{"title":"Walking Woman and Her Legacy","authors":"V. Legge","doi":"10.14288/CL.VI240.192122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/CL.VI240.192122","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44701,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN LITERATURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46432523","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":"In this very uncertain space","authors":"Y-Dang Troeung, Phanuel Antwi","doi":"10.14288/CL.VI240.192372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/CL.VI240.192372","url":null,"abstract":"As a journalist for The Globe and Mail for 10 years, El Akkad has reported on war and conflict from around the world, including the war in Afghanistan, the military trials at Guantanamo Bay, the Arab Spring revolution in Egypt, and the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson, Missouri. In 2018, El Akkad's debut novel, American War, was shortlisted for a number of prominent literary prizes, garnering public attention as a finalist on the CBC Canada Reads competition. In this conversation, we talk to El Akkad about his novel, journalism, literary influences, migrations, and political visions of the future. One recurring theme in the conversation is the relationship between violence and the production of uncertainty—the unpredictability movement and refuge for the displaced; the ambiguity and risks of racial representation; the secrecy of detention and redaction; and the uncertainties of the future in times of change and crisis.","PeriodicalId":44701,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN LITERATURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42154213","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":"Re-framing the Diasporic Subject: The Supernatural and the Black Female Body in The Salt Roads","authors":"Miasol Eguíbar-Holgado","doi":"10.14288/CL.VI240.191803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/CL.VI240.191803","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes to analyse Nalo Hopkinson's novel The Salt Roads (2003). It looks at how its intersections with gender, sexuality, and race adds new, unexplored dimensions to the spec-fic genre. More specifically, it examines how the use of the Afro-Caribbean supernatural and of the black female body in the novel, creates a redefinition of Afro-diasporic subjectivities. In many respects this novel departs from the Eurocentric concept of the diaspora and from received epistemologies in the understanding of culture and history. Instead, it creates an alternative set of routes, the salt roads, that relies on a female water spirit as unifying thread. A focus on the enslaved female black body and on relationships of solidarity among the main characters implies a subversion of the traditional heterosexual male roles that dominate works of speculative fiction. Moreover, it creates an imaginative space that redresses traditional, Western readings of Caribbean history and identity.","PeriodicalId":44701,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN LITERATURE","volume":"1 1","pages":"79-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48338056","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":"Familiarizing Grist Village","authors":"Larissa Lai","doi":"10.14288/CL.VI240.192487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/CL.VI240.192487","url":null,"abstract":"Larissa Lai explains that she writes speculative fiction in order to embrace her own writerly agency. She takes up the practice of the thought experiment, first envisioned by Ursula LeGuin, as a way of narratively testing out ideas that could be practiced in the world as it is. Lai adds to this by recognizing that the world changes in multiple ways at once, and that we get new worlds and fresh futures not through a single change but through the concatenation of many, often driven by differing ideals. We can’t predict the results of ideals interacting, but we can learn to recognize beautiful, freeing or interesting things when they emerge. The marvel of speculative fiction is that it can show us how this might work, as for example in The Tiger Flu, Lai's novel about a community of self-reproducing women and a disease that favours men.","PeriodicalId":44701,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN LITERATURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47080084","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":"Canadian Postwar Book Diplomacy and Settler Contradiction","authors":"J. Mason","doi":"10.14288/CL.VI240.192150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/CL.VI240.192150","url":null,"abstract":"A standard narrative in the literary history of English Canada is that literary culture was able to “develop” in the wake of the 1951 Massey Report, finally “arriving” in the years between the late 1950s and the mid-1970s. This essay offers another view of this period, analyzing not the smooth developmental momentum but rather the contradiction and disavowal that attended one of the federal government’s first direct forms of support for the book, which came in the form of postwar book diplomacy efforts. Using Anna Johnston and Allan Lawson's theorization of settler colonialism, the essay analyzes how these book diplomacy undertakings exemplify the \"double inscription of authority and authenticity\" of settler contradiction. As the Imperium shifted across the Atlantic in the decade that followed the close of the Second World War, the settler nation struggled to locate itself anew in relation to its doubled, desired, and disavowed origins.","PeriodicalId":44701,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN LITERATURE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43579946","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":"Your own guilty story","authors":"S. Chivers","doi":"10.14288/CL.V0I239.191363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/CL.V0I239.191363","url":null,"abstract":"Apocalyptic visions of an aging population rest on negative assumptions about the costs and effects of increasing numbers of people with dementia. Such discourse emphasizes a desire for cure and amplifies the costs of care while ignoring the broader cultural implications of dementia. Literary portrayals offer the opportunity to broaden the figurative landscape to raise questions about what it means for a population to age. Drawing on age studies, this contextualized close reading of David Chariandy’s Soucouyant offers another way to think about global aging, the implications of memory loss, and how care work affects relationships. The novel’s never named narrator concocts “guilty stories” that orient him to his mother’s dementia but do not adequately account for the care work his mother’s friend, Mrs. Christopher, has done over decades. Thus, the novel pertains to the political economy of aging by surfacing connections among care relations, cultural memory, and dementia.","PeriodicalId":44701,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN LITERATURE","volume":"1 1","pages":"108-124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47013227","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":"Corrosive Aesthetics: On the Receiving End of Oil and Gas in Who By Fire","authors":"Jenny Kerber","doi":"10.14288/CL.V0I239.190474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/CL.V0I239.190474","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the politics of Alberta oil and gas in Fred Stenson’s 2014 novel Who By Fire. Stenson’s text raises timely questions about the petroleum industry both from the perspectives of those who work in it, and those who live with its attendant risks. For instance, how does one articulate sensory encounters with oil and gas development in ways that will generate official responses that move beyond bland statements of empathy? And, when it comes to addressing pollution, to what extent can allies within industry aid affected citizens? Drawing on the work of contemporary petrocritics, I look at how Stenson develops the key metaphor of corrosion to understand industry’s effects on human and ecosystem health in Alberta, while at the same time demonstrating the limits of leaving the responsibility for containment in the hands of industry alone.","PeriodicalId":44701,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN LITERATURE","volume":"1 1","pages":"50-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42115294","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":"Déambuler dans le « temps » et dans l'imaginaire d'un pays","authors":"Louis-Serge Gill","doi":"10.14288/CL.V0I239.191280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/CL.V0I239.191280","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44701,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN LITERATURE","volume":"1 1","pages":"160-162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48217091","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":"Semblable clef de voûte","authors":"Nathalie Warren","doi":"10.14288/CL.V0I238.191268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14288/CL.V0I238.191268","url":null,"abstract":"Dany Laferriere \u0000Autoportrait de Paris avec chat. Boreal 32,95 $ \u0000Vincent Lambert et Jacques Paquin, dirs. \u0000Sensorielles : Autour de Paul Chanel Malenfant. Editions du Noroit 25,00 $ \u0000Compte rendu par Nathalie Warren \u0000Tel que l’annonce le titre ces livres partagent une clef de voute, soit celle de l’enfance, laquelle est reconnue par Laferriere et Malenfant comme le fondement de leur affectivite et de leur sensibilite, s’accordant a admettre, tel Barthes qu’« [a]u fond, il n’est pays que de l’enfance» (Barthes cite dans Sensorielles : Autour de Paul Chanel Malenfant, 150). Mais, outre cela, nous pourrions trouver d’autres points communs a leurs pages dont l’importance accordee aux souvenirs familiaux et au territoire. \u0000Autoportrait de Paris avec chat, le premier livre d’academicien de Laferriere, est un journal illustre dans lequel l’ecrivain, preoccupe par l’ecriture de son discours a l’Academie qui doit faire l’eloge de son predecesseur, Hector Bianciotti, nous invite a le suivre dans les lieux qui ont marque son imaginaire d’une part, c’est-a-dire Petit-Goâve, Montreal et Paris puis, d’autre part, a faire avec lui la rencontre d’auteurs et d’artistes dont Balzac, Sartre, Villon, Hemingway, Rigaud Benoit, etc. L’auteur realise ici un reve d’adolescence, soit celui d’entrer en contact avec de grandes figures du monde de l’art et ce, tout en laissant libre cours au plaisir de faire ce qui, de son propre aveu, il ne sait pas faire c’est-a-dire dessiner (62). Dans ce foisonnement d’images et de couleurs, Laferriere s’amuse et son lecteur aussi! Or cette joie n’est pas que ludique, elle nous questionne. Dans un Occident heritier de la culture judeo-chretienne ou l’on fait l’apologie de la douleur (50) Laferriere tend la main a Basquiat et lui promet qu’«un jour le chant heureux reviendra et [il] n’aura plus besoin d’angoisse pour creer» (ibidem) opposant au legs des notions de peche et d’enfer une culture de l’allegresse : «ce qui est etonnant dans la peinture haitienne c’est qu’elle soit si joyeuse. C’est le dernier peuple a savoir vivre. Ils ne s’interessent pas a la realite, ils la reinventent» (108). On comprend des lors combien vivifiant et necessaire pu etre le voyage dans l’atmosphere et les paysages de sa jeunesse quand l’auteur, revetu de son titre d’Immortel, choisit de rentrer a Port-au-Prince pour se recentrer. Il avait deja fait allusion avant a la baignoire rose de son premier appartement de Montreal qui lui rappelait le ventre de sa mere quand, enceinte de lui, elle lisait, sa «premiere petite bibliotheque audio» ecrit-il (70), nous le suivons maintenant au «88 rue de Lamarre […] adresse universelle de l’enfance heureuse» (114) dans une region ou dieux vaudous et paysans se cotoient. Univers onirique, presque, qui contribua a irriguer une creativite sur laquelle une vaste culture generale est venue se greffer sans que rien ne soit perdu du rire sonore de l’enfant. \u0000Sensorielles : Autour de Paul Chanel Malenfant est, quant a lui, un ","PeriodicalId":44701,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN LITERATURE","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47681433","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}
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