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Abstract: 1IN, final days writing on the walls of the Grand Elysium Hotel his eyewitness account of the activities of famous ...

Abstract: This article examines the use of elegiac motifs in Patrick Lane’s 2004 memoir, There Is a Season, in which an overt addiction recovery narrative is combined with elegiac reflections on Lane’s relationship with his mother. Looking at the memoir alongside two of Lane’s elegies, “Mother” and “The Last Day of My Mother,” the article argues that Lane’s complex and often contradictory approach to elegiac consolation conveys a central ambivalence about the ethics of recovering and representing his mother’s life and death, a dilemma that reflects both their difficult relationship and the problematic gender roles inherent in the elegiac tradition. At the same time, There Is a Season also explores the limited possibilities of recovery and consolation available within its prose adaptation of elegiac forms, illustrating the significance of these formal borrowings for the memoir genre more broadly.

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Abstract: This essay examines water mythologies and relationships in Haisla writer Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach (2000) and Trinidadian Canadian writer Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return (2001). I consider these texts together because they do comparable work in considering how the water offers anti-colonial alternatives for place-making and comparably write water as a site of belonging without claiming. When Brand and Lisamarie dip their hands in the water to pay respect to Yemayá (Brand 172) or the Kitlope River (Robinson 112), they distance the practice of place-making from the confines of a colonial claiming. I argue then that considering how water fosters place-making in these texts can generate thinking that surpasses colonial creations and capturings of space and highlights forms of belonging that have existed outside of these restrictions.

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Abstract: “Here, you see, sir, all the chairs,” stated the little baboo, waving his hand. ” I must tell you, sir, ...

Abstract: W h i l e Canada’s recent re-assessment of the nature of its nationhood in the 1992 referendum is one ...

Abstract: In this interview, Junie Désil discusses her experience as the daughter of Haitian immigrants. Growing up in Montréal, Canada, and dealing with her parents' silence and hesitance to discuss their Haitian culture led to Junie's investigation and research on zombi(e)s as a significant presence in Haitian beliefs. Junie touches on Voudou spitirualism and the cures for being a zombi as it connects to her experience of Black personhood.

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Abstract: In Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees, intergenerational memory is depicted through a number of mediums: photos, music, film, and performances. Materia becomes a pianist for a vaudeville group during WW1, and her daughter, Frances, becomes a performer at a speak-easy after Materia’s suicide. Both women use music in their performances in a way that is highly experimental but also dialectical, in which the subject performing the improvisations later becomes defined by such improvisations, allowing Frances to develop a persona that connects her to her mother after Materia's death. In this article, I show how these different elements of media are able to contribute to ongoing discussions of intergenerational memories of trauma through an analysis of Frances Piper.

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Abstract: This paper examines how the relationship between race and ecology is materialized in Rebecca Salazar’s poetry collection sulphurtongue, which takes the point of view of a second-generation queer Latinx speaker who grew up in Sudbury, Ontario. I argue that sulphurtongue constructs a poetics of synaesthesia in which mundane moments of embodied noticing reveal environmental, transnational, and transhistorical connections that link brown Latinx embodiment to pollution. I then argue that sulphurtongue searches for futurities outside of settler colonial extractivism by asking how diasporic Latinx emplacement might be made more accountable to Indigenous understandings of place. Drawing on the work of Leanne B. Simpson, I ask what sulphurtongue teaches us about reclaiming brown Latinx embodiment from settler colonial extractivism and racial capitalism, and how this reclamation might participate in the ethics of “co-resistance” that Simpson sees as fundamental to the mutual liberation of Indigenous, Black, and brown communities on Turtle Island.

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Abstract: This article focuses on Alice Munro’s "The Moons of Jupiter," a key work in her oeuvre. The article analyzes the story as a formal, artistic achievement, one which moves from separation, to unity, to separation, thereby providing a cathartic staging of emotion. The article also examines the subtle metafictive sensibility that runs through "Moons" without compromising its mimetic effect and follows its philosophical examination of the power and inadequacy of representation.

Abstract: A UNIVERSITY HAS enhanced its valuable Thomas Chandler Haliburton collection of printed editions by the acquisition of a family archive, ...