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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An interview with Yves Beauchemin: Réjean Beaudoin interviews Yves Beauchemin

"No Canadian Should Ever Be Surprised Again": An Interview with Reingard Nischik: Sarah Banting interviews Reingard Nischik

An Interview with Elizabeth Bachinsky: Evgenia Todorova interviews Elizabeth Bachinsky

An Interview with George Elliott Clarke: Margery Fee and Sneja Gunew interviews George Elliott Clarke

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When "your ears are tingling from the inside out": Addena Sumter-Freitag on Storytelling and Recording Life, from Stage to Page: Christine Lyons interviews Addena Sumter-Freitag

An Interview with Fred Wah: Margery Fee and Sneja Gunew interviews Fred Wah

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The Tosses and Turns of History

Padma Viswanathan (Author)
The Toss of a Lemon. Random House Canada

Reviewed by Nadine Sivak

At the beginning of The Toss of a Lemon, Sivakami, a Tamil Brahmin girl from rural caste-organized Samanthibakkam is ten years old and soon to be married. The year is 1896 and she and her parents are on a pilgrimage to her mother's home village of Cholapatti to meet the potential groom. The man they have chosen, Hanumarathnam, is a healer and astrologer who confirms the compatibility of his and Sivakami's horoscopes and also notes that there is a faint suggestion "in the weakes […more…]