Studies in Canadian Literature

Études en littérature canadienne

Volume 33 Number 1

Published by

The University of New Brunswick

© 2008

Editors: Jennifer Andrews, John Clement Ball

Associate Editors: Laurel Boone, Anne Brown, Mary Rimmer

Managing Editor: Kathryn Taglia

Editorial Assistant: Jesse Ferguson

Design & Layout: Robert M. Weger

Advisory Board:

Guy Beauregard National Tsing Hua University

E.D. Blodgett University of Alberta

Monika Boehringer Mount Allison University

Marie Carrière University of Alberta

Annick Chapdelaine Université McGill

Daniel Coleman McMaster University

David Creelman University of New Brunswick

Justin D. Edwards University of Wales, Bangor

Janice Fiamengo University of Ottawa

Danielle Fuller University of Birmingham

Thomas Gerry Laurentian University

Helen Gilbert Royal Holloway, University of London

Terry Goldie York University

Sherrill Grace University of British Columbia

Faye Hammill University of Strathclyde

Ajay Heble University of Guelph

Douglas Ivison Lakehead University

Smaro Kamboureli University of Guelph

Catherine Khordoc Carleton University

Susan Knutson Université Sainte-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

Christian Riegel University of Regina

Florence Stratton University of Regina

Chantal Savoie Université Laval

Nora Foster Stovel University of Alberta

Cynthia Sugars University of Ottawa

Gerry Turcotte U of Notre Dame, Sydney

Kathleen Venema University of Winnipeg

Linda Warley University of Waterloo

Herb Wyile Acadia University

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Scl/Élc Volume 33.1 2008

Table of Contents

Beyond the Marriage Metaphor:

Nation, Violence, and the Fallen Woman in The Canadian Brothers

Sunnie Rothenburger 5

Lisibilité du descriptif dans le roman d’aventures canadien-français : l’exemple de L’Enfant mystérieux (1890) de Wenceslas-Eugène Dick

Nathalie Dolbec 26

The Other Side of Utopia: The Opacity of Perception in the Poetry of the First Run of Tish, 1961-63

Lance La Rocque 49

Listening at the Edge: Homage and Ohmage in Don McKay and Ken Babstock

Travis V. Mason 77

Picture Theory: On Photographic Intimacy in Nicole Brossard and Anne Carson

Sophie Mayer 97

Time Structures and the Healing Aesthetic of Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road

Neta Gordon 118

Margaret Laurence’s A Jest of God as a Work of Simultaneous Narration

Isla Duncan 136

Moments of Being: Carol Shields’s Short Fiction

Elke D’hoker 151

« Aux difformes et aux légèrement dérangés » : la figure du grotesque comme moyen d’accès au désordre du refoulé dans trois nouvelles d’Alice Munro

Jennifer Murray 169

Uncovering the Grotesque in Fiction by Alice Munro and Gabrielle Roy

Lorna Hutchison 187

Gabrielle Roy’s La route d’Altamont and Canadian Highway Narrative

J.N. Nodelman 211

Critical Reception and Postmodern Violation of Generic Conventions in Jacques Brossard’s “Monument aux marges”: L’Oiseau de feu

Amy J. Ransom 229

“This is not where we live”: The Production of National Citizenship and Borderlines in Sharon Pollock’s The Komagata Maru Incident

Erica Kelly 257

“The Being Together of Strangers”: Dionne Brand’s Politics of Difference

and the Limits of Multicultural Discourse

Heather Smyth 272

Whips, Hammers, and Ropes: The Burden of Race and Desire in Clarke’s George & Rue

Gugu D. Hlongwane 291

SCL/éLC Interview

Projecting History Honestly: An Interview with Lawrence Hill

Jessie Sagawa 307

Notes on Contributors 323