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This review looks at Canadian Literary Fare by Nathalie Cooke and Shelley Boyd, with Alexia Moyer. The book gives an unconventional exploration of 'food voices' in Canadian literature. The authors examine the food narratives of celebrated Canadian writers, like Alice Munro, Eden Robinson, Fred Wah, M. NourbeSe Philip, Tomson Highway, Rabindranath Maharaj, and others. The book explores the interactions between literary characters and food, challenging preconceptions about Canadian cuisine. It highlights the voices of Indigenous and immigrant writers, emphasizing the role of food in decolonization and reshaping identities. The authors discuss iconic Canadian foods, the symbolism of food markets, and food as demonstrative of struggles with poverty. Canadian Literary Fare is a valuable resource for those interested in the interplay between food culture and identity. It provides a refreshing departure from traditional approaches, examining Canadian culture through alternative 'food voices'.

The article analyzes two versions of feminine nihilism in the French-speaking Canada: Nelly Arcan, especially in her posthumous book, Burqa de chair, and Catherine Mavrikakis, in two of her novels, Deuils cannibales et mélancoliques and La ballade d’Ali Baba. By emphasizing the terms mélanomanie and néantisme, the headliners of the “professors of despair” in the homonymous book by Nancy Huston, my text defends the idea that the story-telling operation specific to the search for the “great novel” in La ballade d’Ali Baba is capable, through its reiteration of nomadism, cosmopolitanism and a “poisoned narrative”, to overcome the nihilism inherent to the solipsistic writings of Nelly Arcan.

The article analyzes two versions of feminine nihilism in the French-speaking Canada: Nelly Arcan, especially in her posthumous book, Burqa de chair, and Catherine Mavrikakis, in two of her novels, Deuils cannibales et mélancoliques and La ballade d'Ali Baba. By emphasizing the terms mélanomanie and néantisme, the headliners of the "professors of despair" in the homonymous book by Nancy Huston, my text defends the idea that the story-telling operation specific to the search for the "great novel" in La ballade d'Ali Baba is capable, through its reiteration of nomadism, cosmopolitanism and a "poisoned narrative", to overcome the nihilism inherent to the solipsistic writings of Nelly Arcan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which editor discusses various articles within the issue on topics including Identity Construction in Francophone Canadian literature; work of French-Canadian poets and poetry's effort to resist memory.

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The article discusses phenomenon of Canadian studies which took off with the report by T.H.B Symons, Knowing Yourself: The Report of the Commission on Canadian Studies (1975). Topics discussed include American, Canadian, Australian and other studies by academics and researchers from abroad; challenge to continue to prevent the subject from devouring the method; and introduction of components of liberalism, economic and political by Ian McKay's text in Canadian studies.

The article discusses need for Canadianists to incite ‘good trouble' (to borrow the late U.S. Civil Rights Movement icon John Lewis's phrase) in interrogating the most proud and mischievous mystifications of the Canadian State. Topics discussed include protest to expose and yank out the fangs of Anglo-Saxon power; economic and population strengths among ethnicities; and information on multiculturalism in Canada.

Margaret Atwood is the only Canadian author whose 80th birthday in 2019 was celebrated by the global academic community. This is not surprising, as she is the most famous Canadian writer, popular also outside literary circles. On this occasion, Slovene Canadianists organized a literary event at the Maribor University Library, which presented an outline of Atwood’s oeuvre and a selection of translated poems and excerpts of prose texts; some of these were translated especially for the event. Of Atwood’s rich and varied oeuvre, only eight novels, a few short fiction pieces and some thirty poems have been translated into Slovene. This article thus aims at presenting those aspects of Atwood’s work which are less know to Slovene readers. It is no secret that Atwood is often labelled a feminist writer, mostly on account of The Handmaid’s Tale and the TV series based on the novel. However, many Slovene readers may not know that she also writes poetry, short fiction, non-fiction and children’s literature, that she is a committed environmentalist, and that she discussed the problem of “Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth” in a prestigious lecture series. There are not many authors who master as many genres as Atwood and who are so well-received by readers and critics alike. The latter is true of Atwood also in Slovenia, and we can only hope that Slovene publishers will make more of Atwood’s work available to Slovene readers. All the more so since Atwood has no plans to end her career: just before her 80th birthday she was on a tour in Europe promoting her latest novel, The Testaments, and she would have continued touring in 2020 were it not for the COVID pandemic.

