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#175 (Winter 2002)
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Editorial

Réjean Beaudoin and André Lamontagne

• Langues officielles et littératures à l'avenant (p. 7 - 11)
• Subjects: Canadian Studies, Cultural Studies, Language/Linguistics
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Réjean Beaudoin and André Lamontagne

• Official Languages and Their Literatures (p. 12 - 16)
• Subjects: Canadian Studies, Cultural Studies, Language/Linguistics
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Articles

Réjean Beaudoin and André Lamontagne

• Un demi-siècle de réception critique de la littérature québécoise au Canada anglais: 1939-1990 (p. 19 - 41)
• Subjects: Canadian Studies, Comparative, Language/Linguistics, Literary Criticism, Quebec, Twentieth Century
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Roxanne L. Rimstead

• Working-Class Intruders: Female Domestics in Kamouraska and Alias Grace (p. 44 - 65)
• Subjects: Gender, Novel, Working Class
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Hélène Buzelin

• Creolizing Narratives across Languages: Selvon and Chamoiseau (p. 67 - 92)
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  This article provides a comparative analysis of the processes of linguistic and stylistic Creolization in the works of two Caribbean novelists who wrote, respectively, in English and French-speaking contexts: Sam Selvon (Trinidad) and Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinique). Based on the assumption that creating, interpreting and rephrasing literary dialects and sociolects—such as Creole languages in French/English literature—is a strategic activity which engages literary, cultural, political and linguistic subjectivity, this paper explores the interaction between the many factors that come into play and tries to offer a few answers to the following questions: what are/were Selvon and Chamoiseau’s explicit Creolizing literary projects? How do they realize them? How do they formally creolize their narratives? To what extent is their literary work constrained by local political, literary and linguistic norms? And, conversely, how can their work contribute to changing these norms? Finally, what do these works reveal about the particular challenges of literary creolization in the French and English speaking worlds?

• Subjects: Caribbean-Canadian , Francophone, Language/Linguistics
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Louise Ladouceur

• A Firm Balance: Questions d'équilibre et rapport de force dans les représentations des littératures anglophone et francophone du Canada (p. 96 - 114)
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  In English:
  
  The relationship between the anglophone and francophone literatures in Canada has been represented by various emblems and symbols brought to the fore in large part within the anglophone critical discourse. First appearing in studies on comparative Canadian literature, these emblems expressed an idealized state of equality, highly laudable but somewhat distant from the reality. Subsequently, Canadian literary translation sheds light upon another type of relationship. Moving beyond an analysis of the differences and similarities between the two repertoires, it illustrates a power struggle between a majority literature and that of a minority.
  
  En Français:
  
  Le rapport entre les littératures anglophone et francophone du Canada a été représenté par plusieurs emblèmes et symboles mit de l’avant en grande partie dans le discours critique anglophone. Issus d’abord des études en littérature comparée canadienne, ces emblèmes ont exprimé un idéal égalitaire fort louable mais très éloigné de la réalité. Par la suite, la traduction littéraire canadienne met en lumière un autre type de relation. Délaissant l’analyse des différences et des ressemblances entre les répertoires, elle donne à voir un rapport de force avoué entre littératures majoritaire et minoritaire.

• Subjects: Canadian Studies, Comparative, Language/Linguistics, Quebec
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Poems

Brad Buchanan

• Psychosomaton (p. 17)

Lyle Neff

• Powerpoint Presentation (p. 18)

Adam Dickinson

• Palaeozoic (p. 42)

Elise Partridge

• Algaed Stones: Prayer (p. 43)

Catherine Greenwood

• Teeth (p. 66)

Wendy Morton

• What Lasts? (p. 93)

Rochelle Mass

• Looking for the Source (p. 94 - 95)

Book Reviews

Reviews section PDF available

Francophonie canadienne (p. 115 - 116)

by Alain-Michel Rocheleau

Book(s) reviewed:

1. La francophonie canadienne by Gratien Allaire

Subjects: Canadian Studies, Language/Linguistics, Regionalism

Theatre/Théâtre (p. 116 - 118)

by Mark Blagrave

Book(s) reviewed:

1. 15 Seconds by Bobby Theodore and François Archambault
2. Songs of the Say-Sayer by Linda Gaboriau and Daniel Danis
3. Talking Bodies by Sheila Fischman and Larry Tremblay
4. The Coronation Voyage by Linda Gaboriau and Michel Marc Bouchard

Subjects: Drama, Francophone

a blizzard in my eyes (p. 118 - 120)

by Jon Kertzer

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Journals of Susanna Moodie by Charles Pachter and Margaret Atwood

Subjects: Art, Poetry

(Re)locating Irish Studies (p. 120 - 121)

by David Nally

Book(s) reviewed:

1. An Irish Empire: Aspects of Ireland and the British Empire by Keith Jeffery
2. The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order by Margot Gayle Backus
3. Travels With an Umbrella: An Irish Journey by Linda Leith and Louis Gauthier

Subjects: Colonialism, Irish-Canadian , Sexuality, Travel Writing

L'engagement littéraire (p. 121 - 123)

by Kenneth W. Meadwell

Book(s) reviewed:

1. L'écriture mythologique: essai sur l'oeuvre de Victor-Lévy Beaulieu by Jacques Pelletier
2. Oeuvres complètes, tome 10. Jack Kérouac by Victor-Lévy Beaulieu

Subjects: Francophone, Novel, Quebec

Let my joy endure (p. 123 - 125)

by Cedric May

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Exile and The Sacred Travellers by Nigel Spencer and Marie-Claire Blais
2. These Festive Nights by Sheila Fischman and Marie-Claire Blais

Subjects: Francophone, Short Fiction

Save and Punish (p. 125 - 126)

by Nancy Frelick

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature by Peter Brooks

Subjects: Comparative, Law & Prison, Literary Criticism

Water and Bone Museum (p. 126 - 128)

by Susan Knutson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Musée de l'os et de l'eau by Nicole Brossard

Subjects: Francophone, Poetry

Mystic Musings (p. 128 - 129)

by David Jarraway

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Erupting in Flowers: Poems by Michael Bullock
2. Nocturnes: Poems of Night by Michael Bullock

Subjects: Poetry

Arcadian Adventures (p. 129 - 131)

by Susan Fisher

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Realia by Will Aitken
2. The Rules of Engagement by Catherine Bush

Subjects: Novel, Twentieth Century

the void looks back (p. 131 - 132)

by Anne F. Walker

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Asphodel by Michael Redhill
2. Beautiful Sadness by Lesley Choyce
3. Burning Bush by Elizabeth Brewster
4. Necessary Crimes by Catherine Hunter
5. Swimming Among the Ruins by Susan Gillis

Subjects: Poetry

Going with the Flow (p. 132 - 134)

by Lawrence Mathews

Book(s) reviewed:

1. River Thieves by Michael Crummey

Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Historical Fiction, Novel, Twenty-First Century

Théâtre d'émotions urbaines (p. 134 - 136)

by Alain-Michel Rocheleau

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Il n'y a que l'amour by Jean Marc Dalpé
2. L'Egoïste by Claude Guilmain

Subjects: Drama, Francophone, Quebec

Fictions critiques (p. 136 - 138)

by Jacqueline Viswanathan

Book(s) reviewed:

1. La Pensée composée: Formes du recueil et constitution de l'essai québécois by Jamie Dopp
2. Le Moment critique de la fiction: Les Interprétations de la littérature que proposent les fictions québécoises contemporaines. by Robert Dion

Subjects: Francophone, Literary Criticism, Quebec

Pilgrim's Regress (p. 138 - 140)

by Donna Palmateer Pennee

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Essays on Canadian Writing: Timothy Findley Issue by Anne Geddes Bailey and Karen Grandy
2. Pilgrim by Timothy Findley

Subjects: Essays, Literary Criticism, Novel, Twentieth Century

Frye Redux? (p. 140 - 142)

by Graham Nicol Forst

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Process by Caterina Nella Cotrupi
2. Northrop Frye's Late Notebooks 1982-1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World by Northrop Frye and Robert D. Denham

