Africville, an Imagined Community
Abstract: Theorists of nationalism are divided on the question of nationalism’s relationship to racism,1 but that race can and often does ...
After Redress: A Conversation with Roy Miki
Abstract: After Redress: A Conversation with Roy Miki Guy Beauregard Through his work as a critic, poet, editor, teacher, community organizer, ...
Afterword
Abstract: Does there exist an object to be studied called Asian Canadian writing? Is there, as Gertrude Stein famously remarked about ...
Agency, Belonging, Citizenship: The ABCs of Nation-Building in Contemporary Canadian Texts for Adolescents
Abstract: A few years ago, on the first day of a 200-level undergraduate course at the University of Winnipeg on “Canadian ...
Aiken and Lowry
Abstract: IN AN ARTICLE in Canadian Literature 44 I suggested that Malcolm Lowry’s story “Through the Panama” made use not only ...
Al Moritz’s Anti-Extractivist Style: Non-Instrumental Instrumentalism and the Poetics of Materiality
Abstract: In their geneaology of extractivism in “What do we talk about when we talk about extractivism?”, Szeman and Wenzel generate several provocations. One of these urges a strict usage of the term “extractivism” in order to prevent it from becoming an empty signifier for general use by scholars; another brings forward the perennial (but valid) lament concerning just what it is humanities scholarship can do in ‘the real world’. This article will take up those challenges to the field as they pertain to the Canadian-American poet Al Moritz's Mahoning. After defining terms and sketching the scholarship previously conducted in poetics conduced in the energy humanities, I return some challenges back to Szeman and Wenzel from the realm of poetics. Moritz's work is offered as a rich field of inquiry in theme, style, and tradition, suggesting how his poetic could be ‘non-instrumentalized’ to make ‘real change’ in the ‘real world.’
Alan Crawley and Contemporary Verse
Abstract: The symposium that follows was prepared by George Robertson as a radio documentary and broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ...
Alberta’s Forgotten Censor: The Advisory Board on Objectionable Publications (1954-1976) and the Continued Campaign Against Comics Post-1954
Abstract: The postwar public health crisis afflicting children was not just polio. Across North America concerned citizens met to discuss the public health ‘emergency’ of comic books. Restrictions under the ‘Fulton Bill’ (1949), followed by Senate hearings in Canada (1952) and the United States (1954) argued that comics contributed to illiteracy and delinquency. Previous scholarship has focused on the US Senate hearings overlooking what happened after 1954–specifically the continued work of citizen committees. In Alberta this took the form of the Advisory Board on Objectionable Publications (1954-1976) which functioned (1) to control the sale of objectionable comics, tabloids and magazines in the Province and (2) to foster a public awareness of the danger inherent in permitting young people to read unwholesome material. Based on previously unpublished sources from the Provincial Archives of Alberta, this paper illuminates an under reported chapter in Canadian history and the history of comics censorship.
Alchemy in Ontario: Reaney’s Twelve Letters to a Small Town
Abstract: . . . I merely react—not necessarily in a positive, optimistic way, but with images and metaphors; and to hell ...
Alden Nowlan: Interview by John Metcalf
Abstract: Metcalf: What are your working methods? How much rewriting do you do? NOWLAN: Well, almost everything that I write goes ...