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The article presents the discussion on Canadian literature. Topics include presuming that others lie beyond the bounds of the field, what moves are being made about how we map geographies and write histories; and important work being produced by Indigenous scholars and their incisive critiques of settler colonialism.

The article focuses on the complexities of Canadian identity and literature, especially concerning the relationship between settler colonialism and Indigenous peoples. Topics include struggles of defining Canadian-ness; the ethical considerations in producing Canadian literature; various literary works that explore identity and imprecision in the Canadian context; and themes of refugee theatre, racialized and gendered narratives in graphic memoirs, and climatological relations in literature.

The article focuses on the chapter "The Future(s) of Indigenous Horror: Moon of the Crusted Snow" from open access resource CanLit Guides which focuses on horror of Indigenous with examination of novel of author Waubgeshig Rice. Topics discussed include book "Moon of the Crusted Snow" by Rice which discusses Indigenous genre fiction, pedagogy of the chapter focused on indigenous scholarship and knowledge, and prominence gained by Indigenous fiction in Canadian literary pedagogy.

The article is a conversation between Canadian comics historians John Bell and Ivan Kocmarek as part of the 80 Years and Beyond: A Virtual Symposium on Canadian Comics. Canadian comics historians John Bell and Ivan Kocmarek discuss the challenges of archiving, preserving, and maintaining access to Canadian comics past and present. Bell describes his early interest in Canadian comics and how he began building his research collection in the mid-1970s.

The article discusses people, publications, institutions, and events that press forward to document Canadian comics culture.Topics include the closure of Koyama Press, a Canadian small publisher, in 2021 and the impact of its disappearance on Canadian comics culture; the need to preserve Canadian comics memory and culture, and explores the possibility of archives as a historical and bibliographic tool for studying the literary field.

The article presents the underreported chapter in Canadian history and the history of comics censorship by examining previously unpublished and unprocessed materials from the Provincial Archives of Alberta in Edmonton. It explores the Advisory Board on Objectionable Publications (ABOP) in Alberta, Canada to control the sale of objectionable comics, tabloids, and magazines.It also mentions tha release of pamphlet "What's Wrong with Comic Books?" in 1956.

An editorial is presented on Canadian literature focusing on Canadian comics that can be traced back to various origins, such as, European and colonial visual storytelling, or editorial cartoons in newspapers. It is inspired by "The 80 Years and Beyond: A Virtual Symposium on Canadian Comics" ,which aims to expand the field by recognizing different traditions. It mentions that the intergenerational transfer of knowledge and cultural significance of Indigenous comics has been underrecognized.

This article discusses the neglect of Filipino Canadian comics in Canadian comics studies, despite the growing demographic significance of Filipinos in Canada and the rich body of work produced by Filipino Canadian creators.It discusses some Filipino Canadian comics, highlighting their transnational sensibility and engagement with global spaces and histories. It also explores the invisibility of diasporic Filipinos.

This section presents a literary criticism of the 2015 novel "The Illegal," by Canadian author Lawrence Hill. Topics discussed include the publication of the novel prior to the rise of cultural and political issues concerning refugees in Canada, the way the novel addressed themes such as forced migration, Canadian humanitarian assistance, and nationalism, and the evolution and increasing recognition of Canadian refugee fiction.

The article critiques the 2017 poetry collection "Table Manners," by Canadian poet Catriona Wright. Topics discussed include the way Wright depicted the culture of consumption and the fusion between work and life in her lyric poetry, the repetitious element in the poetics of Wright, and the themes of her poems such as alcohol dependence in "Mukbang" and food cravings in "Job Satisfaction."

The article critiques the 2014 documentary long poem "From the Poplars," by Canadian poet Cecily Nicholson. Topics discussed include the way she addressed the colonial history of Poplar Island in New Westminster, British Columbia, the arguments raised by Nicholson with regard to the restitution of Indigenous lands, and the subjects addressed such as dispossession of Indigenous peoples, the racism experienced by Black Canadians, and the white supremacy in British Columbia.

The article talks about the author's experience as a comics reader reflecting the significance of comics in heritage collections and the challenges faced in their recognition as important cultural artifacts. She draws on her experience as a curator of the exhibition "Alter Ego: Comics and Canadian Identity" to demonstrate the importance of comics in heritage collections. The exhibition showcased the rich history of Canadian comics and their impact on Canadian identity, politics, and culture.

The article offers information on the poetry and poetics of chronic illness in Canadian women's writing and the COVID-19 pandemic. It further discusses duration of active autoimmune disease and its medical treatments of chronic illness; disability's role in poetic practice and mode of criticism; specific relationship between chronic illness and generative form; considering the relationship between Canadian literature and pandemic and calculating the societal impact of disease.

