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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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49 results for Northern Canada

  • Those Voices Speaking Now by Neil Querengesser. #214 (Autumn 2012): 191 – 192. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955-2010 by Rudy Wiebe [Editor]
  • True and Not So True by Karen Charleson. #214 (Autumn 2012): 131 – 132. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Northern Kids by Linda Goyette [Author]
    As Long as the Rivers Flow by James Bartleman [Author]
    Grandpère by Janet Romain [Author]
  • Clichés and Landscapes by Alexis Foo. #212 (Spring 2012) - General Issue: 155 – 156. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Moving by Elizabeth Greene [Author]
    Active Pass by Jane Munro [Author]
    Unfurled: Collected Poetry from Northern BC Women by Debbie Keahy [Editor]
    Walking to Mojacar by Di Brandt [Author]
  • Body/Landscape/Art: Ekphrasis and the North in Jane Urquhart’s The Underpainter by Richard Brock. #212 (Spring 2012) - General Issue: 11 – 32. Article.
  • Inuvialuit Critical Autobiography and the Carceral Writing of Anthony Thrasher by Keavy Martin and Sam McKegney. #208 (Spring 2011) - Prison Writing: 65 – 83. Article.
  • Test, Quest, Conquest by Cheryl Cundell. #197 (Summer 2008) - Predators and Gardens: 175 – 176. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Sisters in Two Worlds: A Visual Biography of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill by Hugh Brewster [Editor] and Michael Peterman [Author]
    Measuring Mother Earth: How Joe the Kid Became Tyrrell of the North by Heather Robertson [Author]
    Hunting for Empire: Narratives of Sport in Rupert's Land, 1840-70 by Greg Gillespie [Author]
  • Arctic Exploration by Bryan N. S. Gooch. #190 (Autumn 2006) - South Asian Diaspora: 131 – 133. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: The Intrepid Life of George Back, Franklin’s Lieutenant by Peter Steele [Author]
  • Ice Bound by Graeme Wynn. #187 (Winter 2005) - Littérature francophone hors-Québec / Francophone Writing Outside Quebec: 137 – 139. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Historical Atlas of the Arctic by Derek Hayes [Author]
    Working North: DEW Line to Drill Ship by Rick Ranson [Author]
    The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science, and the Imagination by Eric Wilson [Author]
  • In search of ... by Charles Dawson. #186 (Autumn 2005) - Women & the Politics of Memory: 129 – 130. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures by Wade Davis [Author]
    The Green Labyrinth: Exploring the Mysteries of the Amazon by Sylvia Fraser [Author]
    Discovering Eden: A Lifetime of Paddling Arctic Rivers by Alex M. Hall [Author]
  • Life at High Latitudes by Sherrill Grace. #183 (Winter 2004) - Writers Talking: 153 – 155. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    High Latitudes by Farley Mowat [Author]
    Inuit Journey: The Co-operative Venture in Canada's North by Edith Iglauer [Author]
    Thunder on the Tundra: Inuit Quajimajatuqangit of the Bathurst Cariboo by Kitikmeot Elders [Author], Sandra Eyegetok [Author], Naikak Hakongak [Author], and Natasha Thorpe [Author]
  • Ideas of North by John Moss. #181 (Summer 2004) - (Wiseman, Livesay, Sime, Connelly, Robinson): 132 – 134. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Canada and the Idea of North by Sherrill Grace [Author]
    Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture by Renée Hulan [Author]
  • Discovering North/Self by Sherrill Grace. #178 (Autumn 2003) - Archives and History: 98 – 99. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    The Snow Geese: : A Story of Home by William Fiennes [Author]
    Alone in Silence: European Women in the Canadian North before 1940 by Barbara Kelcey [Author]
    From Barrow to Boothia : The Arctic Journal of Chief Factor Peter Warren Dease, 1836-1839 by William Barr [Editor]
  • You Are My Wife! Good-bye City Life!: Mrs. Philomena Orford and Mrs. Tom Manning journey North by Denise Adèle Heaps. #174 (Autumn 2002) - Travel: 50 – 69. Article.
