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

VOLUME 26 NUMBER 2

PUBLISHED BY

THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK

© 2001

Editor: John Clement Ball

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Jennifer Andrews University of New Brunswick Neil Besner University of Winnipeg Gary Boire Wilfrid Laurier University E.D. Blodgett University of Alberta Barry Cameron University of New Brunswick J. Edward Chamberlin University of Toronto Annick Chapdeleine Université McGill Thomas Gerry Laurentian University Terry Goldie York University Sherrill Grace University of British Columbia

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Scl/Élc Volume 26.2 2001

Table of Contents

After Obasan: Kogawa Criticism and Its Futures Guy Beauregard 5 Out of Canada: Images of Africa in Contemporary Canadian Culture

Florence Stratton 23

Postcolonial Cities: Michael Ondaatje’s Toronto and Yvonne Vera’s Bulawayo

Robert Fraser 44

Nancy Huston : identité et dédoublement dans le texte David J. Bond 53 On Rock and Book and Leaf:

Reading Michael Ondaatje’s Handwriting Rochelle Vigurs 71 The Omnipresent Voice:

Authorial Intrusion in Rudy Wiebe’s “Games for Queen Victoria”

Albert Braz 91 The Double Ending of The Mountain and the Valley:

From Aristotle to Dante Maia Bhojwani 107

SCL/ÉLC Interview: “A Cadential Sense of Rhythm”: Dennis Lee on Poetics and Music Ross Leckie 127

Notes on Contributors 144