A Mohawk Woman Speaks by Patricia Monture-Angus

Subjects: First Nations, Law & Prison, Oral

Stylish Violence (p. 164 - 165)

by Maria Noëlle Ng

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Jade Slash Laverna by Anne Montagnes
2. Looks Perfect by Kim Moritsugu

Subjects: Crime & Detective, Novel

Geography Lessons (p. 165 - 167)

by Leslie Monkman

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Land Sliding: Imagining Space, Presence, and Power in Canadian Writing by W. H. New

Subjects: Landscape/Space

And Other Stories (p. 167 - 170)

by Vijay Mishra

Book(s) reviewed:

1. English Lessons and Other Stories by Shauna Singh Baldwin
2. Lion's Granddaughter and Other Stories by Yasmin Ladha
3. The Monkey King and Other Stories by Griffin Ondaatje

Subjects: Children's Literature, Diaspora, Indian/South Asian, Short Fiction

Récits de voyages (p. 170 - 171)

by Maurice Lemire

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Le Grand voyage du pays des hurons by Gabriel Sagard
2. Un Voyageur français en Nouvelle-France au XVIIe siècle by Dominique Deffain

Subjects: First Nations, Francophone, Quebec, Religion

Compelling Spells (p. 171 - 173)

by Lally Grauer

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Love Medicine and One Song by Gregory Scofield
2. The Quality of Light by Richard Wagamese

Subjects: Novel, Poetry

Opinions & Notes

Claire Wilkshire

• The Voices Voice Comprises: Incorporation, First-Person narration and Gender Performance in Douglas Glover's "Red" (p. 174 - 179)
• Subjects: Gender, Short Fiction

W. H. New

• Inventing 1997 (p. 180 - 189)
• Subjects: Novel, Poetry