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2. Contrasting epistemologies: Biomedicine, narrative medicine and indigenous story medicine.
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Neilson, Shane
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HOLISTIC medicine , *TRADITIONAL medicine , *MEDICAL care of indigenous peoples , *CULTURAL competence , *EXPERIENCE , *THEORY of knowledge , *COMMUNICATION , *NARRATIVE medicine , *PRACTICAL politics , *HEALTH care teams - Abstract
Background: Narrative Medicine (NM) and Indigenous Story Medicine both use narrative to understand and effect health, but their respective conceptualizations of narrative differ. Aims: I contrast the concept of narrative in NM with that of Indigenous Story Medicine. Materials and Methods: The article relies Western narrative theorists as well as Indigenous epistemologists to frame a discussion‐by‐contrast of the Judeo‐Christian creation myth with a Haundenosaunee Creation Story. Results: I demonstrate that the deficiencies of Narrative Medicine exist because the latter's use of narrative is a mere application in an otherwise reductive field, whereas Indigenous epistemologies rely on story as medicine itself. Discussion: OMIT. Conclusion: I call for more scholars to take up different narratives to further investigate the ethical space between NM and Indigenous Story Medicine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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3. RADICAL ASIANS.
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HYKEL, AUDREY
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ASIANS ,CANADIAN literature - Published
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4. Dying of exposure.
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Pullinger, Kate
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CANADIAN literature - Published
- 2024
5. Putting Flash in the Canadian Literature Classroom.
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Blake, Alenka and Blake, Jason
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CANADIAN literature , *FICTION , *CANADIAN authors , *AUTHORSHIP in literature , *TEACHERS - Abstract
This teaching note considers the benefits of including very short stories or "flash fiction" in the (Canadian) literature classroom. Because the genre is relatively new and favors brevity, it can be attractive to students. Teachers can be sure the students will have read the story, or even find the time to have them read entire stories in class. As well, choosing very short works lets us introduce a variety of Canadian authors to our students. We begin by questioning the dominance of context-hunting and theme-searching among young readers, and point out that this mode of reading comes at the expense of an appreciation or serious consideration of form and language. While historical context and themes are of course important to understanding any story, students often privilege the extra-textual over the literary merits of fiction; they are not necessarily reading literature as literature. The latter part of the note zeroes in on classroom experiences we have had while teaching stories by John Gould, Carin Makuz and Douglas Glover. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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6. In conversation: poetry and community in transatlantic translation: Zoë Skoulding speaks to Erín Moure.
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Skoulding, Zoë
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TRANSLATING & interpreting ,POETRY (Literary form) ,SELF-talk ,HUMAN voice ,CANADIANS ,PEASANTS ,GENOCIDE - Abstract
This article is an interview between poet and translator Erín Moure and Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing Zoë Skoulding. They discuss the importance of poetry translation in creating connections between different cultures and languages, particularly in North America and the UK where there is a lack of translated poetry. Moure emphasizes the need to preserve the differences and nuances of minor or minoritized languages when translating into English. They also explore the challenges and strategies involved in translating Galician poetry, highlighting the importance of maintaining tension and preserving the original meaning and effects of the poems. Moure discusses her approach to translation and the importance of considering the receiving culture when deciding what to publish and where. She emphasizes the need for reviewers and readers to engage with the work in its new cultural context and explores the challenges of creating bilingual editions. Moure also touches on her interest in ecopoetry and the nonhuman world, drawing on her Ukrainian and Cree heritage and her experiences in urban environments. She highlights the importance of recognizing and valuing Indigenous knowledge and perspectives in ecological science and poetry. Finally, Moure reflects on the significance of the American continent as a translator of poetry, acknowledging the tendency to overlook the cultural diversity and contributions of South America. The text explores the impact of colonization and colonialism on poetry and poetics, particularly in the context of the Americas. The author emphasizes the need to listen to voices from Africa and Indigenous writers to challenge dominant perspectives and work towards better futures. The translator's role is seen as creating spaces [Extracted from the article]
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- 2024
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7. TURNING CANADIAN – PROCESSING IMMIGRANT IDENTITIES.
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Ignjatović, Sanja
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CANADIAN literature , *RACE , *WESTERN society , *IMMIGRATION policy , *REFUGEES - Abstract
The paper deals with the processes of integration in Canadian society as represented by three different contemporary ethnic authors – Sharon Bala (The Boat People), Tea Mutonji (Shut up You’re Pretty) and Souvankham Thammavongsa (How to Pronounce Knife), all somewhat translating their transgenerational experiences as immigrants into their works. The negotiation of identities, in their respective works, happens at the margins of the Canadian society – the integral position of the immigrant individual whose marginalized status prescribes the performatives pertaining to class, race and gender. The commodification of this status underscores the shifting nature of Canadianness – as perceived by the margins and the center. The problematics of immigrant identity, its otherness and conditions of integration are represented in a highly ironic and postmodern manner, highlighting the issue of hypocritical enforcement of liberal policies in western societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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8. An Okanagan Story ; and, Women in the woods : a critical reflection on pioneer women and their legacy in Canadian literature
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Huxley, Miriam, McKie, Jane, and Stack, Allyson
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Canadian literature ,pioneer women ,Okanagan ,Okanagan Valleyand ,Okanagan Country ,British Columbia ,Cascades ,Canadian family folklore ,Canadianness ,CanLit ,shifting frontier - Abstract
An Okanagan Story: a novel. Historian Mike Dunbar is at a crossroads in his career: it's publish or perish. He chooses publish, his subject: Scottish Settlers in the Okanagan, British Columbia, a fertile valley in the shadows of the Cascades, known for the lake, bountiful orchards, trendy vineyards, and pioneers, specifically, JD Ballantyne. JD is either an enterprising settler or criminal arsonist; nobody seems to know which anymore. But then Mike gets an email from Haley Gibson, JD's great-great-great-granddaughter. She's just lost her mother, her connection to the past. Soon, the two find they have more in common than JD. As Haley gets stuck unravelling her complicated family history, and Mike gets closer to solving the mystery of JD, will the answers be the ones they're looking for? And can their connection survive a breakup, family expectations, major life decisions, and the truth about JD Ballantyne's life and misdeeds? An Okanagan Story is a novel about Canadian family folklore, dealing with grief, and the realities of just getting by in a sometimes hostile world. Women in the woods: a critical reflection on pioneer women and their legacy in Canadian literature. This project examines how the pioneering experiences recounted in Susanna Moodie's Roughing It in the Bush and Susan Allison's 'Recollections of a Pioneer Woman' contribute to the creation of the pioneer woman character, traditional stories about 'Canadianness,' and tropes that form a large part of 'CanLit.' The essay explores the ways both authors use the form of memoir, contemplating Sidonie Smith and Maggie Pickering's writing on how memoir allows women to write about their experiences in male-dominated spaces and overcome barriers that restricted women in the 19th century. The essay also examines how Moodie and Allison become 'literary foremothers' to Canadian authors by examining Margaret Atwood's The Journals of Susanna Moodie, a narrative poem sequence which reframes Moodie's experience of pioneer life from Atwood's 20th century urban Canadian perspective. Finally, the essay asks why the story of the pioneer woman continues to appear in 'CanLit' despite the loss of the rural backwoods, utilising Helen Thompson's idea of a 'shifting frontier'.
