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{"title":"Reviews Editor: Vivien Hughes","authors":"Matthew S. Wiseman, Kevin Brushett, Thirstan Falconer, Will Smith, Tolly Bradford, M. Hanrahan, Jeffrey F. Collins, Eva Darias-Beautell, R. Todd, Benjamin Diepeveen, T. Scott, F. Todd, C. Rolfe, Cristina Pietropaolo, F. Hammill, Phillip Buckner, H. Kennedy","doi":"10.3828/BJCS.2018.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/BJCS.2018.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47431405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Celebrating Acadian milestones in 2004","authors":"Christina Keppie","doi":"10.3828/BJCS.2018.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/BJCS.2018.10","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the year when Canadians celebrate 150 years of confederation, we recognise the frequent absence of cultural minorities from national commemorative events, such as the Acadians. However, minority commemorative events serve as a strong factor in helping maintain ideologies, as imposed on the minority's general population by their cultural elite. In addition to a synthesis of ideological evidence in Acadian commemorative events, the current project addresses the importance of ethnographic work in the study of ideology of small 'nations'. Drawing upon a series of open-ended interviews, a collection known as the 2004 ArtcaDIT corpus collected by Le Musée acadien du Québec, this article details the results of a short content analysis of transcribed oral testimonies by New Brunswick Acadians who reflect on the impact and purpose of the 2004 Acadian Quadricentennial Celebration. While the data set is small, patterns suggest that views among New Brunswick Acadians of 2004 do in fact corroborate the Acadian national ideology imposed by the Acadian elite who have sought cultural minority protection of l'Acadie moderne through linguistic rights and duality. However, these results are not exclusive, as a number of testimonies also suggest a lingering adherence to traditional Acadian views that emphasises the importance of history and genealogy. Finally, this article demonstrates again the presence of the Acadian 'dilemma' which could be alleviated by further studying ideologies within other Acadian regions.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"133 - 149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48335923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Great Britain and the Nova Scotian Confederate and Repeal movements, 1864–9","authors":"Mathias Rodorff","doi":"10.3828/BJCS.2018.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/BJCS.2018.11","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article discusses how the desire to maintain the connection to the 'mother country' contributed to the outcome of the movements for and against Confederation in Nova Scotia. In the 1860s, no opinion polls were conducted, but newspapers were the major arena of distributing news and expressing views. They offer an important insight into the opinions of Nova Scotians towards Confederation during the critical time when they bitterly debated about remaining or leaving the Dominion of Canada. Moreover, they illustrate views about the risk of breaking their affiliation with the 'mother country' in order to achieve the repeal of their admission into the Dominion of Canada.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"151 - 165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/BJCS.2018.11","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46560207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘I have heard of the end of writing’: Kristjana Gunnars and Roland Barthes/‘J’ai entendu parler de la fin de l’écriture’: Kristjana Gunnars et Roland Barthes","authors":"C. Gardner","doi":"10.3828/BJCS.2018.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/BJCS.2018.4","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The work of Icelandic-Canadian writer Kristjana Gunnars crosses genres and confuses the boundaries between fiction, poetry, biography, essay, and theory. This article addresses her relationship to the French literary theorist Roland Barthes. By paying close attention to the texts which mention Barthes specifically, the poem-cycle Carnival of Longing (1989) and the memoir Zero Hour (1991), it is possible to examine the approaches to desire, grief, and writing that give both Gunnars’s and Barthes’s work their enduring relevance. Gunnars reads Barthes against the grain, seeing the fragmentary strategy of A Lover’s Discourse (1979) as a refusal of genre and taking Writing Degree Zero’s (1968) revolutionary strategy of ‘colourless writing’ as a strategy for dealing with grief. An examination of her citations of and allusions to Barthes will show us how Gunnars interprets and remakes theory into poetry.Abstract:L’œuvre de l’écrivaine islando-canadienne englobe les genres et confond les frontières entre roman, poésie, biographie, essai et théorie. Cet article traite de sa relation au théoricien littéraire français, Roland Barthes. En accordant une attention particulière aux textes qui mentionnent expressément Barthes, au cycle de poèmes Carnival of Longing (1989) et au mémoire Zero Hour (1991), il est possible d’examiner les approches du désir, du chagrin et de l’écriture qui font que les travaux de Gunnars et de Barthes restent d’actualité. Gunnars lit contre Barthes voyant la stratégie fragmentaire de Fragments d’un discours amoureux (1977) comme le refus d’un genre et prenant la stratégie révolutionnaire de l’écriture blanche exprimée dans Le Degré zéro de l’écriture (1953) comme une stratégie pour surmonter le chagrin. Un examen de ses citations et de ses allusions à Barthes nous montreront comment Gunnars interprète et réinvente la théorie en poésie.