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This article analyses the various connotations of the name of the protagonist in Jane Urquhart's Irish-Canadian novel Away, first published in 1993. The heroine Mary changes her name to Moira at the start of the book, which leads the reader to ponder on the significance of these names. By exploring the classical, topographical, naval, linguistic and religious undertones of Mary/Moira, this study seeks to demonstrate how the Canadian author conveys notions of postcolonialism throughout her novel with the choice of a character's name. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studies of postcolonial trauma investigate Cathy Caruth's contention that traumatic psychopathology, by virtue of its universality, can bridge cultural difference. David Bergen's The Time in Between tests this theory in relation to the Vietnam War. Bergen's novel recognizes trauma as an effective, though limited, vehicle of cultural reconciliation that ultimately needs to be supplemented by further discursive resistance. Although the novel's treatment of trauma resists Orientalist representations of Vietnam, forms of parallelism point to tacit cultural fissures, which are countered through narrative self-reflexivity and the frustration of what Edward Said terms the "exteriority of representation." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the idea of Canadians as postcolonial subjects through ideas found in his references to the country's history as a British colony. To explore this idea, the author examines the essays of the Canadian novelist, poet, and theorist Robert Kroetsch. The author also discusses Kroetsch's writings on British colonialism from the perspectives used by Ashcroft, Griffiths, and Tiffin in their 1989 survey of postcolonial literature, "The Empire Writes Back."

Examines the location of Canada in the contemporary postcolonial discourse. Concept of national identity based on Canadian definition; Discussion on central problems of postcolonial theory; Factors contributing to postcolonial complexities of Canada in literature.

This article points out that Canadian literature, culture and environment are interrelated as evidenced in the listserv operated by the Association for Literature, Environment and Cultural in Canada. It is observed that colonialism in Canada must be addressed even in postcolonial studies because environmental issues are part of postcolonial Canada. It is noted that environmentalists, historians, biologists, geographers and others have actually similar interests and need to cooperate.