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

VOLUME 28 NUMBER 2

PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK

© 2003

Editors: Jennifer Andrews, John Clement Ball Associate Editors: Laurel Boone, Mary Rimmer

Managing Editor: Sabine Campbell Contributing Editors: Anne Brown, Fred Cogswell Editorial Assistants: Patrick Murphy, Erin Whitmore

Advisory Board:

Neil Besner University of Winnipeg E.D. Blodgett University of Alberta Gary Boire Wilfrid Laurier University Marie Carrière Université du Nouveau-Brunswick J. Edward Chamberlin University of Toronto Annick Chapdelaine Université McGill David Creelman University of New Brunswick Gwen Davies 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 Victoria 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 Linda Warley University of Waterloo Darryl Whetter University of Windsor 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 American Humanities Index, 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 28.2, 2003

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Nation as “International Bastard”: Ethnicity and Language in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient

SHANNON SMYRL 9

Le parcours identitaire de Dany Laferrière ou «Mon cœur est à Port-au-Prince, mon esprit à Montréal et mon corps à Miami»¹ ANNE BROWN 39

The Artist and the Witness:

Jane Urquhart’s The Underpainter and The Stone Carvers NETA GORDON 59

The Sensations of the 1920s:

Martha Ostenso’s Wild Geese and Mazo de la Roche’s Jalna FAYE HAMMILL 74

“It seems so much the truth it is the truth”: Persuasive Testimony in Alice Munro’s “A Wilderness Station” ISLA J. DUNCAN 98 “If only I were Isis”: Remembrance, Ritual, and Writing in Lola Lemire Tostevin’s Cartouches

THOMAS GERRY 111

SCL/ÉLC Interview “A Many-Veined Leaf”: Minutiae and Multiplicity in Brian Bartlett’s Poetry ANNE COMPTON 131

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

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