Studies in Canadian Literature

Études en littérature canadienne

Volume 34 Number 1

Published by

The University of New Brunswick

© 2009

Editors: Jennifer Andrews, John Clement Ball

Associate Editors: 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

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

Chantal Savoie Université Laval

Florence Stratton University of Regina

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

Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne (SCL/ÉLC) is a biannual refereed journal devoted to the scholarly and critical study of Canadian literature in English and French; it is indexed in the Canadian Periodical Index, the MLA Index, and the Humanities International Complete, and is available on-line in the Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database and in microform from Micromedia Ltd., 20 Victoria St., Toronto ON, M5C 2N8.

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Scl/Élc Volume 34.1 2009

Table of Contents

The Death of the New Woman in Sara Jeannette Duncan’s A Daughter of To-day

Janice Fiamengo 5

“The Same as Bein’ Canadian”: John Marlyn’s Eye among the Blind

Benjamin Lefebvre 22

Nietzsche as Educator: Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers and the Achievement of Innocence

Mark Migotti 41

“Absence, havoc”: Gothic Mourning and Daughterly Duty in Jay Macpherson’s Welcoming Disaster

Tanis MacDonald 58

The Lowest Common Denominator: Consumerism, Branding, and Definitive Dissatisfaction in Stéphane Dompierre’s Un Petit pas pour l’ homme

Kelly-Anne Maddox 81

“We live permanently in the recurrence of our own stories”: Michael Ondaatje’s Divisadero

Sofie De Smyter 99

Offred’s Complicity and the Dystopian Tradition in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale

Allan Weiss 120

Roberta’s Raspberry Bombe and Critical Indifference in Alice Munro’s “Labor Day Dinner”

Ryan Melsom 142

Deep Map Country: Proposing a Dinnseanchas Cycle of the Northern Plains

Susan Naramore Maher 160

Productive Dissonance: Classical Music in Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen

Sarah Wylie Krotz 182

Weesageechak Meets the Weetigo: Storytelling, Humour, and Trauma in the Fiction of Richard Van Camp, Tomson Highway, and Eden Robinson

Kristina Fagan 204

“Exorcising a lot of shame”: Transformation and Affective Experience in Marilyn Dumont’s green girl dreams Mountains

Cara DeHaan 227

SCL/ÉLC Interview Striving for “some version of the truth”: A Conversation with Helen Humphreys

Kiley Kapuscinski 248

Notes on Contributors 264