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- 2023
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9. Families with Refugee Backgrounds Rebuilding New Lives: A Saskatchewan Study.
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Kikulwe, Daniel, Halabuza, Donalda, and Williams, Teisha
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SOCIAL support , *REFUGEE families , *CANADIAN literature , *SOCIAL networks , *SOCIAL background - Abstract
This qualitative study explores factors contributing to refugees’ resilience in Regina, Saskatchewan. It aims to add to the emerging body of Canadian literature on refugees’ strengths and experiences as they navigate resettlement in smaller urban centres. Data were collected from three focus groups that explored the experiences of 15 people from seven countries who had settled in Saskatchewan. Findings show common patterns that contributed to resilience for refugees, including pursuits of Canadian education, employment, social networks, and personal qualities. Conclusions indicate that protective factors (i.e., personal characteristics, social supports and networks, starting over in education and employment) that facilitated resilience for participants interacted and worked together to help them overcome adversity during settlement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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10. 'I don't want to have to teach every medical provider': barriers to care among non-binary people in the Canadian healthcare system.
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Burchell, Drew, Coleman, Todd, Travers, Robb, Aversa, Isabella, Schmid, Emily, Coulombe, Simon, Wilson, Ciann, Woodford, Michael R., and Davis, Charlie
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NONBINARY people , *HEALTH services accessibility , *CANADIAN literature , *TRANSGENDER people , *MEDICAL care , *DISCRIMINATION in medical care - Abstract
It is well-known that trans and non-binary individuals experience worse health outcomes due to experiences of violence and discrimination. For this reason, accessible healthcare for trans and non-binary people is crucial. There is a lack of Canadian literature on the experiences of non-binary people within the healthcare system. This study sought to understand barriers to healthcare among non-binary people living in a mid-sized urban/rural region of Canada. Interviews were conducted between November 2019 to March 2020 with 12 non-binary individuals assigned female at birth, living in Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada, as a part of a larger qualitative study exploring experiences within the community, healthcare and employment. Three broad themes were developed: erasure, barriers to access to healthcare, and assessing whether (or not) to come out. Sub-themes included institutional erasure, informational erasure, general healthcare barriers, medical transition healthcare barriers, anticipated discrimination, and assessing safety. Policy and institutional changes are needed to increase the safety and accessibility of healthcare services to non-binary individuals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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11. Beyond sentimentality : animal characters in nineteenth-century fiction
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Cullen, Lauren and Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten
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Short story ,Character ,Nineteenth-century British literature and culture ,Canadian literature ,Narratology ,Literature and Science ,Animal Studies ,Popular Fiction - Abstract
This thesis considers the roles of Snooks the cat, Bow-wow the mastiff, Silver Blaze the thoroughbred, Dryad the Newfoundland, Tanganrog the wolf, Hushwing the owl, Redruff the partridge, and Bella the parrot - all creations of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, C. L. Pirkis, L.T. Meade, Sir Charles G.D. Roberts, Ernest Thompson Seton, and Margaret Marshall Saunders. Who are these creatures- and are they characters? The thesis takes as its starting point character studies in the humanist literary critical tradition in order to propose a new approach for reading animals in novels and short stories. The nineteenth century saw a rise in fiction writing and a proliferation of genres, many of which demonstrate a preoccupation with representing human psychology and interiority and a concomitant engagement with realism. At the same time, this period experienced an increasing number of discourses in science, politics, law, economics, and culture that viewed animals as "fellow-creatures" worthy of consideration. Methodologically, this thesis thus intervenes in, and moves freely between, two critical fields, animal studies and narrative theory, to provide a cross-disciplinary approach to understanding where "the animal" fits within theories of narrative. This thesis also expands the canon of Victorian literature itself by placing three prominent Canadian writers in conversation with their better-known British contemporaries to recover and revitalise the significance of the transatlantic nature of these debates about animal life. In this way, it offers new readings of canonical texts and illuminates minor works by major authors, largely forgotten bestsellers, Anglophone fiction from the country now called Canada, and the short story form. Its diverse corpus in turn provides the works under discussion with renewed critical attention. In addition to its literary close readings, this thesis draws upon scientific and medical writings and legal treatises in addressing a wide range of archival materials to emphasise how these fictional and non-fictional discourses on animals shaped one another. This thesis builds upon a growing body of criticism of animals in literature and culture while signalling the need for a sustained examination of animal characters in nineteenth-century literature that moves beyond canonical, realist texts. It underlines how many canonical works of realism, in their attention to "the human," often side-step or foreclose possibilities for animal participation entirely. It addresses this lacuna by examining the fraught relationship between literary character, realism, and animals across four genres: sensation fiction, detective fiction, the realistic wild animal story, and the animal (auto)biography. These all are closely related to realism but reveal different approaches to epistemological and ontological dimensions of animal life. Across its four chapters, this thesis shows how the writers under discussion used formal techniques, rhetorical structures, and narrative methods to account for new understandings of animals emerging from scientific and political discourses. As theories of literary character that extend consideration to animals have been limited by anthropocentric and humanist traditions, this thesis proposes a new approach to animal character that, when brought to bear on nineteenth-century fiction, illuminates the ways in which writers constructed realistic, interior-focused animal characters that challenge existing definitions. It demonstrates how in constructing Snooks, Dryad, Bella, and their kin, writers articulated both their individuality and importance to a larger collective social and narrative ecology. In doing so, this thesis attends to the ways in which evolving discussions about animal cognition, emotion, communication, and subjectivity are embedded within, explored, and refracted through these works. In this way, this thesis reveals how a reconsideration of literary character, a category seemingly inseparable from the ideological and socio-political positions of the subject, person, and human, can foster a more nuanced understanding of animals in literature and culture.
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- 2022
12. Settler literature and the Booker Prize : transnational literatures and metropolitan reception, 1985-2000
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McLean, Thomas and Boehmer, Elleke
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Canadian literature ,Booker Prize ,Australian literature ,New Zealand literature ,Settler colonialism - Abstract
This thesis explores the influence of the Booker Prize on transnational literary circulation - specifically that of Anglophone settler novels from New Zealand, Australia and Canada. Drawing distinctions between the desires of local and international audiences in these countries, the thesis examines work that has been locally but not transnationally canonized. It compares this work in each case to texts from the same country which have circulated transnationally and been recognized by the Booker Prize. The three winners of the prize examined here (Keri Hulme, Peter Carey and Margaret Atwood) found international success according to distinguishing criteria that discouraged reading for settler commonalities in favour of giving information about a particular place or group whose uniqueness is emphasised. Meanwhile, texts which remained locally circulated (by John Mulgan, Gerald Murnane, Leonard Cohen and Sheila Watson) are more productively read for commonalities. In the first chapter, the Māori Keri Hulme's Booker winner The Bone People is read to show how features common to a literary tradition shared with the Pākehā John Mulgan's Man Alone, and theorised across settler contexts, are read as markers of indigeneity because of prize culture. In the second chapter, Peter Carey (primarily in his True History of the Kelly Gang ) is read as dealing with cultural cringe by emphasising Australian quiddity and uniqueness, as well as by presenting (Irish) Australians as colonised rather than colonisers. The less well-known Gerald Murnane, especially in The Plains, avoids this by emphasising individual subjectivity over group identity, but the individual subjectivities he presents have been shaped by a settler colonial context. The third chapter examines how the state funding of literary production in Canada has created a bifurcated model where certain texts - Margaret Atwood's earlier work, Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers and Sheila Watson's The Double Hook - respond closely to the concerns of different groups within and shaped by a settler state, especially when read hermeneutically. Meanwhile literature for export, such as Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin, instead responds to mimetic readings - such as in the context of the Booker - that establish a unitary and exotic Canadian identity for metropolitan readers. The conclusion briefly examines a final text, the South African Damon Galgut's Booker-winning The Promise, to show the recurrence of patterns already identified throughout the thesis.
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- 2022
13. An interview with Professor Jonathan Locke Hart.
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Porter, David and Azadibougar, Omid
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COMPARATIVE literature ,SCHOLARS ,CRITICAL thinking ,OPTIMISM - Abstract
Professor Jonathan Locke Hart answers our questions about Comparative Literature in Canada, Canadian indigenous literary traditions, Shakespeare, and the dominance of American academia, and the English language. He refers to a wide range of texts and scholars, his personal experience as a poet and scholar, and comments on the potential future of our shared disciplines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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14. Animal representations in Margaret Atwood's novels: a study based on pan-indexicality model.
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Zhu, Jing, Kang, Jiying, and Duan, Chunyun
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LITERARY prizes ,CANADIAN literature ,MAN Booker Prize ,CANADIAN authors ,FICTION ,AWARDS ,ECOCRITICISM - Abstract
Margaret Atwood is a Canadian author of more than thirty-five books and the winner of prestigious literary prizes, such as the Booker Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Governor General's Award. Her influence on Canadian literature and contemporary literature as a whole is phenomenal. Nevertheless, little is known with respect to how Atwood represents animals covering the full range of her novels. This paper reports on the analysis of animal representations in Atwood's seventeen novels through Python programming and close reading under the framework of a new semiotic research finding, a pan-indexicality model within the context of literature and the environment. This study investigates the frequencies of animal vocabulary in the seventeen novels, the changes of animal representations in her novels before 1990s and after 1990s, and the implication of the ever-changing animal representations during the fifty years. This paper concludes that nonhuman animal descriptions in Atwood's novels of 1970s and 1980s run at a high level and decrease in her novels of 1990s, while scientific animal descriptions increase in her novels of 2000s and 2010s. Nonhuman animals in her novels of 1970s and 1980s are instrumentalized as a vehicle for indigenization and national individuation from the United States, and scientific animals in her novels of 2000s and 2010s are instrumentalized in the service of environmental apocalypticism. This study suggests that the pan-indexicality model can be employed to understand the meaning of signs in literature and the environment from the perspective of authorial intention, with reference to authors' encyclopedic knowledge, personal experience, social, and cultural background information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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15. After-End: Black Freedoms and The Live Moment.
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Lubrin, Canisia
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SOLIDARITY , *RACE identity , *GROUP identity , *DETERMINISM (Philosophy) - Abstract
This article was created based on a talk given by Canisia Lubrin with the Black Canadian Studies Association (BCSA) for their 2022 conference, "Black Solidarities, Thought and the Quest for Black Freedom." It engages with the theme of Black solidarities, thought, and the quest for Black freedom, in the interest of recognizing the complexities of its range. In this era of new forms of Black dispersement, the author offers this as a care work in the core character of Blackness. It is a wish for a kind of respite from the ontological over-determinism that bares down on us from all directions, from the restlessness that forms the tenor of our being in this world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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16. The Liminal Space of Métis Poetry: Between Centre and Periphery.
