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Canadian Literature's Autumn/Winter 2011 issue (CL#210/211) is now available. The issue features articles by Scott Pound, Katie L. Price, Sarah Dowling, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Susan Rudy, Sonnet L'Abbé, Alessandra Capperdoni, Meredith Quartermain, Karl Jirgens, Geordie Miller, Sean Braune, Oana Avasilichioaei, and Erín Moure, and new Canadian poetry & book reviews.
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Reviewed by Sherrill Grace
The question that Ted Chamberlain chooses for the title of his book is one that all three of these books address. The general point, as Chamberlain insists, is that our common ground as human beings, regardless of time or place, is story: nothing is more human than the desire to tell and the need to listen to stories. But that common starting point has always led to a range of persistent problems. Lack of knowledge, a basic refusal to listen, a competition as to whose story becomes the off […more…]