New Book Reviews: Page 80

December 27, 2014

Girlhoods of Difference (p. 154-55)

by Margaret Steffler

Book(s) Reviewed

House of Spells by Robert Pepper-Smith
The Last River Child by Lori Ann Bloomfield
And Me Among Them by Kristen den Hartog

Subjects: Novel

December 27, 2014

Dialectical (p. 152-54)

by Jeffrey Donaldson

Book(s) Reviewed

Necessity of Opposites: The Dialectical Thinking of Northrop Frye by Brian Russell Graham
Remembering Northrop Frye: Recollections by His Students and Others in the 1940s and 1950s by Robert D. Denham

Subjects: Language/Linguistics, Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Philosophy, Twentieth Century

December 27, 2014

Les Balles du passé (p. 151-52)

by Marion Kühn

Book(s) Reviewed

Griffintown by Marie Hélène Poitras
Les Cascadeurs de l’amour n’ont pas droit au doublage by Martine Delvaux

Subjects: Culture, Urban Novel, francophone

December 27, 2014

Sur la terre comme au ciel, l’Acadie? (p. 150-51)

by Thierry Sauzeau

Book(s) Reviewed

L’Acadie des origines by Hélène Destrempes, James de Finney and Jean Morency

Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Cultural Studies, Eighteenth Century, History, Language/Linguistics, Nationalism, Nineteenth Century

December 27, 2014

Preliminary Nichols (p. 148-50)

by Kit Dobson

Book(s) Reviewed

aka bpNichol: a preliminary biography by Frank Davey

Subjects: Biography, Life Writing, Literary Theory

December 26, 2014

Shave the Milk Mustache (p. 146-48)

by Crystal Hurdle

Book(s) Reviewed

A Matter of Life and Death or Something by Ben Stephenson
A Tinfoil Sky by Cyndi Sand-Eveland
One in Every Crowd: Stories by Ivan E. Coyote

Subjects: Autobiography, British Columbia, Childhood, Children's Literature, Gay/Lesbian, Gender, Landscape/Space, Novel, Working Class

December 26, 2014

Vancouver nostalgique (p. 143-46)

by Nicholas Kenny

Book(s) Reviewed

Vancouver Noir: 1930-1960 by John Belshaw and Diane Purvey
The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver by Chuck Davis
At the World’s Edge: Curt Lang’s Vancouver, 1937-1998 by Claudia Cornwall

Subjects: Biography, British Columbia, History, Twentieth Century

December 26, 2014

Words About Things (p. 142-43)

by Alison Calder

Book(s) Reviewed

The Book of Frog: un amuse-espirit by Jan Zwicky
The Book of Marvels: A Compendium of Everyday Things by Lorna Crozier
Red by George Elliott Clarke

Subjects: Canadian Studies, Literary Criticism, Poetry

December 26, 2014

Critical Dis/Orientations (p. 140-42)

by Alessandra Capperdoni

Book(s) Reviewed

Directions Home: Approaches to African-Canadian Literature by George Elliott Clarke

Subjects: Canadian Studies, Cultural Studies, Culture

December 26, 2014

The Remains of Identity (p. 137-40)

by Guy Beauregard

Book(s) Reviewed

Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture by Rey Chow
The Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature by Christopher Lee

Subjects: Asian American, Asian Canadian, Comparative, Cultural Studies, Diaspora, Ethnic History, Globalization, Literary Criticism, Nationalism, Philosophy, Photography, Postcolonialism, Twentieth Century, Twenty-First Century, United States

December 26, 2014

Culture Unsettled (p. 135-37)

by Heather Macfarlane

Book(s) Reviewed

Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond: Interfaces of the Oral, Written, and Visual by Wendy Roy and Susan Gingell
Home and Native Land: Unsettling Multiculturalism in Canada by Sonali Thakkar, Anna Stanley, Lisa Helps and May Chazan