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2010 45: 511The Journal of Commonwealth LiteratureDiana Chlebek
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IntroductionThe Canadian literary world lost several of its pre-eminent authors in 2009. Scott Symons, who passed away on 23 February, was one of the first writers in Canada to deal directly with homoerotic themes. He is best known for Place d’Armes (1967), his semi-autobiographical first novel. Robin Blaser, who died on 2 May, was an admired scholar and poet whose major collection, The Holy Forest, was awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2008. He had been part of the San Francisco Renaissance group of poets in the 1940s and 1950s, along with Robert Creeley and Allen Ginsberg; in 1966 he moved to Canada where he became a widely regarded teacher at Simon Fraser University. Phyllis Gotlieb, who died on 14 July, was a poet and novelist, best-known as the grandmother of Canadian science fiction. Her poetry collection Ordinary, Moving was nominated for a Governor General’s Award in 1970, but it is her science fiction that was most influential for Canadian writers of the genre, particularly Sunburst (1964), her debut novel.
As the nation’s economy began to recover from its slowdown in 2008, publishers of Canadian literature continued to issue creative and scholarly works of high quality that were well-received by both critics and the reading public. Numerous outstanding works of fiction were published this year. Kate Pullinger’s The Mistress of Nothing, which won the Governor General’s Award, presents the first-person narrative of Sally, maid to Lady Duff Gordon in Victorian times, as they embark together on a memorable journey down the Nile. The novel was praised for its fascinating characterization of a strong and unconventional heroine and for its intelligent observation of the play of power and love. The other works that were finalists for the award displayed a brilliant range of themes and narrative techniques. Michael Crummey’s Galore is a family saga and love story that spans two centuries and is set in the remote Newfoundland outport of Paradise Deep. Critics
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described the book as the author’s most ambitious and accomplished work to date and praised his vivacious portrayal of singular characters and a harrowing environment. In The Golden Mean, author Annabel Lyon traces a journey into the far past through the historical tale of Aristotle’s tutelage of the young Alexander the Great at the Court of Philip of Macedon. This debut novel was singled out for its richness and depth of description, character development, and plotting. The other two finalists are short story collections that skilfully probe the emotional depths of characters in their narratives. The tales in Alice Munro’s Too Much Happiness are set in the cities and towns of south-western Ontario and coastal British Columbia and highlight the paradoxes inherent in the intense emotional relationships of the protagonists in the stories. Critics praised the author’s consummate skill in depicting both intensely believable characters and rich social detail. Vanishing and Other Stories by Deborah Willis is a debut collection of tales about emotional and physical transitions, especially the ways in which people leave and are left by others. The numerous critical accolades for this work emphasize the astonishing thematic range and depth of the stories as well as their unforgettable characters.
The Scotiabank Giller Prize for fiction was awarded to Linden Macintyre’s The Bishop’s Man, a novel which centres on the sensitive topic of the sexual abuses perpetrated by Catholic priests on the innocent children under their care. The story is narrated by Father Duncan who has been his bishop’s dutiful enforcer employed to check the excesses of priests and to suppress the evidence. The work was acclaimed by critics for its brave and honest examination of the subject matter as well as its understanding treatment of the work’s credible and complex characters. On the shortlist for the prize was Kim Echlin’s The Disappeared, an elegiac tale which retrospectively narrates the obsessive love affair that a teenage Canadian woman has with a young Cambodian refugee who abandons her after the fall of Pol Pot to return home in search of his lost family. The novel’s depiction of the heroine’s quest for he lover amidst the genocidal horrors of the Cambodian killing fields was commended for its elegantly-written, spare prose and for its deeply moving account of one of the darkest chapters of twentieth-century history. Another award finalist, Colin McAdam’s Fall, is set in an exclusive Canadian boarding-school and tells the story of the obsessive love that two teenage boys have for one of the beautiful girls at the academy. The work was acclaimed for its authentic and insightful depiction of the delusions and competition that permeate adolescent sexuality. Anne Michaels’ The Winter Vault, also on the shortlist, is a love story that takes place in Canada and Egypt during the building of the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Aswan Dam. Critics praised the graceful and lyrical style of this moving narrative about the environment and human relationships. Annabel Lyon’s novel The Golden Mean was also a finalist for the Giller Prize.
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In the realm of poetry, The Governor General’s Award was won by David Zieroth for The Fly in Autumn. His collection, which deals with the theme of loneliness as a rehearsal for the common human fate of death, was acclaimed for the intricate rhyme and stunning breadth of vision in its poetry. David McFadden’s Be Calm, Honey, an award finalist, is a collection of sonnets that focus playfully on the elusiveness of experiences and thoughts. Critics praised the wisdom and humanity in the accessible plain speech the author used. Also on the shortlist was Philip Kevin Paul’s Little Hunger whose poems are based on the traditional oral culture of his Wsanec Nation ancestry. His book addresses the topics of family, place and language and was praised as a masterful expression of individual exploration and cultural survival. Another finalist, Sina Queyras’ Expressway, uses forms of pastoral poetry to critique modern day consumerism and a speed-obsessed society. Critics singled out the collection as a courageous, lyrical expression of outrage against a culture lacking in social and environmental conscience. Carmine Starnino’s This Way Out, the fifth book on the shortlist, explores the various degrees of returning home, particularly images of visits to his childhood neighbourhood and other favourite haunts. His poems were acclaimed as canny and complex odes rendered with great skill and emotional depth.
The winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize was Karen Solie’s Pigeon. Her poems deeply penetrate the delusions and corrosive effects of human desire and were praised by the award jury for their powerful imagery and profound insights. On the shortlist was Kate Hall’s The Certainty Dream, poems which describe the magical associative leaps between the real world and the dream world. This debut collection was singled out for its lyrical power to invoke moods and simulate processes of thought. The third finalist was Coal and Roses, a posthumous publication by the great Canadian poet P.K. Page. The work is a collection of twenty-one intricately formal glosas, a Renaissance form first created by Spanish court poets. In these poems Page explores the endless possibilities of language represented by the works of artists selected from a wide span of centuries, genres and countries. Critics acclaimed Page’s final work as a unique memoir and great homage to her forebears and colleagues.
The Governor General’s Award for drama was won by Kevin Loring for Where the Blood Mixes, a play which focuses on the return of a young Aboriginal woman to her west coast community after she has spent many unhappy years in a residential school. The author was lauded for transforming a complex, traumatic aspect of native history into an intensely compelling personal drama. On the award shortlist was Beverley Cooper’s Innocence Lost, a dramatization of the miscarriage of justice in the case of Stephen Truscott, a fourteen-year-old boy who was wrongfully convicted and executed for the rape and murder of a young female classmate. The play was commended as an especially poignant and
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balanced examination of Canada’s most infamous wrongful conviction. Joan MacLeod’s Another Home Invasion, another award finalist, presents the story of a criminal’s invasion of the home of an elderly couple and his subsequent return as a visitor. The play was praised for its vivid and direct exploration of themes such as family betrayal and the strength of love. Also on the shortlist was Hannah Moscovitch’s East of Berlin which dramatizes the tragic life of a Nazi war criminal’s son who strives to discover the truth about his father’s wartime past. Critics described the monologue narrative form the author uses as a particularly effective technique in confronting the difficult moral questions raised by the play’s subject matter. The finalist Talk, by Michael Nathanson, is a dialogue that probes the interaction between the personal and the political when two old friends, Josh and Gordon, get together in a bar and engage in a heated argument about the conflict in the Middle East. The play was very positively reviewed for its engaging, complex examination of the power of language and the nature of friendship.
Two particularly noteworthy anthologies appeared this year. The Al Purdy A-frame Anthology is a tribute to Al Purdy, the colossal force in Canadian poetry who died in 2001. The book is not only a collection of poems and reminiscences by many of Canada’s greatest writers about their colleague, but it also represents a campaign to preserve Purdy’s A-frame as a symbol of the centre of his writing universe and as a place of congregation where he influenced many notable Canadian authors. Canada and the Theatre of War is a compilation of stage plays by several national leading playwrights. The collection is the first volume of a series and is timely in its address to the same wartime issues of history, trauma, and identity that overwhelm the world in its current global conflicts.
Autobiographies by several major writers were published. Margaret Avison’s I Am Here and Not Not-There, a posthumous work, is an extensive self-portrait by one of Canada’s most revered writers. Wayson Choy’s Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying compellingly depicts his traumatic illnesses and how they influenced his creative process. Lesley Choyce’s Seven Ravens: Two Summers in a Life by the Sea and Lorna Crozier’s Small beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir focus on influential environments. These memoirs trace the writer’s creative connection of the physical world and the literary world. The publication of Northrop Frye: Selected Letters, 1934-1991 is a major contribution to the record of the professional and personal correspondence of a pre-eminent literary critic of the twentieth century.
In the realm of literary criticism, several studies were published that deal with topics of multicultural interest and with diversity issues that have hitherto received scant attention. Plural Sovereignties and Contemporary Indigenous Literature by Stuart Christie and Taking back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing by Jo-Ann
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Episkenew focus on themes of sovereign plurality and cultural identity in Aboriginal literature and culture. Two publications appeared that contribute valuable scholarship in neglected areas of literary research about Canadian women authors. Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women’s Poetry and Poetics, edited by Kate Eichhorn and Heather Milne, and Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry, edited by Di Brandt and Barbara Godard, are both collections of essays that explore the unique and exemplary contributions to Canadian literature by women poets, critics, cultural activists, and experimental prose writers. Two of Canada’s pre-eminent journals of literary criticism and cultural studies devoted special issues to timely topics. Volume 201 of Canadian Literature edited by Laura Moss covered the topic of “Strategic Nationalisms”. Volume 78, issue 2 of the University of Toronto Quarterly, edited by Heike Härting and Smaro Kamboureli, explored “Discourses of Security, Peacekeeping Narratives, and the Cultural Imagination in Canada”.
