Articles

Abstract: Questions by GEORGE WOODCOCK Answers by SHIRLEY GIBSON (Anansi) MICHAEL MACKLEM (Oberon) DENNIS LEE (formerly Anansi) DAVID ROBINSON (Talonbooks) JAMES ...

Abstract: Gabrielle Roy featured the newspaper prominently in both her Montreal novels, Bonheur d’occasion (1945) and Alexandre Chenevert (1954), and continued ...

Abstract: I prefer, as far as my own work is con- cerned, a language which is clear, straight- forward, and with ...

Abstract: This paper seeks to unsettle and contest the role of the small town archive in the production of local knowledges, specifically the ways in which these archives conflict with the narratives told by Indigenous elders in surrounding reserve communities. I intend to use the methodologies I have acquired in Indigenous studies to re-read my grandmother’s account of her displacement from the ‘Swan River Settlement’ and from the township that would eventually become to be known as Kinuso, Alberta (Treaty 8 Territory). I situate my grandmother’s narrative against local history texts, specifically Sodbusters: A History of Kinuso and Swan River Settlement, to locate the ways in which family and colonial histories intersect and are embodied by community members of the Swan River First Nation. My account begins with a detailing of the life of my great-grandfather, August Sound, and how the policies of the Indian Act would come to have a profound effect on him and his succeeding relations. I plot the historical trajectory of my family, or, more specifically, the historical trajectories of my grandmother and great-grandfather to demonstrate how personal archives can illuminate the processes of settler-colonialism in detailed and nuanced ways, and how these personal histories can contest the dominant narratives propagated by white settler-colonial imaginaries. The form of this paper will be an inter-weaving of academic texts and theories with the oral and experiential knowledge of my grandmother, with the ‘narrative history’ of my grandmother serving as the primary text.

Abstract: ^Vccounts of the life and work of the Canadian writer Frederick Philip Grove (FPG) alias the German writer and translator ...

Abstract: Helen Hoy’s account of Alice Munro’s revisions to what would become Who Do YouThink You Are? instantly achieved some- thing ...

Abstract: Alice Munro's story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" deals complexly with the question of what constitutes fidelity. Accordingly, perhaps it could not help but anticipate issues confronting Sarah Polley as she filmed her adaptation of the text, Away from Her. The case demonstrates that conceptions of fidelity with regard to artistic adaptation are more than incidentally connected to the kinds of interpersonal fidelity examined by Munro's story. Not least, an adapting artist may choose to take up the symbolic role of the source text's lover or of its filial legatee, even while this opposition obscures ways in which the roles overlap. The prominent use of Canadian settings and intertexts in Away from Her suggests that the same symbolic positions stand as options in relation to an artist's national cultural milieu. In that light, adaptation emerges as a significant trope and practice in Canadian literature.

Abstract: This is a fundamentalist town. To the letter it believes the Old Testament stories that we, wisely or presumptuously, choose ...

Abstract: Í’EST EN 1947 que Stephen Spender me pressa de lire Under the Volcano. Il venait lui-même de découvrir le livre ...

Abstract: JAMES AGEE BEGINS his portrait of three families of Alabama tenant farmers with a painstakingly honest and lyrically con- torted ...