Subjects: Authorship, Literary Theory, Poetry, Religion

Poégraphes (p. 142 - 143)

by Estelle Dansereau

Book(s) reviewed:

1. PoéVie. Poésie, chanson, prose et aphorismes. by Gilbert Langevin
2. Rêve de pierre by Madeleine Gagnon

Subjects: Francophone, Poetry

Found in Translation (p. 143 - 145)

by Katharine Conley

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Doing Gender: Franco-Canadian Women Writers of the 1990s by Paula Ruth Gilbert and Roseanna L. Dufault

Subjects: Francophone, Gender, Quebec, Women's Literature, Women's Studies

Identity Narratives (p. 145 - 146)

by Maryann Tjart Jantzen

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Women and Narrative Identity: Rewriting the Quebec National Text by Mary Jean Green

Subjects: Nationalism, Quebec, Women's Studies

Doubly Gifted (p. 146 - 147)

by Jack F. Stewart

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Two Jacksons Abroad, 1936 by A. Y. Jackson and Naomi Jackson Groves

Subjects: Travel Writing

Forms of Telling (p. 147 - 148)

by Titi Adepitan

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Fortunes of Wangrin by Aina Pavolini Taylor and Amadou Hampaté Bá

Subjects: Afro-Canadian, Novel, Oral , Twenty-First Century

Childhood Lost (p. 148 - 150)

by Cedric May

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Am I Disturbing You? by Sheila Fischman and Anne Hebert
2. The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches by Sheila Fischman and Gaétan Soucy

Subjects: Francophone, Novel, Quebec

A Scar Tissue Landscape (p. 150 - 151)

by David Nally

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Creating Societies: Immigrant lives in Canada by Dirk Hoerder
2. The Portugese in Canada by Carlos Teixeira and Victor M. P. Da Rosa

Subjects: Canadian Studies, Diaspora, Immigrant

Lamb with an Ego (p. 151 - 152)

by Claire Wilkshire

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Among the Lions: A Lamb in the Literary Jungle by Harold Horwood

Subjects: Autobiography

Flashes of Light (p. 152 - 154)

by Andrea Katz

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Instruments of Darkness by Nancy Huston

Subjects: Novel

The Real and the Other (p. 154 - 155)

by Albert Braz

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Les Indiens blancs: français et indiens en Amérique du Nord (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles) by Philippe Jacquin
2. Louis Riel: poèmes amériquains by Mathias Carvalho and Jean Morisset

Subjects: Multiculturalism, Native Studies, Poetry, Quebec

An Odd and Bitter Camp (p. 155 - 157)

by George Piggford

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality and Modern Catholicism by Mark D. Jordan

Subjects: Gay/Lesbian, Queer Theory, Religion

New and Not New Worlds (p. 157 - 158)

by Ronald Hatch

Book(s) reviewed:

1. New Worlds: Discovering and Constructing the Unknown in Anglophone Literature by Martin Kuester, Rudolf Beck, and Gabriele Christ

Subjects: Anthologies, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Twentieth Century

Trans Layton (p. 159 - 161)

by Kevin McNeilly

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Layton, l'essentiel: Anthologie portative d'Irving Layton by Irving Layton and Michel Albert

Subjects: Francophone, Poetry

Côté jeunesse (p. 161 - 163)

by Anne Scott

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Histoire de la littérature pour la jeunesse--Québec et francophonie du Canada, suivie d'un Dictionaire des auteurs et illustrateurs by Françoise Lepage
2. L'orphelin des mers by André Noël
3. Trafic chez les Hurons by André Noël

Subjects: Children's Literature, Francophone, Quebec

Poètes en cage (p. 163 - 164)

by Vincent Desroches

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Bienvenue dans mon cauchemar by Marie Gagnon
2. Histoire de la nuit by Elias Letelier-Ruz

Subjects: Francophone, Poetry

Views of the Frontier (p. 164 - 165)

by Bryan N. S. Gooch

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community by Elizabeth Furniss
2. The Fort Langley Journals, 1827-30 by Morag Maclachlan