Scholars of Canadian literature should find Atlantic Canada’s 100 Greatest Books by Trevor J. Adams and Stephen Patrick Clare a particularly helpful reference resource on the literature of the Maritimes.
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TranslationsAquin, Hubert Shifting Sands trans notes and critical essay Joseph Jones
109pp Ronsdale (Vancouver) Pb $19.95 [includes original French text of novel Les Sables mouvants and bibliographical references].
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––– Mobility of Light: The Poetry of Nicole Brossard select and introd Louise H. Forsyth afterword Nicole Brossard 144pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Pb $18 [bilingual text with the original French].
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Ltaif, Nadine Changing Shores trans Christine Tipper 52pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $15 [trans of French poetry collection Entre les fleuves].
Malenfant, Paul Chanel If This Were Death trans Marylea MacDonald 137pp Guernica (Toronto) Pb $20 [trans of French poetry collection Des Ombres portées].
Mandeville, François This Is What They Say: A Story Cycle in Northern Alberta in 1928 ed and trans Ron Scollon foreword Robert Brighurst 286pp Douglas & McIntyre (Toronto) Pb $22.95 [includes some of the original Chipewyan text and bibliographical references].
Ouellette-Michalska, Madeleine The Trestler House intro Janet M. Paterson trans W. Donald Wilson 288pp (Toronto) Pb $25 [trans of French novel La Maison Trestler, ou, Le 8e jour d’Amérique].
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Rioux, Hélène Wednesday Night at the End of the World trans Jonathan Kaplansky 250pp Cormorant (Toronto) Pb $21 [trans of French novel Mercredi soir au Bout du monde].
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Tremblay, Michel The Blue Notebook trans Sheila Fischman 272pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $24.95 [trans of French novel Le Cahier bleu].
Letters and AutobiographyAvison, Margaret I Am Here and Not Not-There 351pp Porcupine’s Quill
(Erin, ON) Pb $27.95. Choy, Wayson Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying 195pp
Doubleday Canada (Toronto) Hb $29.95. Choyce, Lesley Seven Ravens: Two Summers in a Life by the Sea 249pp
Wolsak & Wynn (Hamilton, ON) Pb $19.Crozier, Lorna Small beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir 197pp Greystone
(Vancouver) Hb $28.95. Frye, Northrop Northrop Frye: Selected Letters, 1934-1991 ed Robert D.
Denham 336pp McFarland (Jefferson, NC) Pb $49.95.
Anthologies09: Best Canadian Stories ed John Metcalf 168pp Oberon (Ottawa) Pb
$19.95.The Al Purdy A-frame Anthology ed Paul Vermeersch introd Dennis Lee
160pp Harbour (Madeira Park, BC) Pb $26.95 [poems and reminiscences of writers about Al Purdy; includes bibliographical references].
The Best Canadian Poetry in English ed A.F. Moritz 151pp Tightrope (Toronto) Pb $18.95.
Can’tLit: Fearless Fiction from Broken Pencil Magazine ed Richard Rosenbaum 218pp ECW (Toronto) Pb $19.95 [short stories].
Canada and the Theatre of War select and ed Donna Coates and Sherrill Grace 512pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $29.95 [plays].
Coming Attractions 09 ed Mark Anthony Jarman 128ppOberon (Ottawa) Pb $19.95 [short stories].
Distant Early Warnings: Canada’s Best Science Fiction ed Robert J. Sawyer 309pp Red Deer (Calgary) Pb $15.95.
The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology (2009) ed intro Michael Redhill 112pp Anansi Toronto) Pb $18.95
Hard Ol’ Spot: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Fiction select Mike Heffernan illus Darren Whalen 200pp Killick (St. John’s, NL) Pb $19.95.
The Journey Prize Stories 21: The Best of Canada’s New Writers ed Camilla Gibb Lee Henderson and Rebecca Rosenblum 272pp McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) Pb $17.99.
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Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems ed Nancy Holmes introd Don McKay 511pp Wilfred Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Pb $38.95.
Penned: Zoo Poems ed Stephanie Bolster, Katia Grubisic and Simon Reader 150pp Signal (Montréal) Pb $21.95.
Rocksalt: An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry 272pp ed Mona Fertig and Harold Rhenisch Mother Tongue (Salt Spring Island, BC) Pb $24.95 [2008].
Summerworks: Great Plays from the Indie Theatre Festival ed Michael Rubenfeld 335pp Playwrights Canada (Toronto) Pb $24.95.
The Verse Map of Vancouver ed George McWhirter photos Derek von Essen 200pp Anvil (Vancouver) Hb $45 [poetry].
Criticismgeneral studies
“The Afterlife of the City: Reconsidering Urban Poetic Practice” Maia Joseph Studies in Canadian Literature 34(2) pp152–177.
“Canada and Its Images of North” Sherril Grace pp51–68 in Images of the North: Histories-Identities-Ideas ed Sverrir Jakobsson 292pp Rodopi (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Pb $89.90.
