Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Femme, mystique et missionnaire. Marie Guyart de l'Incarnation by Raymond Brodeur
  • Histoire universelle de la chasteté et du célibat by Elizabeth Abbott

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Blues for Bird by Martin Gray
  • Jazz Cultures by David Ake
  • Live Evil: A Homage to Miles Davis by Richard Stevenson

Ethical Semiotics (pp. 97-99)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • From a Transcendental-Semiotic Point of View by Karl-Otto Apel
  • Literary Discourse: A Semiotic-Pragmatic Approach to Literature by Jørgen Dines Johansen

Shadowed Pasts (pp. 99-100)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • In the Shadow of Evil by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier
  • Whispering in Shadows by Jeannette C. Armstrong

Surviving the Future (pp. 100-102)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Acting the Giddy Goat by Mike Tanner
  • The Bone House by Luanne Armstrong

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Darkness that Murmured: Essayson Malcolm Lowry and the Twentieth Century by Frederick Asals and Paul G. Tiessen

Desert Books (pp. 103-104)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bone and Dream by Lake Sagaris
  • Travels with my Daughter by Niema Ash

Two Saskatchewans (pp. 104-105)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Heartland: A Prairie Sampler by Jo Bannatyne-Cugnet and Yvette Moore
  • The Song Within My Heart by David Bouchard and allen Sapp

Community Chest (pp. 106-108)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pittsburgh Stories—Selected Stories by Clark Blaise
  • Tending the Remnant Damage by Sheila Peters

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 'Pataphysics: The Poetics of Imaginary Science by Christian Bök
  • Faux Pas by Maurice Blanchot

Book(s) Reviewed

  • That's Hockey by David Bouchard and Dean Griffiths
  • The Naked Lady by Ian Wallace
  • Camping by Nancy Hundal and Brian Deines

Other Stories (pp. 111-112)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • And Other Stories by George Bowering
  • The One and the Many: English-Canadian Short Story Cycle by Gerald Lynch

Trans-Atlantic Views (pp. 112-113)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canada 2000: Identity and Transformation / Identite? et transformation—Central European Perspectives on Canada / Le Canada vu a? partir de l'Europe centrale by Martin Loschnigg and Klaus-Dieter Ertler
  • Giving Voice: Canadian and German Perspectives by Hans Braun and Wolfgang Klooss

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rue St-Denis: Fantastic Tales by André Carpentier and Leonard W. Sugden
  • The Heart Laid Bare by Michel Trenblay and Sheila Fischman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Passagère by Claude Guilmain
  • Moulinette by Nicole V. Champeau
  • Laurie ou la vie de galerie by Herménégilde Chiasson

Native Representation (pp. 116-118)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • (Ad)dressing Our Words: Aboriginal Perspectives on Aboriginal Literatures by Armand Garnet Ruffo
  • Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
  • Native American Representations: First Encounters, Distorted Images, and Literary Appropriations by Gretchen M. Bataille

Re-imagining a Myth (pp. 118-119)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Gwendolyn Poems by Claudia Day

And the Beat Goes On (pp. 120-121)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Family Business: Selected Letters between a Father and Son by Allen Ginsberg, Louis Ginsberg and Michael Schumacher
  • Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Year by Diane di Prima

Moving the Margins (pp. 122-123)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Other Chinas: The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging by Ralph A. Litzinger
  • Postmodernism and China by Arif Dirlik and Xudong Zhang

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Northrop Frye on Literature and Society: 1936-1989. Collected Works of Northrop Frye, Vol. 10 by Robert D. Denham
  • The "Third Book" Notebooks of Northrop Frye, 1964-1972: Collected Works of Northrop Frye, Vol. 9 by Michael Dolzani

Il y a des chemins… (pp. 125-127)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La tentation des armures by Jean-Marc Lefebvre
  • La terre est vide comme un étoile : poe?mes by Gary Klang
  • Psyché au cinéma : poe?mes en prose by Marcel Dugas

Video Memory (pp. 127-128)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Magnetic North by Jenny Lion
  • Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age by Gary R. Edgerton and Peter C. Rollins

Poor Relations (pp. 129-130)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Falling Woman by Shaena Lambert
  • Waterfalls by Eugene McNamara
  • Red Plaid Shirt: Stories New & Selected by Diane Schoemperlen
  • Mount Appetite by Bill Gaston

Factual Picture Books (pp. 131-132)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • To the Top of Everest by Laurie Skreslet and Elizabeth McLeod
  • A Pod of Orcas by Sheryl MacFarlane and Kirsti Ann Wakelin
  • When the Giant Stirred by Celia Godkin

Ideas of North (pp. 132-134)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture by Renée Hulan
  • Canada and the Idea of North by Sherrill Grace

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Kalyna's Song by Lisa Grekul

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Asian American Playwrights: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourceboo by Miles Xian Liu
  • Negotiating Identities: An Introduction to Asian American Women's Writing by Helena Grice

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Eating Their Words: Cannibalism and the Boundaries of Cultural Identity by Kristen Guest
  • Bodies out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression by Jana Evans Braziel and Kathleen LeBesco

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mad Dog by Kelly Watt
  • Lures by Sue Goyette
  • Water Wings by Kristen den Hartog

Splendid Mappings (pp. 140-141)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Historical Atlas of Canada: Canada's History Illustrated with Original Maps by Derek Hayes

Censure au Québec (pp. 141-143)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Censure et littérature au Québec. Le Livre crucifié 1625-1919 by Patrick Nicol and Pierre Hébert

