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.
During the four weeks prior to the release of 21st-Century Poetics (#210/211, Autumn/Winter 2011), we will be publishing an article and a poem from the issue at http://21poetics.ca. Each article and poem will only stay online for a single week, but will be available in the print issue. Visit the website to read the articles and poems, and to pre-order the issue for $20 (regular price will is $29.95).
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson
"Where there is power, there is resistance." So wrote Michel Foucault in 1976 in La volonteÌ de savoir, the first volume of his intellectual summa, TheHistoryofSexuality. Scholars in postcolonial studies, feminist studies, gay and lesbian studies, and other disciplinary fields on/in/of "the margins" are still sifting through the theoretical implications of this statement. John Champagne is only the latest in a long line of critics to wrestle with Foucault’s famous axiom. In […more…]