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This article explores the nature of nationalistic identity and its effect on international literature translations. The translating errors of Hannah Josephson seen in "The Tin Flute," based on the book "Bonheur d'occasion," by Gabrielle Roy, are analyzed. The author suggests that through translating language, the national ideals and worldviews of the writer and translator come to effect each other and the work.

This article explores the depictions of the Canadian urban poor and the effects of negative capitalist "progress," in the novel "La Rivière sans repos," by Gabrielle Roy. The central focus of the Inuit population and their portrayal as being fatigued and impoverished is examined from a literary and economic perspective.

This article explores the literary depictions of urban life and community interaction in a defined social space, particularly in the mountains of Montreal, Quebec. The metaphorical paradigm put forth by writer Michel de Certeau in his book "The Practice of Everyday Life," describing urban space as an "invisible text," is applied to several other examples of Canadian fiction.