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#178 (Autumn 2003)
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Editorial

Glenn Deer, Susan Fisher, Iain Higgins, Eva-Marie Kröller, Kevin McNeilly, and Alain-Michel Rocheleau

Articles

Albert Braz

Constance Cartmill

Sue Kossew and Daphne Marlatt

Deena Rymhs

Katherine Durnin

Poems

Neile Graham

C. B. Ardelean

Iain Higgins

Anne Carson

Eric Miller

Iain Higgins

Book Reviews

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Wilderness Colony (p. 91 - 92)

by Bryan N. S. Gooch

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Old Square-Toes and His Lady: The Life of James and Amelia Douglas by John Coldwell Adams
  2. Way Out West: On the Trail of an Errant Ancestor by Michael Shaw Bond

Subjects: Autobiography, Life Writing, Settler Writing

The Essential Mary (p. 92 - 93)

by Nancy Cocks

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Our Lady of Victorian Feminism: The Madonna in the Work of Anna Jameson, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot by Kimberly Van Esveld Adams

Subjects: Feminism, Religion, Twentieth Century

Postcolonial Challenges (p. 94 - 95)

by Ajay Heble

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Edward Said and the Work of the Critic: Speaking Truth to Power by Paul A. Bové
  2. The Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial Studies by Fawzia Afzal-Khan and Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks

Subjects: Literary Theory, Postcolonialism

Archaïque...et avant-garde (p. 95 - 97)

by Neil B. Bishop

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. De mémoire de femmes. "La mémoire archaïque" dans l'oeuvre romaneque d'Anne Hébert by Anne Ancrenat

Subjects: Feminism, Francophone, Gender

The "Lighter" Companion (p. 97)

by Wibke Reger

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature by William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris

Subjects: Afro-Canadian

Discovering North/Self (p. 98 - 99)

by Sherrill Grace

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Alone in Silence: European Women in the Canadian North before 1940 by Barbara Kelcey
  2. From Barrow to Boothia : The Arctic Journal of Chief Factor Peter Warren Dease, 1836-1839 by William Barr
  3. The Snow Geese: : A Story of Home by William Fiennes

Subjects: Life Writing, Northern Canada, Women's Studies

Une utopie canadienne (p. 99 - 101)

by Marie-Christine Pioffet

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Relations des avantures de Mathieu Sagean, Canadien by Pierre Berthiaume

Subjects: Francophone, Life Writing, Travel Writing

Nouveautés théâtrales (p. 101 - 103)

by Alain-Michel Rocheleau

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Gratien Gélinas. Du naïf Fridolin à l'ombrageux Tit-Coq by Anne-Marie Sicotte
  2. Jean et Béatrice by Carole Fréchette
  3. Les théâtres professionels du Canada francophonie by Hélène Beauchamp and Joël Beddows
  4. Rêves by Wajdi Mouawad

Subjects: Drama, Francophone, Quebec, Theatre History

Soothsaid Verse (p. 104 - 105)

by Tim Conley

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Cometology by Stephen Brockwell
  2. The Invisible World Is In Decline, Book V by Bruce Whiteman
  3. Torontology by Stephen Cain

Subjects: Poetry

Signs of Life (p. 105 - 106)

by Julie Rak

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Love Strong as Death: Lucy Peel's Canadian Journal, 1833-1836 by J. I. Little
  2. Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing Lives by D. L. MacDonald, Anne McWhir, and Helen M. Buss

Subjects: Autobiography, Life Writing, Women's Literature, Women's Studies

Genealogy and History (p. 107 - 108)

by Adele Perry

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. English Immigrant Voices: Labourers' Letters From Upper Canada in the 1830s by Wendy Cameron, Sheila Haines, and Mary McDougall Maude

Subjects: Authorship, Correspondence, Life Writing, Settler Writing, Working Class

Ornamentalism (p. 108 - 109)

by Maria Noëlle Ng

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Collecting Colonialism: Material Culture and Colonial Change by Chris Gosden and Chantal Knowles
  2. Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire by David Cannadine

