Wilfrid Laurier University Press

January 29, 2015

Books Reviewed by Canadian Literature

On the Other Side(s) of 150: Untold Stories and Critical Approaches to History, Literature, and Identity in Canada by Linda M. Morra and Sarah Henzi
The Queer Evangelist: A Socialist Clergy’s Radically Honest Tale by Cheri DiNovo
‘Membering Austin Clarke by Paul Barrett
Moving Archives by Linda M. Morra
Tiff: A Life of Timothy Findley by Sherrill Grace
Literatures, Communities, and Learning: Conversations with Indigenous Writers by Aubrey Hanson
Rough and Plenty by Raymond A. Rogers
Indianthusiasm by Hartmut Lutz, Florentine Strzelczyk and Renae Watchman
The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology by Karina Vernon
The Next Instalment: Serials, Sequels, and Adaptations of Nellie L. McClung, L. M. Montgomery, and Mazo de la Roche. by Wendy Roy
Avant Canada: Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries by Gregory Betts and Christian Bök
Battle Lines: Canadian Poetry in English and the First World War by Joel Baetz
Why Indigenous Literatures Matter by Daniel Heath Justice
New Brunswick at the Crossroads: Literary Ferment and Social Change in the East by Tony Tremblay
Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase: Contemporary North American Dystopian Literature by Brett Josef Grubisic, Gisèle M. Baxter and Tara Lee
Sôhkêyihta: The Poetry of Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe by Louise Bernice Halfe and David Gaertner
Bird-Bent Grass: A Memoir, in Pieces by Kathleen Venema
The Homing Place: Indigenous and Settler Literary Legacies of the Atlantic by Rachel Bryant
Argimou: A Legend of the Micmac by S. Huyghue S. Douglass
Violence Against Indigenous Women: Literature, Activism, Resistance by Allison Hargreaves
Landscapes and Landmarks of Canada: Real, Imagined, (Re)Viewed by Maeve Conrick, Munroe Eagles, Jane Koustas and Caitríona Ní Chasaide
Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives by Candida Rifkind and Linda Warley
Space Between Her Lips: The Poetry of Margaret Christakos by Margaret Christakos and Gregory Betts
Certain Details: The Poetry of Nelson Ball by Nelson Ball and Stuart Ross
Learn, Teach, Challenge: Approaching Indigenous Literatures by Deanna Reder and Linda Morra
Making Babies: Infants in Canadian Fiction by Sandra Sabatini
Every Grain of Sand: Canadian Perspectives on Ecology and Environment by J. A. Wainwright
Celebrity Cultures in Canada by Lorraine York and Katja Lee
Editing as Cultural Practice in Canada by Dean Irvine and Smaro Kamboureli
Public Poetics: Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics by Bart Vautour, Erin Wunker, Travis V. Mason and Christl Verduyn
Barking & Biting: The Poetry of Sina Queyras by Sina Queyras and Erin Wunker
Wait Time: A Memoir of Cancer by Kenneth Sherman
Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments by Liza Piper and Lisa (Sara) Szabo-Jones
Indigenous Poetics in Canada by Neil McLeod
Material Cultures in Canada by Thomas Allen and Jennifer Blair
Literary Land Claims: The "Indian Land Question" from Pontiac's War to Attawapiskat by Margery Fee
The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation by George Copway
Street Angel by Magie Dominic
Reverse Shots: Indigenous Film and Media in an International Context by Wendy Gay Pearson and Susan Knabe
The Memory of Water by Allen Smutylo
Ethical Encounters: Spaces and Selves in the Writings of Rudy Wiebe by Janne Korkka
Catching the Torch: Contemporary Canadian Literary Responses to World War I by Neta Gordon
Boom!: Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market by Julie Rak
Cusp: Word Sonnets by Jan Zwicky, Darren Bifford and Warren Heiti
Painted Fires by Nellie L. McClung
The Daughter's Way: Canadian Women's Paternal Elegies by Tanis MacDonald
Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies by Smaro Kamboureli and Christl Verduyn
The Order in which We Do Things: The Poetry of Tom Wayman by Owen Percy and Tom Wayman
The Flying Years by Frederick Niven
Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts: Narratives of English Canada by Eva Darias-Beautell
