What Would Sam Waters Do? Guy Vanderhaeghe and Søren Kierkegaard
Abstract: He takes a step towards me [Ed]. I find myself thinking very hard. The inevitable question arises. What would Sam ...
What’s the Matter? Authors in Carol Shields’ Short Fiction
Abstract: In all her fiction ? long and short ? Carol Shields returns repeatedly to the figure of the writer, usually ...
Wheels on Fire: The Train of Thought in George Ryga’s The Ecstasy of Rita Joe
Abstract: FROM CASEY JONES ?? SIGMUND FREUD the train is an ambigu- ous and powerful icon. It has been used to ...
Where Are You, Mother? Alice Munro’s Save the Reaper
Abstract: In an interview with Geoff Hancock nearly twenty years ago, Alice Munro recognized her lifelong “obsession” with the relationship of ...
Where Is Home? Storied Places and Belonging in Indigenous and Immigrant Fantasy Novels for Children
Abstract: This article examines how “home” is constructed for the young protagonists in two Canadian fantasy novels for children, Cree author David Robertson's The Barren Grounds (2020) and Vietnamese Canadian author Linh S. Nguyễn's No Place Like Home (2023). The article showcases how the genre of other-world fantasy provides a fitting framework for addressing both the complexities of belonging and the challenges surrounding settler colonialism. The literary analysis reads the two books in relation to each other, revealing how they conceptualize home as emerging from stories and relationships and thereby transcending the confines of the settler-colonial nation-state. Finally, the article underscores how these novels teach their readers about respectful relationships between Indigenous peoples and immigrants, along with the responsibilities entailed for the latter.
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Whiteoak Chronicles: A Reassessment
Abstract: DOROTHY LivESAY recently suggested that “the time has come when we must cease being literary snobs in Canada and look ...
Who Is He? The Missing Persons Behind the Pronoun in Atwood’s Surfacing
Abstract: One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted— One need not be a House— The Brain has Corridors—surpassing Material Place—….Emily ...
Who’s the Father of Mrs. Bentley’s Child?: “As For Me and My House: and the Conventions of Dramatic Monologue
Abstract: ?IRITICISM OF As For Me and My House has come a long way since Roy Daniells was “taken in” by ...
Wholly Drunk or Wholly Sober?
Abstract: IN ALDEN NOWLAN’S early poetry (before 1969) the self is essentially a single, homogeneous entity. Although it is never “wholly ...
Why and How and Why Not and What Is This, About Starting Another Novel . . .
Abstract: W.AT BEGAN AS AN IDEA many years ago, and must be written because it has not been forgotten, has begun ...