Peter Susand, Lost Texts, and Black Canadian Literary Culture of the 1850s
Abstract: This essay expands our understanding of nineteenth-century Black Canadian writing by introducing the case of Peter Edward Susand. Susand's 1856 volume of poetry, published in what is now Kitchener, has been lost, raising the questions: how do we write about authors whose work hasn’t survived? Can we recuperate the literary practices of these individuals in the absence of their writings? Is it possible to marshal other evidence to reconstruct their literary networks and affiliations? What might we gain by undertaking such scholarly excavations? And how might doing so on behalf of those authors whose works haven't survived shift our understanding of nineteenth-century Black Canadian literary culture?
Petite Histoire d’une Obsession
Abstract: L»A QUARANTAINE VENUE, je me demande si je dois con- tinuer à écrire. Ce n’est pas la première fois que ...
Phillip Child: A Re-appraisal
Abstract: STRONG THOUGH THE COMPÉTITION MAY BE, the most neg- lected of good Canadian authors is probably Philip Child. Desmond Pacey ...
Photography “in camera”
Abstract: click 3. phon. . . . These sounds vary in number in the different languages that employ them, and are ...
Phyllis Webb and the Priestess of Motion
Abstract: IHIHYLLIS WEBB’S most recent and most complex book, Naked Poems, confirms a preoccupation with certain themes —•love, poetry, and love ...
Physics and Poetry: The Complex World of Alan R. Wilson
Abstract: Alan R. Wilson is the author of two books of poetry—Animate Objects (1995) and Counting to 100 (1996). The New ...
Picking the Deadlock of Legitimacy: Dionne Brand’s “noise like the world cracking”
Abstract: Theories of legitimacy restrict much analysis of Dionne Brand’s writing. These arguments depend on a self-other split. An authoritative “Black ...
Pierre Berton, Celebrity, and the Economics of Authenticity
Abstract: Pierre Berton was always unapologetically middlebrow in his appeal to a popular Canadian readership—an appeal that simultaneously garnered him his best-seller status and set him at odds with the academic community. This essay examines the making of Berton’s celebrity and the maintenance of his authenticity, which was predicated on his Klondike heritage, his outsider status, and the frank foregrounding of the economic impetus behind his writings. By exploring the suggestive ties between Berton’s own self-construction and the literary nation-building project for which he is most famous, this essay appeals for a greater critical consideration of Berton as a way of understanding some of the formative myths, narratives, and nationalisms that continue to resonate in Canadian public space.
Pioneer Entertainment: Theatrical Taste in the Early Canadian West
Abstract: ?PIONEERS who began slowly to encroach upon the vast, unsettled re1gions of the American /West brought with them a hunger ...
Piper of Many Tunes: Duncan Campbell Scott
Abstract: WHAT STRIKES ONE most forcibly about D. G. Scott is his versatility, his wide range of ability and interest; he ...