From Room to Room by Eli Mandel
Burdens of Proof by Kate Douglas
Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred and the Sublime in Literature and Theory by Holly Faith Nelson, Lynn R. Szabo and Jens Zimmerman
Digital Diversity by E. Dianne Looker and Ted D. Naylor
Troubling Tricksters: Revisioning Critical Conversations by Deanna Reder and Linda Morra
Canadian Women in Print, 1750-1918 by Carole Gerson
National Plots: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada by Andrea Cabajsky
The Gendered Screen: Canadian Women Filmmakers by George Melnyk and Brenda Austin-Smith
Blues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke by Jon Paul Fiorentino
Fierce Departures: The Poetry of Dionne Brand by Dionne Brand and Leslie Sanders
Blues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke by George Elliott Clarke
Fierce Departures: The Poetry of Dionne Brand by Leslie Sanders
Unsettled Remains by Cynthia Sugars and Gerry Turcotte
Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry by Barbara Thomson Godard and Di Brandt
Mobility of Light: The Poetry of Nicole Brossard by Nicole Brossard and Louise H. Forsyth
Transnational Canadas by Kit Dobson
Blazing Figures: A Life of Richard Markle by J. A. Wainwright
A Year Inland: The Journal of a Hudson’s Bay Company Wanderer by Barbara Belyea
Broad is the Way by Margaret Norquay
Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography by Eleanor Ty and Christl Verduyn
Lines Drawn upon the Water: First Nations and the Great Lakes Borders and Borderlands by Karl S. Hele
Becoming My Mother's Daughter: A Story of Survival and Renewal by Erika Gottlieb
From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing by Deena Rymhs
By Word of Mouth: The Poetry of Dennis Cooley by Dennis Cooley and Nicole Markotic
The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand: The Poetry of M. Travis Lane by M. Travis Lane and Jeanette Lynes
All These Roads: The Poetry of Louis Dudek by Louis Dudek and Karis Shearer
Watermelon Syrup by Annie Jacobson, Jane Finlay-Young and Di Brandt
Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literture by Clare Bradford
Children of the Outer Darkness: The Poetry of Christopher Dewdney by Christopher Dewdney and Karl Jirgens
Canadian Cultural Exchange / Échanges culturels au Canada : Translation and Transculturation / traduction et transculturation by Lucien Pelletier and Norman Cheadle
Home Words by Mavis Reimer
The Long Journey of a Forgotten People by Ute Lischke and David T. McNab
Earthly Pages: The Poetry of Don Domanski by Don Domanski and Brian Bartlett
Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature by Roy Miki and Smaro Kamboureli
Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment by Geoffrey Hayes, Andrew Iarocci and Mike Bechthold
Speaking in the Past Tense by Herb Wyile
Auto/biography in Canada: Critical Directions by Julie Rak
Tracing the Autobiographical by Marlene Kadar, Linda Warley, Jeanne Perreault and Susanna Egan
Canadian Cultural Peosis: Essays on Canadian Culture by Garry Sherbert, Annie Gérin and Sheila Petty
Image and Territory: Essays on Atom Egoyan by Jennifer Burwell, Mark Harris and Monique Tschofen
Desire Never Leaves: The Poetry of Tim Lilburn by Tim Lilburn and Alison Calder
Romantic Hospitality and the Resistance to Accommodation by Peter Melville
Unfitting Stories: Narrative Approaches to Disease, Disability, and Trauma by Valerie Raoul, Connie Canam, Angela D. Henderson and Carla Paterson
The More Easily Kept Illusions: The Poetry of Al Purdy by Al (Alfred W) Purdy and Robert Budde
Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandt by Di Brandt and Tanis MacDonald
Field Marks: The Poetry of Don McKay by Don McKay and Méira Cook
Thanks for Listening: Stories and Short Fiction by Ernest Buckler by Ernest Buckler and Marta Dvorák
Is Canada Postcolonial? Unsettling Canadian Literature by Laura Moss
Writing in Our Time: Canada’s Radical Poetries in English (1957-2003) by Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy
Writing Between the Lines: Portraits of Canadian Anglophone Translators by Agnès Whitfield
Must Write: Edna Staebler’s Diaries by Christl Verduyn
The Niagara Companion: Explorers, Artists, and Writers at the Falls, from Discovery through the Twentieth Century by Linda L. Revie
Repossessing the World: Reading Memoirs by Contemporary Women by Helen M. Buss
Progressive Heritage: The Evolution of a Politically Radical Literary Tradition in Canada. by James Doyle
Counterrealism and Indo-Anglican Fiction by Chelva Kanaganayakam
A Year Inland: The Journal of a Hudson's Bay Company Wanderer by Barbara Belyea and Bryan N. S. Gooch
Animal Subjects by Jodey Castricano
William Wilfred Campbell: Selected Poetry and Essays by Laurel Boone
Faith and Fiction: A Theological Critique of the Narrative Strategies of Hugh MacLennan and Money Callaghan by Barbara Pell
Locations of the Sacred: Essays on Religion, Literature, and Canadian Culture by William C. James
Reading in Alice Munro's Archives by Joann McCaig
Literature as Pulpit: The Christian Social Activism of Nellie McClung by Randi R. Warne
Working in Women's Archives: Researching Women's Private Literature and Archival Documents by Helen M. Buss and Marlene Kadar
Memoirs from Away by Helen M. Buss and Margaret Clarke
A Body of Vision: Representations of the Body in Recent Film and Poetry by R. Bruce Elder
The Films of Stan Brakhage in the American Tradition of Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and Charles Olson by R. Bruce Elder
This Woman in Particular: Contexts for the Biographical Image of Emily Carr by Stephanie Kirkwood Walker
Children in English Canadian Society: Framing the Twentieth Century Consensus by Neil Sutherland
Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing Lives by Helen M. Buss, D. L. MacDonald and Anne McWhir
Love Strong as Death: Lucy Peel's Canadian Journal, 1833-1836 by J. I. Little
Postcolonizing the Commonwealth: Studies in Literature and Culture by Rowland Smith
Marian Engel's Notebooks: "Ah, mon cahier, e?coute" by Christl Verduyn
Women, Reading, Kroetsch by Susan Rudy Dorscht and Marion Wynne-Davies
Image and Identity: Reflections on Canadian Film and Culture by R. Bruce Elder
The Postwar Novel in Canada: Narrative Patterns and Reader Response by Rosmarin Heidenreich
Canada and the Métis, 1869-1885 by D. N. Sprague
Racial Attitudes in English Canadian Fiction, 1905-1980 by Terrence Craig
Teresina Maria by Gerald Noxon
Driving Home: A Dialogue Between Writers and Readers by Barbara Belyea
Narcissistic Narrative by Linda Hutcheon
Essentially Canadian: The Life and Fiction of Alan Sullivan 1868-1947 by Gordon D. McLeod
The Faces of Reason: An Essay on Philosophy and Culture in English Canada, 1850-1950 by Elizabeth Trott and Leslie Armour
Federalism in Canada and Australia: The Early Years
Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature by Herb Wyile
Burdens of Proof: Faith, Doubt, and Identity in Autobiography by Susanna Egan
From Room to Room: The Poetry of Eli Mandel by Eli Mandel
Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada by Christine Kim, Melina Baum Singer and Sophie McCall
Chronicles: Early Works by Dionne Brand
Making It Like a Man: Canadian Masculinities in Practice by Christine Ramsay
Borrowed Tongues: Life Writing, Migration, and Translation by Eva C. Karpinski
Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond: Interfaces of the Oral, Written, and Visual by Wendy Roy and Susan Gingell
Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace: Exploring Canadian Women’s Archives by Linda Morra and Jessica Schagerl
Ornithologies of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay by Travis V. Mason
Digital Diversity: Youth, Equity, and Information Technology by Ted D. Naylor and E. Dianne Looker
The Newfoundland Diaspora: Mapping the Literature of Out-Migration by Jennifer Bowering Delisle
Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Study by Robert Zacharias and Smaro Kamboureli
Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace by Kit Dobson and Smaro Kamboureli