Book Reviews

Readings Awry (p. 136-137)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • System and Writing in the Philosophy of Jacques Derrida by Christopher Johnson
  • Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan Through Popular Culture by Slavoj Zizek

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida's Haunt by Mark Wigley
  • Jacques Derrida by Geoffrey Bennington and Jacques Derrida

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Stones of the Dalai Lama by Ken Mitchell
  • Poor Player by Lesley Krueger

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Northern Voices: Inuit Writing in English by Penny Petrone
  • In the Rapids: Navigating the Future of First Nations by Ovide Mercredi and Mary Ellen Turpel

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Silenced Sextet: Six Nineteenth-Century Canadian Women Novelists by Carrie Macmillan, Lorraine McMullen and Elizabeth Waterson
  • Letters of Love and Duty: The Correspondence of Susanna and John Moodie by Carl Ballstadt, Elizabeth Hopkins and Michael Peterman

Strange Births (p. 145-147)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Birth of Modernism: Ezra Pound, T .S. Eliot, W.B.Yeats, and the Occult by Leon Surette
  • Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avant Garde by Steven Watson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sweetheart by Peter McGehee
  • Cerberus by Rai Berzins

Columbdrums (p. 149-151)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Christopher Columbus Answers All Charges by Marc Giacomelli and Yuri Rubinsky
  • Ethnic Passages: Literary Immigrants in Twentieth Century America by Thomas J. Ferraro

Elvis is Dead (p. 151-152)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Arcadia We$t: the Novel and the Storyboard from Elvis through Thomas Jefferson by David Gurr

Poets: A Sestet (p. 152-154)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Earle Birney: Portrait of a Poet by Donald Winkler
  • F.R. Scott: Rhyme and Reason by Donald Winkler
  • Poet: Irving Layton Observed by Donald Winkler
  • Al Purdy: A Sensitive Man by Donald Winkler
  • Still Waters: The Poetry of P. K. Page by Donald Winkler

Poets (p. 152-154)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Earle Birney: Portrait of a Poet by Donald Winkler
  • Winter Prophecies by Donald Winkler
  • F.R. Scott: Rhyme and Reason by Donald Winkler
  • Poet: Irving Layton Observed by Donald Winkler
  • Al Purdy: A Sensitive Man by Donald Winkler
  • Still Waters: The Poetry of P. K. Page by Donald Winkler

Hidden from History (p. 154-155)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Changing Fictions of Masculinity by David Rosen
  • Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past by Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vicinus and George Chauncey, Jr.

Home Places (p. 155-157)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Lone Angler by Herb Curtis
  • Going Downtown: Reflections on Urban Progress by David Lewis Stein

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood

Sexual Histories (p. 159-161)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Discourses of Sexuality: From Aristotle to AIDS by Donna C. Stanton
  • Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" by Judith Butler

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Minus Time by Catherine Bush
  • Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond by Marleen S. Barr

Lying & Lying (p. 163-164)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Stillborn Lover by Timothy Findley

Windows on the Past (p. 164-167)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pioneering Women: Short Stories by Canadian Women (Beginnings to1880) by Lorraine McMullen and Sandra Campbell
  • Aspiring Women: Short Stories by Canadian Women (1880-1900) by Lorraine McMullen and Sandra Campbell
  • New Women: Short Stories By Canadian Women (1900-1920) by Sandra Campbell and Lorraine Campbell

Transformations (p. 167-168)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Margaret Atwood's Fairy Tale Sexual Politics by Sharon R. Wilson
  • Gender, Language, and Myth: Essays in Popular Narrative by Glenwood Irons

Family Serpents (p. 169-170)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Homeward Bound by Elliot Hayes
  • Serpent in the Night Sky by Dianne Warren

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Critique et littérature québécoise by Annette Hayward and Agnès Whitfield
  • Charles Ab der Halden. Portrait d'un inconnu by Marie-Andrée Baudet

La Francophonie (p. 172-174)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Roman de la Francophonie by Axel Maugey

Power Politics (p. 174-176)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Margaret Atwood's Power: Mirrors, Reflections and Images in Select Fiction and Poetry by Shannon Hengen
  • The Politics of the Essay: Feminist Perspectives by Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres and Elizabeth Mittman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Voyages of Jacques Cartier by H. P. Biggar

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le roman Québécois depuis 1960: Méthodes et analyses by Jaap Lintvelt and Louise Milot

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Northwest Quartet by Jack Hammond
  • The Shadow Sonnets by Richard Sommer
  • Report On the Second Half of the Twentieth Century: Books 8-11 by Ken Norris

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Japan in the World by Masao Miyoshi and H. D. Harootunian
  • Reading Asian American Literature: From Necessity to Extravagance by Sau-ling Cynthia Wong

Eclectic Lowrys (p. 183-185)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Apparent Incongruous Parts: The Worlds of Malcolm Lowry by Paul G. Tiessen

Satire (p. 185-186)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Republic of Whores: A Fragment from the Time of the Cults by Josef Skvorecky and Paul Wilson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Moorings & Metaphors: Figures of Culture and Gender in Black Women's Literature by Karla F. Holloway
  • Her Head A Village & Other Stories by Makeda Silvera

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dancing at the Club Holocaust: Stories New & Selected by J. J. Steinfeld
  • Atlas of the Holocaust by Martin Gilbert

Landscape of Memory (p. 190-192)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning by James E. Young
  • Old Roots New Trees: A Personal Midras by Judah Denburg

Prose Composite (p. 192-193)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Montréal en prose 1892-1992 by Nathalie Fredette
  • La pisseuse by Anne Elaine Cliché

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Voices From Home: The W.I.N.O. Anthology by Agawa Press
  • The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock V. Silversides
  • Born for the Shade: Stereotypes of the Native American in United States Literature and the Visual Arts, 1776-1894 by Klaus Lubbers

Medical Histories (p. 195-197)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Langstaff: A Nineteenth Century Medical Life by Jacalyn Duffin
  • Not of Woman Born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski

Work Writing (p. 197-199)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Country Not Considered: Canada, Culture, Work by Tom Wayman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education by Henry A. Giroux
  • Feminism without Women: Culture and Criticism in a 'Postfeminist' Age by Tania Modleski

Living in Nature (p. 201-202)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Perfection of the Morning: An Apprenticeship in Nature by Sharon Butala

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Collected Poetry of Malcolm Lowry by Kathleen Scherf

Picture Books (p. 205-206)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Jillian Jiggs to The Rescue by Phoebe Gilman
  • Noguchi The Samurai by Burt Konzak and Johnny Wales
  • Tiger Flowers by Patricia Quinlan and Janet Wilson
  • The Baritone Cat by Mora Skelton and Janet Wilson