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Hart, Jonathan Locke
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CANADIAN literature ,LITERATURE ,POETRY (Literary form) ,CULTURAL identity - Abstract
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- 2023
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17. Methods, Objects, Fields.
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Kim, Christine
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CANADIAN literature , *GEOGRAPHY , *HISTORY , *INDIGENOUS peoples , *IMPERIALISM - Abstract
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.
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- 2023
18. Introduction. Memory, Identity, Belonging: Narratives of Eastern and Central European Presence in North America.
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Kimak, Izabella and Świetlicki, Mateusz
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MEMOIRS ,COLLECTIVE memory ,CANADIAN literature ,REMINISCENCE ,MEMORY ,EPISODIC memory ,CHILDREN'S literature ,GENDER stereotypes - Abstract
This article explores the experiences of Eastern and Central European immigrants in North America, focusing on themes of memory, identity, and belonging. It discusses the challenges faced by these immigrants, including nativist rhetoric and the risk of assimilation. The article examines the changing representations of Eastern and Central Europe in North America through various narrative forms such as novels, memoirs, graphic novels, and TV shows. It highlights the importance of memory and identity in understanding the complex experiences of these immigrant communities, and includes analyses of specific works and an interview with a Polish American writer. Overall, the article provides a diverse and nuanced perspective on the presence of Eastern and Central European communities in North America. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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19. 'Air This Thin Turns Anyone into a Mystic': Extreme Sport as Metaphor for Societal Disengagement in Steven Heighton’s Every Lost Country (2010)
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Abdou, Angie, McGowan, Lee, editor, and Symons, Kasey, editor
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- 2023
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20. Review of Canadian literary fare by Nathalie Cooke, Shelley Boyd, with Alexia Moyer
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Amanda Shankland
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canadian literature ,canadian food ,food literature ,food writing ,the food voice ,Nutrition. Foods and food supply ,TX341-641 ,Social Sciences - Abstract
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'.
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- 2023
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21. A POEM READ BY INNUMERABLE MINDS.
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Abley, Mark
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EQUALITY ,POETRY collections ,CANADIAN literature - Abstract
The article discusses the early years of Grain magazine, highlighting its inclusive and egalitarian spirit, as well as the impact of key individuals like Anne Szumigalski in fostering a nurturing environment for emerging writers. Topics include the workshop's role in nurturing writers' confidence and craft, the diverse contributors to Grain's early issues, and the magazine's commitment to literary excellence.
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- 2023
22. Au-delà des deux solitudes : les transferts culturels dans le monde de la bande dessinée et des comics.
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Reyns-Chikuma, Chris, Rheault, Sylvain, and Sébastien, Jean
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COMEDIANS , *COMIC books, strips, etc. , *SOLITUDE , *COMIC book stores , *CANADIAN literature - Abstract
This article provides an overview of the research conducted on comics and graphic novels in Canada, with a focus on cultural transfers and the challenges faced by creators from diverse backgrounds. It explores the development of Canadian comics in both English and French, as well as the impact of global trends like the globalization of the medium and the popularity of manga. The article also delves into the historical and cultural context of comics in Canada, including the dominance of Caucasian creators and the recent diversification of the industry. The research presented in the article aims to move beyond a binary view of Canadian comics and examine the intersections of culture and transfer within the medium. It emphasizes the importance of collaboration and the exchange of ideas between different linguistic and cultural communities, and highlights the role of translation in facilitating these transfers. The article also discusses the influence of French-Belgian and Japanese comics on the Quebecois comic scene, and covers topics such as translation, distribution, appropriation of superheroes, and the representation of Indigenous and multicultural perspectives in comics. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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23. Canada in its Jammies: The Promotional Self-Mockery of Richard Comely's Captain Canuck.
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Redford, Jasmine
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SUPERHEROES , *SOCIAL values , *STEREOTYPES , *FEDERAL government - Abstract
Domestically produced Canadian superheroes face an uphill climb in their bids to be taken seriously. A domestically produced Canadian comic is one that is authored and published within Canada or within a territory on what is called Canada. Canada's troubled sociopolitical relationships with nationalism, colonialism, federalism, and separatism, merge with notorious Canadian stereotypes—like national inferiority complexes and apology culture—and serve to unnerve and disarm the Canadian superhero. While psychosocial in nature, these feelings, unconsciously nationalized, are rooted in cultural economics where imports from Britain or the United States are perceived to have higher financial and social value. These unsettlements continually prompt Canadian readers to question whether they can—or should—identify with a domestically produced Canadian superhero in le neuvième art. The answer tentatively seems to be yes, but only if they are humbled, satirized, or taken down a peg—knowingly or unknowingly, or only if these heroes are, in some manner, reflectively self-deprecating. Richard Comely's early run on the Captain Canuck franchise, particularly in his promotional pre-Captain Canuck no. 1 paratexts, root the character in deprecation as the hero is mocked and satirized by the citizens of his own comic. This fate is uniquely applied to Canuck while other nationalist and provincial superheroes—such as Pierre Fournier's Les Aventures du Capitaine Kébec (1973) and Mark Allard-Will's and Elaine Will's Saskatch-A-Man (2015)—engage in self-mockery without accidental patronization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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24. Institutional Factors Affecting Postsecondary Student Mental Wellbeing: A Scoping Review of the Canadian Literature.
