Book Reviews

Mourning Lessons (p. 116-117)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Elizabeth Rex by Timothy Findley

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Idioglossia by Eleanor Bailey
  • The Representation of Bodily Pain in Late Nineteenth-Century English Culture by Lucy Bending

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bonheur d'occasion au pluriel: lectures et approches critiques by Marie-Andrée Beaudet

Sex in the Snow (p. 120-122)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Carnal Nation: Brave New Sex Fictions by Carellin Brooks and Brett Josef Grubisic
  • Exhibitions: Tales of Sex in the City by Michelle Davidson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Nation's Tortured Body: Violence, Representation, and the Formation of a Sikh "Diaspora" by Brian Keith Axel
  • Sit Down and Drink Your Beer: Regulating Vancouver's Beer Parlours, 1925-1954 by Robert A. Campbell

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey by Alison Wearing
  • A Journey through Afghanistan: A Memorial by David Chafeetz

Cultural Memories (p. 126-128)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Colonizer and Colonized Vol. 2 by Theo d’Haen
  • Gendered Memories Vol. 4 by Theo d’Haen
  • Genres as Repositories of Cultural Memory Vol. 5 by Theo d’Haen
  • Images of Westerners in Chinese and Japanese Literature Vol. 10 by Theo d’Haen
  • Methods for the Study of Literature as Cultural Memory Vol. 6 by Theo d’Haen
  • Travel Writing and Cultural Memory Vol. 9 by Theo d’Haen
  • Reconstructing Cultural Memory: Translation, Scripts, Literacy Vol. 7 by Theo d’Haen
  • Proceedings of the XVth Congress of the International Compartive Literature Association by Theo d’Haen

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Between the Temple and the Cave: The Religious Dimensions of the Poetry of E.J. Pratt by Angela T. McAuliffe
  • E.J. Pratt: Selected Poems by W. J. Keith, Zailig Pollock and Sandra Djwa

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century by Modris Eksteins
  • A Baltic Odyssey: War and Survival by Jürgen von Rosen, Martha von Rosen and E. Whittaker

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Fly on the Curtain by Fred Euringer

Book(s) Reviewed

  • In Search of the Western Sea / À la Recherche de la Mer de l'Ouest: Selected Journals of La Vérendrye/Métnoires choisis de La Vèrendrye by Denis Combet
  • Starting Out in the Afternoon: A Mid-Life Journey into Wild Land by Jill Frayne

Art’s Artifice (p. 136-139)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Drawn from Life: Scienceand Art in the Portrayal of the New World by Victoria Dickenson
  • The Truth of Uncertainty: Beyond Ideology in Science and Literature by Edward Galligan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • PhotoGraphic Encounters: The Edgesand Edginess of Reading Prose Pictures and Visual Fictions by W. F. (Will) Garrett-Petts and Donald Lawrence

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Chinese American Literature Since the 1850s by Xiao-huang Yin
  • Jan Wong's China by Jan Wong
  • In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture by Geremie R. Barmé
  • The Chinese Overseas by Wang Gungwu
  • The Chinese in Vancouver 1945-80 by Ng Wing Chung

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 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 and Camille Fouillard

No Man’s Land (p. 147-149)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • White Man's Law: Native People in Ninteenth-Century Canadian Jurisprudence by Sidney L. Harring

Between Women (p. 149-150)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Student of Weather by Elizabeth Hay

Book(s) Reviewed

  • États du polémique by Annette Hayward and Dominique Garrand
  • Littérature et effets d'inconscient by Christiane Kègle

Exile and Return (p. 152-154)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination by Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
  • Aught from Naught: A.M. Klein's The Second Scroll by Roger Hyman

Worlds in Conflict (p. 154-156)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Aurora Awards by Edo van Belkom
  • The Stone and the Maiden: The House of Pandragore by Dennis Jones
  • Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
  • The Black Chalice by Marie Jakober

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Toward a Catalogue of Falling by Méira Cook
  • Background Music by Pat Jasper

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies by Paul C. Adams, Steven Hoelscher and Karen Till
  • Maps and the Writing of Space in Early Modern England and Ireland by Bernhard Klein

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hybridity and Postcolonialism: Twentieth-Century Indian Literature by Monika Fludernik
  • Across the Lines: Intertextuality and Transcultural Communication in the New Literatures in English by Wolfgang Kloos

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Song of Lilith by Joy Kogawa and Lilian Broca

Beyond Domestica (p. 163-165)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Simple Things: The Story of a Friendship by Karen Lavut
  • A Personal Calligraphy by Mary Pratt

Being Raven (p. 165-166)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sojourners and Sundogs: First Nations Fiction by Lee Maracle

Water Logs (p. 166-167)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • At Home Afloat: Women on the Waters of the Pacific Northwest by Nancy Pagh

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Water in Between: A Journey at Sea by Kevin Patterson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Double Crossings: Madness, Sexuality and Imperialism by Anne McClintock
  • En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives by Sangeeta Ray
  • Postcolonial Imaginings: Fictions of a New World Order by David Punter

Leaves of Presence (p. 170-171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Beyond Remembering: The Collected Poems of Al Purdy by Al (Alfred W) Purdy and Sam Solecki

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mémoire des villages engloutis by Nicole V. Champeau
  • Les aventures extraordinaires d'un coureur des bois: le récit de voyage au pays des Indiens d'Amérique by Pierre-Esprit Radisson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Bone Museum: Travels in the Lost Worlds of Dinosaurs and Birds by Wayne Grady
  • Hidden Canada: An Intimate Travelogue by Norman Ravvin

Words and Value (p. 176-177)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Figures de pensée, figures de discours by Danielle Forget
  • Que vaut la littérature? by Denis Saint-Jacques

Book(s) Reviewed

  • "New" Exoticisms: Changing Patterns in the Construction of Otherness by Isabella Santaolalla
  • Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman by Catherine Robson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Forms of Devotion by Diane Schoemperlen

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lecture mythocritique du roman québécois by Antoine Sirois
  • Aspects de la narration by Japp Lintvelt
  • L'empire du pseudo by Richard Saint-Gelais

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Growing Up: Childhood in English Canada from the Great War to the Age of Television by Neil Sutherland
  • Children in English Canadian Society: Framing the Twentieth Century Consensus by Neil Sutherland
  • Canadian Children's Books: A Critical Guide to Authors and Illustrators by Raymond Jones and Jon Stott

Exploring Canadians (p. 186-187)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Journeys of Charles Sangster: A Biographical and Critical Investigation by Frank M. Tierney
  • Wild West Women: Travellers, Adventurers and Rebels by Rosemary Neering

No Respect (p. 187-189)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism by Rinaldo Walcott

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Crybaby! by Janice Williamson
  • Foreign Correspondence: A Traveler's Tales by Lesley Krueger

Book(s) Reviewed

  • In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey to Understanding His Father's Legacy by Ken Wiwa
  • Richard Wright's Travel Writings: New Reflections by Virginia Whatley Smith
  • Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa by Lamin Sanneh

A Space Odyssey (p. 193-195)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Routes of the Roots: Geography and Literature in the English-Speaking Countries by Isabella Maria Zoppi