Sherrill Grace

January 29, 2015


Works by Sherrill Grace

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Book Reviews by Sherrill Grace

Remembering WWI
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Diasporic Women’s Writing. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 196 (Spring 2008): 147-148.
  • Mothers of Heroes, Mothers of Martyrs: World War I and the Politics of Grief by Suzanne Evans
  • Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment by Geoffrey Hayes (Editor), Andrew Iarocci (Editor) and Mike Bechthold (Editor)
Ghosting the NWT
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Predators and Gardens. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 197 (Summer 2008): 139-140.
  • Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
World War I
Icons of Identity
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Women & the Politics of Memory. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 186 (Autumn 2005): 178-179.
  • The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson by David P. Silcox
Telling Our Stories
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Canadian Literature 184 (Spring 2005): 114-116.
  • If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? Finding Common Ground by J. Edward Chamberlin
  • Playing Dead: A Contemplation Concerning the Arctic by Rudy Wiebe
  • Colours in the Storm by Jim Betts
Art
Life at High Latitudes
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Writers Talking. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 183 (Winter 2004): 153-155.
  • High Latitudes by Farley Mowat
  • Inuit Journey: The Co-operative Venture in Canada’s North by Edith Iglauer
  • Thunder on the Tundra: Inuit Quajimajatuqangit of the Bathurst Cariboo by Natasha Thorpe, Naikak Hakongak, Sandra Eyegetok and Kitikmeot Elders
Autobiography British Columbia Landscape/Space
Joyce Wieland, in Life and Art
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Archives and History. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 178 (Autumn 2003): 150-151.
  • Joyce Wieland: Artist on Fire by Jane Lind
  • Joyce Wieland: A Life in Art by Iris Nowell
Cultural Studies First Nations Landscape/Space Native Studies Northern Canada
Discovering North/Self
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Archives and History. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 178 (Autumn 2003): 98-99.
  • From Barrow to Boothia: The Arctic Journal of Chief Factor Peter Warren Dease, 1836-1839 by William Barr (Editor)
  • Alone in Silence: European Women in the Canadian North before 1940 by Barbara Kelcey
  • The Snow Geese: A Story of Home by William Fiennes
Art Biography
Between Women
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Travel. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 174 (Autumn 2002): 149-150.
  • A Student of Weather by Elizabeth Hay
Life Writing Northern Canada Women's Studies
Listening to the North
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Travel. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 174 (Autumn 2002): 145-147.
  • Walking on the Land by Farley Mowat
  • Inuksuit: Silent Messengers of the Artie by Norman Hallendy
  • It's Like the Legend: Innu Women's Voice by Nymphs Byrne (Editor) and Camille Fouillard (Editor)
Novel
Writing Arctic Journals
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Nature / Culture. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 170-171 (Autumn/Winter 2001): 247-249.
  • The Ladies, the Gwich'in, and the Rat: Travels on the Athabasca,Macekenzie, Rat, Porcupine, and Yukon Rivers in 1926 by Clara Vyvyan, I.S. MacLaren (Editor) and Lisa N. LaFramboise (Editor)
  • North With Franklin: The Lost Journals of James Fitzjames. by John Wilson
Drama Film Life Writing
More Northern Indices
By Sherrill Grace
Published in First Nations Writing. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 167 (Winter 2000): 134-137.
  • Gamblers and Dreamers: Women, Men, and Community in the Klondike by Charlene Porsild
  • True North: The Yukon and the Northwest Territories by William R. Morrison
  • Un/Covering the North: News, Media, and Aboriginal People by Valerie Alia
  • Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage by James P. Delgado
Exploration Historical Fiction Northern Canada Photography Travel Writing
Working the North
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Canadian Literature 164 (Spring 2000): 136-138.
  • Running with the Caribou by Pete Sarsfield
  • Teaching in a Cold Windy Place by Joanne Tompkins
  • Reaching North: A Celebration of the Sub-Arctic by Jamie Bastedo
Authorship Correspondence Life Writing
Storying Northern History
By Sherrill Grace
Published in On Thomas King. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 161-162 (Summer/Autumn 1999): 212-214.
  • The Ice Master: A Novel of the Arctic by James Houston
  • Trapped in Ice by Eric Walters
  • The Man From the Creeks by Robert Kroetsch
Education/Pedagogy Life Writing Nature Writing Northern Canada
Women in the North
By Sherrill Grace
Published in On Thomas King. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 161-162 (Summer/Autumn 1999): 207-208.
  • Winging It in the North by Lyn Hancock
  • Kabloona in the Yellow Kayak by Victoria Jason
Children's Literature Historical Fiction Historiography Novel
Ways of Going North
By Sherrill Grace
Published in New Directions. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 158 (Autumn 1998): 133-135.
  • Great Heart: The History of a Labrador Adventure by James West Davidson and John Rugge
  • Light for a Cold Land: Lawren Harris's Work and Life—An Interpretation by Peter Larisey
Autobiography Northern Canada Women's Literature
Northern Mysteries
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Canadian Literature 154 (Autumn 1997): 111-113.
  • Strangers Among Us by David C. Woodman
  • Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature by Margaret Atwood
Art Atlantic Canada Biography Northern Canada
Reimag(in)ing the Arctic
