{"title":"Back Matter","authors":"","doi":"10.7202/1062929ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1062929ar","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":42265,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN CANADIAN LITERATURE-ETUDES EN LITTERATURE CANADIENNE","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78267785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Hell of a Voice","authors":"P. Chafe","doi":"10.7202/1062927ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1062927ar","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":42265,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN CANADIAN LITERATURE-ETUDES EN LITTERATURE CANADIENNE","volume":"423 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73071798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Altering Subjectivities","authors":"Caroline Rae","doi":"10.7202/1062916ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1062916ar","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":42265,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN CANADIAN LITERATURE-ETUDES EN LITTERATURE CANADIENNE","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72632352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“All Cunt and No ‘Conscience’”","authors":"H. Nicholls","doi":"10.7202/1062921ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1062921ar","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":42265,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN CANADIAN LITERATURE-ETUDES EN LITTERATURE CANADIENNE","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80944387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“You Are Turning into a Hive Mind”: Storytelling, Ecological Thought, and the Problem of Form in Generation A","authors":"Jenny Kerber","doi":"10.7202/1062368AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1062368AR","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the relationship between literary form and contemporary ecological anxiety in Douglas Coupland’s novel Generation A . Coupland’s speculative fiction envisions a possible future in the wake of Colony Collapse Disorder, but the more generalized eco-anxiety the novel explores is applicable to a number of contemporary environmental issues ranging from climate change to ocean acidification. I argue that Coupland’s novel invites readers to consider the problem of representing ecological problems characterized by global scale, temporal uncertainty, and multiple origins. I then explore how Coupland responds to these challenges by stretching form in two directions. First, he juxtaposes and recycles a series of stories in a manner that capitalizes on lateral, shortened forms of attention, leading readers to detect larger patterns of significance within a database of what might initially seem like insignificant or banal details. Second, he cultivates the development of a form of “hive mind” among characters and readers that stretches ideas of personhood beyond the corporeal boundaries of the individual subject. The latter opens new possibilities for conceiving of a collective, networked mode of political agency in the era of social media and global scale effects.","PeriodicalId":42265,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN CANADIAN LITERATURE-ETUDES EN LITTERATURE CANADIENNE","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74554704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Les envers de la ville : de nouveaux paysages en poésie québécoise","authors":"Élise Lepage","doi":"10.7202/1062360AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1062360AR","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article s’interesse a la representation de paysages urbains jusqu’alors demeures peu explores dans la poesie quebecoise contemporaine. En s’appuyant sur les theories du paysage developpees entre autres par Alain Roger et Augustin Berque, il montre en quoi les representations de Montreal sont en cours de deplacement : alors que le dernier quart du XXe siecle s’attachait a decrire le cœur de la metropole, son fourmillement, le brassage des cultures qui le caracterise, depuis le debut des annees 2000, ce sont d’autres facettes de Montreal qui emergent : les arriere- cours, les ruelles, la banlieue, des lieux marginaux, des quartiers industriels, des bâtisses desaffectees, certains quartiers trepidants de vie la journee, mais vides pendant la nuit. De cette question de la representation paysagere proprement dite, la reflexion s’achemine ensuite vers deux praxis incontournables du paysage, soit le tourisme – fait societal majeur, mais pourtant tres peu represente en litterature – et le reniement de l’urbanite par elle-meme – autrement dit lorsque la ville essaie de dissimuler ses traits distinctifs jusqu’a se diluer et perdre son essence. Ces pratiques paysageres conduisent finalement a une reflexion sur le concept de chora , a la fois paysage et milieu qui valorise les interactions entre le paysage et les etres qui l’habitent et qu’il habite reciproquement. Cette symbiose ou cette harmonie qu’evoque la chora parait extremement fragile de nos jours.","PeriodicalId":42265,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN CANADIAN LITERATURE-ETUDES EN LITTERATURE CANADIENNE","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76406411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“A Whole New Take on Indigenous”: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake as Wild Animal Story","authors":"Lee Frew","doi":"10.7202/1062362AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1062362AR","url":null,"abstract":"Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy has met with popular acclaim and generated considerable scholarly interest since the 2003 publication of its first volume, Oryx and Crake . The implicit critique of Western capitalism presented in Atwood’s dystopian vision of a post-democratic, post-national, and post-human future seems to offer a wide appeal, particularly at a time of sustained environmental crisis. Instead of evaluating the merits of Atwood’s