The Paintbrush and the Scalpel: Sara Jeannette Duncan Representing India
Abstract: ?[HE SERIOUSNESS WITH WHICH Sara Jeannette Duncan discusses the problemsIHofEthe administration of India in her later novels (and the seriousness ...
The Paradise Alms House: Siting Literary Thirdspace in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night
Abstract: Most criticism of Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night focuses on the Ramchandin garden, but this analysis reveals that The Paradise Alms House (TPAH) is central both to the narrative and to the ethics of the novel. Although literary thirdspace, based on Homi K. Bhabha’s Third Space, is not fully representable, its relational geography provides a locational frame within which cultural meanings are reworked so that characters may perform self-coherent versions of themselves and be appreciated as themselves by others. Performances of witnessing, kindness, and radical acceptance of self and other create a safe community, whose productivity is symbolized by the successful transplanting of the cereus plant. At TPAH, central characters embrace interlocking subjectivities that respect gender, class, racialization, sex, and sexuality to develop community that eschews homogeneity, encourages hybridity and mutability, and offers mutual support. Cereus demonstrates the insufficiency of individualistic hybridity and the revolutionary potential of hybrid communities.
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The Past Recaptured
Abstract: The texture of youth was still intact in him. No blow or unhappiness is ever accepted as truth, so long ...
The Perquisites of Love
Abstract: ?IHE WORD “love” appears in the titles of two of Ethel ??? Wilson’s books: The Equations of Love and Love ...
The Phenomenon of Leonard Cohen
Abstract: I? ? NAMING LEONARD COHEN a phenomenon, I am motivated by the quantity, quality and variety of his achievement. Still ...
The Pilgrim and the Riddle: Father-Daughter Kinship in Anne Carson’s “The Anthropology of Water”
Abstract: When is a pilgrim like a photograph? When the blend of acidsand sentiment is just right.Anne Carson, “The Anthropology of ...
The Plague of Orientalism: Reading Kevin Chong in the Pandemic
Abstract: Reading Kevin Chong’s 2018 novel The Plague in the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, this article argues that historical conditions, including white supremacy in Canada and liberal democratic anxieties regarding same are rendered in the novel both through representative scenes (a political figure visits patients in a pandemic ward, a protest featuring anti-immigrant and anti-racist participants devolves into a riot) and through such speech acts as trigger warnings and land acknowledgments. An intersection of historicist and psychoanalytic interpretations warn against both simply ascribing textual scenes to a literal writing of the Real, and seeking to cordon off the text from the social.
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The Plot Against Smith
Abstract: ( .. . How came he poet? Who shall say? Yet read his verses as they’re writ — Not with ...
The Poet as Novelist
Abstract: IN 1965 NORTHROP FRYE WROTE: “A striking fact about Can- adian poetry is the number of poets who have turned ...
The Poet as Translator: Margaret Avison’s “Hungarian Snap”
Abstract: S,EVERAL YEARS BEFORE the publication of her first volume of poetry, Winter Sun (i960), Margaret Avison was walking through the ...