Articles



“Meat Like You Like It”: The Production of Identity in Atwood’s “Cat’s Eye”
Abstract: You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, you put a mirror in her hand and you ...

“Middlewatch” as Magic Realism
Abstract: IREAD SUSAN KERSLAKE’S first novel, Middlewatch^ in the spring of 1977. I found it a book not without minor flaws. ...

“Now That I Am Dead”: P. K. Page and the Self-Elegy
Abstract: Over the years, P.K. Page’s poetry has reflected the varied experiences of her life. Not surprisingly, since entering old age, ...

“Other Times, Other Places”: Narrative Displacement in Ray Smith’s Writing
Abstract: R.S.] “Scratch a Nova Scotian and within three sentences you’re back to The Clearances; one more sentence and you’re back ...

“Our symbiotic relationship with the stories that we tell”: An Interview with Michael Crummey
Abstract: This is an interview with Michael Crummey which took place in 2011 following the publication of his award-winning novel Galore. Michael Crummey is one of the foremost writers of contemporary Newfoundland. His poetry and fiction is renowned for its focus on the stories and traditions of Newfoundland culture. A central theme of his work is the mixed form of indebtedness people in the present owe to the past as inheritors of its traditions, prejudices, violence, and stories. As Crummey elucidates in this interview, these myriad forms of cultural memory combine in intangible ways to constitute the living world of contemporary Newfoundlanders. In this interview, Crummey discusses how these questions informGalore and many of his other writings, particularly the ways conceptions of the carry-oneffect of inheritance and emplacement are integral to a Newfoundland sense of cultural-historical identity.

“pain, pleasure, shame. Shame.”: Masculine Embodiment, Kinship, and Indigenous Reterritorialization
Abstract: This paper argues that the gender segregation, the derogation of the feminine, and the shaming of the body that occurred systematically within residential schools were not merely by-products of Euro-Christian patriarchy, but rather served—and serve—the goal of colonial dispossession by troubling lived experiences of ecosystemic territoriality and effacing kinship relations that constitute modes of Indigenous governance. This paper thus asks: If the coordinated assaults on Indigenous embodiment and on Indigenous cosmologies of gender are not just two among several interchangeable tools of colonial dispossession but are in fact integral to the Canadian colonial project, can embodied actions that self-consciously reintegrate gender complementarity be mobilized to foment not simply ‘healing’ but the radical reterritorialization and sovereignty that will make meaningful ‘reconciliation’ possible? I pursue this question through the study of autobiographical and fictional writings by residential school survivors as well as testimony from the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

“Please Eunice, Don’t Be Ignorant”: The White Reader as Trickster in Lee Maracle’s Fiction
Abstract: In the Preface to Sojourner’s Truthand OtherStories, Lee Maracle explains how she attempts, in her writing, to integrate conventions of ...

“Proceeding Before the Amorous Invisible”: Phyllis Webb and the Ghazal
Abstract: PHYLLIS WEBB’S LATEST BOOK, Water and Light, brings together five sequences of “ghazals and anti-ghazals,” including “Sunday Water,” first published ...

“Prochain Episode” et “Menaud, maitre-draveur”: le decalque romanesque
Abstract: L’OEUVRE COMPLEXE et déroutante d’Hubert Aquin a peu d’égales dans notre littérature. Seul Jacques Ferron, sans doute, peut rivaliser avec ...

“Promptings Stronger” than “Strict Prohibitions”: New Forms of Natural Religion in the Novels of Robertson Davies
Abstract: θ εοσεβ ε στατον αυτό εστί, πάντων ζώων άνθρωπος; Plato, Laws x.902. Omnia ilia per quae Deo reverentia exhibetur, pertinent ...