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New Book Reviews

November 20, 2014

Indigenous Feminisms (p. 138-39)
by June Scudeler

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Tombs of the Vanishing Indian by Marie Clements
  • Finding a Way to the Heart: Feminist Writings on Aboriginal and Women’s History in Canada by Valerie J. Korinek and Robin Jarvis Brownlie
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Feminism, Native Studies

November 20, 2014

Words, Places, Silences (p. 136-37)
by Lorraine York

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Finding the Words: Writers on Inspiration, Desire, War, Celebrity, Exile, and Breaking the Rules by Jared Bland
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Literary Theory

November 20, 2014

Visualizations (p. 135-36)
by Mike Borkent

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sweet Assorted: 121 Takes from a Tin Box by Jim Christy
  • hungree throat by bill bissett
  • Hamilton Illustrated by David Collier
Subjects: Bibliography, Life Writing, Literary Theory

November 20, 2014

Indigena Awry (p. 134-35)
by Lorraine Weir

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Indigena Awry by Annharte [Marie Baker]
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Colonialism, Native Studies

November 20, 2014

Le nœud de la guerre (p. 145-46)
by Anne-Marie David

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Printemps spécial by Toma Iczkovits
Subjects: francophone

November 20, 2014

Undisciplining CanLit (p. 131-34)
by Brendan McCormack

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Study by Robert Zacharias and Smaro Kamboureli
  • Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace by Kit Dobson and Smaro Kamboureli
Subjects: Canadian Studies, Literary Criticism

November 19, 2014

Wayward Saint (p. 187)
by Mark Harris

Book(s) Reviewed

  • I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen by Sylvie Simmons
Subjects: Bibliography, Journalism, Life Writing

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