  • Listening to the North by Sherrill Grace. #174 (Autumn 2002) - Travel: 145 – 147. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    It's Like the Legend: Innu Women's Voices by Nymphs Byrne [Editor] and Camille Fouillard [Editor]
    Inuksuit: Silent Messengers of the Arctic by Norman Hallendy [Author]
    Walking on the Land by Farley Mowat [Author]
  • Writing Arctic Journals by Sherrill Grace. #170-171 (Autumn/Winter 2001) - Nature / Culture: 247 – 249. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    The Ladies, the Gwich'in, and the Rat: Travels on the Athabasca, Macekenzie, Rat, Porcupine, and Yukon Rivers in 1926 by Lisa N. LaFramboise [Editor], I. MacLaren [Editor], and Clara Vyvyan [Author]
    North With Franklin: The Lost Journals of James Fitzjames by John Wilson [Author]
  • Art Objects and Family Heirlooms by Renée Hulan. #167 (Winter 2000) - First Nations Writing: 112 – 114. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Powerful Images: Portrayals of Native America by Sarah E. Boehme et al. [Author]
    Looking North: Art from the University of Alaska Museum by Aldona Jonaitis [Editor]
    Imaging the Arctic by J. C. H. King [Editor] and Henriette Lidchi [Editor]
  • Autobiographical Writing as a Healing Process: Interview with Alice Masak French by Christine Watson. #167 (Winter 2000) - First Nations Writing: 32 – 42. Article.
  • Women of the North by Susanna Egan. #167 (Winter 2000) - First Nations Writing: 151 – 154. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Saqiyuq: Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women by Apphia Agalakti Awa [Author], Sandra Pikujak Katsak [Author], Rhoda Kaukjak Katsak [Author], and Nancy Wachowich [Author]
  • Narratives of Community by Brad Neufeldt. #167 (Winter 2000) - First Nations Writing: 110 – 112. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    kwayask ê-kî-pê-kiskinowâpahtihicik / Their Example Showed Me the Way: A Cree Woman's Life Shaped by Two Cultures, told by Emma Minde by Freda Ahenakew [Editor] and H. C. Wolfart [Editor]
    Voices From Hudson Bay: Cree Stories From York Factory by Flora Beardy [Editor] and Robert Coutts [Editor]
    Winisk: A Cree Indian Settlement on Hudson Bay by Vita Rordam [Author]
  • Taking Soundings by Eve D'Aeth. #167 (Winter 2000) - First Nations Writing: 147 – 149. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Echoing Silence: Essays on Artic Narrative by John Moss [Editor]
    Fearless Warriors by Drew Hayden Taylor [Author]
    Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth by Drew Hayden Taylor [Author]
  • Staging Northern Ghosts by Martin Kuester. #167 (Winter 2000) - First Nations Writing: 119 – 120. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Staging the North: Twelve Canadian Plays by Lisa Chalykoff [Author], Eve D'Aeth [Author], and Sherrill Grace [Author]
  • More Northern Indices by Sherrill Grace. #167 (Winter 2000) - First Nations Writing: 134 – 137. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Un/Covering the North: News, Media, and Aboriginal People by Valerie Alia [Author]
    Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage by James P. Delgado [Author]
    True North: The Yukon and the Northwest Territories by William R. Morrison [Author]
    Gamblers and Dreamers: Women, Men, and Community in the Klondike by Charlene Porsild [Author]
  • Working the North by Sherrill Grace. #164 (Spring 2000) - (Atwood, Davis, Klein & Multiculturalism): 136 – 138. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Reaching North: A Celebration of the Sub-Arctic by Jamie Bastedo [Author]
    Running with the Caribou by Pete Sarsfield [Author]
    Teaching in a Cold Windy Place by Joanne Tompkins [Author]
  • Theorizing the World Through Story by Blanca Chester. #161-162 (Summer/Autumn 1999) - On Thomas King: 192 – 194. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    The Social Science of Stories by Julie Cruikshank [Author]
  • Women in the North by Sherrill Grace. #161-162 (Summer/Autumn 1999) - On Thomas King: 207 – 208. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Winging It in the North by Lyn Hancock [Author]
    Kabloona in the Yellow Kayak by Victoria Jason [Author]
  • Ways of Going North by Sherrill Grace. #158 (Autumn 1998) - New Directions: 133 – 135. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure by James West Davidson [Author] and John Rugge [Author]
    Light for a Cold Land: Lawren Harris's Work and Life--An Interpretation by Peter Larisey [Author]
  • Aritha van Herk’s Places Far From Ellesmere: The Wild and Adventurous North? by Asta Mott. #157 (Summer 1998) - (Thomas Raddall, Alice Munro & Aritha van Herk): 99 – 111. Article.