Unique Childhoods (pp. 143-145)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • George Johnson's War by Maureen Garvie and Mary Beaty
  • Mission to Little Grand Rapids by Luther Schuetze
  • As Long as the River Flows by Larry Loyie and Constance Brissenden
  • Solomon's Tree by Andrea Spalding
  • Caribou Song/ atí­hko níkamon by Tomson Highway

Reading Lives (pp. 145-146)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Literary Value/Cultural Power: Verbal Arts in the Twenty-First Century by Lynette Hunter
  • How Our Lives Become Stories: Making Selves by Paul John Eakin

Multiculturalism? (pp. 147-148)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ten Thousand Sorrows: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan by Elizabeth Kim
  • Inside the Hermit Kingdom: A Memoir by Yi Sun-Kyung

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Salt Fish Girl by Larissa Lai

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Rescued Images: Memories of a Childhood in Hiding by Ruth Jacobsen
  • Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios by The Latina Feminist Group

The Private Voice (pp. 152-154)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Last We Heard of Leonard by Rachel Wyatt
  • Dead Girls by Nancy Lee
  • The Short Story: The Reality of the Artifice by Charles E. May
  • Silent Cruise by Timothy Taylor
  • The Man Who Beat the Man by F. B. André

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Frontières flottantes. Lieu et espace dans les cultures francophones du Canada. Shifting Boundaries. Place and Space in the Francophone Cultures of Canada by Jaap Lintvelt and François Paré

Missed Opportunities (pp. 155-157)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 7 Cannons by Martin Bragg, Per Brask and Roy Surette
  • From Fire to Flood: A History of Theatre in Manitoba by Kevin Longfield

Dialectical Laurence (pp. 157-159)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ancestors and Gods: Margaret Laurence and the Dialectics of Identity by David Lucking

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown by Nyan Shah
  • Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco by Anthony W. Lee
  • Consuming Hong Kong by Gordon Matthews and Tai-lok Lui

Confronting the Past (pp. 160-161)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Widows by Suzette Mayr

Short Fictions (pp. 161-163)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Reading in Alice Munro's Archives by Joann McCaig
  • The Oxford Anthology of Raj Stories by Saros Cowasjee

Fun Picture Books (pp. 163-165)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lessons from Mother Earth by Elaine McLeod and Colleen Wood
  • The Art Room by Susan Vande Griek and Pascal Milelli
  • Give Maggie a Chance by Frieda Wishinksy and Dean Griffiths

Editor’s Choice (pp. 165-166)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Pour of Rain: Stories from a West Coast Fort by Helen Meilleur
  • Kindred of the Wild by Charles G. D. Roberts

Ravissements et exils (pp. 166-168)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le ravissement by Andrée A. Michaud
  • Mary l'Irlandaise by Maryse Rouy

Earth Enough and Time (pp. 168-170)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Facsimiles of Time: Essays on Poetry and Translation by Eric Ormsby
  • Planet Earth: Poems Selected and New by P. K. Page

Potboiling (pp. 171-171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • On Snooker: The Game and the Characters Who Play It by Mordecai Richer
  • Dispatches form the Sporting Life by Mordecai Richler

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Concerto rouge by Claire Lévesque
  • Femmes de rêve au travail. Les femmes et le travail dans les productions écrites de grand consommation, au Québec, de 1945 à aujourd'hui by Denis Saint-Jacques, Julia Bettinotti, Marie-José des Rivières, Paul Bleton and Chantal Savoie

Potboiling (pp. 171-171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dispatches from the Sporting Life by Mordecai Richler
  • On Snooker by Mordecai Richler

Nation and Identity (pp. 173-175)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity by Smadar Lavie and Ted Swedenburg
  • Cultural Difference and the Literary Text: Pluralism and the Limits of Authenticity in North American Literatures by Winfried Siemerling and Katrin Schwenk

Jamaican Lioness (pp. 175-176)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Heart Does Not Bend by Makeda Silvera

Bedevilling Cities (pp. 176-178)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Flat by Mark Macdonald
  • The Princess and the Whiskheads by Russell Smith
  • The IV Lounge Reader by Paul Vermeersch

Ontario Novels (pp. 178-179)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pack up the Moon by Richard Teleky
  • Losing It by Alan Cumyn

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Virtual Marshall McLuhan by Donald F. Theall

Waging Aboriginal War (pp. 181-182)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Last French and Indian War: An Inquiry into a Safe-Conduct Issued in 1760 that Acquired the Value of a Treaty in 1990 by Denis Vaugeois and Kate Roth
  • The Beothuk Saga by Bernard Assiniwi and Wayne Grady

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Voix et images. La sociabilité littéraire 80 (2002) by Ursula Mathis-Moser

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America by Rubén G. Rumbaut and Alejandro Portes
  • Strangers at the Gates: New Immigrants in Urban America by Roger Waldinger
  • Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America by John L. Jackson, Jr.

A Constrained Canon (pp. 185-186)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canada's Best Features: Critical Essays on 15 Canadian Films by Gene Walz

Various Saskatchewans (pp. 186-189)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sundog Highway: Writing from Saskatchewan by Larry Warwaruk
  • A Reckless Moon by Dianne Warren
  • Real Life by Sharon Butala
  • Lake of the Prairies: A Story ofBelonging by Warren Cariou

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dead Man's Gold and Other Stories by Paul Yee
  • The Jade Necklace by Paul Yee

No Dust Gathers Here (pp. 190-191)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes