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“A little acid is absolutely necessary”: Narrative as Coquette in Frances Brooke’s The History of Emily Montague
Abstract: As “COQUETTE OF THE FIRST ORDER,” Anne Wilmot in Frances Brooke’s The History of Julia Mandeville (1762) prefigures the central ...
“A Mystery at the Core of Life”: Margaret Laurence & Women’s Spirituality

Abstract: M. LOST CRITICS OF MARGARET LAURENCE who have focussed on the spiritual quest in her fiction have stressed the Biblical ...

“A Parcel of Whelps”: Alexander Mackenzie among the Indians

Abstract: A,ALEXANDER MACKENZIE’S FAMOUS VOYAGES of e x p l o r a – tion in 1789 and 1793, in search ...

“A Strange Aesthetic Ferment”

Abstract: WHEN ONE LOOKS DOWN over Fredericton from the hills where Charles Roberts and Bliss Carman once took their long hikes ...

“A VR Empathy Machine”: Testimony, Recognition, and Affect on Canada Reads 2019

Abstract: In this [book] you are right in there, like you are in a VR empathy machine, and you are able ...

“All Voices Belong to Me”: An Interview with Neil Bissoondath

Abstract: Neil Bissoondath, born in Trinidad in 1955, emigrated to Canada when he was eighteen. Since his arrival, he has built ...

“Am I not OK?”: Negotiating and Re-Defining Traumatic Experience in Emma Donoghue’s Room

Abstract: This article analyses the ways in which Emma Donoghue’s novel Room interrogates how experiences of violence are represented and understood. With a focus on Donoghue’s choice to narrate the novel from the perspective of a young child, I suggest that Room not only questions how trauma is externally imposed onto individuals’ stories, but also queries whether or not the clinical language of trauma is in fact a useful one for describing the nuances and paradoxes of experiencing violence.

“And Strange Speech is in Your Mouth”: Language and Alienation in Laurence’s This Side Jordan

Abstract: In a brief retrospect of her writing career published in 1969, Margaret Laurence declares that her African works were produced ...

“And then—”: Narrative Identity and Uncanny Aging in The Stone Angel

Abstract: The notion that human subjects are constituted by narrative has become something of a theoretical truism.  As Kathleen Woodward puts ...

“Being a Half-Breed”: Discourses of Race and Cultural Syncreticity in the Works of Three Metis Women Writers

Abstract: In his introduction to All My Relations, Thomas King asserts that “being Native is a matter of race rather than ...

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