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Thaivalappil, Abhinand, Stringer, Jillian, Burnett, Alison, and Papadopoulos, Andrew
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POSTSECONDARY education , *WELL-being , *CANADIAN literature , *HIGHER education , *MENTAL health - Abstract
There have been increased calls to address the growing mental health concerns of postsecondary students in Canada. Health promotion focuses on prevention and is needed as part of a comprehensive approach to student mental health support, with an emphasis on not just the individual but also the sociocultural environment of postsecondary institutions. The aim was to conduct a scoping review of the literature pertaining to the associations between postsecondary institutional factors and student wellbeing. The review included a comprehensive search strategy, relevance screening and confirmation, and data charting. Overall, 33 relevant studies were identified. Major findings provide evidence that institutional attitudes, institutional (in)action, perceived campus safety, and campus climate are associated with mental wellbeing, suggesting that campus-wide interventions can benefit from continued monitoring and targeting these measures among student populations. Due to the large variability in reporting and measurement of outcomes, the development of standardized measures for measuring institutional-level factors are needed. Furthermore, institutional participation and scaling up established population-level assessments in Canada that can help systematically collect, evaluate, and compare findings across institutions and detect changes in relevant mental health outcomes through time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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25. Soft border, Soft-boiled: Cultural and Environmental Crime in Howard Engel's Niagara Frontier Detective Novels.
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Jones, Manina
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This paper reads Howard Engel's novels Murder on Location (1982) and Dead and Buried (1990) through border theory and as a form of border theory. Engel uses a soft-boiled comic Canadian variant of the hard-boiled American detective novel to explore sites, situations, and symbols of national sovereignty and examine cross-border cultural and ecological flows across the 'soft border' between Canada and the United States along the Niagara frontier, where Engel sets his Benny Cooperman series (1980–2018). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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26. FORMS OF INTERTEXT IN "ANNE OF GREEN GABLES" BY L.M. MONTGOMERY.
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Nikolenko, Olha
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INTERTEXTUAL analysis ,ALLUSIONS ,LITERARY style - Abstract
This paper analyzes different forms of intertext (biblical, artistic, and mythological) in L.M. Montgomery's bestselling novel Anne of Green Gables in order to determine the novel's intertextual connections with various phenomena of literature and art, and explore how the meanings of these intertextual elements are transformed in Anne of Green Gables as opposed to their original sources. While the plot of Anne Shirley's growing up unravels locally (in a small Canadian town named Avonlea), it is also part of a broader cultural context, which is represented largely by intertextual means (direct and indirect quotations, allusions to the works by R. Browning, H.C. Andersen, W. Shakespeare, L. Carroll, W. Scott et al.). In this way, the author emphasizes Anne's romantic worldview, her open-mindedness and vivid interest in literature, art and nature. By referencing the works of W. Shakespeare and S.T. Coleridge, L.M. Montgomery aims to further illustrate the motive of loneliness and abandonment as they are related to her heroine's story (having lost her parents and spent the majority of her life in an orphan asylum). Biblical intertext also plays an important role when it comes to the relationship between Anne Shirley and Matthew Cuthbert. Different forms of intertext (literary, biblical, mythological) fulfil important functions in the text, especially in terms of creating multi-faceted characters, the social and cultural atmosphere of L.M. Montgomery's era, and the various problems (social, moral, and artistic) discussed in her works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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27. THE IMAGES OF FEMALE WRITERS IN THE "EMILY" AND "ANNE" SERIES BY L.M. MONTGOMERY.
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Nikolenko, Kateryna
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PROVERBS ,FOLK literature ,LEXICAL access ,PSYCHOLINGUISTICS ,SEMANTICS (Philosophy) - Abstract
While the Künstlerroman may well be considered one of the genres that have blossomed most prominently in the 20th century English-Canadian literature, research investigating its poetics has remained on the fringes of literary scholarship. This paper examines L.M. Montgomery's sophisticated use of the Künstlerinroman through her portraits of female writers in the Emily and Anne series. My goal is to explore how Montgomery's heroines choose to narrate themselves and the world around them, how they transcend difficulties and assert their own unique perspectives. Therefore, this paper examines not only the socio-cultural environment which served as background for the creation of literature, but also the writer's reflections regarding the process of bringing said literature into the world. Drawing on the scholarship of J. Buckley, R. Seret, E. Varsamopoulou, F. Hammill, K. Macfarlane, G.A. Guth and others, this paper aims to analyze L.M. Montgomery's "sophisticated handling of genre" (E.R. Epperly) in greater depth and place her portraits of the female artists within a broader cultural and literary context. The question of female subjectivity, which concerns women's perceptions of their own writing (and their fate as artists), is central to my research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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28. THE PRICE OF BEAUTY IN TÉA MUTONJI'S SHUT UP YOU'RE PRETTY.
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Ignjatović, Sanja J.
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BILDUNGSROMANS ,FEMININITY ,PRICES ,FEMININE identity ,SHORT story collections ,RACE identity ,CANADIAN literature ,RACE - Abstract
Copyright of Nasleđe is the property of University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Philology & Arts and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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29. Evolving the gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men time‐based deferral to sexual risk screening for all donors: The contribution of Canadian research programmes.
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Caffrey, Niamh, O'Brien, Sheila F., Walsh, Geraldine M., Haw, Jennie, and Goldman, Mindy
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BISEXUAL men , *MEDICAL screening , *HUMAN sexuality , *CANADIAN literature - Abstract
Background and Objectives: In Canada, the time deferral for gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM) to donate blood has gradually decreased. In September 2022, this deferral was replaced with sexual behaviour‐based screening for all donors. We investigate how data from targeted research programmes addressed knowledge gaps to support this change. Materials and Methods: We conducted a scoping review describing the Canadian literature available before the research programmes relating to (1) behavioural indicators of HIV risk and (2) attitudes to blood donation among gbMSM, current donors and the general population. We summarize the targeted research programmes, their outputs and impact to date. Results: For question 1, five projects met inclusion criteria. For question 2, three articles met inclusion criteria. Knowledge gaps identified were insufficient evidence of HIV incidence in gbMSM who met other donor eligibility criteria and scant data on opinions and views of blood donation and screening criteria for sexual risk behaviours. The research programmes funded 19 projects at 11 different research sites involving over 100 individual researchers/collaborators resulting in 19 peer‐reviewed publications to date. Leveraging existing gbMSM cohorts yielded relevant HIV incidence data to inform safety modelling studies. Findings indicated that sexual behaviour‐based screening was acceptable to gbMSM and donors, and donor discomfort around specific questions could be mitigated with clear explanations. Conclusion: Targeted research programmes filled critical knowledge gaps and informed a change to gender‐neutral, sexual behaviour‐based screening for all donors. Findings supported successful implementation of these changes with research‐informed staff training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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30. INTRODUCTION: VIBRANT MATERIALITIES ACROSS MEDIA, LITERATURE, AND THEORY.
