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Current Issue: #214 (Autumn 2012)

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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#209 (Summer 2011)
Spectres of Modernism

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Editorial

Dean Irvine

Articles

Alan Filewod

Erica Kelly

Anouk Lang

Annette Hayward

Mark Benson

Len Early

Alastair Morrison

Poems

Salvatore Difalco

Adrienne Weiss

Jesse Patrick Ferguson

Blair Trewartha

Todd Swift

Jim Johnstone

Book Reviews

Three Brats, One Hero (p. 141 - 142)

by Hilary Turner

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Night on the Town by Caroline Merola
  2. All Aboard! Elijah McCoy's Steam Engine by Monica Kulling
  3. Curtain Up! by Dirk McLean
  4. Lulu's Piano Lesson by Arlene Alda

Subjects: Children's Literature

Unleash the Hound and Look (p. 142 - 144)

by Travis V. Mason

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Regreen: New Canadian Ecological Poetry by Adam Dickinson and Anand Madhur
  2. Unleashed by Sina Queyras
  3. Words to be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art by Liz Kotz

Subjects: Art, Hypertext, Literary Theory, Media & Communications, Poetry, Twentieth Century, Twenty-First Century

Recent Western Writing (p. 144 - 146)

by Nicholas Bradley

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Hooker & Brown by Shirley Mahood and David Yee
  2. Pye-Dogs by George McWhirter and Tammy Armstrong
  3. River of Gold by Anusree Roy
  4. Understories by Marc Ory

Subjects: British Columbia, Historical Fiction, Poetry

A Woman's Work is Never Done (p. 146 - 147)

by Liz Czach

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Gendered Screen: Canadian Women Filmmakers by George Melnyk and Brenda Austin-Smith

Subjects: Film, Women's Studies

Writing about Death (p. 147 - 149)

by Adrienne Kertzer

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Suddenly by Bonnie Burnard
  2. The Matter With Morris by David Bergen

Subjects: Novel

Voicing Constraint (p. 149 - 150)

by Ian Rae

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. My Darling Nellie Grey by George Bowering

Subjects: Poetry

The Daring Wager (p. 150 - 152)

by Linda Quirk

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. My Beloved Wager: Essays from a Writing Practice by Smaro Kamboureli and Erín Moure
  2. Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry by Barbara Godard and Di Brandt

Subjects: Essays, Literary Criticism, Poetry, Women's Studies

Engagements contemporains (p. 152 - 153)

by Caroline Dupont

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Comme une seule chair by Paul Chamberland
  2. Décombres de la beauté by Jacques Flamand

Subjects: Poetry

Equine, Bovine, Divine (p. 153 - 154)

by Owen Percy

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Botero's Beautiful Horses by Jan E. Conn
  2. Figuring Ground by Robert Moore
  3. Mesopotamia by Bruce Meyer

Subjects: Poetry

Pilgrim and Parable (p. 154 - 156)

by Jim Taylor

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Annabel by Kathleen Winter
  2. Two More Solitudes by Sheldon Currie

Subjects: Novel

Pictures and Profits (p. 156 - 157)

by Elizabeth Galway

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Picturing Canada: A History of Canadian Children's Illustrated Books and Publishing by Judith Saltman and Gail Edwards

Subjects: Media & Communications

Anne Shirley's New Reach (p. 157 - 159)

by M. Sean Saunders

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Anne's World: A New Century of Anne of Green Gables by Irene Gammel and Benjamin Lefebvre

Subjects: Literary Criticism

Corps à corps (p. 159 - 160)

by Emmanuel Bouchard

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Comme une seule chair by Paul Chamberland
  2. Entre l'acier et la chair by Isabelle Gaudet-Labine
  3. Tout Comme by Marie Bélisle

Subjects: Poetry

When She Has Crossed the Bar (p. 160 - 161)

by Lindy Ledohowski

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. May There Be No Sadness of Farewell by Agnes Grant

Subjects: First Nations, Mennonite, Novel

Bringing APTN Into Focus (p. 161 - 162)

by Candis Callison

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Indigenous Screen Cultures in Canada by Sigurjon Baldur Hafsteinsson and Marian Bredin

Subjects: First Nations, Media & Communications

Studying Canadian Studies in a Trans-Cultural Age (p. 162 - 163)

by Karl Jirgens

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. To Know Our Many Selves: From the Study of Canada to Canadian Studies by Dirk Hoerder

Subjects: Canadian Studies, History

Versions of History (p. 164 - 165)

by Duffy Roberts

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Dahanu Road by Anosh Irani
  2. Motorcycles & Sweetgrass by Drew Hayden Taylor

Subjects: First Nations, Indian/South Asian

Historic Heroines (p. 165 - 166)

by Rachelle Delaney

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Folly by Marthe Jocelyn
  2. Home Free by Kim Thúy

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

(Re)presenting Culture in Canadian Theatre (p. 167 - 168)

by Sarah MacKenzie

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. "Ethnic," Multicultural, and Intercultural Theatre by Ingrid Mündel and Ric Knowles

Face à l'autre (p. 168 - 169)

by Jean-Pierre Thomas

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Les fossoyeurs by André Lamontagne
  2. Ru by Kim Thúy

Subjects: Francophone, History

Coming of Age in a World of Change (p. 169 - 170)

by Sarika P. Bose

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Book of Trees by Leanne Lieberman
  2. Winter Shadows by Margaret Buffie

Subjects: Young Adult

Me. Again. (p. 171 - 172)

by Katja Lee

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Changing My Mind by Margaret Trudeau
  2. Eastern Passage by Farley Mowat

Subjects: Autobiography

Capriccio vénitien (p. 172)

by Chiara Falangola

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Zanipolo by Marc Ory

Subjects: Francophone

Disappearances (p. 173 - 174)

by Paul Denham

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Euphoria: A Novel by Jan E. Conn
  2. The Book of Canadian Prose; Vol. I. Early Beginnings to Confederation by A. J. M. Smith
  3. The Breakwater House by Pascale Quiviger

Subjects: Short Fiction

Novel Ideas (p. 174 - 176)

by Kit Dobson

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb
  2. The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman

Subjects: Novel

All Purpose Multi-tool (p. 176 - 177)

by Mandy Barbaree

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada: Mythic Discourse and the Postcolonial State by Jennifer Reid

Subjects: First Nations, Postcolonialism

Exploring the Human Heart (p. 177 - 179)

by Wendy Roy

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Heart Specialist by Claire Holden Rothman

Subjects: Historical Fiction

Truth Embedded in Fiction (p. 179 - 180)

by Jan Lermitte

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud

Subjects: International Conflict

Pomo Redux (p. 180 - 182)

by Kit Dobson

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. RE: Reading the Postmodern: Canadian Literature and Criticism after Modernism by Robert David Stacey

Subjects: Literary Criticism

Sit, Stay, and Play (p. 182 - 183)

by Owen Percy

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Exile Book of Canadian Dog Stories by Richard Teleky
  2. The Exile Book of Canadian Sports Stories by Priscilla Uppal

Subjects: Animal Studies, Ecocriticism, Short Fiction, Sports Writing

Theatrical War Zones (p. 183 - 185)

by Moira Day

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. I Have AIDS! by Sky Gilbert
  2. lady in the red dress by David Yee
  3. Pyassa & Letters to My Grandma by Anusree Roy
  4. Such Creatures by Judith Thompson

Subjects: Asian Canadian, Drama, Gay/Lesbian, Holocaust, Indian/South Asian

Monumental in Their Own Right (p. 185 - 187)

by Cynthia Sugars

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. David Adams Richards of the Miramichi: A Biographical Introduction by Tony Tremblay

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Regionalism

Blaze of Glory (p. 187 - 188)

by Tanis Macdonald

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Blazing Figures: A Life of Richard Markle by J. A. Wainwright

Subjects: Life Writing

Opinions & Notes

Richard Teleky

Laura Moss



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