Nature Laughs at Our System: Philip Henry Gosse’s The Canadian Naturalist
Abstract: Seeing Like a FishIn Philip Henry Gosse’s The Canadian Naturalist (1840), a series of conversations about the natural history of ...
Necropolitical Assemblages and Cross-Border Ethics in Hiromi Goto’s Darkest Light
Abstract: Drawing on Deleuzian-inflected theories of assemblage, together with recent interventions in the field of affect studies, this article examines Hiromi Goto’s novel Darkest Light (2012) in terms of what I refer to as a multitude of necropolitical assemblages. Depicted as deviant and monstrous, the human and non-human beings portrayed in the novel are often deprived of political rights and thus forced to live and die in the social, economic, and cultural borderlands of our public world. The dispersion of temporal, spatial, and other material borders in Darkest Light, however, signals how these vulnerable populations, despite being stripped of biopolitical currency, are capable of activating change. In this essay, I argue that Goto’s novel proposes a cross-border ethic as a strategy to counteract those necropolitical assemblages that govern contemporary societies, while simultaneously advocating for alternative logics of embodiment, affect, and ethical intervention.
Ned Pratt: Two Recollections
Abstract: 1. The Personal Legend NI.ED PRATT is the only figure in Canadian literature, so far, who was great enough to ...
Need for Laughter
Abstract: As HE WRITES St. Urbain’s Horseman Mordecai Richler is thinking both comedy and music, and he’s thinking them on what ...
Nega Mezlekia Outside the Hyena’s Belly
Abstract: Notes from the Hyena’s Belly, Nega Mezlekia’s memoir of growing up in Ethiopia, won justified acclaim when it was published ...
Neglected Pine Blasters
Abstract: NEARLY TWENTY YEARS AGO F. R. Scott and A. J. M. Smith published the first edition of The Blasted Pine. ...
Neither Jekyll Nor Hyde: In Defence of Duddy Kravitz
Abstract: 1IN 1969, A CANADIAN CRITIC WROTE about Duddy Kravitz in his apprenticeship years, “His decisions have been made on the ...
Neo-Baroque Configurations in Contemporary Canadian Digital Poetics
Abstract: This paper acknowledges a history of innovative digital poetics in Canada, and a breadth of practitioners over the past century including the Automatistes, Norman McLaren, Herman Voaden, Hugh LeCaine, among others. Applying views of thinkers such as Deleuze, Baudrillard, McLuhan, Kristeva, and Aarseth, this paper offers a neo-Baroque analysis of contemporary artist/writers such as Nicole Brossard, Vera Frenkel, Robert Lepage, Janet Cardiff & George Büres Miller, who are investigating digital technology, electronic audio systems, guerilla-video, and inter-media hybrids.
Neo-Platonism, Integration, Identity: Malcolm Lowry’s “The Forest Path to the Spring”
Abstract: In what has by now become a substantial body of schol- arship dealing with Malcolm Lowry, critics have brought to ...
New Wave in Canadian Poetry
Abstract: 1THINK or KING CANUTE. The son of Sweyn Forkbeard was not the backwater he is thought to be. He is ...