Subjects: British Columbia, Colonialism, First Nations, Life Writing, Native Studies, Settler Writing

Théâtre franco-canadien (p. 165 - 167)

by Alain-Michel Rocheleau

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A la gauche de Dieu by Robert Marinier
2. Mentire by Robert Bellefeuille and Louis-Dominique Lavigne

Subjects: Drama, Francophone, Short Fiction

Boas and Darth Vader (p. 167 - 168)

by David Brundage

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Transmission Difficulties: Franz Boas and Tsimshan Mythology by Ralph Maud

Subjects: Cultural Studies, First Nations, Mythology

Integrated Archaeology (p. 168 - 169)

by Linda Driedger

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Since the Time of the Transformers by Alan D. McMillan

Subjects: Archaeology, Native Studies

A Congress of Words (p. 169 - 171)

by Chris Jennings

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Conflicting Desire by A. F. Moritz
2. Houseboat on the Styx by A. F. Moritz
3. Rest on the Flight into Egypt by A. F. Moritz
4. The End of the Age by A. F. Moritz

Subjects: Poetry

Value in Collaboration (p. 171 - 173)

by Megan A. Smetzer

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples by Barry M. Pritzker
2. An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English by Daniel David Moses and Terry Goldie

Subjects: Anthologies, Cultural Studies, First Nations, Native Studies

Genre Benders (p. 173 - 175)

by Allan Brown

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Prime by Miranda Pearson
2. Stone Rain by W. H. New
3. The Predicament of Or by Shani Mootoo

Subjects: Poetry

Power Play (p. 175 - 176)

by Desirée Lundström

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Interpreting Censorship in Canada by Klaus Petersen and Allan C. Hutchinson

Subjects: Law & Prison, Media & Communications, Publishing

Small-Town Innocence (p. 176 - 177)

by Bryan N. S. Gooch

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Great Expectations by Grant C. Robinson
2. Not in my Backyard by Bryan R. Meadows

Subjects: Novel, Twentieth Century

Plays to the Audience(s) (p. 177 - 179)

by Mark Blagrave

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Map of the Senses: Twenty Years of Manitoba Plays by Rory Runnells
2. NeXt Fest Anthology: Plays from the Syncrude Next Generation Art Festival 1996-2000 by Glenda Stirling

Subjects: Anthologies, Drama, Prairie Writing, Regionalism

Short Story Studies (p. 179 - 181)

by Elaine Park

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Reading Mansfield and Metaphors of Form by W. H. New
2. The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English by Rosemary Sullivan

Subjects: Anthologies, Language/Linguistics, Short Fiction, Women's Literature

Crossing the Bay (p. 181 - 183)

by Elizabeth Hodgson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Isobel Gunn by Audrey Callahan Thomas

Subjects: Historical Fiction, Novel, Twentieth Century

Homecomings (p. 183 - 185)

by Celeste Derksen

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Alien Creature by Linda Griffiths
2. Perfect Pie by Judith Thompson
3. Sheer Nerve: Seven Plays by Linda Griffiths
4. Very Heaven by Ann Lambert

Subjects: Drama

Innocents Abroad (p. 185 - 186)

by Cedric May

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The City in the Egg by Michel Tremblay and Michael Bullock
2. The Second Fiddle by David Toby Homel and Yves Beauchemin

Subjects: Francophone, Novel

Poésie francophone (p. 187 - 188)

by René Brisebois

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Bleu sur Blanc by Marguerite Andersen
2. dieu sait quoi by Pierre Ouellet
3. Les Silences immoblies by Christian Violy

Subjects: Francophone, Poetry

Writing Adolescent Despair (p. 188 - 190)

by Andrew O'Malley

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Giant Despair Meets Hopeful: Kristevan Readings in Adolescent Fiction by Martha Westwater
2. Looking for X by Deborah Ellis
3. The Boy in the Burning House: A Novel by Tim Wynne-Jones

Subjects: Children's Literature, Literary Theory, Short Fiction, Young Adult

Opinions & Notes

W. H. New

• Aftermath 2001 (p. 191 - 203)
• Subjects: Drama, Novel, Poetry