critique, however, this paper examines the ways in which the speculative future of Oryx and Crake and the warnings it contains are delimited by a problematic Second World paradigm. More specifically, the novel can be read in terms of the wild animal story, a genre first established in late-nineteenth-century Canada that Atwood herself was instrumental in defining as such in her controversial 1972 study Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature . In keeping with the conventions of the wild animal story, boundary crossings in Atwood’s novel engage in indigenizing fantasy. Despite its powerful warning of imminent disaster, Oryx and Crake nevertheless obscures ongoing colonializing acts by privileging a settler subject-position conceived as endangered by the forces of modernity","PeriodicalId":42265,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN CANADIAN LITERATURE-ETUDES EN LITTERATURE CANADIENNE","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88603522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Poetics of Simpson Pass: Natural History and Place-Making in Rocky Mountains Park","authors":"S. Krotz","doi":"10.7202/1062355AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1062355AR","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines A Sprig of Mountain Heather , an early pamphlet designed by J.B. Harkin and Mabel Williams to promote Canada’s dominion parks. Familiar in some historical circles but less so in literary ones, the pamphlet provides a fascinating glimpse into the colonial practice of natural history and its role in shaping European relationships to wild spaces such as Simpson Pass, on the border of Rocky Mountains (now Banff) Park. Containing both an actual specimen – a pressed flower from an alpine meadow on the pass – and “a story of the heather” that connects it to Scottish lore and culture, A Sprig of Mountain Heather demonstrates how natural history made it possible for European settlers to imbue even a remote and alien space with the homely resonance of place – a key attribute of the national parks’ colonial and curatorial relationship to wilderness. Read in the light of a wider history of botanical inventory and description both in the mountain parks and elsewhere in Canada, A Sprig of Mountain Heather exemplifies the potency of the natural object as a locus of memory that could at once transport and transplant emigrants, allowing them to establish a deeper connection to lands that were remote both geographically and culturally.","PeriodicalId":42265,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN CANADIAN LITERATURE-ETUDES EN LITTERATURE CANADIENNE","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82242816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“This page faintly stained with / green”: Compost Aesthetics in John Steffler’s That Night We Were Ravenous","authors":"Adam Beardsworth","doi":"10.7202/1062364AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1062364AR","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines how John Steffler’s poetry collection That Night We Were Ravenous (1998) destabilizes the humanist impulse to position the “authentic” subject at the core of ecological concerns by employing a compost aesthetic that enacts the innately fragmented nature of human subjectivity. It contends that, for Steffler, the poem is its own ecosystem, one that sits in precarious balance with the world around it. The poems in this collection are exploratory rather than expository; their attempts to discover the self in nature are as ephemeral, slippery, and paradoxical as the language that gives them life. Instead of declaiming poetry as a resource that will allow a return to a utopian space, Steffler’s ecological poems position the human subject as a composite of usable waste attuned to the precarious chaos of nature.","PeriodicalId":42265,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN CANADIAN LITERATURE-ETUDES EN LITTERATURE CANADIENNE","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88747871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Paler Shade of Green: Suburban Nature in Margaret Atwood’s Cat's Eye","authors":"Robert Ross","doi":"10.7202/1062357AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1062357AR","url":null,"abstract":"Critics of Canadian literature such as Cheryl Cowdy, Frank Davey, and Franca Bellarsi construe suburbia as existing somewhere in between the concrete jungle and the verdant wilderness. The ecocritical implications of this geographic and critical positioning, however, have not yet been thoroughly examined. Common images of suburbanites portray people in the “enclosed private worlds of fences, parlours and automobiles,” cut off from their larger communities and environments in collective isolation. Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye (1988) depicts how this separate-from-nature culture is fostered. As Elaine Risley faces the repressed, traumatizing experiences of her childhood, she confronts her and her society’s various interrelationships with the natural world, showing how a suburban upbringing can produce unsatisfactory relationships with both human and non-human nature. In so doing, Cat’s Eye critiques common, urbane conceptions of nature from a point of view that is quintessentially ecocritical. Aside from the obvious environmental concerns vocalized by Elaine’s biologist father, ecological issues are relevant to three other aspects of the novel: Elaine’s early childhood in northern Ontario, her later summer vacations there, and the social pressures and cultural practices that Elaine experiences in suburbia. Through these elements of the narrative, Cat’s Eye articulates some of the fundamental relationships with nature experienced by those living in suburban Canada and seeks to move beyond conventional portrayals of this relationship.","PeriodicalId":42265,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN CANADIAN LITERATURE-ETUDES EN LITTERATURE CANADIENNE","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87635939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}