Emerging Scholars, Redux: Author – Camille Lendor
May 26, 2021
Camille Lendor is a queer Black poet. She is pursuing her BA in English at the University of Toronto and lives in Toronto, Ontario. Camille is currently working on her debut poetry collection.
Her poem “TTC” can be read on our website at http://canlit.ca/article/ttc/
Canadian Literature issue 242, Emerging Scholars, Redux, is available to order through our online store at https://canlit.ca/support/purchase/single-issues/.
Emerging Scholars, Redux: Author – Yuan Changming
May 22, 2021
Yuan Changming, who grew up in rural China and started to learn the English alphabet at age nineteen, holds a PhD in English from the University of Saskatchewan and hails with Allen Yuan from poetrypacific.blogspot.ca. Credits include eleven Pushcart Prize nominations, nine chapbooks and awards, as well as publications in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17) and BestNewPoemsOnline, among nearly 1800 others, across 46 countries.
His poem “By Definition of preposition” can be read on our website at http://canlit.ca/article/by-definition-of-preposition/
Canadian Literature issue 242, Emerging Scholars, Redux, is available to order through our online store at https://canlit.ca/support/purchase/single-issues/.
Emerging Scholars, Redux: Author – Charlotte Comtois
May 19, 2021
Charlotte Comtois poursuit ses études doctorales en études françaises à l’Université de Sherbrooke. Ses recherches portent sur les représentations de la mobilité géographique au féminin dans le roman québécois depuis les années 1930. Elles ont fait l’objet d’une publication dans la revue Études francophones en janvier 2020 et paraîtront dans un ouvrage collectif portant sur l’oeuvre de Suzanne Jacob, lequel sera publié aux Éditions du remue-ménage. En 2019, elle a obtenu le prix ALCQ Barbara-Godard. Elle est également chargée de cours à l’Université de Sherbrooke, où elle enseigne la littérature des femmes.
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« “Nous aussi, nous aimons la vie quand nous en avons les moyens” : une étude des espaces, pouvoirs et affects dans Le jeu de la musique de Stéfanie Clermont »
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Le présent article se penche sur les manifestations socio-spatiales des dispositifs capitalistes et patriarcaux dans le recueil de nouvelles Le jeu de la musique de Stéfanie Clermont (2017) ainsi que sur les échappées du régime patriarcal représentées. L’auteure mobilise corollairement les notions de dispositif (Agamben) et de dispositif spatial (Lussault), de même que celles d’hétérotopie (Foucault; Beneventi et Calderón) et de chora sémiotique (Kristeva) pour mieux qualifier les espaces marginaux se développant à l’écart des injonctions patriarcales et capitalistes. Il apparaît que dans des lieux marqués par des signes reliés à la féminité, à l’enfance et à la nature, autant de symboles s’opposant aux normes hétéropatriarcales et de production capitaliste, les personnages féminins parviennent à se délester de la détresse qu’elles vivent dans les spatialités normatives.
Canadian Literature issue 242, Emerging Scholars, Redux, is available to order through our online store at https://canlit.ca/support/purchase/single-issues/.
Emerging Scholars, Redux: Author – John Barton
May 12, 2021
John Barton is a poet, essayist, editor, and writing mentor. His books include For the Boy with the Eyes of the Virgin: Selected Poems, Polari, Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay-Male Poets, We Are Not Avatars: Essays, Memoirs, Manifestos, and The Essential Douglas LePan, which won a 2020 eLit Award. In 2020, he published Lost Family: A Memoir (a book of sonnets) with Signal Editions and edited The Essential Derk Wynand for The Porcupine’s Quill. He lives in Victoria, BC, where he is the city’s first queer poet laureate.
His poem “What We Live For” can be read on our website at https://canlit.ca/article/what-we-live-for/.
Canadian Literature issue 242, Emerging Scholars, Redux, is available to order through our online store at https://canlit.ca/support/purchase/single-issues/.
Emerging Scholars, Redux: Author – Orly Lael Netzer
April 29, 2021
Orly Lael Netzer studies life writing and ethics, focusing on practices of reading as bearing witness to literary and art-based testimony in contemporary Canadian culture. She is the Research Facilitator for the HM Tory Chair program for Life Writing at the University of Alberta, has co-edited special issues of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly and a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, and has published work in Canadian Literature and Postcolonial Studies. Lael Netzer has also served as a member of the Canadian Literature Centre‘s executive board, and an editorial assistant for a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
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“’A VR Empathy Machine,’ or, Canada Reads 2019”
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Guided by the “one book to move you” theme, Canada Reads 2019 enacts a vernacular mode of shared reading that relies on affective-driven responses framed as the cure for rising socio-political maladies. Given the mix of fiction and memoirs in the final roster, I address the truth-value invoked in the debates through the prism of testimony, and readers’ ethical responsibility to its rights-claims. Building on the works of Danielle Fuller and DeNel Rehberg Sedo, Pauline Wakeham, Gillian Whitlock, and Carolyn Pedwell, I demonstrate how the 2019 event, as a site of reading-based public debate, contours the limits of empathy as an ethical response to testimony. I argue that the political efficacies of empathy map the cunning discourse of political recognition onto the politics of reading in Canada Reads 2019—presumably effecting socio-political change while de-facto mobilizing literature in service of the humanitarian and multicultural myths of CanLit readership and citizenship.
