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#95 (Winter 1982)
Caribbean Connections

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Editorial

W. H. New

• On Visibility (p. 2 - 6)
• Subjects: Culture, Economics, Politics
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Articles

Stanley S. Atherton

• Tropical Traumas: Images of the Caribbean in Recent Canadian Fiction (p. 8 - 14)
• Subjects: Novel, Travel Writing
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Earle Birney

• Meeting George Lamming in Jamaica (p. 16 - 28)
• Subjects: Caribbean-Canadian
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Austin Clark

• In the Semi-Colon of the North (p. 30 - 37)
• Subjects: Northern Canada
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Clement H. Wyke

• Harold Ladoo's Alternate Worlds: Canada & Carib Island (p. 39 - 49)
• Subjects: Literary Criticism, Novel
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Samuel Selvon

• Sam Selvon Talking: A Conversation with Kenneth Ramchand (p. 56 - 64)
• Subjects: Novel
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Elizabeth Sabiston

• Hédi Bouraoui's Quest: Poetry as Cultural Bridge (p. 67 - 83)
• Subjects: Language/Linguistics, Poetry
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Michael Cripps

• "Under the Volcano": The Politics of the Imperial Self (p. 85 - 101)
• Subjects: Literary Criticism
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George Ryga

• The Village of Melons: Impressions of a Canadian Author in Mexico (p. 102 - 108)
• Subjects: Travel Writing
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Poems

Irving Layton

• Fabrizio (p. 6)

Ricardo Sternberg

• Thread and Needle (p. 7)

Margaret Atwood

• The Boom (p. 15)

Cyril Dabydeen

• Rehearsal (p. 28 - 29)

Ricardo Sternberg

• Challenged by Spring (p. 29)

Michael Thorpe

• Two Camera Poems (p. 37 - 38)

Al Purdy

• In The Andes (p. 38)

Linda Rogers

• This Island (p. 50 - 55)

Cyril Dabydeen

• A Sun's Life (p. 65)

Cyril Dabydeen

• Snake's Belly Turned Over (p. 65 - 66)

Ricardo Sternberg

• Erasmus in the Kitchen (p. 84)

Alexandre L. Amprimoz

• Colonial Wars (p. 101)

E. F. Dyck

• Goose, in Love (p. 109)

Book Reviews

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Tale of Two Colonies (p. 110 - 112)

by Claire Blaise

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood

Subjects: Feminism, Literary Criticism, Novel

True Dilemmas (p. 112 - 113)

by Lorraine Weir

Book(s) reviewed:

1. True Stories by Margaret Atwood

Subjects: Language/Linguistics, Poetry

Art, amour, poésie (p. 113 - 115)

by Yvon Bellemare

Book(s) reviewed:

1. La Belle épouvante by Robert Lalonde
2. La Mariakèche by Laurent Dube
3. Les Hauts cris by Suzanne Paradis

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Novel

Second Launching (p. 116 - 118)

by Constance Rooke

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Visitants by Miriam Waddington

Subjects: Poetry

Remembering War (p. 118 - 122)

by Shirley Neuman

Book(s) reviewed:

1. But This Is Our War by Grace Morris Craig
2. Diplomatic Passport: More Undiplomatic Diaries, 1946-1962 by Charles Ritchie
3. One Who Came Back by Anita Mayer

Subjects: Autobiography, War

Hobbled (p. 122 - 123)

by Jerry Wasserman

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Magician in Love by Leon Rooke

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Novel

Rooke's Stories (p. 123 - 125)

by John Lennox

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Death Suite by Leon Rooke
2. Last One Home Sleeps in the Yellow Bed by Leon Rooke

Subjects: Short Fiction

Mandel's Selves (p. 125 - 128)

by Douglas Barbour

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Dreaming Backwards: The Selected Poetry by Eli Mandel
2. Life Sentence by Eli Mandel

Subjects: Poetry

Johnston's Faroese (p. 128 - 129)

by Harry Roe

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Rocky Shores: An Anthology of Faroese Poetry by George Johnston

Subjects: Anthologies, Poetry

In Africa (p. 129 - 130)

by Pat Barclay

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Pride and Fall by Kildare Dobbs

Subjects: Short Fiction

Words for Now (p. 130 - 132)

by David O'Rourke

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Ancestral Dreams by Beryl Baigent
2. Our Lives by Daphne Marlatt
3. The Book of Thirteen by Gertrude Story

Subjects: Poetry

Acquisitions (p. 132 - 136)

by Ann Mandel

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Grand Memory for Forgetting by Stephen Scobie
2. Extreme Positions by bp Nichol
3. Gallimaufry by Jon Whyte
4. Lying in Bed by Mary Howes

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Poetry

Required: Enthusiasm (p. 136 - 137)

by Peter Klovan

Book(s) reviewed:

1. 81: Best Canadian Stories by John Metcalf and Leon Rooke
2. Second Impressions by John Metcalf

Subjects: Anthologies, Literary Criticism, Science Fiction

In Mellow Mood (p. 137 - 140)

by John Ripley

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Du Sang Bleu Dans Les Veines by Georges Dor
2. Fau Divorcer! by Bertrand B. Leblanc
3. La Contrebandière by Antonine Maillet

