Non-Recognition in the Colonial Archive: Rachel Zolf’s Janey’s Arcadia: Errant Ad^ent$res in Ultima Thule
Abstract: In her 2014 poetry collection Janey's Arcadia: Errant Ad^ent$res in Ultima Thule, Rachel Zolf thinks through the role of the archive in legitimizing colonial aims by playing with the source material of the archive itself. Zolf takes as a basis for her poems texts from the settler Canadian archive and feeds them through Optical Character Recognition software, which transforms scanned images of print texts into "malleable language" (Janey's Arcadia117). This study situates Zolf's text in relation to archive theory and Canadian feminist innovative poetics, before moving on to argue that the OCR glitch in Janey's Arcadiaexposes, stirs up, and disrupts the working of power in the archive, whereby the mis- and non-recognition of Indigenous and other racialized groups is mobilized to support the capitalist and colonialist aims of settler Canada.
Non-Standard Dialect in Percy Janes’ House of Hate
Abstract: LTHIS STUDY WE examine Percy Janes’ use of non-standard Newfoundland dialect in House of Hate.1 All page references to the ...
North of Invention: Interview with Charles Bernstein and Sarah Dowling
Abstract: Charles Bernstein and Sarah Dowling are the co-organizers of North of Invention: A Festival of Canadian Poetry. Taking place over four days in January 2011 at Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia and Poets House in New York City, North of Invention aimed "to initiate a new dialogue in North American poetics, addressing the hotly debated areas of 'innovation' and 'conceptual writing,' the history of sound poetry and contemporary performance, multilingualism and translation, and connections to activism."
Northern Utopia
Abstract: AVERY GREAT NUMBER of contemporary Canadian novelists, both French and English, have focused on the northern wilderness in the belief ...
Northrop Frye and Liberal Humanism
Abstract: IMorthrop Frye was a lifelong liberal humanist. In 1988 he reiterated what he termed “my own confession of faith as ...
Northrop Frye and the 1960s: The Crisis in Canadian Education
Abstract: The university can best fulfil its revolutionary function by digging in its heels and doing its traditional job in its ...
Notes on “Notes From Furry Creek”
Abstract: W/e probably need the discovery of one more critical theory less than the finding of yet another insect species. But ...
Notes on Alden Nowlen
Abstract: RH,EADING THE BODY of Alden Nowlan’s work one begins to share his acute feeling for place. The ideal landscapes of ...
Notes on Concrete Poetry
Abstract: THE COSMIC CHEF GLEE & Perloo Memorial Society under the direc- tion of Captain Poetry presents … an evening of ...
Notes on Realism in Modern English-Canadian Fiction
Abstract: A REALISTIC NOVEL is USUALL Y T AKEN to mean a novel in which narrative is the connecting thread, in ...