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TSCHOFEN, MONIQUE and FAN, LAI-TZE
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DIGITAL humanities , *LITERATURE , *COMMUNICATION methodology , *CANADIAN literature , *PERFORMANCE art , *MEMOIRS , *GRAPHIC novels - Published
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31. Contributors.
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HISTORY of the book , *CANADIAN literature , *AFRICANA studies , *EDUCATIONAL background , *BOOK industry , *CANADIAN history , *AFRICAN American literature , *CHILDREN'S literature - Abstract
This document provides a list of contributors to the journal Book History. The contributors come from various academic backgrounds and specialize in different areas of research related to literature, publishing, and book history. Their research interests include children's literature, medical and erotic print networks, early modern printing, Canadian literatures, religion and reading, the history of the book trade, and African American studies. The contributors are affiliated with universities and research institutions in France, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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32. Trans migrations: Seeking refuge in "safe haven" Toronto.
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Jacob, Tai and Oswin, Natalie
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IMMIGRATION lawyers , *LGBTQ+ literature , *CANADIAN literature , *REFUGEES - Abstract
Trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people who make refugee claims in Canada negotiate a complex nexus of identity, belonging, and citizenship. Drawing on insights from TGNC refugees, immigration lawyers, and frontline workers, in this paper we examine the ways the state controls the trans body through the refugee claims process and in the process of integration into life in Canada, while also highlighting trans refugee methods of survival and resistance. What emerges is an understanding of the ways that refugees navigate the tension between gender, sexuality, and homecoming as both intimately felt and geopolitically managed. We convey TGNC refugee narratives to demonstrate how they both confirm and expand upon the existing literature on Canadian LGBTQ+ refugees. TGNC refugees' experiences at the Immigration and Refugee Board confirm insights from existing LGBTQ+ refugee studies. However, TGNC refugees' day‐to‐day lives differ significantly from LGB refugee lives as recounted in the literature. In TGNC refugees' attempts to access gender‐affirming documentation, healthcare, housing, and income, they confront distinct systems of transgender exceptionalism, border imperialism, and racial and heteropatriarchal capitalism that limit their access to basic necessities and impact how they build home both conceptually and materially. Key Messages: Refugee narratives elicited at the Immigration and Refugee Board follow a logic of "transgender exceptionalism" and often diverge from the complexity of Trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) refugee experiences.TGNC refugees experience barriers to accessing housing, healthcare, adequate documentation, and employment due to histories and systems of oppression.These narratives demonstrate that the trans refugee homemaking process is implicated in nationalism, but also shows the needs to push against this limiting frame. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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33. Subverting resilience in the psychiatric ward: Finding the good death in Miriam Toews's All My Puny Sorrows.
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LÓPEZ-SERRANO, LUCÍA
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This article posits that Miriam Toews's All My Puny Sorrows (2014) introduces a critique of how neoliberal visions of resilience have permeated medical discourses on mental health, resulting in a perceived moral imperative over the patient to improve, which the author counters with a model of resilience firmly rooted in interdependence and the social potential of vulnerability. Toews's focus on the narrator Yolandi's struggle with the aftermath of her sister's suicide also troubles the concept of resilience by introducing the idea of assisted suicide as a possible iteration of a "good death", completely circumventing any possibility of recovery or adaptation. What holds the key for Yolandi's recovery and happiness, Toews seems to imply, is accepting her sister's rejection of resilience as a viable option. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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34. Contributors.
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CARIBBEAN literature ,CANADIAN literature ,FICTION ,COLLEGE teachers ,LITERARY theory - Abstract
A scholar of Medieval and early English Renaissance literature by training, he also has research and teaching interests in nature writing, environmental literature, and literature and science. B Gry Ulstein b is a Ph.D. candidate at Ghent University in Belgium and a Ph.D. researcher on the European Research Council Starting Grant project "Narrating the Mesh." B Marco Caracciolo b is Associate Professor of English and Literary Theory at Ghent University in Belgium and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council Starting Grant project "Narrating the Mesh.". [Extracted from the article]
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35. Introduction.
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Fruzińska, Justyna and Majer, Krzysztof
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VETERANS ,CANADIAN literature ,MODERN literature ,AMERICAN literature ,LITERARY form - Published
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36. The Search for Identity, Alice Munro and Canadian Literature: An Interview with Clark Blaise.
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Zhou Yi and Blaise, Clark
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CANADIAN literature ,NORTH American literature - Abstract
Copyright of Foreign Literature Studies is the property of Foreign Literature Studies and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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37. Leprohon, Rosanna
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Cabajsky, Andrea, Morris, Emily, Section editor, Scholl, Lesa, editor, and Morris, Emily, editor
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38. La littérature féminine en infrarouge. Au-delà du nihilisme
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Laura T. Ilea
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canadian literature ,feminine nihilism ,professors of despair ,nelly arcan ,flesh burqa ,catherine mavrikakis ,poisoned narrative ,Language and Literature - Abstract
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.
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39. Narrating Wonder in Mark Anthony Jarman’s Stories
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Jason Blake
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wonder ,mark anthony jarman ,short stories ,canadian literature ,optimism ,Literature (General) ,PN1-6790 - Abstract
Mark Anthony Jarman’s characters are often down and out, and often wandering and wondering. Using theories of wonder, this essay argues that wonder plays a key role in many of Jarman’s stories—stories that are marked not by narrative or psychological closure, but by a sense of wonder as characters muse on their lot in life. After briefly considering Jarman’s role within Canadian literature, including his innovative approaches to the short story form, and his odd status as an influential yet often ignored writer, the essay moves to a discussion of the various ways that wonder is at play in his works, both as a verb and a state. Jarman’s characters are frequently in doubt, and the act of wondering takes us into their drifting, self-reflecting minds. However, there is also the sense of wonder as the miraculous. Jarman’s narrators find optimism in the world around them, thanks to flashes of the beauty of the unlikely. Wonder, thus, has a crucial structural function.
