Howells’ Canadian Sister
Abstract: IN MARCH OF 1873, William Dean Howells wrote to his younger sister Annie to discourage her from making a short ...
Huckleberries and HEPA Filters: Talking Place with Fred Wah
Abstract: Fred Wah is a distinguished Canadian poet and critic, and a former Parliamentary Poet Laureate. In this interview, conducted in late 2020, Wah describes the personal and poetic importance of place—in particular, the Kootenay region of British Columbia—and the local or regional sensibilities of early peers and mentors, including Charles Olson. He discusses the expanded edition of his Music at the Heart of Thinking (2020), and the approach to poetic improvisation taken in that book. Wah also reflects upon the republication of his early works, and on recent projects, including beholden (2018), a poetic collaboration with Rita Wong.
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Hugh Hood’s Edenic Garden: Psychoanalysis Among the Flowerbeds
Abstract: PSYCHOANALYTIC UNDERSTANDING, regrettably, is rarely brought to bear on contemporary Canadian writing. As a practicing literary critic and psychoanalyst I ...
Hugh MacLennan: Interviewed by Ronald Sutherland
Abstract: R.S. How long have you been here in Quebec, Hugh? H.M. I came to Quebec the fall of 1935 to ...
Hugh MacLennan’s Two Worlds
Abstract: THE SIX NOVELS THAT FORM the MacLennan canon ex- ??? plore for us, in specifically Canadian terms, a familiar pattern ...
Humour, Intersubjectivity, and Indigenous Female Intellectual Tradition in Anahareo’s Devil in Deerskins
Abstract: Since its initial publication in 1972, Anahareo’s autobiography, Devil in Deerskins, has often been read as reinforcing the conventions of Canadian romantic nationalism and stereotypes of Indigenous women. However, reading the 2014 First Voices reissue of the text alongside autobiographical theory, the history of Indigenous women's publications in Canada, and the depiction of Anahareo in other works about herself and Grey Owl, suggests that in her descriptions of her younger self, Anahareo deliberately uses humour to engage with and refute the dominant literary depictions of Indigenous women and, in the process, models an Indigenous female intellectual tradition of autobiographical self-representation.
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I Just See Myself as an Old-Fashioned Storyteller: A Conversation with Drew Hayden Taylor
Abstract: Sandy Tait (ï³ï´): Can you give us a rundown on where you came from, and how you got to be ...
I Want Edge: An Interview with Timothy Findley
Abstract: KRUK: I’d like to start by talking a bit about the short stories—a relatively neglected part of your canon. What ...
I Would Try to Make Lists: The Catalogue in Lives of Girls and Women
Abstract: I would try to make lists,” says Del near the end of Lives of Girls and Women, and she lists ...
I. V. Crawford’s Prose Fiction
Abstract: CRAWFORD’S LITERARY RÉPUTATION will be based, as she expected it would, upon her poetry and especially upon her verse narratives. ...