Subjects: British, Colonialism, Cultural Studies

Women in Western Canada (p. 110 - 111)

by Janice Fiamengo

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Telling Tales: Essays in Western Women's History by Catherine A. Cavanaugh and Randi R. Warne

Subjects: Feminism, First Nations, Gender, Mennonite, Prairie Writing, Women's Studies

Mirrors, Mimics, Myths (p. 111 - 113)

by Alison Calder

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Contemporary American Indian Writing: Unsettling Identity by Dee Horne
  2. Mirror Writing: (Re-)Constructions of Native American Identity by Thomas Claviez and Maria Moss
  3. The Mythology of Native North America by David Leeming and Jake Page

Subjects: Cultural Studies, First Nations, Memory & Identity, Mythology, Native Studies

Colonial Confessions (p. 113 - 114)

by Susan Fisher

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke

Subjects: Crime & Detective, Novel

Two Life Stories (p. 114 - 116)

by Colin Hill

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Child of Someone by David Helwig
  2. Typing: A Life in 26 Keys by Matt Cohen

Subjects: Autobiography

National Out-Takes (p. 116 - 118)

by Adam Frank

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Canadian Art: From Its Beginnings to 2000 by Anne Newlands
  2. The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935 by Wanda M. Corn

Subjects: Art, Modernism, United States

Fictionalizing the Self (p. 118 - 119)

by Emily Williams

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Emil Brut by Izaak Mansk
  2. My Brahmin Days and Other Stories by Cyril Dabydeen
  3. Rio Loa Station of Dreams by Ludwig Zeller
  4. The Truth About Love by Patrick Roscoe

Subjects: Novel

Re: (St.) George Grant (p. 120 - 121)

by Harris Athanasiadis

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Collected Works of George Grant: Volume I (1933-1950) by Carol Shloss and Peter C. Emberly
  2. George Grant and the Theology of the Cross: The Christian Foundations of His Thought by Harris Athanasiadis

More of the Same (p. 120 - 121)

by Lisa Grekul

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Ukrainian Wedding by Larry Warwaruk
  2. Tricks with a Glass: Writing Ethnicity in Canada by Rosalí­a Baena and Rocío G. Davis
  3. Two Lands, New Visions: Stories from Canada and Ukraine by Janice Kulyk Keefer and Solomea Pavlychko

Subjects: Eastern European, Ethnic History, Novel

Re: (St.) George Grant (p. 120 - 121)

by George Elliott Clarke

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Collected Works of George Grant: Volume I (1933-1950) by Arthur Davis and Peter C. Emberley
  2. George Grant and the Theology of the Cross: The Christian Foundations of His Thought by Harris Athanasiadis

Subjects: Politics, Religion

Thirst Unquenched (p. 124 - 126)

by Janice Fiamengo

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeannette Duncan

Subjects: British, Indian/South Asian, Novel, Twentieth Century

French Canadian Narratives (p. 126 - 127)

by Heinz Antor

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Der frankokanadische Roman der dreissiger Jahre. Eine ideologiekritische Darstellung. Canadiana Romanica Vol. 14 by Klaus-Dieter Ertler

Subjects: Francophone, Novel, Quebec, Twentieth Century

The Pioneering Wife (p. 127 - 129)

by Gwyneth Hoyle

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Judge's Wife: Memoirs of a British Columbia Pioneer by Eunice M. L. Harrisoin
  2. Writing the Pioneer Woman by Janet Floyd

Subjects: Life Writing, Settler Writing, Women's Literature

Anatomy of Humanism (p. 129 - 130)

by Graham Nicol Forst

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye
  2. Humanism Betrayed by Graham Good
  3. Northrop Frye's Writings on Education by Goldwin French and Jean O’Grady

Subjects: Education/Pedagogy, Literary Criticism, Literary Theory

Doldrum Years (p. 131 - 132)

by Graham Nicol Forst

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Diaries of Northrop Frye: 1942-1956 by Northrop Frye and Robert D. Denham

Subjects: Life Writing, Literary Criticism

Prosthetics of Order (p. 132 - 133)

by Ulrich Teucher

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Bodily and Narrative Forms: The Influence of Medicine on American Literature 1845-1915 by Cynthia Davis
  2. Making the Body Beautiful: : A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery by Sander Gilman
  3. Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse by David Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder

Subjects: Body & Health, United States

More than Nostalgia (p. 133 - 134)

by Bryan N. S. Gooch

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Rails and Rooms: A Timeless Canadian Journey by Dave Preston
  2. Tales from Hidden Basin by Dick Hammond
  3. Wild Liard Waters: Canoeing Canada's Historic Liard River by Ferdi Wenger

Subjects: British Columbia, Short Fiction, Travel Writing

From Post- to Pre- (p. 134 - 137)

by George Lang

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
  2. Posts and Pasts: A Theory of Postcolonialism by Alfred J. López

Subjects: Philosophy, Postmodernism

Lives About Poets (p. 137)

by John Lennox

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Furry Creek by Keith Harrison
  2. If I Could Turn and Meet Myself: The Life of Alden Nowlan by Patrick Toner

Subjects: Biography, British Columbia, Crime & Detective, Novel

As True a Picture (p. 138 - 139)

by Cecily Devereux

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Remembering Lucy Maud Montgomery by Alexandra Heilbron

Subjects: Biography

As Canadian as It Gets (p. 139 - 141)

by Donna Coates

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Canadian Odyssey: A Reading of Hugh Hood's The New Age/ Le Nouveau Siècle by W. J. Keith
  2. Carol Shields's The Stone Diaries : A Reader's Guide by Abby Werlock
  3. When Words Deny the World: The Reshaping of Canadian Writing by Stephen Henighan

Subjects: Authorship, Canadian Studies, Literary Criticism

A Pocketful of Wry (p. 141 - 143)

by Medrie Purdham

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Kind of Fiction by P. K. Page
  2. Love and the Bottle by Don Kerr
  3. Stubborn Bones by Karen Smythe
  4. What's Left Us: : Stories and a Novella by Aislinn Hunter

Subjects: Short Fiction

Lives and Letters (p. 143 - 144)

by Gerhard Duesterhaus

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Belling the Cat: : Essays, Reports and Opinions by Mordecai Richler
  2. For Your Eyes Alone: Robertson Davies by Judith Skelton Grant
  3. Jack:: A Life with Writers. The Story of Jack McClelland by James King

Subjects: Biography

Canadian Antimodern (p. 145 - 146)

by Brian Trehearne

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Reassessment of Early Twentieth-Century Canadian Poetry in English by Alexander Kizuk

Subjects: Literary Theory, Poetry

Images of Selves (p. 146 - 147)

by Laurie McNeill

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums by Martha Langford
  2. The Mirror : A History by Sabine Melchior-Bonnet and Katherine H. Jewett

Subjects: History, Memory & Identity, Oral , Photography

Postcolonial Revisions (p. 147 - 149)

by Wendy Roy

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain by Peter van der Veer
  2. Long Drums and Cannons: Nigerian Dramatists and Novelists 1952-1966 by Nora Foster Stovel and Margaret Laurence

Subjects: Afro-Canadian, British, Indian/South Asian, Religion

Joyce Wieland, in Life and Art (p. 150 - 151)

by Sherrill Grace

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Joyce Wieland: Artist on Fire by Jane Lind
  2. Joyce Wieland: : A Life in Art by Iris Nowell

Subjects: Art, Biography

Theory Robots (p. 151 - 153)

by Charles Barbour

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton by Catherine Liu
  2. Negotiating Postmodernism by Wayne Gabardi
  3. The Ends of Globalization by Mohammed A. Bamyeh

Subjects: Literary Theory, Postmodernism

Dreaming of Nationhood, Writing of Motherhood (p. 153 - 155)

by Jane Moss

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Mothers of Invention: Feminist Authors and Experimentl Fiction in France and Quebec by Miléna Santoro
  2. The Dream of Nation. A Social and Intellectual History of Quebec by Susan Mann

Subjects: Feminism, Nationalism, Quebec, Women's Literature

Views of the Postcolony (p. 155 - 156)

by Titi Adepitan

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. On the Postcolony by Achille Mbembe

