Articles



Under Coyote’s Eye: Indian Tales in Sheila Watson’s “The Double Hook”
Abstract: B’ACK IN 1975 H. R. Ellis Davidson delivered a paper to the Annual General Meeting of the Folklore Society entitled ...

Under the Volcano: The Myth of the Hero
Abstract: IN CHAPTER SEVEN OF Under the Volcano, Laruelle chal- lenges the basic validity of the Consul’s quest. The Consul first ...

Underground or Alternative
Abstract: ΤHOSE “hippie rags”, known commonly as underground papers, were never ve1ryнfеar under Canadian ground. To earn the name “under- ground”, ...

Underground, Unseen, Unknown: Negotiating Toronto in Maggie Helwig’s Girls Fall Down
Abstract: Girls Fall Down proposes that an awareness of how to one’s position in relation to the situation of others and other things—that is, the very ability to clearly map one’s place in relation to other, shifting people and things—also demands a self-understanding that a control over one’s environment (including how one presents oneself in it) is merely a fantasy. A person’s inability to always map out with certainty the city as it is encountered suggests, in Helwig’s book, a crisis of legibility that is inherent in the urban landscapes themselves. Helwig’s various networks—from assorted means of transportation to interpersonal human relationships—are fragile and fraught, to the extent that what we easily label as “the city,” despite its seemingly solid material forms (both alive and inert), is best understood as provisional: the confluence and convergence of its actors underscore both a place and a landscape that is constantly re-envisioned and is always makeshift.

Undernarrated Emotional Landscapes in Toronto’s Scarborough: Téa Mutonji’s Shut Up You’re Pretty
Abstract: Emerging Toronto author Téa Mutonji’s debut short story collection, Shut Up You’re Pretty (2019), follows the coming-of-age of Loli, a ...

Une Epoque de Synthese: Quelques aspects des rapports Littéraires entre la France, la suisse romande et le Canada Français
Abstract: Mlous VIVONS, dans cette seconde partie du vingtième siècle, une époque de synthèse. La traduction dans les principales langues de ...

Une Poesie d’Exil
Abstract:   UNE POESIE  D’EXIL  Gilles Marcotte  L  LECTEUR FRANÇAIS n’éprouvera généralement, de-  vant la poésie canadienne-française d’aujourd’hui, aucune impression de  ...

Unmasking The Literary Garland’s T.D. Foster
Abstract: This essay is situated at the intersection of nineteenth-century literary history, women’s literature, and print culture. It opens by resolving an admittedly minor debate about the identity of a contributor to the Canadian nineteenth-century journal, The Literary Garland. However, as a result of this resolution, a series of previously unnoted literary connections between Canadian authors and a single U.S. periodical is revealed; networks of Canadian literary women—both as writers and editors—are explored and our understanding of them expanded; and lost writings by Canadian authors are identified. Those covered include Harriet Vaughan Cheney, Eliza Lanesford Cushing, Catherine Parr Traill, and Emma Donoghue Grant.

Unpacking the Baggage: “Camp” Humour in Timothy Findley’s Not Wanted on the Voyage
Abstract: Some lives are only seen through windows beyond which the appearance of laughter and of screaming is the same. .. ...

Unsettling the Canadian Whites: A Writing Back of Indigenous, Black, and Jewish Comics
Abstract: Since its foundation during the Second World War, the Canadian comics industry has championed a settler nationalism that has prioritized whiteness, appropriated Indigeneity, and omitted representations of racialized minorities—including Jews—almost entirely. However, creators from these marginalized groups are reclaiming the comics form. I examine this process from the perspective of a comics researcher and creator. By exploring the devices used in David Alexander Robertson’s The Ballad of Nancy April and The Scout and John Olbey’s anti-racist comics published in NOW Toronto, I establish the contours of a movement of comics makers restorying Canadian history outside of the confines of the white-settler national narrative. My central case study, an autoethnographic reflection of the techniques used in creating Christie Pits, offers insights into the making process and comics specific techniques that may be valuable to other creators writing back against dominant readings of history.