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#161-162 (Summer/Autumn 1999)
On Thomas King

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Editorial

Martha C. Piper

• Letter to Canadian Literature (p. 5)
• Subjects: Correspondence

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

• Canadian Literature at 40 (p. 6)
• Subjects: Canadian Studies, Journals
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Articles

Margery Fee

• Introduction (p. 9 - 11)
• Subjects: Education/Pedagogy, First Nations, Novel
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Marlene Goldman

• Mapping and Dreaming: Native Resistance in Green Grass Running Water (p. 18 - 41)
• Subjects: First Nations, Landscape/Space, Novel
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Blanca Chester

• Green Grass, Running Water: Theorizing the World of the Novel (p. 44 - 61)
• Subjects: Literary Theory, Novel, Oral
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Thomas King

• A Short History of Indians in Canada (p. 62 - 64)
• Subjects: First Nations, Short Fiction
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Peter Gzowski and Thomas King

• Peter Gzowski Interviews Thomas King on Green Grass, Running Water (p. 65 - 76)
• Subjects: Authorship, Novel, Postcolonialism
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Florence Stratton

• Cartographic Lessons: Susanna Moodie’s Roughing It in the Bush and Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water (p. 82 - 102)
• Subjects: Canadian Studies, Colonialism, Cultural Studies, Landscape/Space, Life Writing, Novel
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Herb Wyile

• Trust Tonto: Thomas King’s Subversive Fictions and the Politics of Cultural Literacy (p. 105 - 124)
• Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Theory, Multiculturalism, Novel, Postcolonialism
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Margery Fee and Jane Flick

• Coyote Pedagogy: Knowing Where the Borders Are in Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water (p. 131 - 139)
• Subjects: Education/Pedagogy, Landscape/Space, Novel
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Jane Flick

• Reading Notes for Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water (p. 140 - 172)
• Subjects: Canadian Studies, Education/Pedagogy, First Nations, History, Novel
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Poems

Tony Cosier

• from "The Canoe" (p. 7 - 8)

Robert Kroetsch

• The RK Hornbook Retractions (p. 12 - 17)

Hannah Main-van der Kamp

• Manicheans (p. 42)

Susan McCaslin

• Your Metaphors Aren't Allegories, Teresa (p. 43)

Bert Almon

• Robert Ripley and the Eleven Bridges of Wayne, Alberta (p. 77 - 78)

Carole Langille

• Phone Survey (p. 79 - 80)

Stephen Bett

• Save-On-Black Hole (p. 81)

Leonard Neufeldt

• The Gene that Ages Words in Winter (p. 103 - 104)

Peter Dale Scott

• FRS: (from Minding the Darkness) (p. 125 - 130)

Book Reviews

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Windows on the Past (p. 173 - 175)

by Gernot R. Wieland

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Draugr by Arthur G. Slade
2. The Gambler's Daughter by Shirlee Smith Matheson
3. Under Emily's Sky by Ann Alma

Subjects: Historical Fiction, Young Adult

Culture Surfing (p. 175 - 178)

by Stephen Ross

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Be Labour Reading by Clint Burnham
2. The Concrete Air by Nelson Ball
3. The Last Word: An Insomniac Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Poetry by Michael Holmes

Subjects: Cultural Studies, Poetry

Placing the Text (p. 178 - 179)

by David Creelman

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Novels and the Nation: Essays in Canadian Literature by Frank Birbalsingh
2. The Margin Speaks: A Study of Margaret Laurence and Robert Kroetsch from a Post-Colonial Point of View by Gunilla Florby

Subjects: Canadian Studies, Literary Criticism, Novel, Postcolonialism

Desire and Will (p. 180 - 182)

by Lawrence Mathews

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Night Season by Paul Bowdring
2. Trouble and Desire by Robin Mcgrath

Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Novel, Short Fiction

Still Need the Revolution (p. 182 - 184)

by Susan Gingell

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Land to Light on by Dionne Brand

