SCL / ÉLC

STUDIES IN CANADIAN LITERATURE / ÉTUDES EN LITTÉRATURE CANADIENNE

Poetics and Public Culture in Canada

Co-Editors:

Diana Brydon Manina Jones Jessica Schagerl Kristen Warder

Volume 32 Number 2

Published by The University of New Brunswick © 2007

Editors: Jennifer Andrews, John Clement Ball Associate Editors: Laurel Boone, anne Brown, Mary Rimmer Managing Editor: Kathryn Taglia/Sabine Campbell

Editorial Assistant: Jesse Ferguson Design & Layout: Sabine Campbell, Robert M. Weger

Advisory Board:

Neil Besner University of Winnipeg

Guy Beauregard National Tsing Hua University

E.D. Blodgett University of Alberta

Monika Boehringer Mount Allison University

Marie Carrière Université du Nouveau-Brunswick

Annick Chapdelaine Université McGill

Aniel Coleman McMaster University

Avid Creelman University of New Brunswick

Justin D. Edwards University of Wales, Bangor

Janice Fiamengo University of Ottawa

Anielle 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 jay 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

Florence Stratton University of Regina

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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Table of Contents

Surviving the Paraphrase: Poetics and Public Culture in Canada

Introduction Surviving the Paraphrase: Poetics and Public Culture in Canada Diana Brydon, Manina Jones, Jessica Schagerl, and Kristen Warder 7

SwiftCurrent: Tangled Histories and Bodily Poetics

Towards Canada as Aesthetic State: François-Xavier Garneau’s Canadien Poetics Len Findlay 28

Machine-Age Discourse, Mechanical Ballet, and Popular Song as Alternative Document in Dorothy Livesay’s “Day and Night” Brenda Carr Vellino 43

Rita Wong’s monkeypuzzle and the Poetics of Social Justice Christine Kim 59

‘Whatever That Is’: Hiromi Goto’s Body Politic/s Wendy Gay Pearson 75

From There to Here: Place and Public Cultures

Finding Narratives: George, Vancouver and the Process of Discovery Michelle Hartley 97

(Un)Settling the Prairies: Queering Regionalist Literature and the Prairie Social Landscape in Shane Rhodes’s The Wireless Room Kristen Warder 115

Newfoundland Poetry as “Ethnographic Salvage”: Time, Place, and Voice in the Poetry of Michael Crummey and Mary Dalton Paul Chafe 132

Post-National Arguments: Global Poetics

Poetics and the Politics of Globalization Imre Szeman 148

Transnational Subjectivities: Roy Miki’s Surrender and Global Displacements Kit Dobson 162

The Poetics of Vulnerability: Diaspora, Race, and Global Citizenship in A.M. Klein’s The Second Scroll and Dionne Brand’s Thirsty Heike Härting 177

Cultural Mischief: Contested Poetics

Notes from and beyond my Conference Reading Frank Davey 200

“Frank Davey” and the Method of Cool Smaro Kamboureli 203

Frank Davey and the Firing Squad Aritha van Herk 227

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Homage to L.H. 1930-2005

Bernie Miller