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De Gabrielle Roy à La Mémoire de l’eau de Ying Chen : histoire d’une rencontre litte?raire
Abstract: Si les parents se survivent dans leurs enfants, comme on le dit souvent—c’est le bonheur et le drame des uns ...
De-Automatization in Timothy Findley’s “The Wars”

Abstract: ?LIMOTHY FINDLEY’S The Wars is a very powerful and dis- turbing book.Despitethenovel’shistoricallydistantsetting,theeventsof The Wars do not seem distant at all ...

Deaf Canada: Disability Discourses and National Constructs in Frances Itani’s Deafening

Abstract: Although the historical realism of Frances Itani’s Deafening offers accurate representations of Deaf people and communities excluded from the nation on the basis of stigmatized bodily difference, the novel simultaneously engages in subtle historical revisionism by mobilizing disability discourses to suggest deafness as able-bodied is foundational to Canada’s national identity in the early twentieth century. Specifically, Itani’s novel uses its central deaf character, Grania, as a national allegory to reimagine the nation as highly able—whether through a critique of silence as deficit, a challenge to the separation of the senses, or the rehabilitation of the wounded World War One soldier—that changes the contours of the nation in ways which unsettle strict historical realism. The novel, therefore, offers a revised model of the Canadian nation, premised on the Deaf, that is inclusive, not exclusive, of difference.

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Death in Life: Neo-Platonic Elements in “Through the Panama”

Abstract: ?L H E E X P L O R A T I O N o f M a l c ...

Debunking a Postmodern Conception of History: A Defence of Humanist Values in the Novels of Joy Kogawa

Abstract: Errata:
The "notes" accompanying this essay are incorrectly numbered in the print edition of CanLit #148. In order that they match the superscripts in the text, Note #1 should appear as an unnumbered prefatory note; subsequent numbers should be re-numbered accordingly (#2 becomes #1; #3 becomes #2, etc.)

Decolonizasian: Reading Asian and First Nations Relations in Literature

Abstract: speak cree you’re in canada now speak siouan speak salishan – Rajinderpal S. Pal, “Collective Amnesia” (22) At the minimal ...

Deep in the Old Man’s Puzzle

Abstract: I am deep in the old man’s puzzle, trying to link the wisdom of the body with the wisdom of ...

Demeter’s Daughter: Marjorie Pickthall & the Quest for Poetic Identity

Abstract: M.LARJORIE PICKTHALL sold her first manuscript to the Toronto Globe in 1899, when she was 15 years old.* Her career ...

Démystification ou fumisterie? a? propos d’e?critures de Paul-Marie Lapointe

Abstract: IALAUULL-MARIE LAPOINTE, dans son célèbre poème “Arbres,”1 transcrit, par endroits, des listes de noms d’arbres qu’il a trouvées dans deux ...

Design and Purpose

Abstract: S,iNCE FEW READERS have seriously considered Susanna Moodie’s Roughing it in the Bush as a work of art, I have ...

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