S C L / É L C

S T U D I E S I N C A N A D I A N L I T E R A T U R E

É T U D E S EN L I T T É R A T U R E C A N A D I E N N E

1999

V O L U M E 24 N U M B E R 2

PUBLISHED BY

T H E UNIVERSITY OF NEW B R U N S W I C K

Editor, John Clement Bail

Associate Editors: Laurel Boone, Mary Rimmer Managing Editor. Sabine Campbell Contributing Editors: Anne Brown, Fred Cogswell

Editorial Assistant: Michael Belyea

Advisory Board: Jennifer Andrews University of 'New Brunswick Sherrill Grâce University of British Columbia Brian Bartlett StMary's University Ajay Heble University ofGuelph Neil Besner University ofWinnipeg Smaro Kamboureli University of Victoria Gary Boire Wilfrid Laurier University Susan Knutson Université Ste-Anne E.D. Blodgett University of Alberta Denyse Lynde Mémorial University of Nfld Anthony Boxill University of New Brunswick Kathy Mezei Simon Fraser University BarryCameron University of New Brunswick Jean Morency Université de Moncton ]. Edward Chamberlin University of Toronto Paul Tiessen Wilfrid Laurier University Annick Chapdeleine Université McGill Robert Viau Université de Nouveau-Brunsiuick Thomas Gerry Laurentian University Linda Warley University of Waterloo Terry Goldie York University

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SCL/ÉLC

VOLUME 24.2 1999

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Destiny into Chance: S.J. Duncan's

The Imperialist and the Périls of Nation Building JON KERTZE.1 1

I Am Telling This to No One But You:

Private Voice, Passing, and the Private Sphere in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grâce

STEPHANIE LOVELADY 35

Authorizing her Text:

Margaret Laurence's Shift to Third-Person Narration BRENDA BECKMAN-LONG 64

"Hoping to strike some sort of solidity":

The Shifting Fictions of Alistair MacLeod

DAVID CREELMAN 79

Myth-manipulation through Dismemberment in Michael Ondaatje's the man with seven toes

TAN YA LEWIS 100

Les romans des origines acadiennes de

Jacques Gauthier et Claude Le Bouthillier ROBERT VIAU 114

From Manna to Money:

The Narrative Structure of Yves Thériault's Aaron PAULSOCKEN 131

The Rôle of Memory in two "fictions de 1 ;identitaire" from Quebec: Sergio Kokis's Le Pavillon des miroirs and

Jean-François Chassay's Les Ponts

MARIE VAUTIER 141

Waiting for Jeannot: The (de)Cûnstruction of History in Brian Moore's No Other Life

PATRICK HICKS 151 SCL/ELC Interviews:

Border Trickery and Dog Bones:

A Conversation with Thomas King JENNIFER ANDREWS 161

Poetry, Photography, Painting:

Stephanie Bolster's World ANNE COMPTON 186

Notes on Contributors 198