Editorial


Book Reviews

Funny & Serious (p. 133-134)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Boy's Night Out by James R. Wallen
  • Red Moon by Jean Lemieux and Sheila Fischman

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Tammarniit (Mistakes): Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Arctic, 1939-63 by Frank James Tester and Peter Kulchyski
  • Enduring Dreams: An Exploration of Arctic Landscape by John Moss

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Women Do This Every Day: Selected Poems of Lillian Allen by Lillian Allen
  • In This House Are Many Women by Sheree Fitch
  • This Brighter Prison: A Book of Journeys by Karen Connelly

Her Howl Inside Us (p. 139-140)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Not Vanishing by Chrystos
  • Proper Deafinitions: Collected Theorogratns by Betsy Warland
  • Dream On by Chrystos

Lives & Elegies (p. 140-141)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Riding the Long Black Horse by Raymond Souster
  • Voyeur: Selected and New Poems 1972-1991 by Marco Fraticelli
  • Abbey: Selected Poems 1959 to 1989 by Lloyd Abbey

Breaking Out (p. 141-143)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Apology for Absence: Selected Poems 1962-1992 by John Newlove
  • Light Like a Summons: Five Poets by Mary Choo, Margaret Fridel, Eileen Kernaghan, Sue Nevill, Laurel Wade and J. Michael Yates

Confessions (p. 143-144)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Popping Fuchsias by Robin Skelton
  • Mating in Captivity by Genni Gunn
  • Riffs by Dennis Lee

Human Appetites (p. 144-146)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • North of Jesus' Beans by Bill Gaston
  • Sitting Opposite My Brother by David Bergen

Our Social Fabric (p. 146-148)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Bridge Built Halfway: A History of Memorial University College by Malcolm MacLeod
  • The Splendid Vision: Centennial History of the National Council of Women of Canada by N. E. S. Griffiths

Polar Attractions (p. 148-150)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • In A Crystal Land: Canadian Explorers in Antarctica by Dean Beeby
  • Gender on Ice: American Ideologies of Arctic Explorations by Lisa Bloom

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Distinctly Narcissistic: Diary Fiction in Quebec by Valerie Raoul

Book(s) Reviewed

  • An der Grenze: Reise nach Quyta Wissenschaftlicher by Helmut Markus

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Reverse Tradition: Postmodern Fictions and the Nineteenth Century Novel by Robert Kiely
  • Framing Truths: Parodic Structures in Contemporary English-Canadian Novels by Martin Kuester

Ritual and Survival (p. 156-157)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bewildered Rituals by Sandy Shreve
  • sing me no more by Lynnette Dueck

Indias of the Mind (p. 157-160)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee
  • Van de Graff Days by Ven Begamudré

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ethnicity and Culture in Canada: The Research Landscape by J. W. Berry and J. A. Laponce
  • An Aroma of Coffee by Dany Laferrière and David Homel

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La Vie littéraire au Québec, tome II: "Le projet national des Canadiens" by Maurice Lemire
  • Les Mémoires québécoises by Jacques Mathieu and Jacques Lacoursière

Micro-Studies (p. 164-165)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Social Dimensions of Fiction: On the Rhetoric and Function of Prefacing Novels in the Nineteenth-Century Canadas by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek

Lucidité Inquiète (p. 165-168)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • 2 Guys on Holy Land by Walid Bitar
  • Crash Landing of the Flying Egyptian by Saad Elkhadem and Saad El-Gabalawy
  • Riverains rêves: poe?mes by Taïb Soufi
  • Voyage au Levant: de Lawrence d'Arabie a? Rene? Le?vesque by Michel Lemieux

Canada, Oh Canada! (p. 169-171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lament for a Notion: The Life and Death of Canada's Bilingual Dream by Scott Reid
  • Histoire du nationalisme québécois. Entrevues avec sept specialists by Giles Gougeon

Eclectic Visas (p. 171-173)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Marigolds in Snow by Jocelyne Villeneuve
  • Lush Dreams, Blue Exile. Fugitive Poems: 1978-1993 by George Elliott Clarke
  • Interpreting Silence by Rhonda Batchelor

Speak Memory (p. 173-175)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • French Lessons: A Memoir by Alice Kaplan
  • Conscience and Memory: Meditations in a Museum of the Holocaust by Harold Kaplan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Away by Jane Urquhart
  • Bad Imaginings by Caroline Adderson

Text & Images (p. 177-179)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Word and Image Interactions. A Selection of Papers given at the Second International Conference on Word and Image, Universitat Zurich, August 27-31, 1990 by Martin Heusser, Max Nanny, Peter de Voogd and Hans A. Luthy
  • War Paint: Blackfoot and Sarcee Painted Buffalo Robes in the Royal Ontario Museum by Arni Blackstone

Other Women (p. 179-180)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Other Women: The Writing of Class, Race, and Gender, 1832-1898 by Anita Levy
  • White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness by Ruth Frankenberg

Monuments & Magpies (p. 180-181)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Other Country: Patterns in the Writing of Alice Munro by James Carscallen

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Zara ou la mer Noire by Sylvain Trudel
  • Belle-Moue by Huguette O'Neil
  • Le tour du sein (scrapbook) by Jeanne Painchaud
  • L'Odeur du café by Dany Laferrière
  • Accostages: Re?citset nouvelle by Ingrid Joubert
  • Du littéraire au filmique: Syste?me du re?cit by André Gaudreault

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Fiction, Crime, and Empire: Clues to Modernity and Postmodernism by Jon Thompson
  • Presence and Resistance: Postmodernism and Cultural Politics in Contemporary American Performance by Philip Auslander

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Feminism without Women: Culture and Criticism in a 'Postfeminist' Age by Tania Modleski
  • Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education by Henry A. Giroux

In Flight (p. 187-189)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Pilgrimage by Betty Vogel
  • The Ascension of Jesse Rapture by Barry Dempster

Ungendering Ideas (p. 189-192)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Women in Movement: Feminism and Social Action by Sheila Rowbotham
  • Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler
  • Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse by Rosemary Hennessy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Au Commencement était le mythe by Victor-Laurent Tremblay

Book(s) Reviewed

  • As Though Life Mattered: Leo Kennedy's Story by Patricia Morley
  • E. K. Brown: A Study in Conflict by Laura Smyth Groening

Archetypal (p. 195-196)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Belle's Journey by Marilynn Reynolds and Stephen McCallum
  • Margy Misunderstood by Margaret Smith

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Two Traditions: The Art of Storytelling Amongst French Newfoundlanders by Thomas Gerald

Trouble on Wheels (p. 198-199)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lisa by Carol Matas
  • The Lost Locket by Carol Matas
  • Sworn Enemies by Carol Matas
  • Eleanora's Diary by Caroline Parry
  • Trouble on Wheels by Ann Aveling
  • Just Call Me BOOM BOOM by Martin Godfrey