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#174 (Autumn 2002)
Travel

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Editorial

Eva-Marie Kröller

• Or Shall a More Enlarged View Prevail? (p. 7 - 11)
• Subjects: Historiography, Politics, Travel Writing
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Articles

Norman Ravvin

• Tragic Tourism and North American Jewish Identity: Investigating a Radzanow Street, a Mlawa Apple and and Unbuilt Museum (p. 13 - 28)
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  Jewish travel to eastern Europe has thrived since the fall of the Soviet Empire, but the dynamics of this trend – the transformation of the old world from largely repressed and forgotten into a new centrality in Jewish identity – tells us a great deal about changing views of the Holocaust, the Jewish past in Europe, and the appearance of new sites of identification for present-day Jewish life. This article merges memoir and critical study, in an effort to convey the complicated narratives being enacted as Jews meet Poles in a contemporary context, giving rise to the term “tragic tourism.”

• Subjects: Jewish-Canadian , Life Writing, Travel Writing
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Susan Fisher

• Our Next Neighbour Across the Way: Japan and Canadian Writers (p. 29 - 48)
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  This paper examines changing representations of Japan in Canadian writing. It begins with Ranald MacDonald’s narrative of his ten-month captivity in Japan in 1848-49. It then examines the parodic travel account in the Japanese section of Sara Jeannette Duncan’s 1890 A Social Encounter. Japan as it was in the 1920s and 1930s figures in the memoirs of diplomat Hugh Keenleyside and journalist Phyllis Argall. The final section of the article examines postwar writing about Japan, focusing on two (sometimes overlapping) groups: Japanese Canadians in search of a homeland and young Canadians in search of exotic Japan. This final section also examines how writers of the 1990s have largely abandoned conventional travel writing, favouring instead fictionalized accounts that draw on Japanese literary models.

• Subjects: Asian Canadian, Travel Writing
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Denise Adèle Heaps

• You Are My Wife! Good-bye City Life!: Mrs. Philomena Orford and Mrs. Tom Manning journey North (p. 50 - 69)
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  This essay explores the intersections of the genre of travel writing, gender, and Arctic geography through an analysis of two little known, lively travel books by Canadian women.
  
  Scholarly interest in Arctic travel and exploration narratives has focused on depictions of self and place in works by early male explorers and travellers, and, more recently, on early “solo” female travellers. In Journey North (1957), Philomena Orford’s depiction of her 1936-1940 residency in Panuk, Baffin Island, and Igloo for the Night (1943), Ella Wallace Manning’s record of her cartographic exploration of the west coast of Baffin Island in the 1930s, we find alternative visions of self and place.
  
  Orford and Manning write from the position of the incorporated wife in that their husbands, specifically their husbands’ occupations, function as the authors’ “passport” to Arctic travel. They struggle with their identity as incorporated wives as they seek out their own reasons for being in the Arctic.

• Subjects: Northern Canada, Travel Writing, Women's Literature
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Kevin Flynn

• The Railway in Canadian Poetry (p. 70 - 95)
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  An opposition between the rural and the urban, and between traditional and modern poetic values, is central to poetic representations of the railway in Canada. Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century poets virtually ignored the railway, and the nationalist passions it excited, in order to preserve the ideal pastoral landscapes they constructed in their verse. By the 1930s and 1940s the railway was finally becoming a fit subject for verse, but the lyric “I” of modern poetry still resisted treating the railway as a national symbol. Only since about 1980, under the umbrella of nostalgia, have Canadian poets made a concerted effort to treat train, landscape, and nation together. This examination of representations of the railway in Canadian poetry over the past 115 years reveals a literary tradition caught between pastoral influences and modern poetic practices, and which imagines technology in individualist rather than communitarian terms.

• Subjects: Poetry
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Pierre Rajotte

• The Self and the Other: Quebec Travellers in the Middle East at the End of the Nineteenth Century (p. 98 - 115)
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  In English:
  
  At the end of the nineteenth century, an increasing number of Quebecers were travelling to the Middle East. Several of the pilgrims published accounts of their voyages in periodicals and books. In those accounts, most of the travellers described religious sites and their experience of the Holy Land. Consequently, they gave little importance to the representation of the Other. Nevertheless readers can witness a growing awareness and a general acceptance of the Other. What was this opening and what motivated it? This article examines three general tendencies: the representation of the Other through another’s eyes, the representation of the Other transformed into the Self, and the representation of the Self transformed into the Other.
  