The article analyzes the paratext uses and misuses in the book "Once in Blockadia" by Stephen Collis. Topics discussed include the paratextual creativity in the book as demonstrated in the context, metaphor and themes of the main text, the use of the experience of Collis in a litigation regarding his participation in the Burnaby Mountain protests against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in the book, and the significance of the typography, images and cover art of the book.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on the topics including emerging literature scholars, contemporary Canadian literature, and a virtual poetry reading.

The article focuses on loss of Canadian Literature (CanLit) and mentions that dumpster fire metaphor has gained traction as it offers catharsis. Topics discussed include readability of metonymy which depends on showing conventional and actual relationships, CanLit as noun synecdoche that is broken in writing industry and literal association within signifying field.

A literary criticism of the book "Injun" by Jordan Abel is presented. It outlines the decolonization of print, digital, and oral spaces. It examines the discordant layering of fragmented poetry intensified, and the sound of digital malfunction; and responsibility for working towards decolonization. It also mentions that analysis of Canada’s participation in global industry has been promoting the issuing of official apologies advocating forgiveness and reconciliation.

The article announces the periodical in the business for 60 years.

The article offers information related to the number of controversies with sexual misconduct and appropriation of voice that have left the people who produce and support Canadian literature divided along generational, racialized, and gendered lines. It mentions that fault lines between writers and academics have also become more entrenched; and epidemic of sexual violence that apparently plagues the institutions that created Canadian literature.

The article discusses the book "The Back of the Turtle," by Thomas King, giving particular focus on the role of water as a multivalent trope. Topics include the use of water to criticize extractive economies, the use of water to articulate and propose an ethics of care where Indigenous and feminist paradigms can interact and move forward in collaboration, and the potential of transcultural interdisciplinary readings of Canadian literature.

The article presents an introduction to the articles published within the issue, including the state of Canadian literature outside national boundaries, the influence of Canadian poet Robert Kroetsch in American literature, and the book "The Back of the Turtle," by Thomas King.

The article discusses the issue of the journal of 1985 which devoted to Italian-Canadian connections and what contributions several Italian-Canadian writers did to Canadian letters in promotion of ethnic minority writing for Canadian literature. Topics discussed include multiculturalism of government of several ethnic communities across Canada, Canadian authors writers such as Mary di Michele, Caterina Edwards and Mary Melfi, and book "The Godfather" by Mario Puzo.

The article discusses the introduction of the book "The Prose & Poetical Works of Peter Edward Susand" and mentions that Black man publishing in Canada in era is not common. Topics discussed include discussions of nineteenth-century Black Canadian literature, work undertaken by author Linda Brown- Kubisch, and problems in a Canadian context in literature.

An introduction is presented in which the editors discuss the literature in Canada including the complexities of the oxymoronic narratives in Vancouver, the intention to keep the link between geography and Indigenous heritage and the gestures towards socio-political and aesthetic scenes.

The article focuses on the book "Read Canadian: A Book about Canadian Books" with collection of essays on Canadian Literature on genres including political economy, history, and sociology. It informs on the CANLIT Project (1973-1981) formed by the group and founding members including editor Delores Broten, Gail Donald, and Bob Waller. The project aims on Canadian Literature and its fulfillment of public awareness on the literature of Canada.

The author focuses on the journal's main theme of promoting the issues related to the Canadian Literature, with the help of content, production, and distribution. The production is done with the consideration of Open Access (OA), STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) publishing, and academic knowledge. It also focuses on the submissions, academic publication, philosophical values and operational policies that helped manage getting content on for Canadian Literature.

A literary criticism of the book “Chorus of Mushrooms" by Hiromi Goto is presented. In the book, Goto configures an elderly issei woman named Naoe as a cowboy, a role which is often associated with sturdy white men. According to the author, this book has yet to be recognized as a work of Canadian prairie literature, in spite of it's appearance on Western Canadian literature course syllabi.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on topics including the notion of Canadian literature as a kind of home for criticism and the use of the word "meanwhile" in the poems of author Emily Nilsen's collection Otolith.

The article provides information on aspects related to conversation initiated by books including Disappearing Moon Cafe by SKY Lee and Yin Chin by Lee Maracle. Topics discussed include racial discrimination and colonial oppression, decolonial aspirations, Asian Canadian communities, and Asian-Indigenous relations.

An essay is presented on poet Erin Moure. It offers an insight to usage of imagery, syntax, and critical concepts in poetry. Topics discussed include her works like "In My Beloved Wager" and " Inhabitations: A Recombinant Theory Project;" cultural significance of traditions, and expression of words used in poems.

