Violets in a Crucible: The Translating, Editing, and Reviewing of Canadian Books
Abstract: NOT EVERYONE AGREES that it is possible, or desirable, to translate literary texts. Shelley, for instance, in his inspired defence ...
Vision of Clarity: The Poetry of Wilfred Watson
Abstract: WALFRED WATSON is a person of highly developed sensibilities. One cannot listen to him talk for any length of time ...
Visions of Canadian Modernism: The Urban Fiction of F. R. Livesay and J. G. Sime
Abstract: Canada in the 1920s has been traditionally regarded as the desert outpost of modernism. At best, its writers were able ...
Voices of the Grandmothers: Reclaiming a Metis Heritage
Abstract: IHAVE SPENT THE PAST fifteen years making documentary filmswith, for and about native people. During that time I have listened ...
Voix et lumieres dans “Sauvage-Sauvageon” de M.-A. Primeau
Abstract: ?? TITRE — Sauvage-Sauvageon1 — saisit toute la pola- rité sur laquelle le roman est axé : l’envers et l’endroit ...
Voyageur Discourse and the Absence of Fur Trade Pidgin
Abstract: LfiKE OTHER CULTURAL renegades, the coureur de bois or voyageur is an often neglected figure, in part because he falls ...
Waiting for Asian Canada: Fred Wah’s Transnational Aesthetics
Abstract: Fred Wah's 1985 Waiting for Saskatchewan offers a snapshot of the emergence of an Asian Canadian aesthetic, providing a genealogy that positions Asian Canadian writing at the nexus of transnational flows from China, Japan, and the United States, while also emphasizing the cross-ethnic coalitions that give rise to the category of the Asian Canadian in the 1970s and 1980s. Waiting for Saskatchewan offers a complex constellation of Chinese content, Japanese forms, and U.S. aesthetic mediation that nonetheless takes as its “centre” a small Canadian prairie town. The forms of Waiting, from Olsonian projective poetics to the Japanese haibun, reveal Asian Canada as a process of transnational convergence, a dialogic space that is always being rewritten across national borders.
Waiting for the Messiah
Abstract: IIF I HAD ?? ATTRIBUTE to any one event in my life the fur- ther unfolding of that life, I ...
West of the Great Divide: A View of the Literature of British Columbia
Abstract: IASHIONS IN LITERARY CRITICISM change rapidly. The “sur- vival” thesis that has dominated the thematic criticism of Canadian literature in ...
West of the Great Divide: Man & Nature in the Literature of British Columbia
Abstract: I N THAT LITTLE CLASSIC of coastal literature, M. Wylie Blan- chet’s The Curve of Time, there is an episode ...