  En français:
  
  À la fin du dix-neuvième siècle, un nombre croissant de Québécois ont voyagé au Moyen-Orient. Plusieurs de ces pélerins ont publié des comptes rendus de leurs voyages dans des livres et journaux. Dans ces comptes rendus, la plupart des voyageurs ont décrit les sites religieux visités de même que leur expérience de la Terre-Sainte. Ils ont, conséquemment, donné très peu d’importance à la représentation de l’Autre. Les lecteurs néanmoins peuvent être témoins d’un état de conscience grandissant et d’une acceptation générale de l’Autre. Quelle a été cette ouverture à l’Autre et par quoi a-t-elle été motivée? Nous examinerons dans cet article trois tendances générales: la représentation de l’Autre vue à travers les yeux d’autrui, la représentation de l’Autre modifiée en soi et la représentation de soi modifiée chez Autrui.

• Subjects: Middle Eastern, Quebec, Travel Writing
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Poems

Elana Wolff

• Distressed Façade (p. 12)

Eric Trethewey

• Learning the Future (p. 49)

Shane Rhodes

• Still Life with Apple (p. 96 - 97)

Book Reviews

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Mourning Lessons (p. 116 - 117)

by Anne Geddes Bailey

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Elizabeth Rex by Timothy Findley

Subjects: Drama

Alphabet of Suffering (p. 117 - 119)

by Rachel Poliquin

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Idioglossia by Eleanor Bailey
2. The Representation of Bodily Pain in Late Nineteenth-Century English Culture by Lucy Bending

Subjects: Body & Health, Nineteenth Century, Novel

Le carrousel critique (p. 119 - 120)

by Gloria Nne Onyeoziri

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Bonheur d'occasion au pluriel: lectures et approches critiques by Marie-Andrée Beaudet

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Quebec

Sex in the Snow (p. 120 - 122)

by Scott Rayter

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Carnal Nation: Brave New Sex Fictions by Carellin Brooks and Brett Josef Grubisic
2. Exhibitions: Tales of Sex in the City by Michelle Davidson

Subjects: Gay/Lesbian, Sexuality, Short Fiction

Politics of the Pint (p. 122 - 124)

by Lindsey McMaster

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Sit Down and Drink Your Beer : Regulating Vancouver's Beer Parlours, 1925-1954 by Robert A. Campbell
2. The Nation's Tortured Body: Violence, Representation, and the Formation of a Sikh "Diaspora" by Brian Keith Axel

Subjects: Diaspora, Food, Gender, Religion, Twentieth Century

Rediscovering the Persian World (p. 124 - 126)

by Nasrin Rahimieh

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Journey through Afghanistan by David Chafeetz
2. Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey by Alison Wearing

Subjects: Middle Eastern, Travel Writing

Cultural Memories (p. 126 - 128)

by Susan Fisher

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Colonizer and Colonized: Volume 2 by Theo d’Haen
2. Gendered Memories: Volume 4 by Theo d’Haen
3. Genres as Repositories of Cultural Memory: Volume 5 by Theo d’Haen
4. Images of Westerners in Chinese and Japanese Literature: Volume 10 by Theo d’Haen
5. Methods for the Study of Literature as Cultural Memory: Volume 6 by Theo d’Haen
6. Proceedings of the XVth Congress of the International Compartive Literature Association by Theo d’Haen
7. Reconstructing Cultural Memory: Translation, Scripts, Literacy, Volume 7 by Theo d’Haen
8. Travel Writing and Cultural Memory: Volume 9 by Theo d’Haen

Subjects: Asian Culture, Comparative, Cultural Studies, Gender, Travel Writing

Selected and Sanctified (p. 128 - 129)

by Barbara Pell

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Between the Temple and the Cave: The Religious Dimensions of the Poetry of E.J. Pratt by Angela T. McAuliffe
2. E.J. Pratt: Selected Poems by Sandra Djwa, W. J. Keith, Zailig Pollock, and E. J. Pratt

Subjects: Poetry, Religion

Disintegration, Loss and Survival (p. 130 - 132)

by Lilita Rodman

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Baltic Odyssey: War and Survival by Martha von Rosen, Jürgen von Rosen, and E. Whittaker
2. Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century by Modris Eksteins

Subjects: Eastern European, Twentieth Century, War , World War II

Canadian Theatre: Halcyon Days (p. 132 - 133)

by Bryan N. S. Gooch

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Fly on the Curtain by Fred Euringer

Subjects: Autobiography, Drama, Life Writing, Theatre History

"Ouestward" Bound (p. 133 - 136)

by I. MacLaren

Book(s) reviewed:

1. In Search of the Western Sea / À la Recherche de la Mer de l'Ouest: Selected Journals of La Vérendrye / Mémoires choisis de La Vérendrye by Denis Combet
2. Starting Out in the Afternoon: A Mid-Life Journey into Wild Land by Jill Frayne

Subjects: Culture, Eighteenth Century, Exploration, Life Writing, Travel Writing

Art's Artifice (p. 136 - 139)

by Christoph Irmscher

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Drawn from Life: Science and Art in the Portrayal of the New World by Victoria Dickenson
2. The Truth of Uncertainty: Beyond Ideology in Science and Literature by Edward Galligan

Subjects: Art, Colonialism, Literary Theory, Media & Communications, Science

Writing with Pictures (p. 139 - 141)

by Karen Mulhallen

Book(s) reviewed:

1. PhotoGraphic Encounters: The Edges and Edginess of Reading Prose Pictures and Visual Fictions by W. F. Garrett-Petts and Donald Lawrence

Subjects: Art, Photography

Tracking the Chinese (p. 141 - 145)

by Maria Noëlle Ng

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Chinese American Literature Since the 1850s by Xiao-huang Yin
2. In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture by Geremie R. Barmé
3. Jan Wong's China by Jan Wong
4. The Chinese in Vancouver, 1945-80 by Ng Wing Chung
5. The Chinese Overseas by Wang Gungwu

Subjects: Asian American, Asian Canadian, Asian Culture, British Columbia, Immigrant, Media & Communications

Listening to the North (p. 145 - 147)

by Sherrill Grace

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Inuksuit: Silent Messengers of the Arctic by Norman Hallendy
2. It's Like the Legend: Innu Women's Voices by Nymphs Byrne and Camille Fouillard
3. Walking on the Land by Farley Mowat

Subjects: Native Studies, Northern Canada, Photography, Women's Studies

No Man's Land (p. 147 - 149)

by Desirée Lundström

Book(s) reviewed:

1. White Man's Law: Native People in Nineteenth Century Canadian Jurisprudence by Sidney L. Harring

Subjects: Canadian Studies, First Nations, Law & Prison

Between Women (p. 149 - 150)

by Sherrill Grace

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Student of Weather by Elizabeth Hay

Subjects: Novel

Recherches collectives (p. 150 - 152)

by Robert Alvin Miller

Book(s) reviewed:

1. États du polémique by Dominique Garrand and Annette Hayward
2. Littérature et effets d'inconscient by Christiane Kègle

Subjects: Francophone, Literary Theory

Exile and Return (p. 152 - 154)

by Norman Ravvin

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Aught from Naught: A.M. Klein's The Second Scroll by Roger Hyman
2. Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination by Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi

Subjects: Home & Family, Jewish-Canadian , Novel

Worlds in Conflict (p. 154 - 156)

by Christine Mains

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Aurora Awards by Edo van Belkom
2. The Black Chalice by Marie Jakober
3. The Stone and the Maiden: The House of Pandragore by Dennis Jones
4. Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

Subjects: Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Twentieth Century

A Range of Experience (p. 156 - 158)

by Kathleen O'Donnell

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Background Music by Pat Jasper
2. Toward a Catalogue of Falling by Méira Cook

Subjects: Poetry

The Production of Space (p. 158 - 159)

by David Nally

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Maps and the Writing of Space in Early Modern England and Ireland by Bernhard Klein
2. Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies by Paul C. Adams, Steven Hoelscher, and Karen Till

Subjects: British, Irish-Canadian , Landscape/Space

Crossing Borderlines (p. 160 - 162)

by Dieter Riemenschneider

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Across the Lines: Intertextuality and Transcultural Communication in the New Literatures in English by Wolfgang Kloos
2. Hybridity and Postcolonialism: Twentieth-Century Indian Literature by Monika Fludernik

Subjects: Comparative, Cultural Geography, Indian/South Asian, Postcolonialism, Twentieth Century

Reconsidering Lilith (p. 162 - 163)

by Ian Rae

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Song of Lilith by Joy Kogawa and Lilian Broca

Subjects: Poetry, Religion

Beyond Domestica (p. 163 - 165)

by Verna Reid

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Personal Calligraphy by Mary Pratt
2. Simple Things: The Story of a Friendship by Karen Lavut

Subjects: Art, Autobiography

Being Raven (p. 165 - 166)

by Jo-Ann Thom

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Sojourners and Sundogs: First Nations Fiction by Lee Maracle

Subjects: First Nations, Novel, Poetry

Water Logs (p. 166 - 167)

by Lorna Hutchison

Book(s) reviewed:

