Stories to Live In: Discursive Regimes and Indigenous Canadian Australian Historiography
Abstract: One “fictions” history starting from a political reality that renders it true, one “fictions” a politics that doesn’t as yet ...
Strachan & Ryerson: Guardians of the Future
Abstract: THE TWO CAREERS OF Egerton Ryerson, the “Pope of Methodism,” and John Strachan, first Anglican Bishop of Toronto, span much ...
Straight or Bent: Textual/Sexual T(ri)angles in As for Me and My House
Abstract: Sinclair Ross’s As For Me and My House (1941) has long been considered an icon of English-Canadian fiction, as numerous ...
Strange to Strangers Only
Abstract: JÂMES DE MILLE’S intriguing romance of a strange and macabre civilization near the South Pole, A Strange Manuscript found in ...
Strategic Abjection: Windigo Psychosis and the “Postindian’ Subject in Eden Robinson’s “Dogs in Winter”
Abstract: In The Postcolonial Aura, Arif Dirlik takes issue with postcolonialism’s “denial of authenticity” at a time when claims to cultural ...
Structural Patterns of Alienation & Disjunction: Mavis Gallant’s Firmly-Structured Stories
Abstract: GALLANT ONCE REMARKED THAT “style is inseparable from structure” (“What is Style?” 6), so that both the expression and presentation ...
Structure in Ethel Wilson’s The Innocent Traveller
Abstract: I? THE FOURTEENTH chapter of Ethel Wilson’s novel The Innocent Traveller, its central character, Topaz Edgeworth, prepares to take a ...
Structure of Loss
Abstract: I? SEARCH OF VALUES she cannot clearly see and will not live without, Phyllis Webb writes poems which reveal both ...
Structuring Violence: “The Ethics of Linguistics” in “The Temptations of Big Bear”
Abstract: Murder, death, and unchanging society represent precisely the inability to hear and understand the signifier as such — as cipher- ...
Stutter, Chew, Stop: Three Mandible Modes in the Poetry of Jordan Scott
Abstract: Scholar and artist Brandon LaBelle (2014) positions the mouth as an integral “contact zone where language performs as a powerful agent” that brings forth the voice to locate the vocalizing subject as an autonomous being within a network of human, posthuman, and nonhuman assemblages. It is a complex site wherein language is both produced and obscured by its many bodily modalities—stuttering, speaking, chewing, biting, stopping, and so on. Thus, the mouth is undeniably a vital apparatus for meaning-making. The mouth is prominently featured in the oeuvre of Canadian poet Jordan Scott, whose works present formidable case studies for investigating the significance of mouth-based meaning-making. Scott’s work engages the powers of mouthing and, in particular, presents readers with compelling contiguity between mouth and ecology. Pursuant of these topics, this article focuses on three of Scott’s poetic texts to examine the mouth as it manifests and is mobilized within his poetry, with a particular interest in how he places language under the pressure of external grammars to challenge the power dynamics of linguistic communication and the ways that environmental considerations and verbal expressivity shape one another.