Tropical Traumas: Images of the Caribbean in Recent Canadian Fiction
Abstract: ?[RA VEL WRITERS NEVER GIVE U S t h e straight goods about 1 the places they visit, aIcRcAording to ...
Truth and Reconciliation in Postcolonial Hockey Masculinities
Abstract: Sport is one of the key recommendations in the TRC's final report, and it is imperative that scholars of sport literature and culture take this seriously. Hockey, as Canada's national sport, is a critical place to begin.
It is assumed that hockey is unifying, but it is a "contact zone" (Pratt) where "players" present competing narratives about the meaning of hockey, "our game," in a post-TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission) Canada. Here I present a contact zone reading of two books about hockey: Stephen Harper's A Great Game(2013) and Richard Wagamese's Indian horse(2012). The books were published a year apart and each one has national significance: Harper's history was published when he was the sitting Prime Minister, and Wagamese's novel was a strong contender in CBC's "Canada Reads" in 2013. Harper presents a neat progress narrative (from amateur to professional hockey), while Wagamese refuses the conventional narrative of hockey development and progress, and tracks the movement away from professional to community-based hockey. In Indian Horseboth hockey and masculinities undergo a process of truth and reconciliation, and hockey is provided a far more nuanced narrative than Harper's text allows.
Turvey and the Critics
Abstract: ?LHIS SUMMER I did some moonlighting as a nursing aide in the complicated midwi1femrys occasioned by the rebirth of Private ...
Twenty-five Years of Solitude
Abstract: ?IHIS ESSAY WILL STUDY Robert Kroetsch’s novel What the Crow Said as an example of a new novelistic form that ...
Twin Misunderstandings: The Structure of Patricia Blondal’s A Candle To Light the Sun
Abstract: “If I read till my eyeballs ache I shall eventually get a hint. It’s like a mystery story, but the ...
Twin Solitudes
Abstract: QFNE OF THE FUNCTIONS and responsibilities of literature,” says the American critic Marius Bewley, “is to define nationality in the ...
Two Authors in Search of a Character
Abstract: I. ? W AS SUREL Y COINCIDENCE ENOUGH that two of Canada’s finest young poets should both, in one year, ...
Two Letters
Abstract: TO ALBERT ERSKINE DOLLARTON (1946) Dear Mr. Erskine: Well, every man his own Laocoon! Concerning a letter forwarded me yesterday ...
U.S./Canadian Writers’ Perspectives On The Multiculturalism Debate: A Round-Table Discussion at Harvard University
Abstract: Panel Contributions by Clark Blaise, Nicole Brossard, George Elliott Clarke, Paul Yee; Response by Geeta PatelGraham HugganIn 1993, a special ...
Un demi-siècle de réception critique de la littérature québécoise au Canada anglais: 1939-1989
Abstract: Cet article propose un bilan de nos recherches sur le sujet et en énonce les résultats partiels, compte tenu du ...