Subjects: Poetry

Québec in Translation (p. 184 - 187)

by Leslie Harlin

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Sociocritique of Translation: Theatre and Alterity in Quebec, 1968-1988 by Annie Brisset
2. Affairs of Art by Lise Bissonnette
3. Aurora Montrealis by Monique Proulx

Subjects: Drama, Francophone, Quebec, Short Fiction, Twentieth Century

A Gift of Prophecy (p. 187 - 189)

by Jed Rasula

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

Subjects: Novel

George Grant (p. 189 - 190)

by Barry Cooper

Book(s) reviewed:

1. George Grant: Selected Letters by William Christian
2. George Grant and the Subversion of Modernity : Art, Philosophy, Politics, Religion and Education by Arthur Davis

Subjects: Biography, Correspondence

Bodies Turned to Words (p. 190 - 192)

by Melanie Kolbeins

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing by G. Thomas Couser
2. Sobering Tales: Narratives of Alcoholism and Recovery by Edmund B. O'Reilly

Subjects: Body & Health, Life Writing

Theorizing the World Through Story (p. 192 - 194)

by Blanca Chester

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Social Science of Stories by Julie Cruikshank

Subjects: First Nations, Northern Canada, Oral

Pictures, Life, Opinion (p. 194 - 197)

by Klay Dyer

Book(s) reviewed:

1. In the Garden of Charity by Basil King
2. Stories Subversive: Through the Field with Gloves Off. Short Fiction by Nellie L. McClung by Marilyn J. Davis and Nellie McClung
3. The Haliburton Bi-centenary Chaplet by Richard C. Davis
4. The Imperialist by Sara Jeannette Duncan

Subjects: Novel, Politics, Short Fiction

The Soul of the World (p. 197 - 198)

by Catherine Rainwater

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Earth's Mind: Essays in Native Literature by Roger Dunsmore
2. Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America by Gloria Bird and Joy Harjo

Subjects: First Nations, Native Studies, Women's Literature

Speaking Bodies (p. 201 - 203)

by Judy Segal

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics by Arthur W. Frank
2. Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History by Cathy Caruth

Subjects: Body & Health, History, Trauma

Playing With the Margins (p. 203 - 205)

by Terry Goldie

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Fair Liberty's Call by Sharon Pollock
2. Poor Superman by Brad Fraser
3. Sled by Judith Thompson

Subjects: Drama

Probabilities of Life (p. 205 - 207)

by Ulrich Teucher

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Last Seen by Matt Cohen
2. Ostend by Francois Gravel

Subjects: Novel

Women in the North (p. 207 - 208)

by Sherrill Grace

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Kabloona in the Yellow Kayak by Victoria Jason
2. Winging It in the North by Lyn Hancock

Subjects: Autobiography, Northern Canada, Women's Literature

Bodies at Home (p. 209)

by Catherine Nelson-McDermott

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Body Speaking Words by Loree Harrell
2. Home Fires by Jean Rysstad

Subjects: British Columbia, Novel

Transforming Words (p. 210 - 211)

by Laurie Aikman

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Green Culture: Environmental Rhetorica in Contemporary America by Carl G. Herndl and Stuart C. Brown
2. Singing Bone by Katharine Bitney

Subjects: Environment, Poetry, United States

Storying Northern History (p. 212 - 214)

by Sherrill Grace

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Ice Master: A Novel of the Arctic by James Houston
2. The Man From the Creeks by Robert Kroetsch
3. Trapped in Ice by Eric Walters

Subjects: Children's Literature, Historical Fiction, Historiography, Novel

Hard & Soft Boiled (p. 217 - 218)

by Tamas Dobozy

Book(s) reviewed:

1. This Dark Embrace by Paul Stuewe

Subjects: Crime & Detective, Novel

Understanding Cruz (p. 218 - 220)

by Scott Gordon

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Another Way to Dance: Contemporary Asian Poetry from Canada and the United States by Cyril Dabydeen
2. Dark Antonyms and Paradise: The Poetry of Rienzi Crusz by Chelva Kanaganayakam
3. Insurgent Rain: Selected Poems 1974-1996 by Rienzi Crusz