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40. The Plants are Plotting: Political Orders in Ostenso’s Wild Geese
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Janice Vis-Gitzel
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plant agency ,ecocriticism ,settler colonialism ,canadian literature ,agriculture ,queer ,Philology. Linguistics ,P1-1091 ,Literature (General) ,PN1-6790 - Abstract
This article attends to non-human agency and plant communities in Martha Ostenso’s 1925 novel Wild Geese. As non-humans shape the novel’s setting and plot, they are entwined with human action but not subordinated to human agency or political systems; on the contrary, plant communities are political forces who ally, resist, and clash during the implementation of European agricultural practises in the early twentieth century. Thus, the setting details of this CanLit novel can be repurposed to think about the possibilities of community beyond colonial control. This article begins by drawing on Vanessa Watts’ articulation of ecosystems-as-societies as a framework for plant agency. It then follows Margret Boyce’s eco-critical engagement with Wild Geese to examine how the farm’s monocrops are connected to, but not determined by, the heteropatriarchal family and the colonial state. Further, by considering how homoeroticism emerges against colonial heteropatriarchy in non-agricultural settings, queerness is shown to pre-exist and resist the organizing tendencies of settler colonialism. Finally, this article turns to non-human alliances in the novel’s finale to demonstrate the ongoing struggle between political powers. To grapple with colonialism and its legacies, non-human agency and political power must also be recognized.
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41. 'Catherine Tekakwitha, who are you?' — The Indigenous Female Body in the Colonial and Post-Colonial
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Emma Charlotte Weiher
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leonard cohen ,catherine tekakwitha ,beautiful losers (novel) ,indigenous studies ,post-colonialism ,post-modernism ,canadian literature ,Philology. Linguistics ,P1-1091 ,Literature (General) ,PN1-6790 - Abstract
In 2012, the Mohawk saint Catherine Tekakwitha was finally canonized by the Catholic church. She has been the subject of many accounts and narratives —both historical and fictional—and figures as the main subject of Leonard Cohen’s 1966 novel Beautiful Losers. While having been lauded for its post-modernist and presumably postcolonialism stance on Tekakwitha’s figure, Cohen’s novel remains controversial in its depiction and appropriation of Indigenous womanhood. Beautiful Losers relies heavily on missionaries’ accounts of Tekakwitha and is entrenched in the male protagonist’s sexual claim and fixation on her character. Given the significant status of women in Indigenous communities, I argue that Cohen’s novel not only participates in an ongoing violation of the Indigenous female body but also denies the integrity of Indigenous family structures and their social as well as narrative authority. It hinders, rather than encourages, a shift in narrative authority pertaining to Canada’s colonial heritage. While Cohen’s text remains a necessary testament to the shortcomings and failures of history and its criticism, what is required in forthcoming scholarship and narratives dealing with Tekakwitha and figures similar to her is a narration originating in Indigenous communities. An emergence of such narratives requires a definite reckoning with Canada’s violent history of mistreating Indigenous womanhood that continues to this day.
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42. The Aviator's Bookshelf: Your Source for Canadian Aviation Literature.
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CANADIAN literature ,HARBORS ,AIR pilots ,SHELVING for books ,AIR travel ,HELICOPTERS - Abstract
"The Aviator's Bookshelf: Your Source for Canadian Aviation Literature" is a collection of books that cover various topics related to Canadian aviation. The books include stories of Canadian pilots and their experiences, historical accounts of military operations, and investigations into unsolved mysteries surrounding aircraft disappearances. The collection aims to provide readers with a diverse range of perspectives and insights into the world of Canadian aviation. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2024
43. Ghosting history/historicizing the ghost: Time passage in T. C. Haliburton's The Old Judge.
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Kliś-Brodowska, Agnieszka
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IMPERIALISM - Abstract
This article investigates the representation of time in T. C. Haliburton's The Old Judge as shaped by the writer's British North American context as well as his political background and agenda. It pays attention to the manner in which the text prepares the ground for native identity formation by providing a version of Nova Scotia's recent history that is nonetheless presented as bygone and ancient. In The Old Judge, temporal distance of the past, apart from its richness — both confirmed by the presence of the properly historicized settler ghost — is the condition for cultural distinctiveness, maturity and heritage. Approaching The Old Judge from the perspective of Cynthia Sugars' Canadian Gothic and Lorenzo Veracini's settler colonialism, I argue that the text represents the past of the province as curiously extended in time in the Old World fashion, so that it may encompass the stages of cultural development required to gain the Empire's recognition. Simultaneously, the text's intricate play with heterochronies suggests that Haliburton's Nova Scotia contains heterotopic spaces in Foucauldian terms, where the ordinary time passage is necessarily breached for the colony to attain proper legacy and distinct cultural status. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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44. Ocean liners in Canadian literature.
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Hammill, Faye
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OCEAN liners ,CANADIAN literature ,FRENCH-Canadians ,FRENCH fiction ,TRAVEL writing ,WAR stories ,TRAVEL literature - Abstract
Copyright of British Journal of Canadian Studies is the property of Liverpool University Press / Journals and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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45. Literature Of Ontario: A Study On Alice Munro's Dear Life.
