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New Book Reviews

November 19, 2014

CanLit in the Americas (p. 184-87)
by Debra Dudek

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canada and Its Americas: Transnational Navigations by Winfried Siemerling and Sarah Phillips Casteel
  • The New North American Studies: Culture, Writing and the Politics of Re/Cognition by Winfried Siemerling
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism, Nationalism, Transnationalism

November 19, 2014

Enabling Emotion (p. 182-84)
by Veronique Dorais Ram

Book(s) Reviewed

  • (In)Visible Images: Seeing Disability in Canadian Literature, 1823-1974 by Maria Truchan-Tataryn
  • The Passionate Muse: Exploring Emotion in Stories by Keith Oatley
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Short Fiction

November 19, 2014

Remembering CanStudies (p. 177-81)
by Martin Kuester

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canadian Studies: Past, Present, Praxis by Christl Verduyn and Jane Koustas
  • Settling and Unsettling Memories: Essays in Canadian Public History by Nicole Neatby and Peter Hodgins
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Cultural Studies, History

November 19, 2014

Land, Identity, Community (p. 174-77)
by Jasmine Johnston

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Oral History on Trial: Recognizing Aboriginal Narratives in the Courts by Bruce Granville Miller
  • The Strength of Women: Âhkamêyimowak by Priscilla Settee
  • Beyond Blood: Rethinking Indigenous Indigeneity by Pamela D. Palmater
Subjects: Autobiography, Bibliography, British Columbia, Canadian Studies, Comparative, Cultural Studies, Ethnic History, Feminism, First Nations, Gender, Globalization, History, Home & Family, Language/Linguistics, Life Writing, Multiculturalism, Native Studies, Northern Canada, Oral, Politics, Postcolonialism, Social Sciences, Women's Studies

November 19, 2014

The Toxicity of Violence (p. 172)
by Joel Martineau

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Why Men Lie by Linden MacIntyre
Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Irish-Canadian, Novel, Scottish-Canadian, Urban Novel

November 19, 2014

Le français en question (p. 171)
by Chantal Phan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L’Introuvable unité du français: Contacts et variations linguistiques en Europe et en Amérique (XIIe-XVIIIe siècle) by Yves Charles Morin, Paul Cohen, Serge Lusignan and France Martineau
Subjects: History, Language/Linguistics, francophone

November 19, 2014

Un traditionaliste en avance (p. 170)
by Réjean Beaudoin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Un moderne à rebours: Biographie intellectuelle et artistique de Pierre Vadeboncœur by Jonathan Livernois
Subjects: Biography, francophone

November 19, 2014

Peindre l’instant, écrire le réel (p. 169)
by Molleen Shilliday

Book(s) Reviewed

  • De Kooning malgré lui by Michaël La Chance
Subjects: Art, Novel, Trauma, World War II

November 19, 2014

Panicked Laments (p. 167)
by David Leahy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mahler's Lament by Deborah Kirshner
  • The Panic Button by Koom Kankesan
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Short Fiction

November 19, 2014

Modern Realism Rethought (p. 166)
by Marc André Fortin

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction by Colin Hill
Subjects: Children's Literature, Literary Criticism, Modernism, Prairie Writing, Twentieth Century, Urban Novel, Working Class

November 19, 2014

Work, Women, and War (p. 161-62)
by Jan Lermitte

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland During the First World War by Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Cultural Studies, History, Home & Family, Women's Studies, World War I

November 19, 2014

Olson Happens (p. 154)
by Clint Burnham

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Muthologos: Lectures and Interviews by Charles Olson and Ralph Maud
  • When TISH Happens: The Unlikely Story of Canada's "Most Influential Literary Magazine" by Frank Davey
Subjects: British Columbia, Canadian Studies, Poetry, Postmodernism

November 12, 2014

Carnet de voyage (p. 153-154)
by Anne Kaufman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Huit sorties by Gilles Cyr
Subjects: Exploration, Poetry

July 21, 2014

Crime Pays (p. 164-66)
by Joel Martineau

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Wild Beasts of Wuhan by Ian Hamilton
  • The Disciple of Las Vegas by Ian Hamilton
  • The Red Pole of Macau by Ian Hamilton
  • The Water Rat of Wanchai by Ian Hamilton
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Crime & Detective, Globalization, Novel

July 21, 2014

Object-relations (p. 162-64)
by Erin Wunker

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Match by Helen Guri
  • Bent at the Spine by Nicole Markotić
Subjects: Poetry