1. At Home Afloat: Women on the Waters of the Pacific Northwest by Nancy Pagh

Subjects: Home & Family, Women's Studies

Challenge of the Ocean (p. 167 - 168)

by Bryan N. S. Gooch

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Water in Between: A Journey at Sea by Kevin Patterson

Subjects: Novel, Travel Writing

Imagining Postcolonialism (p. 168 - 170)

by Laura Moss

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Double Crossings: Madness, Sexuality and Imperialism by Anne McClintock
2. En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives by Sangeeta Ray
3. Postcolonial Imaginings: Fictions of a New World Order by David Punter

Subjects: Colonialism, Indian/South Asian, Nationalism, Postcolonialism, Sexuality, Women's Studies

Leaves of Presence (p. 170 - 171)

by Neil Querengesser

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Beyond Remembering: The Collected Poems of Al Purdy by Al Purdy and Sam Solecki

Subjects: Poetry

Terres à découvrir (p. 172 - 173)

by Lucie Hott

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Les aventures extraordinaires d'un coureur des bois: le récit de voyage au pays des Indiens d'Amérique by Pierre-Esprit Radisson
2. Mémoire des villages engloutis by Nicole V. Champeau

Subjects: Exploration, Francophone, Travel Writing

Travels through Time (p. 173 - 176)

by Aritha van Herk

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Hidden Canada: An Intimate Travelogue by Norman Ravvin
2. The Bone Museum: Travels in the Lost Worlds of Dinosaurs and Birds by Wayne Grady

Subjects: Animal Studies, Life Writing, Travel Writing

Words and Value (p. 176 - 177)

by Nicole Mirante

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Figures de pensée, figures de discours by Danielle Forget
2. Que vaut la littérature? by Denis Saint-Jacques

Subjects: Essays, Literary Theory, Media & Communications

The Differences of Things (p. 177 - 179)

by Stephen Guy-Bray

Book(s) reviewed:

1. "New" Exoticisms: Changing Patterns in the Construction of Otherness by Isabella Santaolalla
2. Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman by Catherine Robson

Subjects: Gender, Postcolonialism

Assumptions and Admissions (p. 179 - 181)

by Claire Wilkshire

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Forms of Devotion by Diane Schoemperlen

Subjects: Short Fiction

Critiques et narrations (p. 181 - 183)

by Jean Levasseur

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Aspects de la narration by Japp Lintvelt
2. L'empire du pseudo by Richard Saint-Gelais
3. Lecture mythocritique du roman québécois by Antoine Sirois

Subjects: Hypertext, Literary Theory, Mythology, Science Fiction

Worthy of Serious Study (p. 183 - 185)

by Judy Brown

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Canadian Children's Books: A Critical Guide to Authors and Illustrators by Raymond Jones and Jon Stott
2. Children in English Canadian Society: Framing the Twentieth Century Consensus by Neil Sutherland
3. Growing Up: Childhood in English Canada from the Great War to the Age of Television by Neil Sutherland

Subjects: Childhood, Children's Literature, Historiography, Twentieth Century, World War I

Exploring Canadians (p. 186 - 187)

by Erika Behrisch

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Journeys of Charles Sangster: A Biographical and Critical Investigation by Frank M. Tierney
2. Wild West Women: Travellers, Adventurers and Rebels by Rosemary Neering

Subjects: Biography, Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century, Women's Studies

No Respect (p. 187 - 189)

by George Elliott Clarke

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism by Rinaldo Walcott

Subjects: Afro-Canadian, Cultural Studies

Memoirs of Trauma and Travel (p. 189 - 191)

by Wendy Roy

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Crybaby! by Janice Williamson
2. Foreign Correspondence: A Traveller's Tales by Lesley Krueger

Subjects: Autobiography, Home & Family, Life Writing, Travel Writing, Women's Studies

On the Nature of Legacies (p. 191 - 193)

by Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa by Lamin Sanneh
2. In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey to Understanding His Father's Legacy by Ken Wiwa
3. Richard Wright's Travel Writings: New Reflections by Virginia Whatley Smith

Subjects: Afro-Canadian, Diaspora, Life Writing, Travel Writing, United States

A Space Odyssey (p. 193 - 195)

by Barbara Korte

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Routes of the Roots: Geography and Literature in the English-Speaking Countries by Isabella Maria Zoppi

Subjects: Postcolonialism

Opinions & Notes

Iain Higgins

• Crapes and Bratworst (p. 196 - 201)
• Subjects: Eastern European, Life Writing

Kevin McNeilly

• Cabbages and Chrysanthemums (p. 196 - 201)
• Subjects: Eastern European, Life Writing