Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Femme, mystique et missionnaire. Marie Guyart de l'Incarnation by Raymond Brodeur
  • Histoire universelle de la chasteté et du célibat by Elizabeth Abbott

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Blues for Bird by Martin Gray
  • Jazz Cultures by David Ake
  • Live Evil: A Homage to Miles Davis by Richard Stevenson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • From a Transcendental-Semiotic Point of View by Karl-Otto Apel
  • Literary Discourse: A Semiotic-Pragmatic Approach to Literature by Jørgen Dines Johansen

Shadowed Pasts (p. 99-100)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • In the Shadow of Evil by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier
  • Whispering in Shadows by Jeannette C. Armstrong

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Acting the Giddy Goat by Mike Tanner
  • The Bone House by Luanne Armstrong

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Darkness that Murmured: Essayson Malcolm Lowry and the Twentieth Century by Frederick Asals and Paul G. Tiessen

Desert Books (p. 103-104)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bone and Dream by Lake Sagaris
  • Travels with my Daughter by Niema Ash

Two Saskatchewans (p. 104-105)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Heartland: A Prairie Sampler by Jo Bannatyne-Cugnet and Yvette Moore
  • The Song Within My Heart by David Bouchard and allen Sapp

Community Chest (p. 106-108)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pittsburgh Stories—Selected Stories by Clark Blaise
  • Tending the Remnant Damage by Sheila Peters

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 'Pataphysics: The Poetics of Imaginary Science by Christian Bök
  • Faux Pas by Maurice Blanchot

Book(s) Reviewed

  • That's Hockey by David Bouchard and Dean Griffiths
  • The Naked Lady by Ian Wallace
  • Camping by Nancy Hundal and Brian Deines

Other Stories (p. 111-112)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • And Other Stories by George Bowering
  • The One and the Many: English-Canadian Short Story Cycle by Gerald Lynch

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canada 2000: Identity and Transformation / Identité et transformation—Central European Perspectives on Canada / Le Canada vu à partir de l'Europe centrale by Martin Loschnigg and Klaus-Dieter Ertler
  • Giving Voice: Canadian and German Perspectives by Hans Braun and Wolfgang Klooss

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rue St-Denis: Fantastic Tales by André Carpentier and Leonard W. Sugden
  • The Heart Laid Bare by Michel Trenblay and Sheila Fischman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Passagère by Claude Guilmain
  • Moulinette by Nicole V. Champeau
  • Laurie ou la vie de galerie by Herménégilde Chiasson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • (Ad)dressing Our Words: Aboriginal Perspectives on Aboriginal Literatures by Armand Garnet Ruffo
  • Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
  • Native American Representations: First Encounters, Distorted Images, and Literary Appropriations by Gretchen M. Bataille

Re-imagining a Myth (p. 118-119)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Gwendolyn Poems by Claudia Day

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Family Business: Selected Letters between a Father and Son by Allen Ginsberg, Louis Ginsberg and Michael Schumacher
  • Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Year by Diane di Prima

Moving the Margins (p. 122-123)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Other Chinas: The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging by Ralph A. Litzinger
  • Postmodernism and China by Arif Dirlik and Xudong Zhang

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Northrop Frye on Literature and Society: 1936-1989. Collected Works of Northrop Frye, Vol. 10 by Robert D. Denham
  • The "Third Book" Notebooks of Northrop Frye, 1964-1972: Collected Works of Northrop Frye, Vol. 9 by Michael Dolzani

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La tentation des armures by Jean-Marc Lefebvre
  • La terre est vide comme un étoile : poèmes by Gary Klang
  • Psyché au cinéma : poèmes en prose by Marcel Dugas

Video Memory (p. 127-128)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Magnetic North by Jenny Lion
  • Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age by Gary R. Edgerton and Peter C. Rollins

Poor Relations (p. 129-130)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Falling Woman by Shaena Lambert
  • Waterfalls by Eugene McNamara
  • Red Plaid Shirt: Stories New & Selected by Diane Schoemperlen
  • Mount Appetite by Bill Gaston

Book(s) Reviewed

  • To the Top of Everest by Laurie Skreslet and Elizabeth McLeod
  • A Pod of Orcas by Sheryl MacFarlane and Kirsti Ann Wakelin
  • When the Giant Stirred by Celia Godkin

Ideas of North (p. 132-134)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture by Renée Hulan
  • Canada and the Idea of North by Sherrill Grace

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Kalyna's Song by Lisa Grekul

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Asian American Playwrights: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourceboo by Miles Xian Liu
  • Negotiating Identities: An Introduction to Asian American Women's Writing by Helena Grice

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Eating Their Words: Cannibalism and the Boundaries of Cultural Identity by Kristen Guest
  • Bodies out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression by Jana Evans Braziel and Kathleen LeBesco

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mad Dog by Kelly Watt
  • Lures by Sue Goyette
  • Water Wings by Kristen den Hartog

Splendid Mappings (p. 140-141)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Historical Atlas of Canada: Canada's History Illustrated with Original Maps by Derek Hayes

Censure au Québec (p. 141-143)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Censure et littérature au Québec. Le Livre crucifié 1625-1919 by Patrick Nicol and Pierre Hébert