Subjects: Drama, Quebec

To Amuse, To Bite (p. 140 - 143)

by Aviva Ravel

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Crackwalker by Judith Thompson
2. The Horsburgh Scandal by Betty Jane Wylie
3. The Next Move by George Szanto
4. The Ziggy Effect by Marc Diamond

Subjects: Drama, Quebec

Street Life (p. 143 - 144)

by Simon Ruddell

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Dead Ends by Keith Harrison
2. Platonic Love by Scott Watson
3. Sad Paradise by Britt Hagarty

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Urban Novel

Separate Lenses (p. 144 - 149)

by Ron Hatch

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Different Lens by Alastair MacDonald
2. Blue Angel by Tim Inkster
3. Look the Lovely Animal Speaks by Robert Hilles
4. Love from Backfields by Gregory M. Cook
5. Madder Lake by Thomas A. Clark
6. Odes for Sterilized Streets by Alexandre L. Amprimoz
7. Seasonal Bravery by Des Walsh
8. So the Night World Spins by Jim Stewart
9. The Cage in the Open Air by Ed Jewinski
10. The Girl in the Brook by Wayne Wright
11. The Life of Ryley by Monty Reid
12. The Songs of Bathsheba by Candace Adamson Burstow
13. Up Country Lines by C. H. Gervais
14. What Henry Hudson Found by John McAuley

Subjects: Poetry

Aright & Awry (p. 149 - 150)

by Louis K. MacKendrick

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Tally Ho! by Marie Mitchell
2. Wry & Ginger by Jack Howard

Subjects: Journalism, Novel

A Sense of All (p. 150 - 153)

by Donald Stephens

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Has and Is by Robert Finch
2. The Acid Test by Gary Geddes

Subjects: Poetry

In the Gaspé (p. 153 - 154)

by Richard G. Hodgson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Esthétique pour Patricia suivi d'un écrit de Patricia B. by G.-Andre Vachon
2. Le p'tit ministre-les-pommes by Real-Gabriel Bujold
3. Quand la viole faseille by Noël Audet

Subjects: Novel, Poetry

Self Voyages (p. 154 - 156)

by M. Travis Lane

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Brush and Trunks by Liliane Welch
2. Voyages by T. D. MacLulich
3. Wake-Pick Poems by Kristjana Gunnars

Subjects: Nature Writing, Poetry, Sexuality

Kitchen Sink to Teatrum Mundi (p. 157 - 159)

by Renate Usmiani

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Bachelor by Louis Saia, Louise Roy, and Michel Rivard
2. Chez Paul-Ette, bière, vin, liqueur et nouveautés by Louis-Marie Dansereau
3. Le Fleuve au coeur by Danielle Bissontte, Leo Munger, and Manon Vallee
4. Vie et mort du roi boiteux by Jean-Pierre Ronfard

Subjects: Drama, Quebec, Theatre History

Two-Uva-Kind (p. 160 - 161)

by J. Kieran Kealy

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Gleebs of Wizagon by K. H. Wirsig and Enrico Renz
2. Ytek and the Arctic Orchid by Garnet Hewitt and Heather Woodall

Subjects: Children's Literature

Studying Folklore (p. 161 - 165)

by Gerald Thomas

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Bibliography of Canadian Folklore in English by Edith Fowke
2. Littérature orale en Gaspésie by Carmen Roy

Subjects: Canadian Folklore

Intoxication (p. 165 - 168)

by M. G. Osachoff

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Sleep Full of Dreams by Edna Alford
2. Canadian Short Fiction Anthology, vol. II by Paul Belserene
3. Matinees Daily by Terence Byrnes
4. The Mad River and Other Stories by Douglas H. Glover

Subjects: Anthologies, Short Fiction

Picturing Our Past (p. 168 - 169)

by Diana Brydon

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Canada: A History in Photographs by Roger Hall and Gordon Dodds
2. The Icelanders by Michael Olito and David Arnason
3. The Inuit: Life As It Was by Richard Harrington
4. The Islands of Canada by Marian Engel

Subjects: History, Nineteenth Century, Photography

Weaving (p. 169 - 170)

by Mary McAlpine

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Comfortable Arts: Spinning and Weaving in Canada by Dorothy K. Burnham

Subjects: Culture, First Nations

War & After (p. 170 - 172)

by Michael Thorpe

Book(s) reviewed:

1. After the War: Poems and Stories by Andy Wainwright
2. The Impossible Promised Land: Poems New and Selected by Seymour Mayne
3. Walking Through Fire by Maggie Helwig

Subjects: Jewish-Canadian , Poetry

In Remembrance (p. 172 - 174)

by Eva-Marie Kröller

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Cent Ans dans les bois by Antonine Maillet
2. La Mère morte by Suzie Murray

Subjects: Novel, Quebec, Women's Literature

Untitled (p. 174 - 176)

by George Woodcock

Book(s) reviewed:

Subjects: Bibliography

Opinions & Notes

Gwendolyn Davies

• The West Indies & the Literature of Maritime Canada (p. 177 - 181)
• Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Caribbean-Canadian

Diana Brydon

• Caribbean Revolution & Literary Convention (p. 181 - 185)
• Subjects: Caribbean-Canadian , Novel

Chris J. Ackerley

• Some Notes Towards "Under the Volcano" (p. 185 - 190)

Last Pages

W. H. New

• Last Page (p. 191 - 192)
• Subjects: Bibliography