La Vie Littéraire au Canada Français
Abstract: R. EVOiR, après quelques mois, les événements mar- k quants d’une année littéraire, c’est s’exposer, à coup sûr, à des ...
Lampman and Religion
Abstract: ΤIHE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS and religious position of Lampman, as Desmond Pacey poIiHntEs out in Ten Canadian Poets, have been almost ...
Lampman’s Fleeting Vision
Abstract: R,.EADiNG THE POETRY of Archibald Lampman, we are reminded again of the Victorian capacity for dualism : he appears to ...
Land, Memory, and the Struggle for Indigenous Rights: Lee Maracle’s “Goodbye, Snauq”
Abstract: This paper argues that the struggle for Indigenous rights is in transition and that new paradigms are arising. There is a growing sense that the well-established legal and political approaches of fighting for “recognition” have become stalled, and a politics of enactment as a community-based alternative is now emerging. Creative expressions of sovereignty, through dance, song, and other performative forms have emerged as a potent way to shift the discourse of rights away from a politics of recognition and towards one of enactment. In Lee Maracle’s “Goodbye Snauq,” a vision of an embodied, sensory-driven practice of sovereignty makes possible a more open-ended and critically informed conception of Indigenous rights in a time of change.
Language and Longing in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan
Abstract: There is a silence that cannot speak. There is a silence that will not speak. Beneath the grass the speaking ...
Language and Loss in Michel Rabagliati’s Paul à Québec and Sarah Leavitt’s Tangles
Abstract: A decline in verbal and written language ability is an early symptom and an inevitable outcome of Alzheimer’s disease, as well as an eventual result of other degenerative illnesses like cancer. In this article, we analyze two graphic novels—Michel Rabagliati’s Paul à Québec (2009) and Sarah Leavitt’s Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer’s, My Mother and Me (2010)—that challenge the notion that the loss of linguistic capacity due to illness corresponds to a loss of identity. Foregrounding the ways in which language is deployed or withheld at the structural and thematic level of these autobiographical comics, we argue that the hybrid medium is useful for ordering and coping with the isolating experience of illness for sufferers and caregivers at moments when language alone is insufficient, and allows them to express themselves and connect with others beyond words when language fails completely.
Language Writing and the Burden of Critique
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This essay examines language writing’s investment in critique as a standpoint for poetics. Focusing on the work of Ron Silliman, my analysis attempts to draw out procedures that are latent in language writing’s use of critique and the consequences that follow. I argue that while there is no doubt the turn to critique has done much to unify and radicalize language writing as a movement, it is also responsible for introducing a culturally reductive set of discriminations into conversations about poetics.
Language, Power, and Responsibility in The Handmaid’s Tale: Toward a Discourse of Literary Gossip
Abstract: The sheer ubiquity of gossip in literature, from Chaucer’s Wife of Bath to Sterne’s Tristram Shandy to Atwood’s Handmaids, suggests ...
Langue et parole dans l’oeuvre poétique d’Alexandre Amprimoz
Abstract: DEPUIS UN CERTAIN NOMBRE D ANNEES, Ш1 jeune écrivain polyglotte se taille une place dans notre littérature. L’activité scripturale d’Ale- ...
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Abstract: From Fact to Legend (Univ. of Western Aus¬tralia, n.p.) is a talk by Leonie Kramer that raises two interesting issues: ...