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Canadian Literature's Issue 215 (Winter 2012) is now available. The issue features articles by Renate Eigenbrod, K. J. Verwaayen, Paul Murphy, Sylvie Vranckx, Mareike Neuhaus, Angela Van Essen, and Anouk Lang, and new Canadian poetry & book reviews.

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#169 (Summer 2001)
(Blais, Laurence, Birdsell, Munro, Jacob, Chen)

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Editorial

Eva-Marie Kröller

Articles

Victor-Laurent Tremblay

Wendy Roy

Lori Saint-Martin

Isla Duncan

Klaus P. Stich

Poems

Michael deBeyer

Michael deBeyer

Paddy McCallum

Debbi Waters

Sandy Shreve

Debbi Waters

K. I. Press

M. Travis Lane

Book Reviews

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Writing 2K (p. 126 - 127)

by John Orange

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. On the Threshold: Writing Toward the Year 2000 by T. Anne Archer et al.
  2. Turn of the Story: Canadian Short Ficition on the Eve of the Millenium by Heidi Harms and Joan Thomas

Subjects: Anthologies, Poetry, Short Fiction, Twentieth Century

Lecture dans les marges (p. 127 - 129)

by Lucie Lequin

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Contre-voix. Essais de critique au féminin by Lori Saint-Martin
  2. Érudition et passion dans les lectures intimes by Manon Brunei

Subjects: Francophone, Life Writing, Women's Studies

Celebrating Spoken Word (p. 129 - 131)

by Susan Ellis

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Poetry Nation: The North American Anthology of Fusion Poetry by Regie Cabico and Todd Ellis
  2. The Sweet Taste of Lightning: Po'ems and Po'em-o-logues by Sheri-D Wilson

Subjects: Oral , Poetry

Anthologizing a Woman's Life (p. 131 - 132)

by Sarah King

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Penguin Anthology of Stories by Canadian Women by Denise Chong

Subjects: Anthologies, Short Fiction, Women's Literature

Memories of Mothers (p. 132 - 134)

by Mark Cohen

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Bite the Stars by Eliza Clark
  2. Miss You Like Crazy by Eliza Clark

Subjects: Memory & Identity, Novel

Canadian Lives (p. 134 - 136)

by Janice Fiamengo

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Dictionary of Canadian Biography: Volume XIV, 1911-1920 by Jean Hamelin and Ramsay Cook

Subjects: Biography, Canadian Studies, History

The Art of Artifice (p. 136 - 138)

by Andrew Lesk

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Angel Falls by Tim Wynveen
  2. Beneath that Starry Place by Terry Jordan
  3. Delirium by Douglas Cooper

Subjects: Novel

A Shout Out to Marsh (p. 138 - 140)

by E. Hamilton

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Marshall McLuhan: Escape into Understanding by Terence W. Gordon
  2. Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger by Philip Marchand

Subjects: Biography, Literary Theory, Media & Communications

Rereading Bethune (p. 140 - 141)

by Larry McDonald

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Politics of Passion: Norman Bethune's Writing and Art by Larry Hannant

Subjects: Art, Biography, Politics

From Colony to Nation? Canada Revised (p. 141 - 144)

by Andrea Cabajsky

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Imperial Canada: 1867-1917 by Colin M. Coates
  2. Practising Femininity: Domestic Realism and the Performance of Gender in Early Canadian Fiction by Misao Dean
  3. Worrying the Nation: Imagining a National Literature in English Canada by Jonathan Kertzer

Subjects: Essays, Feminism, Gender, Historiography, Nationalism

Nation/Transnation (p. 144 - 147)

by Guy Beauregard

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Scandalous Bodies: Diasporic Literature in English Canada by Smaro Kamboureli
  2. The Americas of Asian American Literature: Gendered Fictions of Nation and Transnation by Rachel C. Lee

Subjects: Asian American, Diaspora, Gender, Literary Criticism, Transnationalism

Who Were Those Masked Men? (p. 147 - 149)

by Dermot McCarthy

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Irving Layton: God's Recording Angel by Francis Mansbridge
  2. Milton Acorn: In Love and Anger by Richard Lemm

Subjects: Biography, Poetry

Visit-Stay (p. 149 - 150)

by Gili Bethlehem

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Sulha by Malka Marom

Subjects: Diaspora, Immigrant, Israeli-Canadian , Memory & Identity, Novel

Magic in Narrative (p. 150 - 152)

by Bryan N. S. Gooch

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. An Evening with W.O. Mitchell by Barbara Mitchell and Ormond Mitchell
  2. Magic Lies: The Art of W.O. Mitchell by David Latham and Sheila Latham

Subjects: Essays, Literary Criticism, Oral , Prairie Writing, Short Fiction

The Questions Posed to Life by Death, A Canon for Three Voices (p. 152 - 154)

by Susan Knutson

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Kaddish for My Father: New and Selected Poems 1970-1999 by Libby Scheier
  2. Things that Keep and Do Not Change by Susan Musgrave
  3. What the Living Won't Let Go by Lorna Crozier

Subjects: Poetry, Short Fiction

Wounded Narratives (p. 154 - 157)

by Méira Cook

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Fresh Wounds: Early Narratives of Holocaust Suvival by Donald L. Niewyk
  2. Shattered Subjects: Trauma and Testimony in Women's Life-Writing by Suzette A. Henke

Subjects: Holocaust, Life Writing, Oral , Trauma, Women's Literature

Re-Inventing the Real (p. 157 - 159)

by Laurie Kruk

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Fine Daughter by Catherine Simmons Niven
  2. The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World by Natalee Caple
  3. The Tracey Fragments by Maureen Medved
  4. We Could Stay Here All Night by Debbie Howlett

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

On Life, Love and Cats (p. 159 - 161)

by Heather Sanderson

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Selected Poems by Alden A. Nowlan, Patrick Lane, and Lorna Crozier
  2. White Madness by Alden A. Nowlan

Subjects: Poetry

Nations and Their Narrations (p. 161 - 163)

by Isidore Okpewho

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Once Upon a Kingdom: Myth, Hegemony, and Identity by Isidore Okpewho

Subjects: Oral , Postcolonialism

The 'Yellow Peril' Today (p. 163 - 166)

by Maria Noëlle Ng

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. China Chic: East Meets West by John S. Major and Valerie Steele
  2. Space of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China by Mayfair Mei-hui Yang
  3. The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas by Lynn Pan

Subjects: Asian Culture, Diaspora, Essays, Ethnic History, Film, Gender

Culturally Bound Illness (p. 167 - 169)

by Anna Cooper

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Gout: The Patrician Malady by Roy Porter and G.S. Rousseau
  2. Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age by David B. Morris
  3. Wishbone Dance by Glen Downie

Subjects: Body & Health, Cultural Studies, Essays, History, Poetry, Postmodernism

Unfixed Selves (p. 169 - 172)

by Vijay Mishra

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Beautitudes of Ice by Rienzi Crusz
  2. The Faces of Galle Face Green by Suwanda H. J. Sugunasiri
  3. The Heat Yesterday by Ian Iqbal Rashid

Subjects: Diaspora, Indian/South Asian, Memory & Identity, Poetry

Educating Readers (p. 172 - 175)

by Shelley King

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Scarlet Letters: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale by Lee Thompson Briscoe
  2. Schools of Sympathy: Gender and Identification Through the Novel by Nancy Roberts
  3. Seeing the Dark: Maragret Atwood's Cat's Eye by Arnold E. Davidson

Subjects: Gender, Literary Criticism, Women's Literature

Various Fictions (p. 175 - 178)

by Norman Ravvin

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. My Paris by Gail Scott
  2. Rembrandt's Model by Yeshim Ternar
  3. The World Beaters by Ed Kleiman

Subjects: Gay/Lesbian, Jewish-Canadian , Novel, Short Fiction

Renovated realism (p. 178 - 181)

by Brett Josef Grubisic

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. All the Anxious Girls on Earth by Zsuszi Gartner
  2. Sex is Red by Bill Gaston
  3. The Death of the Moon by Brian Panhuyzen
  4. Young Men by Russell Smith

Subjects: Novel, Short Fiction

Long-Lost Worlds (p. 181 - 182)

by Dermot McCarthy

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Close to Home by Raymond Souster
  2. Collected Poems of Raymond Souster: Volume Eight 1991-1993 by Raymond Souster
  3. No Sad Songs Wanted Here by Raymond Souster

Subjects: Poetry

A Work of Devotion (p. 182 - 184)

by Joseph Jones

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Bibliography of Stephen Leacock by Carl Spadoni

Subjects: Bibliography

Professor E-merit-us (p. 184 - 185)

by Ruth Panofsky

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Chapters in a Lucky Life by Clara Thomas

Subjects: Life Writing

Flights of Verse (p. 185 - 187)

by Ian Rae

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
  2. Bolder Flights: Essays on the Canadian Long Poem by Frank M. Tierney and Angela Robbeson

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Poetry

Fooling Around At Last (p. 187 - 188)

by Susan Ellis

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Colours of the Forest by Tom Wayman

Subjects: Poetry



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