“The Canadian Little Magazine Past and Present: Can Digitizing a Literary Subculture Make a Movement?” Tony Tremblay and Ellen Rose Canadian Literature 200 pp16–36.
“Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way” Monique Mojica pp114–125 in Performing Worlds into Being: Native American Women’s Theater ed and introd Ann Elizabeth Armstrong, Kelli Lyon Johnson and William A. Wortman 193pp Miami Univ Press (Oxford, OH) Pb $29.99.
“‘The Corn People Have a Song Too. It Is Very Good’: On Beauty, Truth, and Goodness” J. Edward Chamberlin Studies in American Indian Literatures 21(3) pp66–89.
An English Canadian Poetics: Vol. 1 The Confederation Poets ed Robert Hogg introd D.M.R. Bentley 319pp Talon Books (Vancouver) Pb $29.95 [includes bibliographical references].
“Everyday Arabness: The Poethics of Arab Canadian Literature and Film” Nouri Gana CR: The New Centennial Review 9(2) pp21–44.
From a Speaking Place: Writings from the First 50 Yyears of Canadian Literature ed W.H. New, Réjean Beaudoin et al 434pp Ronsdale (Vancouver) Pb $24.95 [includes bibliographical references].
“Generic Experiment and Confusion in Early Canadian Novels of the Great War” Colin Hill Studies in Canadian Literature 34(2) pp58–76.
“Hearts of Its Women: Rape, (Residential Schools), and Re-membering” Ric Knowles pp136-151 in Native American Performance and Representation ed S. E. Wilmer 286pp Univ of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ) US $49.95.
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“’Here the Country Is Uncertain’: Canadian Incarcerated Authors Trans-Scribing Prison” Deena Rymhs Biography 32(1) pp102–113.
“Imagery of French Canada in Canadian Literature in English” Carla Comellini pp137–146 in Lectures de Québec ed and preface Anna Paola Mossetto ed Jean-François Plamondon 246pp Pendragon (Bologna, Italy) unpriced.
Imagining Justice: The Politics of Postcolonial Forgiveness and Reconciliation Julie McGonegal 233pp McGill-Queen’s Univ Press (Montréal) Hb $95 [includes bibliographical references].
My Beloved Wager: Essays from a Writing Practice Erin Mouré ed Smaro Kambourelli 349pp NeWest (Edmonton) Pb $24.95.
“Owners of the Past: Readbacks or Tradition in Mi’kmaq Narratives”Anne-Christine Hornborg Native American Performance and Representation pp61–77 [see “Hearts of Its Women”, this section].
Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women’s Poetry and Poetics ed Kate Eichhorn and Heather Milne 407pp Coach House (Toronto) Pb $19.95
Peripheral Fear: Transformations of the Gothic in Canadian and Australian Fiction Gerry Turcotte 260pp Peter Lang (Brussels, Belgium) Pb $49.95 [includes bibliographical references and index].
Plural Sovereignties and Contemporary Indigenous Literature Stuart Christie 296pp Palgrave Macmillan (New York, NY) US $90.
“Silence, Memory, and Imagination as Story” Connie T. Braun Journal of the Center for Mennonite Writing 1(3) pp1–7.
“Stories from the Body: Blood Memory and Organic Texts” Monique Mojica Native American Performance and Representation pp97–109 [see “Hearts of Its Women”, this section].
Taking back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing Jo-Ann Episkenew 247pp Univ of Manitoba Press (Winnipeg) Pb $27.95 [includes bibliographical references and index].
“Towards a Pedagogy of African-Canadian Literature” George Elliott Clarke pp363–391 Shared Waters: Sounding in Postcolonial Literatures ed and introd Stella Borg Barthet 412pp Rodopi (Amsterdam) US $131.75.
Transnational Canadas: Anglo-Canadian Literature and Globalization Kit Dobson 236pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Pb $36.95.
Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic ed and introd Cynthia Sugars and Gerry Turcotte 297pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Pb $38.95.
We Are What We Mourn: The Contemporary English-Canadian Elegy Priscila Uppal 312pp McGill-Queen’s Univ Press (Montréal, QC) Hb $95.
What the Furies Bring Kenneth Sherman 170pp Porcupine’s Quill (Erin, ON) Pb $19.95.
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Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry ed and introd Di Brandt ed Barbara Godard 417pp Wilfrid Laurier Univ Press (Waterloo, ON) Pb $36.95.
Wild Words: Essays on Alberta Literature ed Donna Coates and George Melnyk 224pp AU Press (Edmonton) Pb $29.95 [includes bibliographical references and index].
“Writers without Borders: The Global Framework of Canada’s Early Literary History” Carole Gerson Canadian Literature 201 pp15–33.
studies on individual writers
Atwood, Margaret “Dark Stories: Poet-Audience Relations and the Journey Underground in Margaret Atwood’s The Door and Other Works” Studies in Canadian Literature 34(2) pp106–133.
––– Engendering Genre: The Works of Margaret Atwood Reingard M. Nischik 315pp Univ of Ottawa Press (Ottawa) Pb $34.95 [includes interview with Margaret Atwood, bibliographical references and index].
––– “Exis-Tensions: Surviving the Red Shoes Syndrome in Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle” Kiley Kapuscinski University of Toronto Quarterly 78(3) pp902–923.
––– Margaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman Ellen McWilliams 170pp Ashgate (Surrey, England) US $89.95.
––– “Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake: Canadian Post-9/11 Worries” Sharon Sutherland and Sarah Swan pp219–235 in From Solidarity to Schisms: 9/11 and after in Fiction and Film from Outside the US ed and introd Cara Cilano 327pp Rodopi (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Pb $102.30.
––– “May I Laugh about Women’s Lib? or: The Difficult Relationship of Humour and Feminism in Margaret Atwood, Caryl Churchill, and Helen Fielding” Susanne Bach pp315–328 in Gender and Laughter: Comic Affirmation and Subversion in Traditional and Modern Media ed and introd Gaby Pailer ed Andreas Böhn, Stefan Horlacher and Ulrich Scheck 386pp Rodopi (Amsterdam) US $117.80.
––– “A Necessary Curse: Ambivalence toward Technology in Two Recent Post-Apocalyptic Novels” William E. Sheidley pp95–99 in The Image of Technology ed and introd Will Wright and Steven Kaplan 366pp Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, Colorado State University-Pueblo (Pueblo, CO).
––– “Offred’s Complicity and Dystopian Tradition in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale” Allan Weiss Studies in Canadian Literature 34(1) pp120–141.
––– “The Penelopiad and Weight: Contemporary Parodic and Burlesque Transformations of Classical Myths” Hilde Staels College Literature 36(4) pp101–118.
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––– “The Personal Essay as Autobiography: A Gender and Genre Approach” Isabel Duran Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 58 pp41–65.
––– “‘Quattrocento’: On an Eclectic Poem by Margaret Atwood” Georgiana Banita Explicator 67(2) pp99–102.
––– “White-Washing Oppression in Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale” Ben Merriman Notes on Contemporary Literature 39(1) pp8–10.
Bates, Judy Fong “Re-Inscribing Difference: Judy Fong Bates’s China Dogs and Other Tales” Eleanor Ty pp157–169 in Her Na-rra-tion, Women’s Narratives of the Canadian Nation ed and introd Francoise Le Jeune and Charlotte Sturgess 193pp Université de Nantes (Nantes, France).
Bjarnason, Jóhann Magnús “The Adventures of David Copperfield in Nova Scotia” Kirsten Wolf pp297–315 in The Nordic Storyteller ed and introd Susan Brantly ed Thomas A. DuBois 420pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle) US $74.99.
Bök, Christian “The Meaning Revealed at the Nth Degree in Christian Bök’s Eunoia” Sean Braune Studies in Canadian Literature 34(2) pp134–151.
Brand, Dionne “Affective Coordination and Avenging Grace: Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here” John Corr Canadian Literature 201 pp113–129.
––– “Rough Play: Reading Black Masculinity in Austin Clarke’s ‘Sometimes, a Motherless Child’ and Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For” Phanuel Antwi Studies in Canadian Literature 34(2) pp194–222.
Bush, Catherine “The Individual is International: Discourses of the Personal in Catherine Bush’s The Rules of Engagement and Canada’s International Policy Statement” Benjamin Authers University of Toronto Quarterly 78(2) pp782–799.
Butala, Sharon “Deep Map Country: Proposing a Dinnseanchas Cycle of the Northern Plains” Susan Naramore Maher Studies in Canadian Literature 34(1) pp160–181.
––– “W(h)ither the Grasslands? Arcadians and Utopians in the Recent Novels of Sharon Butala” Dallas Harrison Isle 16(2) pp299–326.
Carr, Emily “Klee Wyck: A Canadian Exploration amidst a Totem Pole Forest” Elisabeth Bouzonviller pp51–64 in In-Between Two Worlds: Narratives by Female Explorers and Travellers 1850-1945 ed and introd Béatrice Bijon and Gérard Gâcon 199pp Peter Lang (New York, NY) US $72.95.
Cheechoo, Shirley “Embodiment as a Healing Process: Native American Women and Performance” Shelley Scott in Native American Performance and Representation pp123–135 [see “Hearts of Its Women”, General Studies].
Clarke, Austin C., see Brand, Dionne, this section.––– “The Trans-American Outcast and Figurations of Displacement”
Amaryll Chanady Comparative Literature 61(3) pp335–345.
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Clarke, George Elliott “Adapting Identities: Race and Rescue in the Work of George Elliott Clarke” Lydia Wilkinson and Keren Zaiontz pp227–241 in Performing Adaptations: Essays and Conversations on the Theory and Practice of Adaptation ed. and introd Michelle MacArthur, Lydia Wilkinson and Keren Zaiontz 273pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle) Hb $59.99.
––– “‘Oui, Let’s Scat’: Listening to Multi-Vocality in George Elliott Clarke’s Jazz Opera Québécité” Katherine McLeod Mosaic 42(1) pp133–150.
––– “Sharing Quebec: Lorena Gale’s Je me souviens and George Elliott Clarke’s Québécité” Pilar Cuder–Domínguez Shared Waters pp353–361 [see “Towards a Pedagogy”, General Studies].
Cohen, Leonard “Celebrity and the Poetic Dialogue of Irving Layton and Leonard Cohen” Joel Deshaye Studies in Canadian Literature 34(2) pp77–105.
––– “Nietzsche as Educator: Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers and the Achievement of Innocence” Mark Migotti Studies in Canadian Literature 34(1) pp41–57.
Davies, Robertson Aspects of Robertson Davies’ Novels Victor J. Lams 308pp Peter Lang (New York, NY) US $81.95.
Dumont, Marilyn “‘Exorcising a Lot of Shame’: Transformation and Affective Experience in Marilyn Dumont’s Green Girl Dreams Mountains” Cara DeHaan Studies in Canadian Literature 34(1) pp227–247.
Duncan, Sara Jeannette “The Death of the New Woman in Sara Jeannette Duncan’s A Daughter of To-Day” Janice Fiamengo Studies in Canadian Literature 34(1) pp5–21.
Eaton, Winnifred “Ambivalent Passages: Racial and Cultural Crossings in Onoto Watanna’s The Heart of Hyacinth” Huining Ouyang MELUS 34(1) pp211–229.
Engel, Marian “‘Nordism’: The Translation of ‘Orientalism’ into a Canadian Concept” Petra Rüdiger pp35–45 in Translation of Cultures ed and introd Petra Rüdiger and Konrad Gross 306pp Rodopi (Amsterdam, Netherlands) US $99.20.
Findley, Timothy “‘Only an Animal. Nothing Human’: Menagerie as Counter-Hegemony in Timothy Findley’s Not Wanted on the Voyage” Vincent J. Guihan pp246–266 in Of Mice and Men: Animals in Human Culture ed and introd Nandita Batra and Vartan Messier 274pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle) US $59.99.
Frye, Northrop Northrop Frye: New Directions from Old ed David Rampton 372pp Univ of Ottawa Press (Ottawa) Pb $38 [includes bibliographical references and index].
Gale, Lorena, see Clarke, George Elliott this section.Gordon, Charles William “‘A Canoe and a Tent and God’s Great
Out-of-Doors’: Muscular Christianity and the Flight from Domesticity, 1880s-1930s” David M. Marshall pp23–42 in Masculinity and the Other:
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Historical Perspectives ed and introd Heather Ellis and Jessica Meyer 337pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle) US $67.99.
Hage, Rawi “Apocalyptic Narrative Recalls and the Human: Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game” Najat Rahman University of Toronto Quarterly 78 (2) pp800–814.
Haliburton, Thomas Chandler “The Political Other in Nineteenth-Century British North America: The Satire of Thomas Chandler Haliburton” Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy Early American Studies 7(1) pp205–234.
Harris, Claire “Inhabitable Spaces in Claire Harris’s She” Studies in Canadian Literature Veronica J. Austen 34(2) pp178–193.
Highway, Tomson “Beyond the Contact Zone? Mapping Transcultural Spaces in Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen and Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach” Katja Sarkowsky pp323–338 in Transcultural English Studies: Theories, Fictions, Realities ed and introd Frank Schulze-Engler ed Sissy Helff, Claudia Perner and Christine Vogt-William 469pp Rodopi (Amsterdam) US $150.35.
––– “Productive Dissonance: Classical Music in Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen” Sarah Wylie Krotz Studies in Canadian Literature 34(1) pp182–203.
––– “Weesageechak Meets the Weetigo: Storytelling, Humour, and Trauma in the Fiction of Richard Van Camp, Tomson Highway, and Eden Robinson” Kristina Fagan Studies in Canadian Literature 34(1) pp204–226.
Humphreys, Helen “Striving for ‘Some Version of the Truth’: A Conversation with Helen Humphreys” Kiley Kapuscinski Studies in Canadian Literature 34(1) pp248–263.
Itani, Frances “The Silence of Sounds” Donna McDonald pp173–183 in Literature and Sensation ed and introd Anthony Uhlmann, Helen Groth, Paul Sheehan and Stephen McLaren 322pp Cambridge Scholars (Newcastle) US $67.99.
Johnson, Pauline “Indian Mysteries and Comic Stunts: The Royal Tour and the Theatre of Empire” Jane Stafford and Mark Williams Journal of Commonwealth Literature 44 (2) pp87–105.
King, Thomas “’Everybody Knows That Song’: The Necessary Trouble of Teaching Thomas King’s Truth and Bright Water” Tanis MacDonald Canadian Literature 201 pp35–51.
––– “‘There Isn’t a Mr. Heavyman’: Will’s Negatives in Medicine River” Francis Zichy Studies in American Indian Literatures 21(2) pp25–49.
Kiyooka, Roy Kenzie “Multiculturalism and the Formation of a Diasporic Counterpublic in Roy K. Kiyooka’s Stoned Gloves” Stephen Morton Canadian Literature 201 pp89–109.
Kogawa, Joy Nozomi “The ‘Hidden Manna’ that Breeds Hope: The Event of Resurrection in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan” Shounan Hsu Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture 2(2) pp39–69.
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Layton, Irving see Cohen, Leonard, this sectionLeacock, Stephen “The Epistemology of Adaptation in John Greyson’s
‘Lilies’” Lawrence Howe Performing Adaptations pp203–222 [see Clarke, George Elliott, this section].
Li, Kwai-Yun “When East Meets East: Framing the Sino-South Asian Diaspora” Pallavi Rastogi Journal of Commonwealth Literature 44(1) pp35–52.
Lowry, Malcolm Strange Comfort: Essays on the Work of Malcolm Lowry Sherrill Grace 223pp Talonbooks (Vancouver) Pb $19.95 [includes bibliographical references].
MacDonald, Ann-Marie “Embracing Difference in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Our Knees” Hilde Staels Orbis Litterarum 64(4) pp324–338.
MacLeod, Alistair “Scottish Territories and Canadian Identity: Regional Aspects in the Literature of Alistair MacLeod” Kirsten Sandrock Translation of Cultures pp169–182 [see Engel, Marian, this section]
Macpherson, Jay “‘Absence, Havoc’: Gothic Mourning and Daughterly Duty in Jay Macpherson’s Welcoming Disaster” Tanis MacDonald Studies in Canadian Literature 34 (1) pp58–80.
Marlyn, John “‘The Same as Bein’ Canadian’: John Marlyn’s Eye among the Blind” Benjamin Lefebvre Studies in Canadian Literature 34(1) pp22–40.
McCarthy, Cormac see Atwood, Margaret, this section Miki, Roy “After Redress: A Conversation with Roy Miki” Guy Beauregard
Canadian Literature 201 pp71–86.Mojica, Monique “Blind Faith Remembers… This Ain’t No Masque:
Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots as Transformative Ritual for the Grandmothers, the Ones Who Remain, and for the Ones Who Are Yet to Come” Jill Carter Performing Worlds into Being pp7–28 [see “Chocolate Woman”, General Studies].
––– “The Pocahontas Myth and Its Deconstruction in Monique Mojica’s Play: Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots” Maria Lyytinen Native American Performance and Representation pp78–94 [see “Owners of the Past”, General Studies].
Montgomery, L. M. 100 Years of Anne with an ‘E’: The Centennial Study of Anne of Green Gables ed and introd Holly Blackford 264pp Univ of Calgary Press (Calgary, AB) Pb $34.95.
––– L. M. Montgomery Jane Urquhart introd John Ralston Saul 161pp Penguin Canada (Toronto) Hb $26 [includes bibliographical references].
––– “The Sweetness of Saying ‘Mother’?: Maternity and Narrativity in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables” Michael Keren Studies in Canadian Literature 34(2) pp22–39.
Munro, Alice Daughters and Mothers in Alice Munro’s Later Stories Deborah Heller 49pp Workwomans (Seattle, WA) Pb $12.
––– “Roberta’s Raspberry Bombe and Critical Indifference in Alice Munro’s ‘Labor Day Dinner’” Ryan Melsom Studies in Canadian Literature 34(1) pp142–159.
––– “‘The Way the Stars Really Do Come out at Night’: The Trick of Representation in Alice Munro’s ‘The Moons of Jupiter’” Tim McIntyre Canadian Literature 200 pp73–89.
Ondaatje, Michael “Beyond the Sensation Novel: Social Crime Fiction-Qualia of the Real World” Pamela Newton Literature and Sensation pp34–49 [see Itani, Frances, this section].
––– “The Otherless Other, or the Anonymity of Water: Unmapping Ondaatje’s ‘Sand Sea’ Self in Minghella’s ‘The English Patient’” Saviour Catania and Ivan Callus pp229–243 in Shared Waters: Sounding in Postcolonial Literatures ed and introd Stella Borg Barthet 412pp Rodopi (Amsterdam) US $131.75.
––– “The Politics of Life after Death: Ondaatje’s Ghost” Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps Journal of Postcolonial Writing 45(2) pp201–212.
––– “The Private Uses of Quiet Grandeur: A Meditation on Literary Pilgrimage” Judith P. Robertson and Linda A. Radford Changing English 16(2) pp203–209 [on Divisadero].
––– “‘We Live Permanently in the Recurrence of Our Own Stories’: Michael Ondaatje’s Divisadero” Sofie de Smyter Studies in Canadian Literature 34(1) pp99–119.
Pratt, E. J. “’Was Ever an Adventure without Its Cost?’: The Price of National Unity in E. J. Pratt’s Towards the Last Spike” Erica Kelly Canadian Literature 200 pp37–55.