Subjects: Afro-Canadian, Postcolonialism

At Home and Left Behind (p. 156 - 158)

by Nicole Markotic

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Flying Wounded by Susan McCaslin
  2. The Altering Eye by Susan McCaslin

Subjects: Poetry

Why Family Matters (p. 158 - 160)

by Eva-Marie Kröller

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry

Subjects: Indian/South Asian, Novel

Double Vision (p. 160 - 161)

by Coral Ann Howell

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro

Subjects: Short Fiction

Canadian Panorama (p. 161 - 162)

by Coral Ann Howell

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada by W. H. New

Subjects: Canadian Studies

Framing Women's History (p. 162 - 164)

by Lindsey McMaster

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Framing Our Past: Canadian Women's History in the Twentieth Century by Sharon Anne Cook, Lorna R. McLean, and Kate O’Rourke
  2. On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871 by Adele Perry

Subjects: British Columbia, First Nations, Gender, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Women's Studies

Tricultural Landscape (p. 164 - 166)

by Gundula Wilke

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Duologue: On Culture and Identity by Pasquale Verdicchio and Antonio D’Alfonso
  2. Pillars of Lace: The Anthology of Italian-Canadian Women Writers by marisa De Franceschi
  3. The Anthology of Italian-Canadian Writing by Joseph Pivato

Subjects: Anthologies, Cultural Studies, Italo-Canadian , Women's Literature

Surfaces and Margins (p. 166 - 167)

by Diane Stiles

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Adele Wiseman: Essays on Her Works by Ruth Panofsky
  2. P.K. Page: Essays on Her Works by Linda Rogers and Barbara Colebrook Peace

Subjects: Authorship, Essays, Literary Criticism

Knowing Sam Selvon (p. 167 - 168)

by Hélène Buzelin

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Novels of Samuel Selvon by Roydon Salick

Subjects: Caribbean-Canadian , Novel

New Postcolonialisms (p. 168 - 170)

by Diana Brydon

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Postcolonizing the Commonwealth: Studies in Literature and Culture by Rowland Smith
  2. States of Exception: Everyday Life and Postcolonial Identity by Keya Ganguly
  3. Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804 by Srinivas Aravamudan

Subjects: Colonialism, Literary Theory, Postcolonialism

Evolutionary Visions (p. 170 - 171)

by Angela Spreng

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Challenging Territory: The Writing of Margaret Laurence by Christian Riegel
  2. Embryo Words: Margaret Laurence's Early Writings by Nora Foster Stovel

Subjects: Authorship, Literary Criticism

A Red River Epic (p. 172 - 173)

by Reinhold Kramer

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. When Alice Lay Down With Peter by Margaret Sweatman

Subjects: Novel

Elegiac, Worldly Eyes (p. 173 - 174)

by Jeanette Lynes

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Common Place Ecstasies by Wendy McGrath
  2. Private Eye by Wendy Morton
  3. The Strength of Materials by Rhea Tregebov

Subjects: Poetry

"Notes to Self" (p. 174 - 176)

by Laurie McNeill

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Hobnobbing with a Countess and Other Okanagan Adventures: The Diaries of Alice Barrett Parke, 1891-1900 by Jo Fraser Jones
  2. Marian Engel's Notebooks: "Ah, mon cahier, écoute" by Christl Verduyn

Subjects: British Columbia, Life Writing

Transumptive Acts (p. 176 - 177)

by Len Falkenstein

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Buried Astolabe: Canadian Dramatic Imagination and Western Tradition by Craig Stewart Walker

Subjects: Drama

Modern Canadian Plays (p. 177 - 179)

by Ric Knowles

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Modern Canadian Drama by Jerry Wasserman

Subjects: Drama, Theatre History

High-Stakes History (p. 179 - 180)

by Kevin Flynn

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Speculative Fictions: Contemporary Canadian Novelists and the Writing of History by Herb Wyile

Subjects: Historiography, Speculative Fiction

Opinions & Notes

Misao Dean

W. H. New

Kevin McNeilly

Eva-Marie Kröller



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