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The article explores how tourism is portrayed in contemporary Atlantic-Canadian literature. The ways in which tourism is highlighted amount to commodifying underdevelopment and affords valuable lessons about the economic, political, and cultural tensions are highlighted in many contemporary Atlantic Canadian writing. The author says that tourism appears to be a preoccupation of writers in the region. Tourism is also portrayed in Atlantic-Canadian literature as more than a physical imposition.

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.

This essay focuses on the book "When Alice Lay Down with Peter" by Margaret Sweatman. The book focuses on a pair of Scottish settlers and their descendants in the Canadian West and is preoccupied with the fraudulence of their presence, using ghosts to raise postcolonial questions about claims to the land. The book illustrates Sweatman's belief that ghosts, as reminders of change, of mortality, of the hazards of political fanaticism, are allies of people in a struggle against a political and historiographical absolutism that has only deepened repressed rather than resolved.

This article discusses the book "The Last Crossing," by Guy Vanderhaeghe and the violent encounters with the preexisting hierarchies of power that took shape through the unfolding of untidy, unopportunistic interferences with the other regimes of power. Through all of this the author discusses how the need for separation of genders and races are all the things that directly created the need for masculinity. Thus creating such a deep distinction and segregation between gender races that continues even into todays society. The start of this idea was traced back to the Western days and the idea that the only way to stop it is to do honourable things that will pit individual concepts of the right course of action against social codes, conduct, race and gender.

Presents an interview with Jane Urquhart, one of Canada's most prominent contemporary writers. Rooted in rural southern Ontario, but reaching out to embrace the landscapes of West Ireland, France, and Yorkshire, her work explores themes of memory, cultural and familial heritage, and artistic and romantic obsession. She has been writer-in-residence at several Canadian universities, including the University of Ottawa, Memorial University, and the University of Toronto. Her first novel, "The Whirlpool," earned her the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France in 1992. She followed this with "Changing Heaven" and "Away," a novel about Irish immigrants coming to Upper Canada in the mid-nineteenth century that was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and won the Ontario government's Trillium Prize.

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.

Examines the increasing influence of postmodern thinking in literary studies and psychology. Increasing convergence between the two discourses; Postmodernist aspects of the 'text' of a therapeutic client's life and Timothy Findley's novel 'Headhunter'; Emancipatory potential of postmodernism; Re-examination of the basic premises of psychology and literary studies.

Discusses the place of Canadian literature in the 21st century. Details on Canadian literature in the latter part of the twentieth century; Technological developments that influenced the production of literature in the late twentieth century; Characteristics of Canadian literature as an academic field.

Discusses the metaphors that come to mind when thinking of multiculturalism in North America. Literary criticism; Information on the radio program `Dead Dog Cafe Comedy Hour'; Examination of the novel `Green Grass, Running Water,' by Thomas King; Debates about multiculturalism and the politics of interpretation.

Focuses on the postcolonial and historiographical implications of Guy Vanderhaeghe's narrative strategies in `The Englishman's Boy,' that presents the writing of history as an intense ideological struggle. Novel's provision of a compelling postcolonial reworking of the history of the west; Production of the most challenging and culturally engaged fiction in Canada by writers of historical fiction.

Examines the use of italics in Timothy Findley's novels. Findley's contribution to the development of postmodern textual strategies characteristics of Canadian fiction; Appropriateness of calling Findley a postmodernist; Contribution of italics to the misgivings of his readers; Significant of italics in Findley's works.

Provides information on the issues of regionalism in Canadian literature. Reference to George Woodcock's book entitled `The Meeting of Time and Space'; Information on the recognition of regionalism; Criticism of Woodcock's work; Conclusion reached on the issues.

Deals with the aesthetics of regionalism in a globalized age. Consolidation of Canadian and American literature; Changes in the political, cultural, economic and intellectual climate of North America which have prompted reassessments of regionalism; Paradoxes of regionalist criticisms.

The article presents information on neoliberalism, austerity and the academy in Canada. Topics discussed include social and economic inequality, global financial crisis, and profitable international trading. Also discussed are increasing corporatization of academic institutions, rising tuitions, and viability of the social science and humanities.

This article points out that the financial crisis a result of decades of neoliberalism and that this could substantially affect the future of Canadian literature. It is observed that whether or not the neoliberalist ideology will continue to prevail will affect Canadian literature. It is argued that it will affect what will be taught and researched. It will also affect Canadian literature's social, political and economic aspects. It will also influence how and where it will be taught.