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Emerging Scholars, Redux: Author – Fred Wah
April 22, 2021
Fred Wah is a BC poet who has published books of poetry, fiction, and criticism. His book of prose poems Waiting For Saskatchewan received the Governor General’s Award in 1986 and So Far was awarded the Stephanson Award for Poetry in 1992. Diamond Grill was published in 1996 and won the Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Fiction. Faking It: Poetics and Hybridity was awarded the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Writing in 2000 and is a door won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2009. Two recent poetry books involving collaborative projects are Sentenced to Light (2008) and, with Rita Wong, beholden: a poem as long as the river (2018), both published by Talonbooks. High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese, An Interactive Poem, is available online (http://highmuckamuck.ca/). His most recent publication is Music at the Heart of Thinking: Improvisations 1-170 (Talonbooks, 2020). He lives in Vancouver and on Kootenay Lake.
His poem “Basalt” can be read on our website at http://canlit.ca/article/basalt/.
Canadian Literature issue 242, Emerging Scholars, Redux, is available to order through our online store at https://canlit.ca/support/purchase/single-issues/.
Emerging Scholars, Redux: Author – Shannon Claire Toll
April 15, 2021
Shannon Toll is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Literatures and Cultures of North America at the University of Dayton. Her research interests include Native literary studies and theory, gender studies, performance studies, and film studies. Her work on contemporary Indigenous literature and performance has been featured in Transmotion (2019), Studies in American Indian Literatures (2018), and American Indian Culture and Research Journal (2015). Her current book manuscript, Oklahoma’s Indian Princesses: Native Women Performing Back to Power, studies the impact of modernist Indigenous Oklahoman women who performed as “Indian Princesses” in the early- to mid-twentieth century.
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“Disordering Enactments and (Re)mapping the Reserve in Rhymes for Young Ghouls”
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This article discusses how Mi’gmaw director Jeff Barnaby’s 2013 film Rhymes for Young Ghouls embodies the horror of the residential school system and interrogates colonial schemas of space that brought it into fruition. It focuses on the protagonist Aila’s enactment of artistic (re)mappings and “disordering” refusals that upend the violent colonial geographies that shape life in the fictional Red Crow Reserve. By employing Mishuana Goeman’s term “(re)mapping” as a frame for examining the film’s use of speculative fiction and comic book aesthetics, this article demonstrates how Rhymes portrays the historical and ongoing traumas caused by these schools, while making space for a violent reckoning of its own.
Canadian Literature issue 242, Emerging Scholars, Redux, is available to order through our online store at https://canlit.ca/support/purchase/single-issues/.
Emerging Scholars, Redux: Author – Isabella Wang
April 8, 2021
Isabella Wang is the author of two poetry collections, On Forgetting a Language (Baseline Press 2019) and Pebble Swing (Nightwood Editions forthcoming 2021). She has been shortlisted for The Malahat Review‘s Far Horizons Poetry Contest, the Minola Review‘s inaugural Poetry Contest, and shortlisted twice for The New Quarterly‘s Edna Staebler Essay Contest. Her poetry and prose have appeared in over thirty literary journals, including Prism, The Fiddlehead, and Arc Poetry Magazine, and the Watch Your Head anthology (Coach House Press, ed. Kathryn Mockler). She is pursuing a double-major in English and World Literature at Simon Fraser University, and is the editor for issue 44.2 of Room magazine.
Her poem “Hindsight” can be read on our website at http://canlit.ca/article/hindsight/.
Canadian Literature issue 242, Emerging Scholars, Redux, is available to order through our online store at https://canlit.ca/support/purchase/single-issues/.
Emerging Scholars, Redux: Author Spotlight – Nicholas Bradley
April 1, 2021
Nicholas Bradley is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. He is the editor of An Echo in the Mountains: Al Purdy after a Century (2020), and an associate editor of Canadian Literature.
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“Huckleberries and HEPA Filters: Talking Place with Fred Wah”
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Fred Wah is a distinguished Canadian poet and critic, and a former Parliamentary Poet Laureate. In this interview, conducted in late 2020, Wah describes the personal and poetic importance of place—in particular, the Kootenay region of British Columbia—and the local or regional sensibilities of early peers and mentors, including Charles Olson. He discusses the expanded edition of his Music at the Heart of Thinking (2020), and the approach to poetic improvisation taken in that book. Wah also reflects upon the republication of his early works, and on recent projects, including beholden (2018), a poetic collaboration with Rita Wong.
Canadian Literature issue 242, Emerging Scholars, Redux, is available to order through our online store at https://canlit.ca/support/purchase/single-issues/.
Emerging Scholars, Redux: Author Spotlight – Kevin Spenst
March 25, 2021
Kevin Spenst is the author of the poetry collections Jabbering with Bing Bong (Anvil Press, 2015), Ignite (Anvil Press 2016), and Hearts Amok: A Memoir in Verse (Anvil Press 2020) along with over a dozen chapbooks including Pray Goodbye (the Alfred Gustav Press, 2013), Ward Notes (the serif of nottingham, 2016), Flip Flop Faces and Unexpurgated Lives (JackPine Press 2016), and Upend (Frog Hollow Press, 2018). He teaches poetry at Vancouver Community College and is an occasional co-host at Wax Poetic on Co-op Radio. He lives on unceded Coast Salish territory in Vancouver.
His poem “The Geology of a Moment” can be read on our website at http://canlit.ca/article/the-geology-of-a-moment/.
Canadian Literature issue 242, Emerging Scholars, Redux, is available to order through our online store at https://canlit.ca/support/purchase/single-issues/.