Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Cure for Death by Lightning by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
  • The Lusty Man by Terry Griggs

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le théâtre à Québec au début du XXe siècle: Une époque flamboyante by Christian Beaucage
  • Théàtre, multidisciplinarité et multiculturalisme by Chantal Hébert and Irène Perelli-Contos

Saisons fictives (p. 117-118)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Saisons I by Pierre Gélinas
  • Les mémoires de Christine Marshall by Estelle Beauchamp

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Aphorism in the Francophone Novel of the Twentieth Century by Mark Bell

Book(s) Reviewed

  • White Stone: The Alice Poems by Stephanie Bolster

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dream Museum by Liliane Welch
  • Wading the Trout River by Carolyn Zonailo
  • Autobiography by Marilyn Bowering
  • Debriefing the Rose by Mary di Michele
  • Garden of Sculpture by Elizabeth Brewster

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Margaret Atwood: A Biography by Nathalie Cooke

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Boardwalk by Joseph Kertes
  • Doggone by Tamas Dobozy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Gentle Anarchist: A Life of George Woodcock by Douglas Fetherling

Book(s) Reviewed

  • North: New African Canadian Writing, a Special Issue of West Coast Line: A Journal of Contemporary Writing and Criticism 22 (Spring/Summer 1997) by Peter Hudson
  • A Place Called Heaven: The Meaning of Being Black in Canada by Cecil Foster
  • Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-Canadian Literature by George Elliott Clarke

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mythologizing Canada: Essays on the Canadian Literary Imagination by Northrop Frye and Branko Gorjup
  • Northrop Frye's Student Essays 1932-1938: Collected Works of Northrop Frye Vol. 3 by Northrop Frye and Robert D. Denham

Book(s) Reviewed

  • François-Xavier Garneau: Une figure nationale by Giles Gallichan, Kenneth Landry and Denis Saint-Jacques
  • La Nation dans tous ses états: Le Québec en comparaison by Gérard Bouchard and Yvan Lamonde

Indirections (p. 137-139)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Written in the Skin by rob mclennan
  • Contra/Diction by Brett Josef Grubisic

Another Great Thing (p. 139-140)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Any Known Blood by Lawrence Hill

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Broken Ground by Jack Hodgins

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Accidental Orphan by Constance Horne
  • The Doctor's Apprentice by Ann Walsh
  • The Brideship by Joan Weir

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le roman québécois et ses (inter)discours by Jósef Kwaterko
  • Les ruelles de Caresso by Jacques Savoie

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Early Views of British North America from the Collection of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery by Ian G. Lumsden
  • Paul Kane's Great Nor-West by Sheila Urbanek and Diane Eaton

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Marie Carduner, Fille du Roy by Nicole Macé
  • Les feux de Yamachiche by René Boulanger

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Métier d'écrivain au Québec (1840-1900) Pionniers, nègres ou épiciers des lettres? by Daniel Mativat
  • Lectures contemporaines de Gabrielle Roy Bibliographie analytique des études critiques (1978-1997) by Lori Saint-Martin

Rough Passages (p. 152-154)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Great Lake Suite by David McFadden

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Submariner's moon by Don McNeill
  • Rare Birds by Edward Riche
  • Gaff Topsails by Patrick Kavanagh

The Gut of Fiction (p. 155-157)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Magician's Wife by Brian Moore
  • Brian Moore: The Chameleon Novelist by Denis Sampson

Hearing Voices (p. 157-159)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Public Men and Virtuous Women: The Gendered Languages of Religion and Politics in Upper Canada, 1791-1850 by Cecilia Morgan
  • I Bless You in My Heart: Selected Correspondence of Catharine Parr Traill by Carl Ballstadt, Elizabeth Hopkins and Michael Peterman

Artful Pros (p. 159-161)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Tom Thomson: The Last Spring by Joan Murray
  • The Art of Mary Pratt: The Substance of Light by Tom Smart
  • Nationalism and the Nordic Imagination: Swedish Art of the 1890s by Michelle Facos

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Borderlands: How we talk about Canada by W. H. New
  • Scatology and Civility in the English-Canadian Novel by Reinhold Kramer
  • Symptoms of Canada: An Essay on the Canadian Identity by Kieran Keohane

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity Sexuality and Difference by Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi

Writing Traditions (p. 165-167)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing: Orality and History in the Work of Rev. Samuel Johnson, Amos Tutuola and Ben Okri by Ato Quayson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Postcolonial Discourse and Changing Cultural Contexts: Theory and Criticism by Gita Rajan and Radhika Mohnamram
  • Beyond Postcolonial Theory by E. San Juan, Jr.

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'Acte de lecture by Denis Saint-Jacques
  • En forme de trajet by Fernand Ouellette

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Erscheinungsformen der Macht in den Romanen Margaret Atwoods by Hannelore Zimmermann
  • Selbst und Andere/s by Christina Strobel and Doris Eibl

Romantic Colonies (p. 173-175)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bardic Nationalism by Katie Trumpener
  • Romanticism, Race, and Imperial Culture, 1780-1834 by Alan Richardson and Sonia Hofkosh