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#182 (Autumn 2004)
Black Writing in Canada

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Editorial

Laura Moss

• Canada Reads (p. 6 - 10)
• Subjects: Literary Criticism, Media & Communications, Nationalism
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Articles

Marlene Goldman

• Mapping the Door of No Return: Deterritorialization and the Work of Dionne Brand (p. 13 - 28)
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  This study examines Brand’s notion of deterritorialization. Rather than clinging to notions of home and nation, Brand outlines an alternative possiblity, namely “drifting,” adopting the ship at sea as a metaphor of the continuing impact of the Black Diaspora. Brand’s diasporic narratives reject both the model of the modernist exile and the model of the immigrant. Ultimately, her drifting subjects reconfigure the desire for belonging by forging decentred, transnational connections that are not necessarily based on the concept of a homeland or the teleology of origin/return.
  
  Cette étude examine la notion de la déterritorialisation chez Brand. Au lieu de tenir aux notions de chez-soi et de nation, Brand esquisse une autre possibilité : celle de se laisser aller à la dérive, adoptant le navire en pleine mer comme métaphore des répercussions continues de la diaspora des Noirs. Les récits diasporiques de Brand rejettent à la fois le modèle de l’exilé moderne et celui de l’immigrant. Finalement, ses sujets flottants vont transformer le désir d’appartenance en recréant des liens parallèles et transnationaux qui ne sont pas nécéssairement fondés sur l’idée du pays natal ou sur la téléologie reposant sur la notion binaire origine / retour.

• Subjects: Afro-Canadian, Diaspora, Nationalism
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Winfried Siemerling

• May I See Some Identification?: Race, Borders, and Identities in Any Known Blood (p. 30 - 50)
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  The essay explores Lawrence Hill’s novel Any Known Blood (1997) with reference to his memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice (2001), and in the context of work on "race," ascription, identification, passing, and the reality-shaping power of categories (Anthony Appiah, W.E.B. Du Bois, Diana Fuss, Ian Hacking, Werner Sollors). The discussion follows Hill’s multi-generational novel as it criss-crosses the Canada - United States border and different geographies of race, considers issues surrounding the role of African American culture north of the border, and contrasts narrative choices and psychodynamic junctions that both Hill and Russell Banks in his novel Cloudsplitter (1998) orchestrate through the portrayal of John Brown and his raid on Harpers Ferry.
  
  Cet essai étudie le roman de Lawrence Hill, Any Known Blood (1997), en se référant à ses mémoires, Black Berry, Sweet Juice (2001), dans le contexte de certains travaux sur la race, l’imputation, l’identification, la disparition et le rôle des catégories dans la construction de la réalité (Anthony Appiah, W.E.B. Du Bois, Diana Fuss, Ian Hacking, Werner Sollors). La discussion suit le parcours du roman qui embrasse plusieurs générations, chevauche la frontière canado-américaine ainsi que différentes géographies raciales, scrute le rôle de la culture afro-américaine au Canada et fait ressortir le contraste des choix narratifs et des jonctions psychodynamiques que Hill, comme Russell Banks dans son roman Cloudsplitter (1998), fait jouer à travers l’image qui est donnée de l’incursion de John Brown sur le traversier Harpers.

• Subjects: Afro-Canadian, Memory & Identity
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George Elliott Clarke, Wayde Compton, and Kevin McNeilly

• The Crime of Poetry: George Elliott Clarke in Conversation with Wayde Compton and Kevin McNeilly (p. 53 - 64)
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  In the summer of 2002, George Elliott Clarke taught a graduate seminar as part of the University of British Columbia’s Noted Scholar program. This interview consists of excerpts from a conversation, sponsored by Canadian Literature, in front of an audience at Green College, UBC, in late July 2002.
  
  Kevin McNeilly (KM): George Elliott Clarke’s poetry offers us an enticing tangle of contradictions and confrontations, things like a vicious delicacy or a brutal lyricism or -- I’ve taken a phrase straight from his poetry -- a “sweet hurt." Clarke provokes and challenges his readers’ false comforts of culture, or of language, or of race, all the while immersing us in a kind of verbal balm. Wayde Compton’s acclaimed first book of poems, 49th Parallel Psalm, and his recent anthology Bluesprint have done great things to establish the presence and history of black British Columbian literature and orature. It’s a pleasure to speak with you both today. I’ve asked Wayde to open the discussion.
  
