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Canadian Literature's Issue 214 (Autumn 2012) is now available. The issue features articles by Germaine Warkentin, Susan Gingell, Deanna Reder, Allison Hargreaves, Daniel Heath Justice, Kristina Fagan Bidwell, Jo-Ann Episkenew, Andrea King, Joanne Leow, and Ana María Fraile, and new Canadian poetry & book reviews.

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Editorial

Laurie Ricou

Articles

Sean Kane

Suzette Mayr

R. Darren Gobert

Heather Murray

Meredith Criglington

Heather Milne

Poems

John Reibetanz

John Newton

Tom Wayman

John Donlan

David Zieroth

Hendrik Slegtenhorst

Book Reviews

Reviews section PDF available

Not There Yet (p. 120 - 121)

by Penny van Toorn

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Is Canada Postcolonial? Unsettling Canadian Literature by Laura Moss

Subjects: Anthologies, Postmodernism

Best Banff Essays (p. 122)

by Andrew Bartlett

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Word Carving: The Craft of Literary Journalism by Moira Farr and Ian Pearson

Subjects: Essays, Journalism

Dancing in the Mud (p. 122 - 123)

by Shane Rhodes

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. American Standard & Other Poems by Joseph Sherman
  2. Doubt'€™s boots: Even Doubt's Shadow by Charles Noble
  3. Skaldance by

Subjects: Poetry

Dancing in the Mud (p. 122 - 123)

by Shane Rhodes

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. American Standard & Other Poems by Joseph Sherman
  2. Doubt's Boots: Even Doubt's Shadow by Charles Noble
  3. Skaldance by Gary Geddes

Subjects: Landscape/Space, Poetry

Glossed Over Glossed (p. 123 - 124)

by Travis V. Mason

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Glossalalia: An Alphabet of Critical Keywords by Julian Wolfreys

Subjects: Education/Pedagogy, Essays, Language/Linguistics

Loss and Remembrance (p. 124 - 125)

by Nadine Sivak

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Last Romantics by Michael Lewis MacLennan
  2. Rice Boy by Sunil Kuruvilla
  3. The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God by Djanet Sears

Subjects: Drama

Inscapes of Loss and Love (p. 126 - 127)

by Kathryn Carter

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Among the Saints by Donna Smyth
  2. Residual Desire by J. Jill Robinson
  3. Roads Unravelling by Kathy-Diane Leveille

Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Short Fiction

Play Gathering: Western Imaginaries and Toronto Snappy Shorts (p. 127 - 129)

by Kirsty Johnston

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Snappy Shorts at Tarragon Theatre by Andy McKim
  2. The West of All Possible Worlds: Six Contemporary Canadian Plays by Moira Day

Subjects: Anthologies, Drama

Future Shocked (p. 129)

by Kevin McCabe

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Dirt Eaters by Dennis Foon

Subjects: Speculative Fiction

Growing Up Funny (p. 130)

by Linda Pratt

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. All the Way to Mexico by Norma M. Charles
  2. My Name is Mitch by Shelagh Lynne Supeene

Subjects: Children's Literature

High Wind in CanLit (p. 130 - 131)

by Paul Quarrington

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Galveston by Paul Quarrington

High Wind in CanLit (p. 130 - 131)

by Robert McGill

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Galveston by Paul Quarrington

Subjects: Landscape/Space, Novel

Visualizing Vancouverites (p. 131 - 132)

by Anthony Adolph

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Facing History: Portraits From Vancouver by Karen Love
  2. Underlying Vibrations: The Photography and Life of John Vanderpant by Sheryl Salloum

Subjects: Biography, British Columbia, Photography

Who Controls Academic Freedom? (p. 133 - 134)

by Batia Stolar

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Pursuing Academic Freedom: "€œFree and Fearless"? by Len Findlay and Paul M. Bidwell
  2. Who Owns Academic Work?: Battling for Control of Intellectual Property by Corynne McSherry

Subjects: Education/Pedagogy

Rambunctions (p. 134 - 136)

by Laurie Ricou

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Cavatinas for Long Nights by Jim Christy
  2. Sidewalks & Sidehills by Peter Trower
  3. There are Many Ways: Poems New and Selected by Peter Trower
  4. Water Stair by John Pass

Subjects: Poetry

Claiming Hongkongness (p. 136 - 137)

by Maria Noëlle Ng

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Gender and Change in Hong Kong: Globalization, Postcolonialism, and Chinese Patriarchy by Eliza W.Y. Lee

Subjects: Asian Culture, Globalization, Postcolonialism

Toronto Translated (p. 137 - 139)

by Ralph Sarkonak

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Journal de Cabbagetown - Été 67 à Toronto by Michel Albert and Jean Butler
  2. Notes from Exile by Émile Zola, Dorothy E. Speirs, and Yannick Portebois

Subjects: Autobiography, Francophone, Novel

Monuments to Neglect (p. 139 - 140)

by Gregory J. Reid

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Rose by Tomson Highway
  2. The Death of René Lévesque by David Fennario

Subjects: Drama

The Life of Harold Sonny Ladoo (p. 140 - 141)

by David Chariandy

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. No Pain Like This Body by Harold Sonny Ladoo

Subjects: Caribbean-Canadian

Life Lessons (p. 141 - 142)

by Ian Dennis

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Horn of a Lamb by Robert Sedlack

Subjects: Novel, Sports Writing

Writing for Our Lives (p. 142 - 143)

by Marni L. Stanley

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Companion to Feminist Theory by Mary Eagleton
  2. The Text is Myself: Women's Life Writing and Catastrophe by Miriam Fuchs

Subjects: Autobiography, Feminism, Literary Theory, Women's Literature, Women's Studies

Recent Canadian Shakespeares (p. 143 - 144)

by Wes Folkerth

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Free Will by Harold Rhenisch
  2. Shakespeare and Canada: Essays on Production, Translation, and Adaptation by Ric Knowles
  3. Shakespeare's Dog by Leon Rooke

Subjects: Novel, Poetry, Theatre History

Stars and Songs (p. 145 - 146)

by Monique Tschofen

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Once Upon a Time in Paradise: Canadians in the Golden Age of Hollywood by Charles Foster
  2. The American Musical: History & Development by Peter H. Riddle

Subjects: Drama, Film, Music, Theatre History

Traveling Solo (p. 146 - 147)

by Suha Kudsieh

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Ireland'€™s Eye by Mark Anthony Jarman
  2. Solo: Writers on Pilgrimage by Katherine Govier

Subjects: Irish-Canadian , Travel Writing

Mixed Pleasures (p. 147 - 149)

by Gary Boire

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Morley Callaghan: The Complete Stories by Barry Callaghan

Subjects: Short Fiction

Full-length yet Partial (p. 149 - 150)

by I. MacLaren

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West by D'Arcy Jenish

Subjects: History

Cape Breton and Beyond (p. 150 - 151)

by Gordon Bölling

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. All the Men are Sleeping: Selected Fiction by D. R. MacDonald
  2. The Continuation of Love by Other Means by Claudia Casper

Subjects: Novel, Short Fiction

Between Exposures (p. 152 - 153)

by Travis V. Mason

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Between Lovers by Sheri-D Wilson
  2. Cinquefoil: New Work from Five Ottawa Poets by Mark Frutkin
  3. Exposed by Catherine Hunter

Subjects: Poetry

Queer Books (p. 154 - 157)

by Ralph Sarkonak

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Du côté de la sexualité: Proust, Yourcenar, Tournier by Anne-Marie Gronhovd
  2. L'énigme thérapeutique au coeur de la philosophie by Angela Cozea

Subjects: Gay/Lesbian, Philosophy, Quebec

Cultural Angst and Diasporic Echoes (p. 157 - 158)

by Satwinder K. Bains

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Of Silk Saris and Mini-Skirts: South Asian Girls Walk the Tightrope of Culture by Amita Handa

Subjects: Asian Canadian, Asian Culture, Culture, Indian/South Asian

Surfaces and Secrets (p. 158 - 159)

by Coral Ann Howell

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Runaway by Alice Munro
  2. The Collected Stories by Carol Shields

Subjects: Short Fiction

Moral of the Life Story (p. 159 - 161)

by Laurie McNeill

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Ethics of Life Writing by Paul John Eakin

Subjects: Autobiography, Biography

An Honest Book (p. 161 - 162)

by Helen M. Buss

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. I'll Tell You a Secret: A Memory of Seven Summers by Anne Coleman
  2. The Spiral Staircase: My Climb out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong
  3. There is a Season: A Memoir in a Garden by Patrick Lane

Subjects: Autobiography

Surviving Memory (p. 163)

by Anne Kaufman

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Girl At the Window by Byrna Barclay

Subjects: Memory & Identity, Prairie Writing, Short Fiction

Growing up with War and Beauty (p. 163 - 165)

by Terri Tomsky

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Brahma's Dream by Shree Ghatage
  2. Seventeen Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir by Jaspreet Singh

Subjects: Body & Health, Indian/South Asian, Landscape/Space

Directions in Newfoundland Memoir (p. 165 - 166)

by Jennifer Bowering Delisle

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Newfoundland: Journey into a Lost Nation by Greg Locke and Michael Crummey
  2. The Road to Nowhere by Cyril Goodyear

Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Photography

Porter le deuil (p. 167 - 168)

by Luc Bonenfant

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. N'€™y allez pas by Jacques Ouellet
  2. Poèmes de veille by Jean Royer
  3. Si tu allais quelque part by Paul Chanel Malenfant

Subjects: Francophone, Poetry

Inspiring Immigrant (p. 168 - 169)

by Elizabeth Hopkins

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Susanna'€™s Quill by Julie Johnston

Subjects: History

Worthy Tribute (p. 169)

by Samara Walbohm

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Life and Works of Ethelwyn Wetherald by Dorothy W. Rungeling

Subjects: Biography, Poetry

The Return of the Ethnic? (p. 170 - 171)

by Albert Braz

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Adjacencies: Minority Writing in Canada by Licia Canton, Domenic Beneventi, and Lianne Moyes
  2. Blessed Harbours: An Anthology of Hungarian-Canadian Authors by John P. Miska
  3. Musings: An Anthology of Greek-Canadian Literature by Steven Heighton, Tess Fragoulis, and Helen Tsiriotakis

Subjects: Eastern European

Subverting Synecdoche (p. 171 - 173)

by Jo-Anne Episkenew

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Strong Women Stories: Native Vision and Community Survival by Kim Anderson

Subjects: Native Studies, Women's Literature, Women's Studies

Reading Pleasure (p. 173 - 174)

by Alison Calder

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. What Casanova Told Me by Susan Swan

Subjects: Novel

For Fools Rush In (p. 174 - 175)

by Jessica Schagerl

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Heiress vs The Establishment: Mrs. Campbell's Campaign for Legal Justice by Constance Backhouse and Nancy L. Backhouse

Subjects: Biography

Escape Routes (p. 175)

by Timothy Callin

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Long Run by Leo Furey

Subjects: Novel

Damage's Otter (p. 176 - 177)

by Duffy Roberts

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Damage Done by the Storm by Jack Hodgins

Subjects: Short Fiction

Foundational Images (p. 177 - 178)

by Madelaine Jacobs

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Red Man'€™s on the Warpath: The Image of the "€œIndian"€ and the Second World War by R. Scott Sheffield

Subjects: First Nations, Native Studies, World War II

The Gift of Redress (p. 178 - 179)

by Guy Beauregard

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice by Roy Miki

Subjects: Asian Canadian, History

George Ryga Revisited (p. 179 - 181)

by George Melnyk

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. George Ryga: The Other Plays by James Hoffman
  2. George Ryga: The Prairie Novels by James Hoffman

Subjects: Drama

Whose Canada? (p. 181 - 182)

by Carole Gerson

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Museum Called Canada by Charlotte Gray and Sara Angel

Subjects: Culture, First Nations, History, Quebec, Women's Studies

Soul Survivors (p. 183 - 184)

by Evelyn C. White

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. What We All Long For by Dionne Brand

Subjects: Novel

Making Mourning Work (p. 184 - 185)

by Elizabeth Hodgson

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Response to Death: The Literary Work of Mourning by Christian Riegel

Subjects: Essays, Literary Theory

Ducharme le ferrailleur (p. 185 - 186)

by André Lamontagne

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Réjean Ducharme: Une poétique du débris by Élisabeth Nardout-Lafarge

Subjects: Francophone, Literary Criticism, Poetry

Last Worlds (p. 186 - 188)

by Russell Morton Brown

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. In the Place of Last Things by Michael Helm

Subjects: Novel

Homes in the World (p. 188 - 189)

by Jisha Menon

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Story-wallah by Shyam Selvadurai

Subjects: Anthologies, Diaspora, Short Fiction

Imagining London (p. 189 - 190)

by Ann Martin

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Imagining London: Postcolonial Fiction and the Transnational Metropolis by John Clement Ball

Subjects: Postcolonialism, Transnationalism

Imagined Geographies (p. 190 - 191)

by Jacqueline Viswanathan

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Geo/graphies: Mapping the Imagination in French and Francophone Literature and Film by Freeman G. Henry

Subjects: Essays, Film, Francophone

Opinions & Notes

Roo Borson

John Lunn

Mike McCarthy

Giles Blunt

Clint Hutzulak

Graeme Gibson

Roy MacSkimming

Mark Harris



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