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Women and War. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 151 (Winter 1996): 156-159.
  • Arctic Artist: The Journal and Paintings of George Back, Midshipman with Franklin, 1819-1822 by C. Stuart Houston and I.S. MacLaren
  • Polar Pioneers: John Ross and James Clark Ross by M. J. Ross
  • Between Two Cultures: A Photographer Among the Inuit by Charles Gimpel and Maria Tippett
Exploration First Nations Northern Canada Women's Studies
Multiple Discoveries
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Postcolonial Identities. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 149 (Summer 1996): 136-137.
  • A Discovery of Strangers by Rudy Wiebe (Author)
Art Biography First Nations Northern Canada Photography
Polar Attractions
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Community Values. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 148 (Spring 1996): 148-150.
  • In A Crystal Land: Canadian Explorers in Antarctica by Dean Beeby
  • Gender on Ice: American Ideologies of Arctic Explorations by Lisa Bloom
First Nations Historical Fiction Novel
Collecting Tips
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Female Subjects & Male Plots. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 137 (Summer 1993): 75-76.
  • Writing the Woman Artist: Essays on Poetics, Politics, and Portraiture by Suzanne W. Jones
  • Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood
Novel Poetry
Breaking Silence
By Sherrill Grace
Published in George Woodcock: An 80th Birthday Collection. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 133 (Summer 1992): 146-149.
  • By Heart: Elizabeth Smart, A Life by Rosemary Sullivan
  • Silence and Power: A Reevaluation of Djuna Barnes by Mary Lynn Broe (Editor)
Essays Gender Ontario Short Fiction Women's Literature Women's Studies
Revolutionizing Art
By Sherrill Grace
Published in South Asian Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 132 (Spring 1992): 169-170.
  • Plays at the Iron Bridge, or The Autobiography of Tom Horror by Wilfrid Watson and Shirley Neuman (Editor)
Biography Women's Literature
Black Curtain
By Sherrill Grace
Published in The Languages of Poetry. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 129 (Summer 1991): 180-182.
  • The Voice of the Crane by David Gurr
Drama Postmodernism
Theory & Practice
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Background, Foreground. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 127 (Winter 1990): 135-138.
  • The Private Self: Theory and Practice of Women's Autobiographical Writings by Shari Benstock (Editor)
  • Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Historical Fiction World War I
Two-Headed Art
By Sherrill Grace
Published in What the Archives Reveal. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 121 (Summer 1989): 147-150.
  • Surréalisme et littérature québécoise: Histoire d'une re?volution culturelle by Andre Bourassa
  • Documents in Canadian Art by Douglas Fetherling (Editor)
Overviews
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Slavic and East-European Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 120 (Spring 1989): 156-159.
  • German Expressionist Prose: Theory and Practice by Augustinus P. Dierick
  • Canadian Drama and the Critics by L. W. Conolly
Art Canadian Studies
Home Rituals
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Atwood, Carrier, Grandbois, Lowry. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 112 (Spring 1987): 102-104.
  • Noman's Land by Gwendolyn MacEwen
  • This Is My Own: Letters to Wes & Other Writings on Japanese Canadians 1941-1948 by Roy Miki (Editor)
Drama Literary Theory Theatre History
Inner Necessity
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Popular Culture. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 108 (Spring 1986): 152-155.
  • THE SCREAM by Colin Morton (Author), Susan McMaster (Author), Nan Cormier (Author), Claude Dupuis (Author), Andrew McClure (Author), David Parsons (Author) and Carol English (Author)
Asian Canadian Short Fiction
Theatre of Action
By Sherrill Grace
Published in On Dennis Lee. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 98 (Autumn 1983): 100-102.
  • Stage Left: Canadian Theatre in the Thirties: A Memoir by Toby Gordon Ryan
Literary Criticism Novel
Brooker
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Fiction in the Seventies. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 92 (Spring 1982): 110-111.
  • Sounds Assembling: The Poetry of Bertram Brooker by Birk Sproxton
Theatre History
Small Miracle
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Faces of Realism / Facing Reality. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 89 (Summer 1981): 155-156.
  • Pilgarlic the Death by Bernard Epps
Poetry
Four New Voices
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Alberta Writers. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 77 (Summer 1978): 103-106.
  • The True Story of Ida Johnson by Sharon Riis
  • Malke, Malke by Bess Kaplan
  • A Small Informal Dance by Helen Levi
  • Child of the Morning by Pauline Gedge
Novel
Oxford Companions
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Paradigms of Doubleness. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 104 (Spring 1985): 113-115.
  • The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature by William Toye
Continuing Story
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Psychological Fictions: Myth, Carr, Lowry. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 84 (Spring 1980): 110-111.
  • Malcolm Lowry: Voyage au fond de nos abimes by Christine Pagnoulle
  • Malcolm Lowry's Volcano: Myth, Symbol, Meaning by David Markson
Anthologies Bibliography
Silent Casualties of the Great War
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Indigenous Focus. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 215 (Winter 2012): 164-65.
  • Boys and Girls in No Man’s Land: English-Canadian Children and the First World War by Susan Fisher
Literary Criticism