Radu, Kenneth “Translation of Romanian Culture in Kenneth Radu’s Fiction” Monica Bottez Translation of Cultures pp47–58 [see Engel, Marian, this section].
Reaney, James “James Reaney” MargaretAtwood Brick 82 pp160–161.Robinson, Eden see Highway,Tomson, this section––– “The Fate of the Oolichan: Prospects of Eco-Cultural Restoration
in Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach” Ella Soper-Jones Journal of Commonwealth Literature 44(2) pp15–33.
––– “Indigeneity and Diversity in Eden Robinson’s Work” Kit Dobson Canadian Literature 201 pp54–67.
––– see Highway,Tomson, this sectionRoss, Sinclair “‘Seeing Religiously That His Socks Were Always Darned’:
Serving Idols in As for Me and My House” Janice Fiamengo Canadian Literature 200 pp56–72.
Scott, Duncan Campbell “Duncan Campbell Scott’s ‘The Fragment of a Letter’” Tracy Ware Explicator 67(3) pp162–165.
Seth, Vikram see Itani, Frances, this section
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Shields, Carol “Get out of My Psychic Space!: Biographical Recognition and ‘Response-Ability’ in Carol Shields’s Fiction” Elizabeth Reimer Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory 20(4) pp241–265.
––– “A Human Conversation about Goodness: Carol Shields’s Unless” Margaret Steffler Studies in Canadian Literature 34(2) pp223–244.
Van Camp, Richard see Highway, Tomson, this sectionVanderhaeghe, Guy “A Desire for the Real: The Power of Film and The
Englishman’s Boy” Robert Zacharias Studies in Canadian Literature 34(2) pp245–263.
Vassanji, M. G. “East African Fiction and Globalization” Peter Kalliney pp259–273 in Teaching the African Novel ed and introd Gaurav Desai 427pp Modern Language Association of America (New York, NY) Pb $25.
Walker, George F. “Deconstructing the Canadian Mosaic: Heaven by George F. Walker” Sabine Schlüter Translation of Cultures pp199–212 [see Engel, Marian, this section].
––– “Evicted in-and from-Toronto: Walker’s Beautiful City at Factory Theatre” J. Chris Westgate Comparative Drama 43(2) pp221–245.
Wiebe, Rudy “Exploring Boundaries: The North in Western Canadian Writing” Janne Korkka Shared Waters pp335–352 [see “Towards a Pedagogy”, General Studies].
York, Jenethea “‘Hello, Canada! It’s Fine to Have You Here’: Canadian Nationhood, Women and Popular Fiction during the Second World War” Michelle Denise Smith Journal of Commonwealth Literature 44(1) pp5–22.
Non-fictionAnnihilated Time: Poetry and Other Politics Jeff Derksen 303pp Talonbooks
(Vancouver) Pb $19.95 [includes bibliographical references].The Best Canadian Essays, 2009 ed Alex Boyd & Carmine Starnino 135pp
Tightrope (Toronto) Pb $18.95 [includes bibliographical references]. Cabin Fever: The Best New Canadian Non-Fiction ed Moira Farr and Ian
Pearson introd Marni Jackson 335pp Thomas Allen (Toronto) Pb $24.95. City of Words: Toronto through Her Writers’ Eyes ed and introd Sarah
First Voices: An Aboriginal Women’s Reader ed Patricia A. Monture and Patricia D. McGuire 538pp Inanna (Toronto) Pb $39.95 [includes bibliographical references and index].
The Heart Does Break: Canadian Writers on Grief and Mourning ed George Bowering and Jean Baird 351pp Random House Canada (Toronto) Hb$29.95.
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A History of Canadian Culture Jonathan Vance 500pp Oxford Univ Press (Don Mills, ON) Hb $39.95 [includes bibliographical references and index].
In Bed with the Word: Reading, Spirituality, and Cultural Politics Daniel Coleman 142pp Univ of Alberta Press (Edmonton) Pb $24.95.
The Last Best West: An Exploration of Myth, Identity and Quality of Life in Western Canada ed Anne Gagnon et al 244pp New Star (Vancouver) Pb $24 [includes bibliographical references].
The Marram Grass: Poetry & Otherness Anne Simpson 149pp Gaspereau (Kentville, NS) Hb $38.95 [includes bibliographical references].
A Peepshow with Views of the Interior: Paratexts Aislinn Hunter 103pp Palimpsest (Kingsville, ON) Pb $18 [essays; includes bibliographical references].
A Place Within: Rediscovering India M.G. Vassanji 440pp Anchor Canada (Toronto) Pb $21.
Journalsspecial issues
Canadian Literature ed and introd Smaro Kamboureli special issue Disappearance and Mobility 201 pp6–129.
––– ed and introd Laura Moss special issue Strategic Nationalisms 200 pp6–202.
University of Toronto Quarterly ed and introd Heike Härting and Smaro Kamboureli afterword Sherene H. Razack special issue Discourses of Security, Peacekeeping Narratives, and the Cultural Imagination in Canada 78(2) pp659–686.
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