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Sindhuja, R. Anto and Jacob, S. Christober
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SHORT story collections ,GRIEF ,JOY ,CANADIAN literature - Abstract
Canadian literature, in general, consists of two mainstreams, French and English writings. French writings in Canada often describe Quebec and English writings in Canada often describe Ontario. The Nobel Laureate Alice Munro paints the rural Ontario in most of her works. They are very regional and often becoming the colourful threads of a national dream. She was once called as a regional writer for her regional descriptions. Reading her in deep, a reader can understand the supreme universal themes. She gives clear picture of landscape, environment and climatic condition in her works. She focuses more on places than on human characters. Her works frequently centres on the culture of rural Ontario, Canada. The descriptions of those regional elements spring from the joys and sorrows of the local people and their longings to bring about healthy changes. The layers of Munro's works are simultaneously the old and the new and the regional and the national. Hence, Alice Munro's short story Collection Dear Life can be called as "Literature of Ontario". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
46. Literature as a Technology of Commemoration at Expo 67.
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Herder, Scott
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TECHNOLOGICAL progress , *NATIONALISM , *TRADE shows , *HUMANISM ,EXPO (International Exhibitions Bureau) (1967 : Montreal, Quebec) - Abstract
This study highlights the significance of literature to Expo 67 and the tradition of world exhibitions. Like the world's fairs before it, the Montreal exhibition promoted literature as a technology of national progress. Yet Expo 67 reflected simultaneously the contemporary anxieties about technology and nationhood expounded by George Grant in the 1960s in contrast with the celebration of nationalism and technological progress bound together in the tradition of world's fairs. Though world's fairs had depicted the educational utility of literature throughout their tradition, Expo 67 emphasized literature more than any world exhibition had to that point. Its theme, Terre des hommes, drawn from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's autobiographical narrative, its literature conferences and poetry performances, and the broader textuality of Expo 67 as a "total environment" were intended to deploy texts in promotion of the ideals of universal humanism. However, I find that poetry performances by Michèle Lalonde, George Clutesi, and Duke Redbird contradicted the event's stated ideals by spotlighting the negative effects of technology and ongoing colonial violence. I argue further that large-scale literature exhibits at Expo 67 resisted the humanist ideals of the event by continuing the world exhibition convention of treating literary works as an educative technology of national progress. As a result, I find that Canadian literature at Expo 67 complicates the Canadian collective memory of the event and the 1967 Centennial Year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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47. Reading/Writing Canada: a Facebook Wall about Canadian Literature.
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Martínez-Zalce, Graciela
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CANADIAN literature , *VIRTUAL communities , *COMMUNITIES of practice , *READING , *SOCIAL media , *CANADIANS - Abstract
The CBC operates on a mandate that defines it as a company of content whose vision is to connect Canadians through attractive Canadian content and whose values include serving the Canadian public. This article responds to the questions of how the CBC uses social media to disseminate national literatures, taking a Facebook wall, Canada Reads, as a case study, based on the small stories method (Georgakoupoulou) to analyze narrative activities that are important for recognizing the identity-forging work of their narrator as well as the social fabric of practices that people become involved in, with the objective of discovering if it has created a virtual community of practice (as conceived by Robert V. Kozinets) and if it has achieved, at the same time, the ultimate goal of discussing contemporary Canadian identities and if it has fulfilled its aim to disseminated contemporary regional and national quality content. Methodology: Small Stories, Virtual Communities, and Communities of Practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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48. Canadian Fictions.
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Jackson, Sarah-Nelle
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CANADIAN literature , *CULTURAL identity , *IMPERIALISM , *INDIGENOUS peoples , *CLIMATOLOGY - Abstract
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.
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- 2023
49. Unraveling Milk and Honey: Women's Voice, Patriarchy, and Sexuality.
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Siva, Renidia Audinia, Rosida, Ida, and Azwar, Muhammad
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PATRIARCHY ,FEMINISM ,SOCIAL marginality ,SOCIAL norms - Abstract
This article discusses patriarchy and sexuality portrayed in Milk and Honey; a poetry collection written by Canadian author Rupi Kaur. Kaur is an amazing poet, artist, and performer who touches on trauma, feminism, migration, love, and loss in her works. Milk and Honey is a unique book of poetry as it combines written poetry with line art images. The collection is split into four chapters: "the hurting," "the loving," "the breaking," and "the healing." This research aims to show how the illustrations that appear alongside the poems have amplified the speaker's voice in response to patriarchy and sexuality. This study deployed a descriptive, qualitative approach with close textual analysis. The illustrations are highly meaningful in how they intimately depict women's bodies. Thus, these poems were analyzed within the framework of feminist literary criticism. Existing research will be considered to define the terms of the study and enrich discussion of patriarchy and women's issues. The results show that patriarchal traditions portrayed in the poems deem women as inferior, marginalizing them in a family setting (as a mother and daughter), in the setting of romantic or intimate relationships, and even in the social and economic environment due to cultural norms. It is also revealed that women and their sexuality functioned as recreational objects for males' pleasure. Within the text, women are expected to be sexually submissive, thus prone to sexual abuse in a patriarchal society. However, the speaker consistently expresses her stance against these patriarchal values throughout all chapters of this poetry collection. In conclusion, this work criticizes patriarchy and its treatment of sexuality by presenting the speaker's experiences of patriarchy while also taking a stand against it through poems and illustrations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
50. PRZEKŁAD JAKO NARZĘDZIE POJEDNANIA? O TŁUMACZENIU KANADYJSKICH LITERATUR RDZENNYCH NA JĘZYK FRANCUSKI W DOBIE DEKOLONIZACJI.
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CZUBIŃSKA, MAŁGORZATA
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TRUTH commissions ,LINGUISTIC minorities ,AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL fiction ,CANADIAN history ,FRENCH language ,AUTOBIOGRAPHY ,ASSIMILATION (Sociology) - Abstract
The common assumption is that translation helps to share ideas and build bridges between societies, cultures and languages. Nevertheless, in Canadian history translation has been a tool of colonial domination and oppression of indigenous communities as well as francophone minorities scattered across Canada after 1763. In view of the above, this paper aims to show from a translational point of view the attempts to redress decades of persecution and assimilation that are currently taking place, particularly in light of the findings and recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released in June 2015. The analysis covers a unique context, involving the translation of works of Indigenous Literature into a minority language such as French in Canada. After presenting current trends in this area, the paper will discuss an autobiographical novel Halfbreed by Metis author Maria Campbell, which appeared in French translation in 2021 almost half a century after the original was published. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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