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New Book Reviews

December 25, 2014

How Free is Free? (p. 129-30)
by Nanette Norris

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Silver by Pablo Urbanyi
  • The Free World by David Bezmozgis
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, Jewish-Canadian, Literary Criticism, Novel, Twentieth Century

December 25, 2014

De l’Espagne au Québec (p. 128-29)
by Kim Beauchesne

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Espagnes imaginaires du Québec by Carmen Matta Barreiro
Subjects: Culture, Quebec, francophone

December 25, 2014

Canyons of Darkness (p. 127-28)
by Emily Wall

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Rapids by Susan Gillis
  • Subversive Sonnets by Pamela Mordecai
  • The Politics of Knives by Jonathan Ball
Subjects: Poetry, Twenty-First Century

December 25, 2014

Performing Canidentities (p. 125-27)
by Pilar Cuder-Domínguez

Book(s) Reviewed

  • West-Words: Celebrating Western Canadian Theatre and Playwriting by Moira Day
  • Asian Canadian Theatre: New Essays on Canadian Theatre, Volume One by Ric Knowles and Nina Lee Aquino
Subjects: Asian Canadian, Drama, Theatre History

December 24, 2014

Comic Timing (p. 189-92)
by Beverley Haun

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Comics Versus Art by Bart Beaty
  • Modern Animalism: Habitats of Scarcity and Wealth in Comics and Literature by Glenn Willmott
Subjects: Art, Culture, Graphic Novel

December 24, 2014

Le Corps du Christ (p. 189)
by Julia Hains

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Christ obèse by Larry Tremblay
Subjects: Novel, Quebec, Twenty-First Century

December 24, 2014

Histories of Girlhood (p. 186-88)
by Hannah McGregor

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Goodtime Girl by Tess Fragoulis
  • The Western Light by Susan Swan
Subjects: Diaspora, Feminism, Gender, Historical Fiction, Memory & Identity, Northern Canada, Novel, Sports Writing, Trauma, Twentieth Century, War, Women's Literature

December 24, 2014

Le Canada anglais (p. 183-85)
by Gillian Lane-Mercier

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le Canada anglais de Jacques Ferron (1960-1970). Formes, fonctions et représentations by Susan Margaret Murphy
Subjects: Biography, Canadian Studies, Cultural Studies

December 24, 2014

Archives Matter (p. 181-83)
by Christina Ivanovici

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace: Exploring Canadian Women’s Archives by Linda Morra and Jessica Schagerl
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Essays, Feminism, Women's Literature

December 24, 2014

Grandbois méconnu (p. 180-81)
by Michel Biron

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Alain Grandbois est-il un écrivain québécois? Quelques réflexions sur notre littérature à partir des Voyages de Marco Polo by Patrick Moreau
Subjects: Culture, francophone

December 24, 2014

Voyage au Kanyada (p. 179-80)
by Vincent Desroches

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Tribu de Sangwa by Melchior Mbonimpa
Subjects: Immigrant, francophone

December 24, 2014

Reading for the Birds (p. 178-79)
by Tina Northrup

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ornithologies of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay by Travis V. Mason
Subjects: Environment, Essays, Poetry

December 24, 2014

Copyright and Canadian Publishing (p. 177-78)
by Sara Bannerman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dominion and Agency: Copyright and the Structuring of the Canadian Book Trade by Eli MacLaren
Subjects: Authorship, Canadian Studies, Culture, History, Media & Communications, Media & Communications, Nationalism, Publishing

December 24, 2014

Post-Abyssal Thinking (p. 175-77)
by Élise Couture-Grondin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ghost Dancing with Colonialism: Decolonization and Indigenous Rights at the Supreme Court of Canada by Grace Li Xiu Woo
  • Storied Communities: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community by Jeremy Webber, Rebecca Johnson and Hester Lessard
Subjects: Canadian Studies, First Nations, Postcolonialism

December 24, 2014

Évocations de l’absence (p. 175)
by Philippe Archambault

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Légende des anonymes et autres promenades by Jérémie Leduc-Leblanc
Subjects: francophone