Jordan Abel’s The Place of Scraps (2013) addresses the interrogations faced by those who grew up deprived of the language, beliefs and memories of their ancestors as a result of the cultural genocide perpetrated against the Indigenous peoples of North America to whom his first collection of poems is dedicated. Because Abel’s primary material comprises texts and images that have been widely circulated as first-hand knowledge about the Pacific Northwest, his compositions expose the discursive layers that inform Euro-Canadian representations of aboriginal places, particularly the enduring fascination for the totem pole’s interlacing of lineage, spirituality and territory in the place it indicates.

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The Canadian Literature Represented in the Polish Revue Literatura na Świecie – a Bibliographical-Chronological Survey In this article we propose a survey of the Polish translations of Canadian literature published in the magazine Literatura na Świecie (Literature in the World), from the beginning until the end of 2017. Thus, we try to evaluate the role played by the magazine in spreading and creating a certain image of Canadian literature in Poland. We present our observations in a chronological list which permits to observe the editorial board’s strategy. The article is provided with an appendix containing the bibliographic references of „Canadian” articles published in the monthly.

Set in the small Dorset town of Lyme Regis in the first decades of the nineteenth century, Curiosity by Canadian writer Joan Thomas has its foundations in the literary deposits that have constituted Britain’s coastal landscape into a cultural monument. Leaving behind retrospection, one of the ploys favoured by the sentimental novel to secure the illusion that the past can be recuperated and reconciled with the present, Curiosity opts instead for a geological logic of interruption as memories of the past breach into the unfolding of its narrative. Thomas’s reading of the local geology exposes the distant colonial landscapes that haunt her characters’ present as much as the canonical novels that have been looking out at the world from Lyme Regis’ Cobb. My paper will be relying upon Georges Didi-Huberman’s critique of visibility to analyse the novel’s revisiting of a thick, multi-layered landscape streaked with the affects of suppressed histories.

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This article is the first-ever study on the Quebec novel L'âne de Carpizan ou L'évêque volant and its author, Raymond Goulet (1931- 1991), a performance artist, dancer, and choreographer originally from Rivière-du-Loup. The novel was self-published by Goulet in 1957 and had fallen into obscurity until recently. In contrast with other literary works of its time, L'âne de Carpizan stands out as a brazen satirical piece that imagines homosexuality and transidentity positively and is, as far as we know, the first Canadian literary work in which the protagonist undergoes gender affirming surgery. In their study, the authors examine Goulet's life and the circumstances surrounding the publication of his first and only novel, as well as the novel's editorial history. In the first part of the article, following a synopsis of L'âne de Carpizan, they present the results of their investigation into the novel's publication, distribution, and reception. In the second part, they recount the events of Raymond Goulet's life and all-too-brief writing career. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper explores the poetics and politics of translation. It argues for an avant-garde approach to poetry translation that places translation alongside poetry as a creative practice. In Erin Moure and Chus Pato’s Secession with Insecession, an encounter between two poets produces a “third text” that disrupts the linear narrative of translation (from source to target text). Beside Pato’s Secession, Moure’s Insecession, is not only a creative work — inscribed both between and beyond the translation and the original — but also an archive of the encounter of translation. In terms of publishing and circulation, Secession with Insecession also raises critical questions about whose writings may be supported by a national literary community and the nation at large. This paper argues that Moure’s third text supplies a line of flight from exclusionary rulings on belonging. Secession with Insecession, an avant-garde poetic work, challenges established reading practices, suggesting its own mise en abyme as the ruins of poetry.

In this essay I would like to examine the selection of African tales that Nelson Mandela took care to leave as heritage to the future generations, not only to children, and not only to African children. The fact that a political leader, ex freedom fighter and political prisoner dedicated his time to the collection and editing of stories from all over the African continent to be addressed to new readers as simple entertainment or as educational tools clearly testifies to the great humanity, culture, and open mindedness of one of the most important men of our times. In his most recent autobiographical writing Conversations With Myself, Mandela claimed his double affiliation to both his own indigenous culture as well as to western culture. Moreover, he recalled with affection a dear pastime of his childhood: After supper we would listen enthralled to my mother and sometimes my aunt telling us stories, legends, myths and fables which have come down from countless generations, and all of which tended to stimulate the imagination and contained some valuable moral lesson. (p. 10) Thus, it is not surprising that such a charismatic public figure, as Mandela has been, was also interested in- and worried about- the future survival of a cluster of traditional folktales with their lively, specific and “valuable moral lesson”. It is my intention to verify if there might be a dialogue between the western tradition of folktales where animals are protagonists and speak as anthropomorphic figures and the facets of the African traditions and cultures from which Mandela draws inspiration. Among the critical tools on this topic, Tess Cosslett’s Talking Animals in British Children’s Fiction (2006) seems to provide a useful starting point, together with the latest studies in the volume Dall’ABC a Harry Potter (2011), among others. Moreover, aspects of “orature” will be discussed with reference to the stories chosen by Nelson Mandela. Finally, an attempt will be made to connect these types of animal tales to works of figurative art, particularly paintings, by African artists, which might share the same moral message and which might trigger similar narratives.