  • Arctic and Human Remains by Renée Hulan. #157 (Summer 1998) - (Thomas Raddall, Alice Munro & Aritha van Herk): 134 – 136. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Lobsticks and Stone Cairns: Human Landmarks in the Arctic by Richard C. Davis [Editor]
    A Long Way from Home: The Tuberculosis Epidemic among the Inuit by Pat Sandiford Grygier [Author]
    Confessions of an Igloo Dweller by James Houston [Author]
  • Imaginary Geographies by N. E. Currie. #157 (Summer 1998) - (Thomas Raddall, Alice Munro & Aritha van Herk): 136 – 138. Book Review: HTML available.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    A World Under Sentence: John Richardson and the Interior by Dennis Duffy [Author]
    Hamatsa: The Enigma of Cannibalism on the Pacific Northwest Coast by Jim McDowell [Author]
  • Northern Mysteries by Sherrill Grace. #154 (Autumn 1997) - (Essays on Boas, Atwood, Lowry & Munro): 111 – 113. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature by Margaret Atwood [Author]
    Strangers Among Us by David C. Woodman [Author]
  • Enormous Verbs by Catherine Rainwater. #152-153 (Spring/Summer 1997) - The Sixties: 241 – 242. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    North Spirit: Travels Among the Cree and Ojibway Nations and Their Star Maps by Paulette Jiles [Author]
  • Reimag(in)ing the Arctic by Sherrill Grace. #151 (Winter 1996) - Women and War: 156 – 159. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Between Two Cultures: A Photographer Among the Inuit by Charles Gimpel [Illustrator] and Maria Tippett [Author]
    Arctic Artist: The Journal and Paintings of George Back, Midshipman with Franklin, 1819-1823 by C. Stuart Houston [Author] and I. MacLaren [Author]
    Polar Pioneers: John Ross and James Clark Ross by M. J. Ross [Author]
  • Northern Dreams & Nightmares by Dale Blake. #148 (Spring 1996) - Community Values: 134 – 136. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Enduring Dreams: An Exploration of Arctic Landscape by John Moss [Author]
    Tammarniit (Mistakes): Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Artic, 1939-63 by Peter Kulchyski [Author] and Frank James Tester [Author]
  • Polar Attractions by Sherrill Grace. #148 (Spring 1996) - Community Values: 148 – 150. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    In A Crystal Land: Canadian Explorers in Antarctica by Dean Beeby [Author]
    Gender on Ice: American Ideologies of Arctic Explorations by Lisa Bloom [Author]
  • 'New' Voices Finally Heard by Dale Blake. #147 (Winter 1995) - Marx & Later Dialectics: 141 – 143. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    In the Rapids: Navigating the Future of First Nations by Ovide Mercredi [Author] and Mary Ellen Turpel [Author]
    Northern Voices:: Inuit Writing in English by Penny Petrone [Editor]
  • Deeper into the Forest by Douglas Barbour. #146 (Autumn 1995) - Women / the City / the Wilderness: 154 – 156. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    The Holy Forest by Robin Blaser [Author]
    The Moustache: Memories of Greg Curnoe by George Bowering [Author]
  • Systems of Value by William Scheick. #144 (Spring 1995) - Native, Individual, State: 165 – 167. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Bitter Feast: Amerindians and Europeans in Northeastern North America, 1600-64 by Jane Brierley [Translator] and Denys Delâge [Author]
    People from Our Side by Dorothy Harley Eber [Author] and Peter Pitseolak [Author]
  • Visited by Angels by Peter Klovan. #137 (Summer 1993) - Female Subjects & Male Plots: 109 – 110. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Arctic Circle Songs by Robbie Newton Drummond [Author]
    The Opium Eater and Other Stories by Iqbal Ahmad [Author]
    Inventing the Hawk by
  • Yukon History by Aron Senkpiel. #116 (Spring 1988) - Magic & Other Realisms: 120 – 122. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Yukon Wildlife: A Social History by Robert G. McCandless [Author]
  • Whalers by Richard C. Davis. #113-114 (Summer/Autumn 1987) - Literature & the Visual Arts: 212 – 214. Book Review.
    Book(s) reviewed:
    Artctic Whalers, Icy Seas by W. Gillies Ross [Author]

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