Portrait of the Artist as Young Pup
Abstract: MONTREAL HAS A CERTAIN GENIUS for spawning poetic movements — from poets like A. J. M. Smith and Frank Scott ...
Portrait of the Poet as Joyce Scholar: An Approach to A. M. Klein
Abstract: PERHAPS IT IS A NAIVE QUESTION,” Klein wrote in 1946, “but who is our Edmund Wilson, who our T. S. ...
Positionality is Not (Only) a Metaphor: Distance-Focused Reading in Indigenous Comics
Abstract: In the same way that decolonization as metaphor “turns decolonization into an empty signifier to be filled by any track towards liberation” (7), positionality as (exclusively) metaphorical reduces our complex, shifting relational identities and perspectives to an oversimplified statement of introduction. In this paper, I put forward an approach to the reading/viewing of Indigenous comics inspired by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang’s calls for less abstraction in relation to decolonization and calls from others who have so aptly identified the complexity of settler location in the field of Indigenous literary studies. This paper suggests that self-location plays a major role in the way we read. It develops the ideas of distance and reader positionality beyond their usual abstractness into the basis for an ethical reading approach for Indigenous comics.
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Postmodern Myth, Post-European History, and the Figure of the Amerindian: François Barcelo, George Bowering, and Jacques Poulin
Abstract: Most studies of Québécois and English Canadian liter- ature in the 1960s and early 1970s, from Gilles Marcotte’s Une Littérature ...
Postmodernisme et critique sociale dans le théâtre de Patrick Leroux
Abstract: Le théâtre de Patrick Leroux est particulièrement représentatif des transformations esthétiques qui ont eu cours en dramaturgie franco-ontarienne depuis une ...
Postmodernist War Fiction: Findley’s The Wars
Abstract: Since the most celebrated accounts of the First World War were produced by combatants,1 it has generally been assumed that ...
Power Politics in Bluebeard’s Castle
Abstract: Is it possible for men and women to stop mythologizing, manipulating, and attacking one another? MARGARET ATWOOD, 1971 IF THE ...
Pratt’s Treatment of History in “Towards the Last Spike”
Abstract: 1IN A LECTURE DELIVERED IN 1969, “The Documentary Poem: A Canadian Genre,”1 Dorothy Livesay argued that it was the documentary ...
Preface to a Novel
Abstract: This preface to the French Edition of Under the Volcano, which casts consider- able light on Malcolm Lowry’s view of ...
Présences de l’Autre dans Agaguk d’Yves Thériault
Abstract: Reprenant le titre du livre d’Éric Landowski, nousnous inspirerons des principes qu’il pose dans son essai de sémiotique pour mettre ...