The Currency of Visibility and the Paratext of “Evelyn Lau”
Abstract: I was relieved that I wasn’t being slotted into yet another panel of women writers or multicultural writers struggling to ...
The Decline of Words in Drama
Abstract: I? J O Y C E ‘ S Finnegan’s Wake, a play is announced which never takes place. H. G. ...
The Decolonization of Print, Digital, and Oral Spaces in Jordan Abel’s Injun
Abstract: In Injun, Jordan Abel aggressively destabilizes print literary space by excavating “91 Western novels” available on Project Gutenburg for every instance of the word “injun.” While Injun offers a decolonial scrutinization of these novels wherein Abel uses their words against them—his extractions from the novels becoming reclaimed territory, refashioned into poetic expression—Abel’s poetic enterprise is inherently digital. This article explores Injun as a project of literary decolonization that uses digital technology to reclaim the colonial language that has been used to define and disempower Indigenous peoples. While it explores how the digital can catalyze an intervention in literature’s colonial roots, it further addresses the crucial tension between print and digital as both predominantly white spaces. Ultimately, Injun instantiates an Indigenous presence digitally via digital excavation, experimental typography and Abel’s digital, oral performance, all of which showcase an uncomfortable, but necessary breaking down of the English language in meatspace and cyberspace.
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The Defence of Lady Chatterley
Abstract: UNTiL RECENTLY our Canadian sex hunters have been more modest than their American brothers: they have seldom dared attack a ...
The Descent into Hell of Jacques Laruelle: Chapter I of Under the Volcano
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The Desert, The River, & The Island: Naim Kattan’s Short Stories
Abstract: WIiTHI THE APPEARANCE OF Nairn Kattan’s fourth volume of short stories critical assessment, which has lagged far behind his output, ...
The Divided Self
Abstract: “the labyrinth holds me” (“A night in the Royal Ontario Museum”) “I am the cause” (“It is dangerous to read ...
The Dodo and the Cruising Auk: Class in Canadian Literature
Abstract: ?IHIS is A PAPER about our society and our literature, and it assumes a correlation between the kind of society ...
The Dragon in the Fog
Abstract: IN TIMOTHY FINDLEY’S novel The Wars, Robert Ross, soon after arriving in Europe, finds himself leading a line of horses ...
The Dynamite Man: A Chapter in Autobiography
Abstract: ?HERE ARE PEOPLE who do not necessarily dominate periods of our lives, but who signalize them, so that when we ...