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

Special Section/Dossier spécial

WOMEN IN MOTION/FEMMES EN MOUVEMENT

Guest Editors

KARIN SCHWERDTNER and KAREN BAMFORD

VOLUME 29 NUMBER 1

PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK

© 2004

Editor: John Clement Ball

Associate Editors: Laurel Boone, Mary Rimmer Managing Editor: Sabine Campbell Contributing Editors: Anne Brown, Fred Cogswell Editorial Assistants: Shannon Armstrong, Katrine Raymond

Advisory Board:

Ajay Heble University of Guelph

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

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ISSN 0380-6995

Jennifer Andrews University of New Brunswick 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 Thomas Gerry Laurentian University Terry Goldie York University Sherrill Grace University of British Columbia

SCL/ÉLC VOLUME 29.1, 2004

TABLE OF CONTENTS SPECIAL SECTION/DOSSIER SPÉCIAL

Women in Motion/Femmes en mouvement

Introduction:

KARIN SCHWERDTNER AND KAREN BAMFORD 7

Visualizing Labrador: Maps, Photographs, and Geographical Naming

in Mina Hubbard’s A Woman’s Way through Unknown Labrador

WENDY ROY 13

“Good Housekeeping”: Agnes Macdonald

Writes About Home and Parliament in Nineteenth-Century Canada

ROBIN SUTHERLAND 35

La fugue, la fuite et l’espace franchi dans

Le Premier jardin d’Anne Hébert

KATHLEEN KELLETT-BETSOS 50

Mobility and Identity Construction in Bharati Mukherjee’s

Desirable Daughters: The Tree Wife and Her Rootless Namesake

KATHERINE MILLER 63

Les lettres chinoises de Ying Chen : le mobile et l’immobile

IRÈNE OORE 74

Ghostly Foundations: Multicultural Space and Vancouver’s Chinatown in

Sky Lee’s Disappearing Moon Cafe

DANIEL MARTIN 85

The Fiction of Agelessness: Work, Leisure, and Aging in

Alice Munro’s “Pictures of the Ice”

SARA JAMIESON 106

“Publica(c)tion”: E. Pauline Johnson’s Publishing Venues

and their Contemporary Significance

SABINE MILZ 127

SCL/ÉLC Interview

“Among the Word Animals”: A Conversation with Marilyn Dumont

JENNIFER ANDREWS 145

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 161