Alienation and Identity: The Plays of Margaret Hollingsworth
Abstract: ANOTABLE ASPECT OF CANADIAN DRAMA is the strikingly large percentage of ranking dramatists who are women, and in this constellation ...
All Aboa-r-rd!
Abstract: ?LHE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHILDHOOD and adulthood is s o s i m p l e t h a t w ...
All Nature into Motion: John Sutherland’s Poetry
Abstract: … as if the sun Were singing to the world, he lay and heard His alter ego serenading him : ...
Alline and Bailey
Abstract: IN CURRENT ANTHOLOGIES sur- veying the development of Canadian literature, the two most commonly recog- nized poets from the 18th-century ...
Alternate Stories: The Short Fiction of Audrey Thomas and Margaret Atwood
Abstract: She knew now that almost certainly, whenever she saw a street musician, either he was blind or lame or leprous ...
Alzheimer’s, Ambiguity, and Irony: Alice Munro’s “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” and Sarah Polley’s Away from Her
Abstract: By offering an extended close reading of Alice Munro’s “The Bear Came over the Mountain” and Sarah Polley’s filmic adaption of this story, Away from Her, this paper traces the process whereby Munro’s and Polley’s narratives expand our understanding of the Lockean view of identity as “consciousness inhabiting a body.” More precisely, Munro’s and Polley’s texts shed light on Locke’s lesser known insights into the fraught relationship between memory and passions. By underscoring both the passionate, affective and embodied facets of remembering and forgetting and the intersubjective basis of meaning and identity, Munro’s and Polley’s works challenge Locke’s basic conception of an autonomous, rational self. In the process, both the story and the film deconstruct biomedical, mechanistic models by exposing the ironic instabilities and ambiguities associated with the experience of late-onset cognitive decline.
Ambiguity and Paradox: A Conversation with Helen Weinzweig
Abstract: Helen Weinzweig is the author of two novels, Passing Ceremony (Anansi 1973), Basic Black with Pearls (Anansi 1980), and a ...
Ambivalence at the site of authority: Desire and Difference in Funny Boy
Abstract: In a discussion of Sri Lankan writers whose dabbling in constructions of national identity “are located in an amorphous and ...
Amelia, or: Who Do You Think You Are? Documentary and Identity in Canadian Literature
Abstract: A,.LICE MUNRO’S TITLE Who Do You Think You Are? is one of those finely balanced phrases which subtly shift their ...
An Ambivalent Gaze at North Koreans in Guy Delisle’s Pyongyang
Abstract: This article discusses Guy Delisle’s Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea as a case study of otherness, which serves to define “us” as un-othered at the expense of the complexity of “us” and “them.” In this travelogue, Delisle’s caricature (“the Delisle character”) exemplifies the absurdity and eccentricity of the North Koreans, thereby legitimizing their otherness from “our” perspective. A close reading of the text, however, leads to the recognition that the North Koreans are depicted as neither entirely isolated nor inhuman. Accordingly, Pyongyang, even if inadvertently, reveals the discrepancy between “our” constructed North Korea and the actual situation in the locale that the Delisle character observes but does not fully perceive. In doing so, Pyongyang reaffirms the need to examine both difference and sameness between “us” and “them,” inspiring a way of thinking that does not rely on otherness to understand people in different societies.