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New Book Reviews

December 23, 2014

DOLAM (p. 162-63)
by Vincent Bouchard

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dictionnaire des œuvres littéraires de l’Acadie des Maritimes du XXe siècle by Maurice Raymond and Janine Gallant
Subjects: Authorship, Autobiography, Canadian Studies, Journals, Latin-American, Literary Theory, Oral, Poetry, Postmodernism, Quebec, Regionalism, Short Fiction, Theatre History, United States, francophone

December 23, 2014

Secret Lives of Letters (p. 160-62)
by Melissa Dalgleish

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Qwerty Institute: Annual Report by Angela Szczepaniak
  • Conflict by Christine McNair
  • repeater by Andrew McEwan
  • IKMQ by Roger Farr
Subjects: Poetry, Postmodernism, Twenty-First Century

December 23, 2014

Indigenous Identities (p. 159-60)
by Nancy Van Styvendale

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Identity in Place: Contemporary Indigenous Fiction by Women Writers in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand by Paula Anca Farca
Subjects: Nationalism, Native Studies

December 23, 2014

Le Canada francophone à la portée des étudiants (p. 158-59)
by Françoise Le Jeune

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Introduction aux études canadiennes : histoires, identités, cultures by Colin M. Coates and Geoffrey Ewen
Subjects: Canadian Studies, francophone

December 23, 2014

Crossing Race and Nation (p. 156-57)
by Mary Chapman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Marion: The Story of an Artist's Model by Winnifred Eaton and Karen H. Skinazi
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Transnationalism

December 23, 2014

Reflets fictionnels, questions interculturelles (p. 156)
by Nicholas Beauclair

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Silence obscène des miroirs by Daniel Castillo Durante
Subjects: Latin-American, Novel, Quebec, francophone

December 23, 2014

Shifting Cadences (p. 154-55)
by Ranbir K. Banwait

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Everything Was Good-bye by Gurjinder Basran
  • language is not the only thing that breaks by Proma Tagore
  • White Album by Rishma Dunlop and Suzanne Northcott
  • Lover Through Departure: New and Selected Poems by Rishma Dunlop
Subjects: Asian Canadian, Canadian Studies, Diaspora, Feminism, Gender, Globalization, Indian/South Asian, Multiculturalism, Postcolonialism, Women's Literature

December 23, 2014

Lives of Boys and Men (p. 152-54)
by Shawn Syms

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Whirl Away by Russell Wangersky
  • My Life Among the Apes by Cary Fagan
  • Siege 13 by Tamas Dobozy
Subjects: Canadian Studies

December 23, 2014

Eastern Promises (p. 150-52)
by Lee Frew

Book(s) Reviewed

  • New Under the Sun by Kevin Major
  • The Rest Is Silence by Scott Fotheringham
  • Kin by Lesley Crewe
Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Ecocriticism, Ethnic History, First Nations, Gender, Globalization, Historiography, Landscape/Space, Memory & Identity, Nationalism, Native Studies, Nature Writing, Novel, Postcolonialism, Regionalism, Science, Science Fiction, Settler Writing, Speculative Fiction, Trauma, Women's Literature, World War II

December 23, 2014

Occupying Change (p. 148-49)
by Julie L. MacArthur

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dispatches from the Occupation: A History of Change by Stephen Collis
Subjects: British Columbia, Globalization, Politics

December 23, 2014

Indigenous Storytelling (p. 147-48)
by Nancy Van Styvendale

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Sasquatch at Home: Traditional Protocols and Modern Storytelling by Eden Robinson
  • Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine by Kim Anderson
  • Kappianaqtut: Strange Creatures and Fantastic Beings From Inuit Myths and Legends, Volume 1: Giants and the Mother of the Sea Mammals, Second Edition by Neil Christopher
Subjects: Mythology, Native Studies

December 23, 2014

Remapping Chineseness (p. 145-47)
by Guy Beauregard

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Miah by Julia Lin
  • Eating Chinese: Culture on the Menu in Small Town Canada by Lily Cho
  • Chinese Blue by Weyman Chan
Subjects: Asian Canadian, Canadian Studies

December 23, 2014

Swimming with Feminists (p. 144-45)
by Marni Stanley and Kathryn Barnwell

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Not Drowning But Waving: Women, Feminism, and the Liberal Arts by Jeanne Perreault, Heather Zwicker, Jo-Ann Wallace and Susan Brown
Subjects: Feminism, Gender, Women's Studies

December 23, 2014

Performance & Precarity (p. 142-43)
by Gillian Dunks

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Everybody Has Everything by Katrina Onstad
  • Mai at the Predators' Ball by Marie-Claire Blais
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Feminism, Gender, Home & Family, Novel, Sexuality, Twenty-First Century, Women's Studies

December 22, 2014

The Art of Losing (p. 140-42)
by Lorraine York

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Malarky by Anakana Schofield
  • Life Is About Losing Everything by Lynn Crosbie
  • Mad Hope by Heather Birrell
Subjects: Life Writing, Novel, Short Fiction