  Wayde Compton (WC): I haven’t really prepared much, so I’ll freestyle here a little bit. In 1994, I traveled to see Henry Louis Gates, Jr., launch Colored People: A Memoir. He read for a bit and in his discussion afterwards, somebody asked him: "Since you began studying African American literature, what has been the single, biggest change in the literature?" He answered that when he started looking at black writing in the United States, he was able to read every book that was published in America by a black author as each one appeared: "The biggest change is that sometime in the 1980s, I lost the ability to do that.” So, my two questions for George are, first, do you do that? Do you read every book in published in Canada by a black writer? And second, what do you think has been the biggest change since you started?
  
  George Elliott Clarke (GEC): Oh wow. No, I don’t read every book published by a black writer, partly because my French isn’t good enough, and in Canada that’s a significant percentage of our literature. We’re not talking about a whole lot of books anyway, especially if we’re only talking about literary writing: but maybe ten or twenty literary books published by black writers in Canada a year. Probably something like that. Then there is this other group of books that is coming out in French; there is a significant body of material hasn’t been translated. Stanley Péan, for instance, who is a major fantasy sci-fi writer in Quebec, a household name practically, but none of his work has been translated into English, so we don’t know him. I really hope that will change, that we will have an expanding core of readers who will be able to read across the language division. How has it expanded, how has it changed? When I did Fire on the Water twelve years ago, it was enough for me to say “Oh wow, there have been more than five or six books published by black Nova Scotians in the last 200 years. Good, that’s kind of nice." [Laughter.] When I first started doing my bibliography, Africana Canadiana, I thought, “This is going to be something that’s doing to be done very quickly.” In fact, the first incarnation of that bibliography was only about twenty typed pages. I felt really good; I could carry it around very easily with me. But once I had a chance to do far more research, and really scour things, I’d go to the Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec and really look, and with a broad understanding of the term literature, it started just growing exponentially. When I first published that bibliography, I called it a comprehensive bibliography, i.e. everything that‘s ever been written by black authors, by black Canadian authors, is in this bibliography. I was wrong. That was silly.[. . .]

• Subjects: Afro-Canadian, Authorship, Poetry
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Karina Vernon

• Writing a Home for Prairie Blackness: Addena Sumter Freitag’s Stay Black and Die and Cheryl Foggo’s Pourin’ Down Rain (p. 67 - 83)
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  This essay analyzes Addena Sumter Freitag’s play Stay Black and Die (1996) and Cheryl Foggo’s family memoir Pourin’ Down Rain (1990) for the way they inscribe a home in text for prairie blackness. Through a historicizing reading of their work, the essay shows that the need to construct a home for prairie blackness points to a troubling effacement of black history from the prairie imaginary, and suggests furthermore the need of Black Canadian Cultural Studies to expand its focus beyond the Maritimes and central-Canada, to the prairies, where the historically-specific interarticulation of race and region have refracted blackness uniquely.
  
  Cet essai analyse la pièce Stay Black and Die (1996) d’Addena Sumter Freitag et Pouriní Down Rain (1990), les mémoires de famille de Cheryl Foggo, afin de comprendre comment ces oeuvres inscrivent textuellement le lieu propre à la présence noire dans les prairies. À travers une lecture historicisée de ces livres, l’essai démontre que le fait même qu’il existe un besoin de construire une telle appartenance indique l’effacement troublant de l’histoire des Noirs dans l’imaginaire des prairies. De plus, cela signale la nécessité d’étendre les études de la culture noire canadienne en dehors des Maritimes et pour y inlure les Prairies où une interarticulation ethno-régionale, spécifiquement historique, a profondément affecté la culture noire.

• Subjects: Afro-Canadian, Home & Family, Prairie Writing
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Poems

M. Travis Lane

• Hummingbird (p. 11)

Debbi Waters

• Reaching Out & Trying to Find Shoes I Can Dance In (p. 12)

Jeffrey Round

• Small Furies (p. 29)

George Elliott Clarke

• Towards a Geography of Three Mile Plains, N.S. (p. 51 - 52)

Cyril Dabydeen

• Post-Cannibalism: (for Douglas Kerr) (p. 65 - 66)

Susan McCaslin

• The Tasks (p. 84)

John Pass

• The Cave in the Coals (p. 85 - 86)

Book Reviews

Reviews section PDF available

Histories of Difference (p. 87 - 88)

by Lily Cho

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1842-82 by Najia Aarim-Heriot
2. Fair Exotics: Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature, 1720-1850 by Rajani Sudan

Subjects: Afro-Canadian, Asian American, British, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, United States

Fresh and Tired Metaphors (p. 89 - 90)

by Afra Kavanagh

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Margery Looks Up by Meredith Andrew
2. Swimming in the Ocean by Catherine Jenkins
3. The Haunting of L by Howard Norman

Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Crime & Detective, Nature Writing, Novel, Trauma

Home and Away (p. 90 - 92)

by Annette Kern-Stá€hler

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Destination Canada: Immigration Debates and Issues by Peter S. Li
2. Domesticity, Imperialism, and Emigration in the Victorian Noval by Diana C. Archibald
3. Passages: Welcome Home to Canada by Westwood Creative Artists

Subjects: Diaspora, Immigrant, Nationalism, Nineteenth Century, Novel

Mysteries of the Quotidian (p. 92 - 93)

by Shannon MacRae

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Night Watch by Susan Zettell
2. The Maleness of God by Brenda Baker

Subjects: Memory & Identity, Religion, Short Fiction

Canadian Letters (p. 93 - 94)

by Gordon Bölling

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A New Anthology of Canadian Literature in English by Donna Bennett and Russell Morton Brown

Subjects: Anthologies, Twentieth Century

Maritime Narratives (p. 94 - 95)

by Bryan N. S. Gooch

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Manifest Perdition: Shipwreck Narrative and the Disruption of Empire by Josiah Blackmore
2. The Sea Voyage Narrative by Robert Foulke

Subjects: Travel Writing

Petites victimes, petites terreurs (p. 95 - 97)

by Édouard Magessa O'Reilly

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Des steaks pour les élèves by François Désalliers
2. Les petits soldats by Camille Bouchard

Subjects: Francophone, Novel

Orbiting Toronto (p. 97 - 98)

by Heather Smyth

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Thirsty by Dionne Brand

Subjects: Caribbean-Canadian , Poetry

The Decline of "Sisterhood" (p. 98 - 100)

by Margaret Prang

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Modern Women Modernizing Men: The Changing Missions of Three Professional Women in Asia and Africa, 1902-69 by Ruth Compton Brouwer
2. Women and the White Man's God: Gender and Race in the Canadian Mission Field by Myra Rutherdale

Subjects: Afro-Canadian, Asian Culture, Gender, Religion

Encountering the Other (p. 100 - 102)

by Mary Jean Green

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion and Romantic Obsession by Rosemary Sullivan
2. Writing in the Feminine in French and English Canada: A Question of Ethics by Marie Carrière

Subjects: Feminism, Francophone, Poetry, Women's Studies

Odysseys (p. 102 - 103)

by Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Odysseys Homes: Mapping African-Canadian Literature by George Elliott Clarke

Subjects: Afro-Canadian, Atlantic Canada, Essays, Ethnic History, Immigrant

Black Like To Who(m)? (p. 103 - 105)

by Julian Manyoni

Book(s) reviewed:

1. 49th Parallel Psalm by Wayde Compton

Subjects: Afro-Canadian, British Columbia, Poetry

Palimpsest Crossroads (p. 105 - 106)

by Jenny Pai

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature by Wayde Compton
2. Kipligat's Chance by David N. Odhiambo

Subjects: Afro-Canadian, British Columbia, Oral

Lyric and Anti-Lyric (p. 107 - 108)

by Robert Budde

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Salvage by Daphne Marlatt
2. Shameless by Marlene Cookshaw
3. Silence of the Country by Kristjana Gunnars

Subjects: British Columbia, Poetry

A Burnt-Out Case (p. 108 - 109)

by Neil ten Kortenaar

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche

Subjects: Afro-Canadian, Novel, War

Betrayers and Betrayed (p. 109 - 111)

by Jim Taylor

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Down the Coaltown Road by Sheldon Currie

Subjects: Italo-Canadian , Novel, World War II

Beyond Ethnography (p. 111 - 112)

by Lily Cho

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Transcultural Reinventions: Asian American and Asian Canadian Short Story Cycles by Rocío G. Davis

Subjects: Asian American, Asian Canadian, Short Fiction, Transnationalism

Writes of Passage (p. 112 - 114)

by Wendy Robbins

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Canonization, Colonization, Decolonization: A Comparative Study of Political and Critical Works by Minority Writers by Seodial F.H. Deena
2. Mothering Across Cultures: Postcolonial Representations by Angelita Reyes
3. Passport Photos by Amitava Kumar

Subjects: Memory & Identity, Postcolonialism, Women's Studies

Lives in Art (p. 114 - 116)

by Susan Wasserman

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Back Flip by Anne Denoon
2. Private View by Jean McNeil

Subjects: Art, Novel, Ontario

Blissful, Messy, Impermanence (p. 116 - 118)

by Sonnet L'Abbé

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Full Magpie Dodge by Lyle Neff
2. moving to the clear by Jason Dewinetz
3. Shadowcrossing by Lea Harper
4. The Well: New and Selected Poems by Kenneth Sherman

Subjects: Poetry

Pray Meditate Upon its Poetry (p. 118 - 119)

by Kevin McNeilly

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Disturbances of Progress by Lise Downe
2. the soft signature by Lise Downe

Subjects: Poetry

Almosting (p. 119 - 120)

by Kevin McNeilly

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Apocrypha: Further Journeys by Stan Dragland

Subjects: Correspondence, Essays, Life Writing

A Distinguished Man (p. 120 - 122)

by Heather Murray

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Professing English: A Life of Roy Daniells by Sandra Djwa

Subjects: Biography

Books of Beast (p. 122 - 124)

by John Considine

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Alphabeasts by Wallace Edwards
2. Baby Elephant by Aubrey Lang and Wayne Lynch
3. Baby Fox by Aubrey Lang and Wayne Lynch
4. Baby Lion by Aubrey Lang and Wayne Lynch

Subjects: Animal Studies, Children's Literature

Searching for Home (p. 124 - 125)

by Sarika P. Bose

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Box Girl by Sarah Withrow
2. Pick-Up Sticks by Sarah Ellis

Subjects: Gay/Lesbian, Home & Family, Novel, Young Adult

Sage and Silly (p. 125 - 127)

by Nicholas Brown-Considine

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Down by Jim Long's Stage: Rhymes for Children and Young Fish by Al Pittman and Pam Hall
2. Messengers of Rain and Other Poems for Latin America by Claudia M. Lee and Rafael Yockteng
3. The Night Walker by Martin Springett and Richard Thompson
4. Two Shoes, Blue Shoes, New Shoes! by Sally Fitz-Gibbon and Farida Zaman

Subjects: Children's Literature, Latin-American, Poetry

The Bajan Connection (p. 127 - 128)

by George Elliott Clarke

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Dry Bone Memories by Cecil Foster

Subjects: Caribbean-Canadian , Novel

A Balanced Education (p. 129 - 130)

by L. M. Findlay

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Creating Carleton: The Shaping of a University by Blair Neatby and Don McEown
2. The University of Toronto: A History by Martin L. Friedland

Subjects: Education/Pedagogy, History

Art of Translation (p. 131 - 132)

by Tanis Macdonald

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Colville's People by Carol Malyon
2. From Dark Horse Road by Ellen McGinn
3. Volta by Susan Gillis

Subjects: Poetry

Re-Presenting Johnson (p. 132 - 133)

by Linda M. Morra

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Flint & Feather: The Life and Times of E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake by Charlotte Gray

Subjects: Biography, First Nations

Dispatches from the Gender Wars (p. 133 - 135)

by Catherine Hunter

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Rogue's Wedding by Terry Griggs
2. The Womanizer: A Man of His Time by Rick Salutin

Subjects: Gender, Novel

Hope and Remembrance (p. 135 - 136)

by Huai-Yang Lim

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Company of Fools by Deborah Ellis
2. Hurricanes Over London by Charles Reid
3. Irish Chain by Barbara Haworth-Attard

Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Children's Literature, Historical Fiction, World War II

Darkness Visible (p. 136 - 138)

by Kristjana Gunnars

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Swimming into Darkness by Gail Helgason

Subjects: Icelandic-Canadian, Novel, Prairie Writing

Whiteout (p. 138 - 139)

by Marilyn Iwama

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Discourses of Domination: Racial Bias in the Canadian English-Language Press by Frances Henry and Carol Tator

Subjects: Cultural Studies, Journalism, Media & Communications

Nothing Like That (p. 139 - 140)

by John Moffatt

Book(s) reviewed:

1. North Spirit: Travels among the Cree and Ojibway Nations and their Star Maps by Paulette Jiles

Subjects: Landscape/Space, Media & Communications, Mythology, Native Studies, Travel Writing

Dissecting Disciplinarity (p. 141 - 143)

by Rachel Poliquin

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Between Literature and Science: Poe, Lem and Explorations in Aesthetics, Cognitive Science, and Literary Knowledge by Peter Swirski
2. Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the British Empire by Peder Anker
3. The Living Prism: Itineraries in Comparative Literature by Eva Kushner

Subjects: British, Comparative, Ecocriticism, History, Philosophy, Religion

Quebec Political Ideas (p. 143 - 144)

by Kenneth Munro

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Le rouge et le bleu: une anthologie de la pensée politique au Québec de la Conquête à la Révolution tranquille by Yvan Lamonde and Claude Corbo

Subjects: Correspondence, History, Politics, Quebec

Romans québécois post modernes (p. 144 - 145)

by Georges Desmeules

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Boulevard Raspail by Robert Baillie
2. Rouge malsain by Luc Lecompte

Subjects: Francophone, Novel, Postmodernism

Needing to Forget (p. 145 - 147)

by Sara Crangle

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Ability to Forget by Norman Levine
2. Wound Ballistics by Steven Manners

Subjects: Autobiography, Short Fiction

Lyrical Arguments (p. 147 - 148)

by Jamie Dopp

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Thinking and Singing by Tim Lilburn

Subjects: Essays, Philosophy, Poetry

Two Weddings and a Funeral (p. 149 - 151)

by Andre Furlani

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Clinical Studies by George Slobodzian
2. Manitoba Highway Map by rob mclennan
3. Shaken by Physics by John MacKenzie

Subjects: Poetry, Prairie Writing

Texte(s) et intertextes (p. 151 - 153)

by Georges Bélanger

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Amour et pince-monseigneur by François Désalliers
2. Styx by Roger Magini

Subjects: Francophone, Novel

Strong Voices (p. 153 - 154)

by Allan Weiss

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Necessary Betrayals by Guillaume Vigneault
2. The Cameraman by Bill Gaston
3. The Clarinet Polka by Keith Maillard

Subjects: Novel, Trauma

Family and Forever (p. 154 - 156)

by Michelle La Flamme

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Daughters are Forever by Lee Maracle
2. Loving This Man by Althea Prince

Subjects: Caribbean-Canadian , First Nations, Home & Family, Novel, Trauma

Our Mother's Stories (p. 156 - 158)

by Katherine Miller

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen by Kate Taylor
2. Shahnaz : A Novel by Hiro Mcllwraith
3. Your Mouth is Lovely by Nancy Richler

Subjects: Home & Family, Indian/South Asian, Jewish-Canadian , Novel

Literacy On the Thames (p. 158 - 159)

by Blair Rudes

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Oneida-English/English-Oneida Dictionary by Mercy Doxtator and Karin Michelson

Subjects: First Nations, Language/Linguistics

Exit/Enter bpNichol (p. 159 - 160)

by Kathryn Grafton

Book(s) reviewed:

1. bpNichol Comics by Carl Peters
2. Meanwhile: The Critical Writings of bpNichol by Roy Miki

Subjects: Graphic Novel, Poetry

Taboo Intimacies (p. 160 - 162)

by Maya Simpson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Interracial Intimacy: the Regulation of Race and Romance by Rachel F. Moran
2. Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America by Renee C. Romano

Subjects: Afro-Canadian, Cultural Studies, Latin-American, Native Studies, Twentieth Century, United States

Improving Reading (p. 162 - 163)

by Margery Fee

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Come, Bright Improvement! : The Literary Societies of Nineteenth-Century Ontario by Heather Murray

Subjects: Education/Pedagogy, Nineteenth Century, Ontario

Writing Diasporic Lives (p. 163 - 165)

by Wendy Roy

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Caribbean Autobiography: Cultural Identity and Self-Representation by Sandra Pouchet Paquet
2. Portugese Women in Toronto: Gender, Immigration, and Nationalism by Wenona Giles

Subjects: Caribbean-Canadian , Cultural Studies, Gender, Multiculturalism, Nationalism

Amazonia Revisted (p. 165 - 166)

by Gordon Fisher

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Trade Mission by Andrew Pyper

Subjects: Novel

History Made Interesting (p. 166 - 167)

by Lynn (J.R.) Wytenbroek

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Beginnings: Stories of Canada's Past by Ann Walsh
2. Sacred Sarah by Muriel Wood and Mary Alice Downie
3. The Name of the Child by Don Kilby and Marilynn Reynolds
4. Winds through Time: An Anthology of Canadian Historical Young Adult Fiction by Ann Walsh

Subjects: Anthologies, Children's Literature, Historical Fiction, Young Adult

The Natural (p. 167 - 169)

by Laura Robinson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking by matt robinson
2. Birdheart by Elana Woldd
3. Holding Pattern by Shane Rhodes
4. The Goddess in the Garden by Carolyn Zonailo
5. Wanting in Arabic by Trish Salah

Subjects: Nature Writing, Poetry

Ecriture et mémoire (p. 169 - 171)

by Carol J. Harvey

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Mes jours sont vos heures by Geneviève Robitaille
2. Rouge, mère et fils by Suzanne Jacob

Subjects: Francophone, Memory & Identity, Novel

Feminist Critics on Feminist Writers (p. 171 - 173)

by Lothar Honnighausen

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction by Edward Eden and Dee Goertz
2. Narrative Deconstruction of Gender in Works by Audrey Thomas, Daphne Marlatt, and Louise Erdrich by Caroline Rosenthal

Subjects: Essays, Feminism, Literary Criticism

Meeting Places in the Network (p. 173 - 174)

by Hilary Turner

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Mona Lisa Smiled a Little by Rachel Wyatt
2. The One with the News by Sandra Sabatini

Subjects: Body & Health, Novel, Short Fiction

Reappraisals (p. 174 - 176)

by Linda M. Morra

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Seven Journeys of Emily Carr by Doris Shadbolt
2. Tom Thomson by Dennis Reid

Subjects: Art, Essays

Subversion by Sound (p. 176 - 177)

by Chris Jennings

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Electra by Anne Carson and Sophocles

Subjects: Drama, Language/Linguistics

A Rhetoric of its Own (p. 177 - 178)

by Nathalie Cooke

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Rhetoric of Canadian Writing by Conny Steenman-Marcusse

Subjects: Essays, Literary Criticism

Life-Writing (p. 178 - 180)

by Stella Algoo-Baksh

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Invisible Shadows: A Black Woman's Life in Nova Scotia by Verna Thomas
2. Lambsquarters: Scenes from a Handmade Life by Barbara McClean

Subjects: Afro-Canadian, Atlantic Canada, Autobiography

The Making of a Quebec Historian (p. 180 - 181)

by Louis-Georges Harvey

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Memoirs of a Less Travelled road: A Historian's Life by Marcel Trudel

Subjects: Autobiography, Quebec

Between Ethics and Politics (p. 181 - 183)

by Neil ten Kortenaar

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M. G. Vassanji

Subjects: Immigrant, Novel

Cultural Transmutations (p. 183 - 185)

by Albert Braz

Book(s) reviewed:

1. For Joshua: An Ojibway Father Teaches His Son by Richard Wagamese
2. The Great Gift of Tears by Heather Hodgson
3. The Setting Lake Sun by J. R. Lévillé and S.E. Stewart

Subjects: Autobiography, Drama, First Nations

Mennonite Masterpiece (p. 185 - 186)

by Barbara Pell

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Sweeter Than All the World by Rudy Wiebe

Subjects: Mennonite, Novel

The Road Home (p. 186 - 187)

by Christine Lorre

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Balloon by Tim Wynveen
2. Sweeter Life by Tim Wynveen

Subjects: Home & Family, Novel

Opinions & Notes

Diana Brydon

• George Elliott Clarke's Othello (p. 188 - 194)
• Subjects: Poetry

Eva-Marie Kröller

• Les Lieux de mémoire (p. 194 - 197)
• Subjects: History, Memory & Identity, Quebec

Last Pages

Kevin McNeilly

• Word Jazz 5: Lorna Goodison Leaves Off Miles Davis (p. 198 - 200)
• Subjects: Caribbean-Canadian , Music, Poetry