Articles by Sherrill Grace

Calling Out the MacLean Boys: George Bowering's Shoot and the Autobiography of British Columbia History
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Canadian Literature 184 (Spring 2005): 11-25.
Autobiography Canadian Folklore Drama First Nations Science
Creating the Girl from God’s Country: From Nell Shipman to Sharon Pollock
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Auto/biography. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 172 (Spring 2002): 92-111.
Native Studies Northern Canada Photography Women's Studies
My dear Anton Myrer: A Late Lowry Letter
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Canadian Literature 165 (Summer 2000): 11-22.
Canadian Studies Exploration Journalism Landscape/Space Media & Communications Northern Canada
Ut Pictura Poesis: From Alberto Gironella to Malcom Lowry
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Hispanic-Canadian Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 142-143 (Autumn/Winter 1994): 191-203.
Exploration Gender Northern Canada United States
In the Name-of-the-Father: Robert Zend's "Oäb" (or the up(Z)énding of trïdution)
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Slavic and East-European Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 120 (Spring 1989): 91-97.
Drama Literary Theory
The Expressionist Legacy in the Canadian Theatre: George Ryga and Robert Gurik
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Contemporary Drama. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 118 (Autumn 1988): 47-58.
Language/Linguistics Literary Criticism
Structuring Violence: "The Ethics of Linguistics" in "The Temptations of Big Bear"
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Paradigms of Doubleness. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 104 (Spring 1985): 7-22.
Art
Outward Bound
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Remembering Roderick Haig-Brown. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 71 (Winter 1976): 73-79.
Novel Women's Literature
Re-Introducing Canadian "Art of the Theatre": Herman Voaden's 1930 Manifesto
By Sherrill Grace
Published in Transcreations. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 135 (Winter 1992): 51-63.
Literary Criticism Novel

Book Reviews of Sherrill Grace's Works

Tiff: A Life of Timothy Findley
By Sherrill Grace
Reviewed in Can We See Him Yet? by Robert McGill
Landscapes of War and Memory: The Two World Wars in Canadian Literature and the Arts, 1977-2007
By Sherrill Grace
Reviewed in Unsettled Empathies by Lorraine York
Making Theatre: A Life of Sharon Pollock
By Sherrill Grace
Reviewed in A Dramatic Life by Shannon Hengen
Art World War I World War II
Margaret Atwood: Language, Text and System
By Sherrill Grace and Lorraine Weir
Reviewed in Paradigms by Blanche Gelfant
Literary Criticism Theatre History
Violent Duality: A Study of Margaret Atwood
By Sherrill Grace
Reviewed in A Dogma of Division by Terry Goldie
Essays Literary Criticism
On the Art of Being Canadian
By Sherrill Grace
Reviewed in Anti-Heroes All by Janice Fiamengo
Canada and the Theatre of War: Volume 1
By Sherrill Grace and Donna Coates
Reviewed in Canadian Theatre of War by Marissa McHugh
Canadian Studies
Voice of Her Own
By Sherrill Grace and Angela Rebeiro
Reviewed in Reading Voices by Marlene Moser
Anthologies Drama War
Staging the North: Twelve Canadian Plays
By Sherrill Grace, Eve D'Aeth and Lisa Chalykoff
Reviewed in Staging Northern Ghosts by Martin Kuester
Drama Women's Literature
Canada and the Idea of North
By Sherrill Grace
Reviewed in Ideas of North by John Moss
Drama Northern Canada
Swinging the Maelstrom: New Perspectives on Malcolm Lowry
By Sherrill Grace
Reviewed in New Directions by Kathleen Scherf
Canadian Studies Cultural Studies Northern Canada Postmodernism
Regression and Apocalypse. Studies in North American Literary Expressionism
By Sherrill Grace
Reviewed in Dynamic Energy by Holger A. Pausch
Authorship Literary Criticism
The Voyage that Never Ends
By Sherrill Grace
Reviewed in Voyager’s Masks by Paul G. Tiessen
Literary Theory
Bearing Witness: Perspectives on War and Peace from the Arts and Humanities
By Sherrill Grace and Patrick Imbert
Reviewed in Writing Wars by Joel Baetz
Literary Criticism