Suzanne James

January 29, 2015


Works by Suzanne James

Book Reviews

Book Reviews by Suzanne James

A Lingering Impact
By Suzanne James
Published in web format on Canadian Literature‘s website. (Pending print publication.)
  • Dusk in the Frog Pond and Other Stories by Rummana Chowdhury (Author)
  • Householders by Kate Cayley (Author)
Less Than Cutting Edge
By Suzanne James
Published in Canadian Literature 250 (2022): 148-149.
  • This Cleaving and This Burning by J. A. Wainwright
A Very Timely Anthology
By Suzanne James
Published in web format on Canadian Literature‘s website. (Pending print publication.): 191-192.
  • Changing the Face of Canadian Literature by Dane Swan (Editor)
Loss, Retreat, Recovery
By Suzanne James
Published in Rescaling CanLit: Global Readings Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 238 (2019): 138-139.
  • How Far We Go and How Fast by Nora Decter
  • Lost Boy by Shelley Hrdlitschka
Our Places
By Suzanne James
Published in Lost and Found Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 236 (2018): 170-171.
  • Our Place: Changing the Nature of Alberta by Kevin Van Tighem
  • The Bosun Chair by Jennifer Bowering Delisle
Young Adult
Calling Out Intolerance
By Suzanne James
Published in Concepts of Vancouver: Poetics, Art, Media Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 235 (Winter 2017): 173-174.
  • The Way Back Home by Allan Stratton
  • Subject to Change by Karen Nesbitt
Non-Fiction
Queer Canadian Spaces
By Suzanne James
Published in Indigenous Literature and the Arts of Comunity. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 230-231 (Autumn/Winter 2016): 270-272.
  • Queer Mobilizations: Social Movement Activism and Canadian Public Policy by Manon Tremblay (Editor)
  • Making a Scene: Lesbians and Community across Canada, 1964-84 by Liz Millward
Fiction YA coming-of-age heteronormativity
Out of the Silence
By Suzanne James
Published in Emerging Scholars 2. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 228-229 (Spring/Summer 2016): 259-260.
  • Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History by Edmund Metatawabin and Alexandra Shimo
  • We Share Our Matters: Two Centuries of Writing and Resistance at Six Nations of the Grand River by Rick Monture
Queer Theory
Sense and Sensitivity
By Suzanne James
Published in Recursive Time. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 222 (Autumn 2014): 124-25.
  • The Green Man by Michael Bedard
  • Picture me Gone by Meg Rosoff
Autobiography Indigenous History Non-Fiction
Beyond Domesticity
By Suzanne James
Published in Canadian Literature 214 (Autumn 2012): 176-77.
  • Stones for my Father by Trilby Kent (Author)
  • Out of the Box by Michell Mulder (Author)
  • She Said/She Saw by Norah McClintock (Author)
Poetry Young Adult
Taking Control
By Suzanne James
Published in New Work on Early Canadian Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 213 (Summer 2012): 162-163.
  • Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom by Susan Nielson
  • Living Outside the Lines by Lesley Choyce
Children's Literature
Education, with Ethics
By Suzanne James
Published in 50th Anniversary Interventions. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 204 (Spring 2010): 182-184.
  • Cities by John Lorinc
  • Slavery Today by Kevin Bales and Becky Cornell
  • Lunch with Lenin and Other Stories by Deborah Ellis
Children's Literature
Into Africa?
By Suzanne James
Published in Home, Memory, Self. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 203 (Winter 2009): 167-168.
  • The Uncertain Business of Doing Good: Outsiders in Africa by Larry Krotz (Author)
  • Where Bones Dance: An English Girlhood, An African War by Nina Newington (Author)
Short Fiction
No Escape from the Past
By Suzanne James
Published in Strategic Nationalisms. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 200 (Spring 2009): 130-131.
  • Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literture by Clare Bradford
Afro-Canadian Cultural Studies Novel
Into the Wild, Again
By Suzanne James
Published in Canada and Its Discontents. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 198 (Autumn 2008): 172-173.
  • The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor (Author)
  • Borderline by Bonnie Rozanski (Author)
  • Gemini Summers by Iain Lawrence (Author)
Children's Literature Literary Criticism Native Studies Postcolonialism Settler Writing
(Re)presenting Cultures
By Suzanne James
Published in Visual/Textual Intersections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 194 (Autumn 2007): 188-189.
  • Ancient Thunder by Leo Yerxa
  • Napi Goes to the Mountain by Antonio Ramá­rez, Elisa Amado (Translator) and Domi (Illustrator)
  • Tarde de invierno/Winter Afternoon by Jorge Lujàn, Elisa Amado (Translator) and Mandana Sadat (Illustrator)
Novel
Imprints of Other People's Histories
By Suzanne James
Published in Canadian Literature 164 (Spring 2000): 138-140.
  • The Two-Headed Calf by Sandra Birdsell
  • The Instructor by Ann Ireland
Children's Literature First Nations Latin-American
Beyond Domesticity
By Suzanne James
  • Out of the Box by Michell Mulder
  • She Said/She Saw by Norah McClintock
  • Stones for my Father by Trilby Kent
Novel Short Fiction