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 ...
Un recueil de récits brefs: “Ces enfants de ma vie” de Gabrielle Roy
Abstract: GIABRiELLE ROYFIGURE au premier rang des écrivains qué- bécois ayant abordé le genre encore mal défini du recueil de récits ...
Unbecoming a dirty savage
: Jane Willis’s Geniesh: An Indian Girlhood
Abstract: Jane Willis’s autobiography, Geniesh: An Indian Girlhood, deals with the author’s experiences growing up in the 1950s as a student ...
Unbinding Isaac and God: Story as Promise in Adele Wiseman’s The Sacrifice
Abstract: In a poem titled “Their Lonely Betters,” W.H. Auden observes that language entails culpability. Unlike birds and flowers, humans have ...
Uncertain Landscapes: Risk, Trauma, and Scientific Knowledge in Madeleine Thien’s Certainty and Dogs at the Perimeter
Abstract: This paper explores Madeleine Thien's engagement with scientific knowledge as a tool for negotiating risk and trauma in her novels Certainty and Dogs at the Perimeter. I argue that, despite her emphasis on the failure of any one scientific discipline to quell the uncertainties experienced by Asian Canadian diasporas, Thien stresses that such unknowns need to be confronted through multiple avenues, as opposed to a single field of inquiry. I thus argue that, more than simply offering a critique of science, Thien’s novels prompt us to consider how diasporic communities might productively engage with the sciences in order to construct the ecologies of knowledge that are necessary for grappling with the complex histories of trauma that continue to shape their experiences. In this sense, these texts make an important contribution to ongoing efforts to rethink the cultural critique of science in order to produce epistemologies that might “deal simultaneously with the sciences, with natures, and with politics, in the plural” (Latour 3).
Under Coyote’s Eye: Indian Tales in Sheila Watson’s “The Double Hook”
Abstract: B’ACK IN 1975 H. R. Ellis Davidson delivered a paper to the Annual General Meeting of the Folklore Society entitled ...