The article presents the author's views on the field of studies on Quebec literature.

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Résumé: Voluptuous Pleasure: The Truth about the Writing Life de Marianne Apostolides se compose de neuf histoires « vraies », inspirées de la vie d’Apostolides et de sa famille : l’action se situe entre la réalité et la fiction. Ce livre, tout en racontant des histoires, remet en question l’acte d’écrire et le concept d’histoire lui-même. Le fil conducteur est le rapport au père de l’auteure et à sa terre natale, la Grèce. Sur le plan traductif, les dialogues occupent une place essentielle. C’est en effet grâce au naturel et à l’authenticité des paroles rapportées (inventées?) par Apostolides que l’on saisit la personnalité et la profondeur des personnages. Dans cet article, j’aborderai mon processus de traduction de ce livre pour les éditions La Peuplade en m’attardant à la nouvelle Two Dialogues: On Bravery. Puisant dans les cadres théoriques et méthodologiques de la recherche-création, je propose de retracer mon processus de recréation des dialogues en analysant plusieurs versions françaises produites au cours de l’été 2014. J’observerai l’évolution de mon postulat traductif en décrivant et en catégorisant les stratégies adoptées en cours de traduction, puis en les contrastant avec celles qui ont été privilégiées dans la version finale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1923, Édouard Garand founded a publishing house in Montreal whose main purpose was to promote Canadian literature among the Francophone working classes across Canada. Gérard Malchelosse, member of the editorial committee, bore witness to the nationalist leanings of the press, explaining at the time that it was “a Canadian publishing house of Canadian novels, written for Canadians by Canadians and printed in Canada by Canadians. It’s a national enterprise intended to provide an injection of patriotism while helping our authors by distributing their works.” Even though these affirmations might lead one to believe that publishing house of Édouard Garand is exclusively aimed at a local audience, through studying the distribution of the collection “Le Roman canadien” we can learn more about the enterprise’s particularly far-reaching commercial distribution networks: the major cities of French and British colonies, as well as South and North America, from New York as far as to Buenos Aires. This article proposes the study of these networks in terms of their colonial, political, and commercial positionings, while also placing in context this distribution system with the export of Canadian books during the period. The analysis of the documents held in the Fonds Édouard-Garand (Université de Montréal) reveals the existence of two distinct networks. From 1926 onwards, the publishing house announces that its Canadian novels were sold in depots located in France, Great Britain, but also, more surprisingly, in Saigon, Algiers, and Cape Town. The publisher appears thus to have been making use of the commercial networks of French and British colonial depositories in order to participate in the overseas distribution, via different Francophone bookstores, of Canadian literature. Secondly, after 1944, while France was under Occupation, Montreal became the global centre of Francophone publishing, a new state of affairs that Garand took advantage of by using a variety of Canadian diplomatic and political channels in order to open new distribution networks in Latin America. His “Roman canadien” was promoted to middlemen in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, and Peru, via commercial representatives and attachés from Canada’s Department of External Affairs. However, Garand did not intend to participate in the network of North-South cultural and intellectual exchanges, studied notably by Michel Lacroix and Michel Nareau. The system set in place by the Montreal publisher was less concerned with the economy of knowledge and more concerned with turning a profit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The author introduces the issue focusing on the theme of French-Canadian literature since 2000.

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Although Canadian literature was virtually unknown in the USSR during the Cold War era (1945-1991), although few works by Canadian authors were published in Russian translation in the Soviet Union, and there were no critical reviews of these books before the Perestroika period of the 1980s, the Soviet press at times referred to Canadian authors in order to serve its own objectives or rather the objectives of the ruling Communist Party. This article explores how Canadian literature was received in the USSR during the Cold War, what purposes this reception served, and which projected images of Canada can be found in the reviews of Canadian books and articles on Canadian literature published in the Russian language in magazines and newspapers of the time. The monographs on Canadian literature published in the USSR in Russian are also discussed here, to see, among other reasons, if Soviet critics made a distinction between English-Canadian literature and French-Canadian (or Québécois) literature. Finally, this article sets out to examine not only the representations of Canadian literature and Canadian society as conveyed by the Soviet press but also those put forward by Russian researchers of the period in their scholarly monographs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]