Subjects: Asian American, Asian Canadian, Poetry

Identity and Difference (p. 220 - 222)

by Catherine Rainwater

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Critical Perspectives on Native American Fiction by Richard F. Fleck
2. Women Reading, Women Writing: Self-Invention in Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldúam and Audre Lorde by Ana Louise Keating

Subjects: First Nations, Novel

Life-writing Practices (p. 222 - 225)

by Joy Henley

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Beyond the Home Front: Women's Autobiographical Writing of the Two World Wars by Yvonne M. Klein
2. Great Dames by Elspeth Cameron and Janice Dickin
3. Thirty-Two Short Views of Mazo de la Roche : A Biographical Essay by Daniel L. Bratton

Subjects: Autobiography, Biography, Life Writing, War , Women's Literature, Women's Studies, World War I, World War II

The Vanished Beothuk (p. 226 - 227)

by Jennifer S. H. Brown

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk by Ingeborg Marshall

Subjects: Ethnic History, Native Studies

Environmental Sensibilities (p. 227 - 229)

by Stefan Haag

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Ariadne's Thread by Soraya Erian
2. I Mention the Garden for Clarity by Vivian Marple
3. Mahoning by A. F. Moritz
4. Marine Snow by Karen MacCormack
5. Spells for Clear Vision by Neile Graham

Subjects: Poetry

That Fin-de-Siècle Feeling (p. 230 - 231)

by Wilhelm Emilsson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Paris by Vanessa R. Schwartz
2. The Shape of Fear: Horror and the Fin de Siècle Culture of Decadence by Susan J. Navarette

Subjects: Crime & Detective, Cultural Studies, Nineteenth Century, Speculative Fiction

Icelandic Voices (p. 231 - 233)

by Wilhelm Emilsson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Atli's Tale by Mike Olito
2. The Icelandic Voice in Canadian Letters: The Contribution of Icelandic-Canadian Writers to Canadian Literature by Daisy L. Neijmann

Subjects: Icelandic-Canadian, Multiculturalism, Novel

Analyse et perte (p. 233 - 235)

by André Levasseur

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Hosanna et les duchesses. Étiologie de l'homosexualité masculine de Freud à Tremblay by Ginette Pelland
2. Lucky Lady by Jean Marc Dalpé

Subjects: Gay/Lesbian, Novel, Sexuality, Social Sciences

Jewishness and Memory (p. 235 - 238)

by Batia Stolar

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity, and Memory by Norman Ravvin
2. We Who Can Fly: Poems, Essays and Memories in Honour of Adele Wiseman by Elizabeth Greene

Subjects: Jewish-Canadian , Life Writing, Memory & Identity

Generation in a Coma (p. 238 - 239)

by Kegan Doyle

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
2. Noise by Russell Smith

Subjects: Novel

A Publisher's Letters (p. 240 - 241)

by Janet Friskney

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters of Jack McClelland by Sam Solecki

Subjects: Correspondence, Publishing

Canadian Myth-Making (p. 241 - 242)

by T. B. Vincent

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Inventing the Loyalists by Norman Knowles
2. The Backwoods of Canada by Catharine Parr Traill

Subjects: History, Settler Writing

Poésie québecoise et canadienne-anglaise (p. 243 - 244)

by R. Mésavage

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Contre-taille: Poèmes choisis de vingt-cinq auteurs canadiens-anglais by Pierre Desruisseaux
2. Souffle d'eau by France Tremblay

Subjects: Francophone, Poetry, Quebec

The Ice-White Eye (p. 245 - 247)

by Marlene Goldman

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart

Subjects: Novel

Les tribulations de la critique québecoise (p. 247 - 249)

by André Lamontagne

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Lectures du postmodernisme dans le roman québécois by Lucie-Marie Magnan and Christopher Morin
2. Les tribulations du livre québécois en France (1959-1985) by Josée Vincent

Subjects: Francophone, Postmodernism, Quebec, Twentieth Century

Lives of Girls (p. 249 - 250)

by Julie Beddoes

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Bread, Wine and Angels by Anna Zurzolo
2. Fox's Nose by Sally Ireland

Subjects: Novel