S C L / ÉLC

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 30 NUMBER 2

PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK

© 2005

Editors: Jennifer Andrews, John Clement Ball Associate Editors: Laurel Boone, Anne Brown, Mary Rimmer Managing Editor: Sabine Campbell Editorial Assistants: Jason Cawley, Stewart Cole, Cara Fabre

Advisory Board:

Neil Besner University of Winnipeg E.D. Blodgett University of Alberta Marie Carrière Université du Nouveau-Brunswick Annick Chapdelaine Université McGill Daniel Coleman McMaster University David Creelman University of New Brunswick Janice Fiamengo University of Ottawa Thomas Gerry Laurentian University Terry Goldie York University Sherrill Grace University of British Columbia Ajay Heble University of Guelph Douglas Ivison Lakehead University

Smaro Kamboureli University of Guelph Susan Knutson Université Ste-Anne Denyse Lynde Memorial University of Nfld Kathy Mezei Simon Fraser University Jean Morency Université de Moncton Laura Moss University of British Columbia Norman Ravvin Concordia University Cynthia Sugars University of Ottawa Linda Warley University of Waterloo Florence Stratton University of Regina Herb Wyile Acadia University

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SCL/ÉLC VOLUME 30.2 2005

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Keynes, Storytelling, and Realism:

Literary and Economic Discourse in Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance TYLER TOKARYK 1

Dire le monde :

Discours argumentatif et mondialisme dans Anil’s Ghost de Michael Ondaatje PASCAL GIN 32

The Future of Racial Memory:

Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Redress in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan and Itsuka

JULIE MCGONEGAL 55

La parole, le silence et l’apprentissage de l’exil dans Le Bonheur a la queue glissante d’Abla Farhoud

ANNE MARIE MIRAGLIA 79

Lost in Translation:

The English Versions of Gabrielle Roy’s Early Novels DARLENE KELLY 96

Anne Shirley, Storyteller:

Orality and Anne of Green Gables TRINNA S. FREVER 115

The Jews on Mencken’s Block and

Guy Vanderhaeghe’s The Englishman’s Boy SHARON HAMILTON 142

Romancing the “mysterious bonds of syntax”: Allegory and the Ethics of Desire in Douglas Glover’s “My Romance” and “Iglaf and Swan”

ADAM BEARDSWORTH 161

The Declension of a Story: Narrative Structure in Howard O’Hagan’s Tay John

KYLEE-ANNE HINGSTON 181

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

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