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"63 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/BJCS.2018.4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48881584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Affiliation and antimodernism in Margaret Laurence’s African writings/Affiliation et anti-modernisme dans les écrits africains de Margaret Laurence","authors":"C. Watts","doi":"10.3828/BJCS.2018.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/BJCS.2018.1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article argues that Margaret Laurence’s writings about Somalia and Ghana offer a critical yet ideologically loaded conception of development, modernity, and affiliation. It contends that these writings anticipate Anthony Smith’s recognition of the way ethnic identities predate and underpin conceptions of the nation; in so doing, Laurence’s work challenges theorisations of nationalism such as those of Benedict Anderson. At the same time, Laurence’s writings employ a type of Eurocentrism in that they formulate an antimodernism that conceives of African cultures as having the potential to revitalise the West not by being immemorially pre-modern, but rather by existing at an earlier, pre-national phase in a Western model of social development. Her African writings both use and subvert a progress narrative in which Western experiences of modernisation are universal; accordingly, they highlight a shortcoming that is common to theorists such as Anderson and others whose more nuanced theorisations Laurence anticipates.Abstract:Cet article fait valoir que les écrits de Margaret Laurence sur la Somalie et le Ghana présentent une conception critique du développement, de la modernité et de l’affiliation bien que chargés idéologiquement. Il affirme que ces écrits ont anticipé la reconnaissance faite par Anthony Smith de la façon dont les identités ethniques précèdent et sous-tendent les conceptions de la nation; ce faisant, l’œuvre de Laurence remet en question les théories de nationalisme telles que celle de Benedict Anderson. Dans le même temps, les écrits de Laurence emploient une forme d’eurocentrisme en ce sens qu’ils formulent un anti-modernisme qui conçoit les cultures africaines comme ayant le potentiel de revivifier l’Ouest non comme étant prémoderne d’une manière immémoriale mais plutôt comme ayant existé à une phase pré-nationale antérieure dans un modèle occidental de développement social. Ses écrits africains utilisent et renversent à la fois un récit du progrès dans lequel les expériences occidentales de modernisation sont universelles; en conséquence, ils mettent en évidence une faille commune aux théoriciens tels qu’Anderson ou d’autres aux théories plus nuancées que Laurence a devancés.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"1 - 21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/BJCS.2018.1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49475733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Humour in hell: Stephen Leacock’s First World War writings, 1915–1919/Humour en enfer: les ouvrages de la première guerre mondiale de Stephen Leacock, 1915–1919","authors":"N. Milne","doi":"10.3828/BJCS.2018.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/BJCS.2018.3","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Stephen Leacock (1869–1944), the best-known Canadian humourist of the early twentieth century, turned his pen to the support of the British Empire’s cause during the course of the First World War. Through a series of public lectures given to raise funds for Belgian relief, a widely distributed pamphlet urging the reorganisation of Canada’s national economy, and dozens of humorous short works collected in volumes between 1915 and 1919, Leacock embraced the period’s propagandistic spirit while subverting many propagandistic tropes. In works ostensibly intended to shore up home-front morale and encourage civilians to contribute to the war effort, Leacock gently mocks those same civilians’ pretensions when it comes to their ‘involvement’ in the war. Politicians and businessmen, farmers and aristocrats, allies and enemies alike – all are skewered, with the ultimate lesson being that their greatest contribution to the war effort might just be their humility.Abstract:Stephen Leacock (1869–1944), l’humoriste canadien le plus célèbre du début du vingtième siècle, mit sa plume au service de la cause de l’Empire britannique durant la Première Guerre mondiale. Leacock a embrassé l’esprit de propagande de l’époque tout en bouleversant de nombreux tropes par le biais d’une série de conférences données pour récolter des fonds pour le secours Belge, de la distribution d’un fascicule largement diffusé exhortant le redressement de l’économie canadienne et des dizaines d’œuvres humoristiques courtes rassemblées en volumes entre 1915 et 1919. Dans des ouvrages apparemment destinées à consolider le moral de l’arrière et à encourager les civils à contribuer à l’effort de guerre, Leacock se moque gentiment de ces mêmes prétentions civiles s’agissant de leur investissement personnel au conflit. Politiciens et hommes d’affaires, fermiers et aristocrates, alliés et ennemis confondus – tous sont font l’objet de caricatures mordantes, la leçon à en tirer étant que leur plus grande contribution ait peut-être été leur humilité.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"43 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/BJCS.2018.3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42210082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Culture of Rights: Law, Literature, and Canada by Benjamin Authers (review)","authors":"J. Mann","doi":"10.3138/9781442625808-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442625808-002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"116 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42444433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A quest for her own folk: Joan Clark’s An Audience of Chairs/A la recherche de son propre peuple: An Audience of Chairs de Joan Clark","authors":"Linda L. Revie","doi":"10.3828/BJCS.2018.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/BJCS.2018.2","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In An Audience of Chairs (2005), novelist Joan Clark traces the trajectory of madness of Moranna MacKenzie, an intense, complex character who resists the pharmaceuticals associated with the mentally ill. Instead she retreats to the family farmhouse in Baddeck, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, where she carves ancestral faces that surface, ghostlike, in the trees on her property. The labour soothes ‘Mad Mory’ and she sells her folk art to summer tourists. According to Ian McKay’s The Quest of the Folk (1994), this type of craftwork is a form of therapy to shore up a disturbed psyche within the ‘sick’ modern liberal order. Relying on discussions of postcolonial ‘hauntology’, this article examines how ancestral figurations, cosmological paradigms, forced migration to the New World during Scotland’s diaspora, and Indigenous displacement/settler expansion in Cape Breton combine to produce the cultural illness and the personal strife that possess – and dispossess – Moranna from without, and from within.Abstract:Dans An Audience of Chairs (2005), la romancière Joan Clark relate le processus de folie de Moranna MacKenzie, personnage intense et complexe qui résiste aux médicaments associés aux malades mentaux. Au lieu de cela, elle se retire dans la ferme familiale de Baddeck, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, ou elle sculpte des visages ancestraux qui surgissent, fantomatiques, sur les arbres de sa propriété. Le travail apaise ‘Mad Mory’ et elle vend son art folklorique aux touristes estivaux. Selon The Quest of the Folk de Ian McKay (1994), ce type d’artisanat est une forme de thérapie pour renforcer un psychisme perturbé au sein d’un ordre libéral moderne ‘malade’. En se basant sur des discussions de ‘hantologie’ post-colonniale, cet article examinera de quelle manière les figurations ancestrales et les paradigmes cosmologiques, les migrations forcées vers le Nouveau monde durant la diaspora ecossaise et les déplacements Indigènes/l’expansion des colons à Cape Breton se combinent pour produire la maladie culturelle et les conflits personnels qui possèdent – et dépossèdent – Moranna de l’intérieur et de l’extérieur.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"23 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/BJCS.2018.2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45260822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Asian Canadian communal literary enterprise","authors":"Zhen Liu","doi":"10.3828/BJCS.2018.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/BJCS.2018.5","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses how contemporary Asian Canadian literature was established at the end of the 1970s and developed with internal support from the members of the Japanese Canadian and Chinese Canadian communities in particular. I argue that the Asian Canadian literary enterprise was created and supported by communal efforts, and especially by the publication of magazines and anthologies. Communal grassroots magazines were efficient in mobilising Asian Canadian activism in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They also provided space for writers to explore various methods and aspects of self-expression and thus shaped a distinctive Asian Canadian consciousness. At the same time, they faced practical challenges which can be directly related to the political and cultural climate of late twentieth-century Canada. Anthologies not only announced the birth of contemporary Asian Canadian literature but also recorded and celebrated its various stages of development. Abstract: Dans cet article, il sera question de la maniere dont la litterature canadienne d’origine asiatique fut etablie a la fin des annees 1970 et comment elle s’est developpee avec le soutien des membres des communautes canadiennes d’origine japonaises et chinoises en particulier. Nous soutenons que la societe de litterature canadienne d’origine asiatique fut creee et soutenue par des efforts collectifs et surtout par la publication de magazines et d’anthologies. Les magazines communautaires ont su mobiliser efficacement l’activisme des canadiens d’origine asiatique de la fin des annees 1970 et des annees 1980. Ils ont egalement fourni aux auteurs un espace pour explorer diverses methodes et aspects d’auto-expression et ainsi ont contribue a la formation d’une conscience canadienne d’origine asiatique distincte. En meme temps, ils ont du faire face a des enjeux pratiques qui peuvent etre directement lies au climat politique et culturel du Canada de la fin du vingtieme siecle. Les anthologies ont non seulement annonce la naissance de la litterature canadienne d’origine asiatique contemporaine mais ont aussi consigne et salue les differentes etapes de son developpement.","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"81-103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70388523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior: A History of Canadian Internment Camp R by Ernest Robert Zimmermann (review)","authors":"R. Hawkins","doi":"10.5860/choice.195285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.195285","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41591,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Canadian Studies","volume":"30 1","pages":"251 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46415361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}