Woman/Body/Landscape: Imaginary Geographies in the Writing of Karen Connelly
Abstract: Karen Connelly’s poetry and non-fiction belong not only to the genre of travel writing but also to a continuing project ...
Women in Canadian Literature
Abstract: Most women don’t even live lives of quiet desperation. (Quiet desperation is far too dramatic.) Most women live lives like ...
Canadians – Conscious or Self-Conscious? Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 62 (Autumn 1974): 69-78.
Wondering into Country: Dionne Brand’s A Map of the Door of No Return
Abstract: Drawing on theories of affect and reterritorialization, this article examines Dionne Brand'??s interrogation of national belonging in A Map to the Door of No Return. Brand's reflections, in Map, on her experiences as a black woman and diasporic subject repeatedly exceed the boundaries of Canada as she explores the possibilities of diasporic community, political community, and artistic community. Nevertheless, as she muses on the possibility of a "country" where she might belong, Brand remains keenly attentive to the country she calls "home," repeatedly engaging in creative, provisional reterritorializations of spaces within the Canadian nation.
Word and Fact: Laurence and the Problem of Language
Abstract: “THEN, MERCIFULLY, THE WORD WAS REVEALED TO HER. After the momentary 1lHosEs] of her normally astonishing ability to speak — ...
Words & The World: “The Diviners” as an Exploration of the Book of Life
Abstract: ?fRiTics HAVE ADEQUATELY ANALYSED Margaret Lau- rence’s last volume in the Manawaka cycle as an experiment in “voice and pic- ...
Working-Class Intruders: Female Domestics in Kamouraska and Alias Grace
Abstract: In the end, she said, we had the better of them, because we washed their dirty linen and therefore we ...
Write Me a Film?: A Symposium by Canadian Filmmakers
Abstract: INTRODUCTION Hugo McPherson WHAT ARE THE CONNECTIONS between writing and cinema in Canada? There is no authoritative answer to this ...
Writer’s Writer Revisits Authorship: Iteration in Anne Carson’s Decreation
Abstract: This essay explores how Anne Carson’s Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera (2005) engages with the notion of authorship by reappropriating critical voices and rewriting central ideas. It accordingly takes Carson’s alleged name-dropping as a starting point to argue that Decreation is a project of re-engagement that is underpinned by synthetic disjunctions of competing viewpoints. To this end, Carson relies on the principle of intratextuality, which instils a blurring of the speaker’s identity in the reader, while her use of echoes ingrains the notion of decreation in the reader's mind. Since both aesthetic strategies hinge on the principles of creative reproduction and recognition, they are capable of evoking a sense of iteration. In this way, Carson’s collection instigates a critical re-evaluation of the notion of agency in literary production while still providing the reader with an—albeit paradoxical—centre of conceptual gravity, which is therefore better conceptualized as a network of relations.
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Writers and the Mass Media
Abstract: ?IHE PURPOSE of this paper is not to discuss the many points at which the writer comes into contact with ...
Writers Without Borders: The Global Framework of Canada’s Early Literary History
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