Penny Van Toorn

January 29, 2015


Works by Penny Van Toorn

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Book Reviews by Penny Van Toorn

More Than Passing Thoughts
By Penny Van Toorn
Published in Diasporic Women’s Writing. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 196 (Spring 2008): 183-185.
  • The Politics and Poetics of Passage in Canadian and Australian Culture and Fiction by Charlotte Sturgess and Penny Van Toorn
Not There Yet
By Penny Van Toorn
Published in Canadian Literature 188 (Spring 2006): 120-121.
  • Is Canada Postcolonial? Unsettling Canadian Literature by Laura Moss (Editor)
Cultural Studies Native Studies
Orature Captured in Print
By Penny Van Toorn
Published in Canadian Literature 184 (Spring 2005): 106-107.
  • Indian Myths and Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America by Randy Bouchard and Dorothy Kennedy
Anthologies Postmodernism
Accountable Readings
By Penny Van Toorn
Published in Literature & War. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 179 (Winter 2003): 151-153.
  • How Should I Read These?: Native Women Writers in Canada by Helen Hoy
British Columbia Canadian Folklore
The Work of Theory
By Penny Van Toorn
Published in Canadian Literature 154 (Autumn 1997): 134-136.
  • Changing Subjects: The Making of Feminist Literary Criticism by Gayle Greene (Editor) and Coppélia Kahn (Editor)
  • Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama by E. Ann Kaplan
Canadian Studies First Nations Historiography Native Studies
Performing Selves
By Penny Van Toorn
Published in Remembering the Sixties. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 152-153 (Spring/Summer 1997): 249-250.
  • River of Stone by Rudy Wiebe
  • Notebooks 1960-1994 by Louis Dudek
Feminism Home & Family Literary Criticism
Late Debates
By Penny Van Toorn
Published in Postcolonial Identities. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 149 (Summer 1996): 185-187.
  • A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin by Karen Hohne and Helen Wussow (Editor)
  • An Ethics of Sexual Difference by Luce Irigaray, Carolyn Burke and Gillian C. Gill
Life Writing Short Fiction
Bakhtinian Ideas
By Penny Van Toorn
Published in Transcreations. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 135 (Winter 1992): 180-182.
  • Subversive Pleasure: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film by Robert Stam
  • Bakhtin and Cultural Theory by Ken Hirschkop (Editor), Ken Shepherd (Editor) and David Shepherd (Editor)
Authorship Caribbean-Canadian Indian/South Asian
Dialectical Tennis
By Penny Van Toorn
Published in Transcreations. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 135 (Winter 1992): 182-184.
  • Volleys by Sam Solecki, John Metcalf and W. J. Keith
  • Four Canadian One-act Plays by Joan Mason Hurley
Film Literary Theory Philosophy
Dreams & Visions
By Penny Van Toorn
Published in Transcreations. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 135 (Winter 1992): 179-180.
  • Daymares by Robert Zend
  • Duets by Per Brask and George Szanto
Drama Literary Criticism
Re-Mediating Bakhtin
By Penny Van Toorn
Published in Letters & Other Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 134 (Autumn 1992): 130-132.
  • Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics by Gary Saul Morson and Caryl Emerson
  • Rethinking Bakhtin: Extensions and Challenges by Gary Saul Morson (Editor) and Caryl Emerson (Editor)
Halfway Tales
By Penny Van Toorn
Published in Native Writers & Canadian Writing. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 124-125 (Spring/Summer 1990): 323-324.
  • Halfway Man by Wayland Drew
  • Raise No Memorial by William McConnell
Language/Linguistics Literary Theory

Articles by Penny Van Toorn

Stories to Live In: Discursive Regimes and Indigenous Canadian Australian Historiography
By Penny Van Toorn
Published in New Directions. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 158 (Autumn 1998): 42-63.
First Nations Native Studies Women's Literature
Building on Common Ground: An Interview with Neil Bissoondath
By Penny Van Toorn
Published in Marx & Later Dialectics. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 147 (Winter 1995): 127-135.
Feminism Literary Theory

Book Reviews of Penny Van Toorn's Works

The Politics and Poetics of Passage in Canadian and Australian Culture and Fiction
By Charlotte Sturgess and Penny Van Toorn
Reviewed in More Than Passing Thoughts by Penny Van Toorn