Unique Childhoods (p. 143-145)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • George Johnson's War by Maureen Garvie and Mary Beaty
  • Mission to Little Grand Rapids by Luther Schuetze
  • As Long as the River Flows by Larry Loyie and Constance Brissenden
  • Solomon's Tree by Andrea Spalding
  • Caribou Song/ atí­hko níkamon by Tomson Highway

Reading Lives (p. 145-146)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Literary Value/Cultural Power: Verbal Arts in the Twenty-First Century by Lynette Hunter
  • How Our Lives Become Stories: Making Selves by Paul John Eakin

Multiculturalism? (p. 147-148)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ten Thousand Sorrows: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan by Elizabeth Kim
  • Inside the Hermit Kingdom: A Memoir by Yi Sun-Kyung

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Salt Fish Girl by Larissa Lai

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rescued Images: Memories of a Childhood in Hiding by Ruth Jacobsen
  • Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios by The Latina Feminist Group

The Private Voice (p. 152-154)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Last We Heard of Leonard by Rachel Wyatt
  • Dead Girls by Nancy Lee
  • The Short Story: The Reality of the Artifice by Charles E. May
  • Silent Cruise by Timothy Taylor
  • The Man Who Beat the Man by F. B. André

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Frontières flottantes. Lieu et espace dans les cultures francophones du Canada. Shifting Boundaries. Place and Space in the Francophone Cultures of Canada by Jaap Lintvelt and François Paré

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 7 Cannons by Martin Bragg, Per Brask and Roy Surette
  • From Fire to Flood: A History of Theatre in Manitoba by Kevin Longfield

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ancestors and Gods: Margaret Laurence and the Dialectics of Identity by David Lucking

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown by Nyan Shah
  • Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco by Anthony W. Lee
  • Consuming Hong Kong by Gordon Matthews and Tai-lok Lui

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Widows by Suzette Mayr

Short Fictions (p. 161-163)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Reading in Alice Munro's Archives by Joann McCaig
  • The Oxford Anthology of Raj Stories by Saros Cowasjee

Fun Picture Books (p. 163-165)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lessons from Mother Earth by Elaine McLeod and Colleen Wood
  • The Art Room by Susan Vande Griek and Pascal Milelli
  • Give Maggie a Chance by Frieda Wishinksy and Dean Griffiths

Editor’s Choice (p. 165-166)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Pour of Rain: Stories from a West Coast Fort by Helen Meilleur
  • Kindred of the Wild by Charles G. D. Roberts

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le ravissement by Andrée A. Michaud
  • Mary l'Irlandaise by Maryse Rouy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Facsimiles of Time: Essays on Poetry and Translation by Eric Ormsby
  • Planet Earth: Poems Selected and New by P. K. Page

Potboiling (p. 171-171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • On Snooker: The Game and the Characters Who Play It by Mordecai Richer
  • Dispatches form the Sporting Life by Mordecai Richler

Potboiling (p. 171-171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dispatches from the Sporting Life by Mordecai Richler
  • On Snooker by Mordecai Richler

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Concerto rouge by Claire Lévesque
  • Femmes de rêve au travail. Les femmes et le travail dans les productions écrites de grand consommation, au Québec, de 1945 à aujourd'hui by Denis Saint-Jacques, Julia Bettinotti, Marie-José des Rivières, Paul Bleton and Chantal Savoie

Nation and Identity (p. 173-175)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity by Smadar Lavie and Ted Swedenburg
  • Cultural Difference and the Literary Text: Pluralism and the Limits of Authenticity in North American Literatures by Winfried Siemerling and Katrin Schwenk

Jamaican Lioness (p. 175-176)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Heart Does Not Bend by Makeda Silvera

Bedevilling Cities (p. 176-178)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Flat by Mark Macdonald
  • The Princess and the Whiskheads by Russell Smith
  • The IV Lounge Reader by Paul Vermeersch

Ontario Novels (p. 178-179)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pack up the Moon by Richard Teleky
  • Losing It by Alan Cumyn

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Virtual Marshall McLuhan by Donald F. Theall

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Last French and Indian War: An Inquiry into a Safe-Conduct Issued in 1760 that Acquired the Value of a Treaty in 1990 by Denis Vaugeois and Kate Roth
  • The Beothuk Saga by Bernard Assiniwi and Wayne Grady

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Voix et images. La sociabilité littéraire 80 (2002) by Ursula Mathis-Moser

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America by Rubén G. Rumbaut and Alejandro Portes
  • Strangers at the Gates: New Immigrants in Urban America by Roger Waldinger
  • Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America by John L. Jackson, Jr.

A Constrained Canon (p. 185-186)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canada's Best Features: Critical Essays on 15 Canadian Films by Gene Walz

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sundog Highway: Writing from Saskatchewan by Larry Warwaruk
  • A Reckless Moon by Dianne Warren
  • Real Life by Sharon Butala
  • Lake of the Prairies: A Story ofBelonging by Warren Cariou

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dead Man's Gold and Other Stories by Paul Yee
  • The Jade Necklace by Paul Yee

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes