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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

Laura Moss

Articles

Caitlin Charman

Sue Sorensen

Andre Furlani

Daniela Janes

Gillian Roberts

Poems

James Pollock

Susan McCaslin

M. Travis Lane

Jack Davis

Jim F. Johnstone

Nathaniel G. Moore

Book Reviews

Reviews section PDF available

Altérés de loin (p. 104 - 105)

by Jeff Moore

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Mystique by Mylène Gilbert-Dumas
  2. On finit toujours par payer by Jean Lemieux

Subjects: Crime & Detective, Francophone

Generalizations (p. 105 - 107)

by Stephen Guy-Bray

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Gay Male Pornography: An Issue of Sex Discrimination by Christopher N. Kendall
  2. Peacocks, Chameleons, Centaurs: Gay Suburbia and the Grammar of Social Identity by Wayne H. Brekhaus

Subjects: Gay/Lesbian, Literary Theory

Cross-cultural Exchanges (p. 107 - 108)

by Roseanna L. Dufault

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Contes iraniens islamisés by Shodja Eddin Ziaïan
  2. Frida: Paint me as a Volcano/Frida: Un Volcan de Souffrance by Keith Garebian
  3. Made in Auroville, India by Monique Patenaude

Subjects: Indian/South Asian, Novel, Poetry

Seeing What He Saw (p. 108 - 110)

by Robert Thacker

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. As For Sinclair Ross by David Stouck

Subjects: Biography

Memory, Displacement, and Politicized Prejudice (p. 110 - 113)

by Melina Baum Singer

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Contemporary Antisemitism, Canada and the World by Michael Marrus, Derek J. Penslar, and Janice Gross Stein
  2. Contemporary Jewish Writing in Canada: An Anthology by Michael Greenstein
  3. The Canadian Jewish Studies Reader by Richard Menkis and Norman Ravvin

Subjects: Anthologies, Jewish-Canadian

New Regionalisms (p. 113 - 114)

by Janice Fiamengo

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. History, Literature, and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies by Alison Calder and Robert Wardhaugh

Subjects: Essays, Landscape/Space, Prairie Writing, Regionalism

There Be Monsters Here (p. 114 - 115)

by Marlene Goldman

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National Literature by Justin D. Edwards

Subjects: Culture, Gothic

Beyond Border Metaphors (p. 115 - 117)

by Elizabeth Maurer

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Holding the Line: Borders in a Global World by Heather N. Nicol and Ian Townsend-Gault

Subjects: Globalization, Nationalism

Historical Biography (p. 117 - 118)

by David Staines

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Inventing Sam Slick: A Biography of Thomas Chandler Haliburton by Richard A. Davies

Subjects: Biography

Représentations et poubellisation de l'autre (p. 118 - 119)

by Pamela V. Sing

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Les dépouilles de l'€™altéité by Daniel Castillo Durante

Subjects: Literary Theory

Literature as History (p. 119 - 121)

by E. D. Blodgett

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. La Vie littéraire au Québec by Maurice Lemire and Denis Saint-Jacques

Subjects: Quebec

Come Fly with Them (p. 121 - 122)

by Travis V. Mason

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys of the Avian World by Candace Savage
  2. The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany by Graeme Gibson

Subjects: Animal Studies

Fenced In (p. 122 - 123)

by Myrl Coulter

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Map of Glass by Jane Urquhart

Subjects: Novel

L'épreuve de la traduction (p. 123 - 124)

by Robert Melancon

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Les Originaux by Pierre Desruisseaux and L.E. Vollick
  2. Sur le terrain de la traduction by Hélène Buzelin

Subjects: Language/Linguistics

Souvenirs et découvertes (p. 125 - 126)

by Jeanette den Toonder

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Les secrets de la Sphinxe: Lectures de l'?uvre d'Anne-Marie Alonzo by Janine Ricouart and Roseanna L. Dufault
  2. Momo et Loulou by Mona Latif-Ghattas and Louise Desjardins

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Multimedia, Poetry

Lectures sur mesure (p. 126 - 127)

by Christine Poirier

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Dans le muskeg by Margeurite Primeau
  2. Lèche-vitrine by Sophie Lepage

Subjects: Francophone, Novel, Prairie Writing, Urban Novel

Before We Forgot (p. 127 - 128)

by Michael Wells

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Professionalism of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Betty A. Schellenberg

Subjects: Authorship, Eighteenth Century, Historiography, Women's Literature, Women's Studies

Biographing Alice Munro (p. 128 - 130)

by Héliane Ventura

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives: a Biography by Robert Thacker

Subjects: Biography

Taking Stock (p. 130 - 131)

by Erika Behrisch

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Canadian Housewife: An Affectionate History by Rosemary Neering

Subjects: Home & Family, Women's Studies

Exploring the Canadian Plains (p. 131 - 132)

by Linda Driedger

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Stone by Stone: Exploring Ancient Sites of the Canadian Plains by Liz Bryan
  2. The Buffalo People: Pre-contact Archaeology on the Canadian Plains by Liz Bryan

Subjects: Archaeology, Prairie Writing

An Important Book (p. 132 - 134)

by Mervyn Nicholson

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther by Christine Wiesenthal

Subjects: Biography

Multiple Horizons (p. 134 - 135)

by Jack F. Stewart

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Brush with Life by John Koerner

Subjects: Art, Asian Canadian

Fairy Tales and Tellers (p. 135 - 136)

by Sarika P. Bose

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Hans Christian Andersen: His Fairy Tale Life by Tiina Nunnally, Hjøžrdis Varmer, and Lilian Brøgger
  2. The Nutcracker by Karen Kain and Rajka Kupesic

Subjects: Biography, Children's Literature

Old Stories, New Women (p. 136 - 137)

by Judith Crichton

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. New Women: Short Stories by Canadian Women, 1900 -€“ 1920 by Lorraine McMullen and Sandra Campbell

Subjects: Short Fiction, Twentieth Century, Women's Literature

Granting audience (p. 138 - 139)

by George Elliott Clarke

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Collected Works of George Grant: Volume 3, 1960-1969 by Henry Roper and Arthur Davis

Subjects: Philosophy, Politics

Figuring Wisdom (p. 141 - 142)

by Adam Dickinson

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Wisdom & Metaphor by Jan Zwicky

Subjects: Literary Theory, Philosophy

Beyond the Balagan (p. 142 - 143)

by Adrienne Kertzer

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Look for Me by Edeet Ravel
  2. Ten Thousand Lovers by Edeet Ravel

Subjects: Israeli-Canadian

Covering Geometries (p. 143 - 145)

by Tracy Whalen

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative by Gail Scott, Mary Burger, Camille Roy, and Robert GlüŒck
  2. Mental Hygiene: Essays on Writers and Writing by Ray Robertson

Subjects: Essays, Language/Linguistics

All the Lonely People (p. 145 - 146)

by Colin Hill

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
  2. The Program by Hal Niedzviecki

Subjects: Novel

Challenging Women (p. 147 - 148)

by Kirsty Johnston

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Chronic by Linda Griffiths
  2. The Unnatural and Accidental Women by Marie Clements
  3. Wanted by Sally Clark

Subjects: Body & Health, Crime & Detective, Drama

This Yesterday of Today (p. 148 - 149)

by Susan Rudy

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon by Nicole Brossard and Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood

Subjects: Feminism, Novel

Trajectories and Passages (p. 149 - 151)

by Kathy Mezei

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Les passages obligés de l'écriture migrante by Simon Harel
  2. Traduction littéraire et sociabilité interculturelle au Canada (1950-1960) by Patricia Godbout

Subjects: Culture, Language/Linguistics, Quebec

Immigrant Memoirs (p. 151 - 153)

by Ralph Sarkonak

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Beethoven'€™s Mask: Notes on My Life and Times by George Jonas
  2. The Short Version: An ABC Book by Stan Persky

Subjects: Autobiography

Et pourtant, elles écrivent (p. 153 - 155)

by Lori Saint-Martin

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. ɉcrire dans la maison du père. L'émergence du féminin dans la tradition littéraire du Québec by Patricia Smart
  2. Ouvrir la voie/x.: Le processus constitutif d'un sous-champ littéraire féministe au Québec (1960-1990) by Isabelle Boisclair

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

Rock, Paper, Histories (p. 155 - 157)

by Travis V. Mason

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Deactivated West 100 by Don McKay
  2. History of the Book in Canada, Volume One: Beginnings to 1840 by Yvan Lamonde, Patricia Lockhart Fleming, and Gilles Gallichan
  3. The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination by Lawrence Buell

Subjects: Ecocriticism, Nature Writing, Poetry, Publishing

Quest for Family (p. 157 - 158)

by Sarika P. Bose

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Ingrid and the Wolf by André Alexis
  2. The Vacation by Polly Horvath

Subjects: Children's Literature

Books of Secrets (p. 158 - 160)

by Dorothy F. Lane

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Journey Prize Stories: From the Best of Canada's New Writers by Nancy Lee and James Grainger
  2. When She Was Queen: Stories by M. G. Vassanji

Subjects: Short Fiction

Telling More, Tel Aviv (p. 160 - 161)

by Andrew Bartlett

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Wall of Light by Edeet Ravel

Subjects: Israeli-Canadian , Novel

Unstable Boundaries (p. 161 - 162)

by Jen Hill

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, & Social Imagination by Julie Cruikshank

Subjects: Landscape/Space, Nature Writing

Modern Takes on What Makes Us Human (p. 162 - 163)

by Gillian Jerome

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Modern and Normal by Karen Solie
  2. Past Imperfect by Suzanne Buffam

Subjects: Poetry

Diaries that Schmeck (p. 163 - 165)

by Laurie McNeill

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Beyond Recall by Mary Meigs and Lise Weil
  2. Must Write: Edna Staebler'€™s Diaries by Christl Verduyn

Subjects: Autobiography

Just Before the Fall (p. 165 - 167)

by H T

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Shi-shi-etko by Nicola I. Campbell
  2. The Girl from Chimel by Rigoberta Menchu
  3. The Red Sash by Jean E. Pendziwol

Subjects: Latin-American, Novel

Massacres and Floods (p. 167 - 168)

by Barbara Pell

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Children of the Day by Sandra Birdsell
  2. The Wreckage by Michael Crummy

Subjects: First Nations, Historical Fiction, Mennonite, Novel

Scots Emigrant Literature (p. 168 - 170)

by Michael Newton

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Oatmeal and the Catechism: Scottish Gaelic Settlers in Quebec by Margaret Bennett
  2. Scots in Canada by Jenni Calder

Subjects: Scottish-Canadian

Escaping Prisons (p. 170 - 173)

by Lisa Grekul

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly
  2. The Time In Between by David Bergen

Smack! Whup! Honk! (p. 175 - 176)

by Duffy Roberts

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Short History of Indians in Canada by Thomas King

Subjects: Short Fiction

Spectres et vertiges (p. 176 - 177)

by Noële Racine

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Centrifuge. Extrait de narration. Poésie faite de concentré by Éric Charlebois
  2. Fantômier by Marie-Andrée Donovan
  3. First Fire/ Ce feu qui dévore: Poems/Poèmes by Nadine McInnis, Andrée Christensen, and Jacques Flamand

Subjects: Francophone, Poetry

Dictionnaires et histoire (p. 177 - 179)

by Lucie Hott

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Dictionnaires français et littératures québécoise et canadienne-française by Gerardo Arcerenza
  2. L'Ontario français dans le Canada français avant 1911. Contribution à l'€™histoire sociale by Fernand Ouellet
  3. Le drapeau franco-ontarien by Guy Gaudreau

Subjects: Francophone, Regionalism

Touching Gods (p. 179 - 180)

by Andrea Belcham

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Vandal Love by D.Y. Béchard

Subjects: Novel

Interior Geographies (p. 180 - 181)

by Deborah Torkko

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Beyond This Point by Holley Rubinsky

Subjects: Novel

Mirroring Madness (p. 181 - 182)

by Jennifer Fraser

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. An Audience of Chairs by Joan Clark

Subjects: Body & Health, Novel

Fear Factor (p. 182 - 184)

by Laurie Kruk

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Blood Sports by Eden Robinson

Subjects: Novel, Twenty-First Century, Urban Novel

Classical Riffs (p. 184 - 185)

by Norman Ravvin

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Fabrizio's Return by Mark Frutkin

Subjects: Novel, Religion

When You See the Land... (p. 185 - 187)

by Lisa Sara Szabo

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment by Rebecca Raglon, Melody Hessing, and Catriona Sandilands

Subjects: Ecocriticism, Feminism, Landscape/Space, Women's Studies

Opinions & Notes

Yann Martel

Conny Steenman-Marcusse

Christopher Dewdney

André Désilets

Jacques Poulin

Jody Mason

Jody Mason

Last Pages

Renate Eigenbrod

Margery Fee



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