The article provides information on several aspects related to Canada's first full-time book reviewer William Arthur Deacon. Topics discussed include his importance as a member in Canadian Authors Association (CAA), Governor General's Literary Awards (GG awards), his views on award system, and national culture.

An essay on the Living Archives chapbook series, produced and published by the Feminist Caucus of the League of Canadian Poets, is presented. It discusses the work of feminist theorist Sara Ahmed on the concepts of feminist wonder and feminist hope, the reading of the series as narratives of moments of affective feminist community and the theme of multiple temporalities.

A literary criticism of the book "Incorrigible," by Velma Demerson is presented. It examines the book's reflection for thinking about the racialized history of citizenship in Canada, practices of medicalization and how it estranges Demerson from her own body, and the question about the return of the status of the living body to the world of the living.

The article explores the ways the writings of Canadian writers Mary Prince and Susanna Strickland Moodie resonate in contemporary African Canadian literatures. Topics discussed include the intertextual conversations staged when reading Moodie's narrative in conjunction with Prince's, the ways their intertwined literary legacies echo in contemporary Canadian writers such as Dionne Brand, and earliest connections between Canadian and African diasporic writing foregrounds.

The author reflects on the demand for numbers or statistics facing the journal "Canadian Literature." Topics discussed include the paradox at the intersection of audit and literary cultures, the increasing corporatization of everything in the neoliberal times wherein people turn to numbers for proof of productivity and value, and why counting or auditing be both informative and damaging to the journal. Also mentioned are accountability, transparency, and quantitative analysis.

An essay is presented which discusses the poem "Seed Catalogue" by Robert Kroetsch. Topics discussed include the question that Kroetsch addressed in his poem, the author's lack of personal connection in the focus of Kroetsch's poem, how he values the poem because it liberated the Canadian poetry and English-Canadian poets, the poem as a homage to the poetry in the niceties and Kroetsch's exploitation of the anticipated ordering of the catalogue.

An essay is presented in which the author pays tribute to writer and teacher Laurie Ricou, his teaching and philosophy. Topics discussed include how his book "The Arbutus/Madrone Files: Reading the Pacific Northwest" helped her in her own re-encounter with the Pacific Northwest, the significance of the book on Canadian-American literary comparisons and border stories and some of the poems Ricou examined the deals with coastal-interior interdependence.

An essay is presented about writer Laurie Ricou's interdisciplinary focus that seeks to eliminate the divide between teaching, research, study, writing and action. Topics discussed include his books such as "Vertical Man/Horizontal World: Man and Landscape in Canadian Prairie Fiction" and "Everyday Magic: Child Languages in Canadian Literature," his suspicion of jurisdictional cant and his conference paper focusing on Michael Pollan's "The Botany of Desire."

The editorial explores the early work of Canadian authors in English. Canadian literature in English progressed during the period of the nationalist renaissance in Canadian studies. A number of Canadian authors had emerged, including Cecily Devereux, Faye Hammill and Michael Peterman. The contributions of Asian and African Canadian authors to early Canadian literary culture are also recognized.

A literary criticism of the book "Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse" by Canadian writer Anne Carson is presented. It is labeled as an autobiography despite having characteristics of an academic essay, classicist translation, and third-person account of Geryon, a creature from Greek mythology. The author tries to answer this question through an interdisciplinary reading based French philosopher Jean Baudrillard's "structural code" theory and Carson's attempt to break it within her novel.

An interview with poet and editor Sarah Dowling and professor and author Charles Bernstein is presented. The two discuss their roles as co-organizers of North of Invention: A Festival of Canadian Poetry, a 2011 event that focused on North American poetics. Bernstein also mentions his academic writing concerning the connection between Canadian and American writing practices.

The article presents the author's reflections on his career as a literary editor, particularly in regard to his work with the 20th-century Canadian women authors Margaret Avison, Miriam Waddington, Suzanne Rosenberg, and others. Anecdotes are given describing his impressions and memories of working with the figures, discussing their personalities, writing styles, and professional attitudes.

The article argues that literary modernism in English-speaking countries outside Great Britain and the U.S. was related to "cultural nationalism." It compares modernism in Australia and in Canada, aiming to explain why Canadian modernism and nationalism were closely related while Australian modernism was opposed to literary nationalism. Factors discussed include differing orientations toward Great Britain, the isolation of Australian culture, and the cosmopolitanism of Canadian writers.

This article discusses the literary works of the late novelist Mordecai Richler. He cites Richler's essay collection "Hunting Tigers Under Glass" which he wrote in 1968. The author notes that Richler's place within the Canadian literature was always questioned. In his novel "The Acrobats," Richler targeted the weaknesses of a Canadian artist. According to the author, Richler's other three novels are focused on topics of allegorical sacrifice, violent killing, social ostracism of weak male characters and death.