Editorial

Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lovers: A Midrash by Edeet Ravel

Stuck or Mended? (p. 121-123)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Trials of Ezra Pound by Timothy Findley
  • Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought by Louis A. Sass

Piercing the Real (p. 123-125)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Compulsive Beauty by Hal Foster
  • Arcaum 17 with Apertures Grafted to the End by André Breton and Zack Rogow

Borrowed Metaphors (p. 125-127)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Timewalkers: The Prehistory of Global Colonization by Clive Gamble
  • Fictions of Feminist Ethnography by Kamala Visweswaran

Rétro/Spectifs (p. 127-129)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • D'un livre à l'autre. L'esprit des livres by Maurice Lebel
  • Fonder une littérature nationale. Notes d'histoire littéraire by Réjean Robidoux

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Racism in Canada by Ormond McKague
  • Frontiers: Essays and Writings on Racism and Culture by Marlene Nourbese Philip

Reconsiderations (p. 133-135)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Harvesting Thistles: The Textual Garden of L.M. Montgomery: Essays on Her Novels and Journals by Mary Rubio
  • Sexualizing Power in Naturalism: Theodore Dreiser and Frederick Philip Grove by Irene Gammel

Sounding Soul (p. 135-137)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Very Large Soul by J. A. Wainwright
  • Glenn Gould by John P. L. Roberts and Ghyslaine Guertin

Border Crossings (p. 137-139)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Writing on the Wall: Women's Autobiography and the Asylum by Mary Elene Wood
  • The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism by Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey and Frances Murphy Zauhar
  • Autobiography & Postmodernism by Kathleen Ashley, Leigh Gilmore and Gerald Peters

How a People Die. (p. 139-140)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • How A People Die by Alan Fry

Trans-Cultural (p. 140-142)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ethnic Cultures in the 1920s in North America by Wolfgang Binder
  • Symbiosis: An Intercultural Anthology of Poetry by Luciano Diaz
  • Transfiguration of the Maghreb: Feminism, Decolonization, and Literatures by Winifred Woodhull

Eyes & Letters (p. 142-144)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Allowing the Light by Mary Dalton
  • bending with the wind by nick avis

Waterfronts (p. 144-145)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dancing in Limbo by Al Pittman
  • Talking to Ghosts by Philip Gardner

Interrupted Voices (p. 145-147)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Girl by the Water by Gary Geddes
  • Old Bank Notes by Raymond Souster

Writing in the Dark (p. 148-150)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Shoot! by George Bowering

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Train Country: An Illustrated History of Canadian National Railways by Donald MacKay and Lorne Perry
  • Head Cook At Weddings and Funerals and Other Stories of Doukhobor Life by Vi Plotnikoff

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by Harold Bloom

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 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

High and Low (p. 160-161)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera and Canvas by Timothy Murray
  • Lost in North America: The Imaginary Canadian in the American Dream by John Morgan Gray

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Historiographic Metafiction in Modern American and Canadian Literature by Bernd Engler and Kurt Müller
  • Metafiction, Moving Pictures, Moving Histories: Der historische Roman in der Literatur der amerikanischen Postmoderne by Thomas Irmer

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Usages de la poésie: Le discours des poètes québécois sur la fonction de la poésie (1945-1970) by François Dumont
  • La partie et le tout: lectures de Fernand Ouellette et Roland Giguère by Paul Chanel Malenfant

Teaching Culture (p. 165-166)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Outside in the Teaching Machine by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
  • English Studies/Culture Studies: Institutionalizing Dissent by Isaiah Smithson and Nancy Ruff

We Need to See This (p. 167-169)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Running Out of Time by Betsy Struthers
  • Eyes Like Pigeons by Roberta Rees
  • Habit of Blues by Judith Fitzgerald
  • Worlda Mirth by Su Croll

Findlay’s Eighth (p. 169-171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Th Piano Man's Daughter by Timothy Findley

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Collaboration in the Feminine: W ritings on Women and Culture from Tessera by Barbara Thomson Godard
  • Feminist Measures: Soundings in Poetry and Theory by Lynn Keller and Christanne Miller

One in the Many (p. 175-177)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A.M. Klein: The Story of the Poet by Zailig Pollock

Maps and Meanings (p. 177-178)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Territorial Disputes: Maps and Mapping Strategies in Contemporary Canadian and Australian Fiction by Graham Huggan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Her Mother's Ashes and Other Stories by South Asian Women in Canada and the United States by Nurjehan Aziz

Dream Roads (p. 180-181)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • D'où surgi by Marcel Bélanger
  • Songe que je bouge by Gilles Cyr

Simple Facts (p. 181-182)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Vagabond of Verse by James Mackay

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Fire Line by Trevor Ferguson

Stage Voices (p. 183-185)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Taking the Stage: : Selections from Plays by Canadian Women by Cynthia Zimmerman
  • The Hope Slide/Little Sister by Joan MacLeod

Inside Diasporas (p. 185-187)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Other Woman: Women of Colour in Contemporary Canadian Literature by Makeda Silvera
  • Echo: Essays on Other Literatures by Joseph Pivato

Over the Years (p. 187-189)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Remembering Mr. Fox by Christopher Wiseman
  • Collected Poems, Volume III by Ralph Gustafson

Memories Uncovered (p. 189-191)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Debris of Planets by Clive Doucet
  • Iridium by Steve Luxton
  • The Compass by Stephen Morrissey
  • Lake Nora Arms by Michael Redhill
  • Landscape and Desire: Poems Selected and New by J. A. Wainwright
  • Jiggers by Todd Bruce

Book(s) Reviewed

  • My Jerusalem: Secular Adventures in the Holy City by Bronwyn Drainie
  • This Year in Jerusalem by Mordecai Richler

Recurrent Themes (p. 193-195)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Return of Thematic Criticism by Werner Sollors

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Invisible Leviathan: The Marxist Critique of Market Despotism Beyond Postmodernism by Murray G. Smith
  • Inventions of Difference: On Jacques Derrida by Rodolphe Gasché

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Littérature et société by Jacques Pelletier, Jean-François Chassay and Lucie Robert
  • Poétiques de la modernité by Claude Filteau

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Framing Marginality: Multicultural Literary Guides by Sneja Gunew
  • Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media by Ella Shohat and Robert Stam