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In his archly titled Surveillance Studies: An Overview, David Lyon points to how 'Surveillance in modern times has become a phenomenon that affects everyday life and thus it has also [...]

Maria Jesus Hernaez Lerena, ed. Pathways of Creativity in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. ISBN 978-1-4438-7745-9 Pathways of Creativity in Contemporary Newfoundland and [...]

IN TAKING STOCK of the present state of literature in Newfoundland and Labrador, a crucial development over the last twenty years is evident the emergence of a palpably cosmopolitan and [...]

TOURISM, OBSERVES NEWFOUNDLAND WRITER Edward Riche in a recent interview, 'is a kind of pollution:' '[A] s something that one has to rely upon for economic survival;' he adds, 'it [...]

Born in St. John's, Newfoundland in 1964, Lisa Moore grew up on the outskirts of the city. Initially aspiring to be a painter, Moore moved to Halifax to pursue studies [...]

WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO HERE is trace a path, in broad strokes, from neoliberalism writ large to the current regime of austerity, with its attendant effects on the [...]

Michael Winter, The Death of Donna Whalen. Toronto: Hamish Hamilton Canada, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-670-0663-6. EARLIER IN HIS CAREER, Michael Winter frequently ran into trouble over the autobiographical quality of his [...]

DAVID ADAMS RICHARDS OF THE MIRAMICHI BY TONY TREMBLAY TORONTO: U OF TORONTO PRESS, 2010. XVI. 355 PAGES. $32.95 David Adams Richards of the Miramichi is a critical biography of [...]

To ask where the field of Canadian literature should be going in the next fifty years implies a greater deal of choice and agency than the future might offer. Indeed, [...]

An important part of any stock-taking or appreciation of Timothy Findley's work to this point is an assessment of Findley's somewhat ambivalent contribution to the development of the postmodern textual strategies that increasingly have characterized Canadian fiction. This discussion concentrates on a fairly specific aspect of Findley's work that none the less implicates larger questions of politics and aesthetics - Findley's use of italics. The essay ultimately argues that though Findley's use of postmodern strategies may be relatively accessible and recuperable, it does productively effect an important 'engagement with the social and historical world' and invites the reader to participate in that engagement. While the essay generally follows the academic form suggested above, it occasionally includes italicized interpolations which respond to, problematise, or interrogate some of the points made in the essay, in a fashion somewhat analagous to Findley's dialogic use of italics in his texts.

An interview with screenwriter, novelist and playwright Edward Richie is presented. When asked about how does his versatility play an important role in shaping his career, he asserts that it made him do more literary works and take them to a whole new level. He considers tourism as a kind of pollution and an act that shows desperation. He also relates that the impact of tourism on the Newfoundland culture is terrible.

This article discusses the novel "Strange Heaven," by Lynn Coady. The novel, suggestive of the increasing and subversive self-consciousness of the Atlantic-Canadian literature, is about a Cape Breton teenager who has undergone psychiatric therapy after giving up her baby for adoption. The novel builds on the conflicts arising from the social mores of a small town. The author concludes that Coady explores such complexities with a dark and combative humor just like any East Coast writers.

Discusses the use of magic realism by author Louis de Bernieres. Development of magic realism in conjunction with a vertiginous modernization in postcolonial societies; Dramatization of the legacy of colonization and progress in predominantly rural developing societies.