A Recollection of Wyndham Lewis
Abstract: The following recollection is part of a letter which the late Lome Pierce wrote on the 29th April, i960 to ...
A Rejected Preface
Abstract: In 1936 appeared the historic anthology, New Provinces,, which has always been re- garded as one of the most important ...
A Residential School Memoir: Basil Johnston’s Indian School Days
Abstract: The publication in 1988 of Basil Johnston’s Indian School Daysinitiated an explosion of writing about residential schools in Canada. A ...
A Righteous War? L. M. Montgomery’s Depiction of the First World War in Rilla of Ingleside
Abstract: On March n, 1919, Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote in her journal: “I began work on my tenth novel today. It ...
A Romance of Denialism: In the Skin of a Lion as a Settler Literary Land Claim
Abstract: In “A Romance of Denialism: In the Skin of a Lion As A Settler Literary Land Claim,” I identify an aesthetic theme in Michael Ondaatje’s 1987 novel, In the Skin of a Lion, that parallels settler colonialism’s political response to Indigenous peoples and their lands. I argue that Ondaatje’s novel adheres to what Margery Fee identifies as a “literary land claim” (2015), one that legitimizes settlers as indigenes on “terra nullius” by denying Indigenous presence. I demonstrate this by extending GW Hegel’s aesthetic model of “romantic fiction” (592) to In the Skin of a Lion and suggest the latter embodies the attributes of a narrative that comforts settlers (Battell Lowman & Barker). By analyzing the inward quest of “electability,” which relies on a subject who retreats from the social world, I expose how a “violence of denialism” functions to invisibilize Indigenous presence.
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A Rose Grows in Whylah Falls: Transplanted Traditions in George Elliott Clarke’s “Africadia”
Abstract: George Elliott Clarke’s WhylahFalls is a collection of poems, prose paragraphs, letters, photographs and fictionalized newspaper clippings focusing on life ...
A Short History of Indians in Canada
Abstract: (from Toronto Life, August 1997) Can’t sleep, Bob Haynie tells the doorman a t the King Edward. Can’t sleep, can’t ...
A Size Larger than Seeing: The Poetry of P. K. Page
Abstract: A POET’S IDENTITY MAY BE FOUND in the habits of feeling and insight that are particularly, almost obsessively, her own ...
A Space to Play In; Or, Telling the (W)hole Story: The Recent Poetry of Robert Gibbs
Abstract: I, IN A 1986 REVIEW ARTICLE for Canadian Literature Maritime writer, poet, editor, critic, teacher (and gourmet cook) Robert Gibbs ...
A Special Tang: Leacock’s Canadian Humour
Abstract: AWELL-KNOWN ODDITY of Canadian literature is the fact that, out of all our authors, the two who have achieved the ...