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 ...
Western Myth: the world of Ralph Connor
Abstract: “RALPH CONNOR” is a name which is virtually lost in the mists of time. Apart from librarians and specialists in ...
Western Panorama: Settings and Themes in Robert J. G. Stead
Abstract: ?LHOUGH THE NOVELS of Robert J. G. Stead have received some notice from the historians of Canadian literature, especially in ...
What Happened to Pauline?
Abstract: A EVERYONE INTERESTED in Canadian literary history knows, the Pauline Johnson centennial was celebrated last year; indeed, the more obvious ...
What Kroetsch Said: The Problem of Meaning and Language in “What the Crow Said”
Abstract: wITÈRE IT NOT FOR ROBERT KROETSCH’S generous attitude towardthecritic’srole,itwouldseemanactofhubristoattempttointerpret What ? TERE the Crow Said, the novel that he wrote ...
What Stories Do
Abstract: The title of Episkenew’s Taking Back Our Spirits, as a verb-based phrase, emphasizes the working assumption that this book makes ...