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Volume 34 Number 2 Published by

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Editors: Jennifer Andrews, John Clement Ball Associate Editors: Anne Brown, Mary Rimmer

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Guy Beauregard National Tawain University E.D. Blodgett University of Alberta Monika Boehringer Mount Allison University Marie Carrière University of Alberta 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 Anthony Tremblay St. Thomas University 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 34.2

Table of Contents

Volkswagen Blues Twenty-Five Years Later: Revisiting Poulin’s Pitsémine Heather Macfarlane 5

The Bystander’s Tale: Gil Courtemanche’s A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali and the Rwandan Genocide Michael Keren 22

The Sweetness of Saying “mother”? Maternity and Narrativity in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables Christa Zeller Thomas 40

Generic Experiment and Confusion in Early Canadian Novels of the Great War Colin Hill 58

Celebrity and the Poetic Dialogue of Irving Layton and Leonard Cohen Joel Deshaye 77

Dark Stories: Poet-Audience Relations and the Journey Underground in Margaret Atwood’s The Door and Other Works

Paul Huebener 106

The Meaning Revealed at the Nth Degree in Christian Bök’s Eunoia Sean Braune 134

The Afterlife of the City: Reconsidering Urban Poetic Practice Maia Joseph 152

Inhabitable Spaces in Claire Harris’s She Veronica J. Austen 178

Rough Play: Reading Black Masculinity in Austin Clarke’s “Sometimes, a Motherless Child” and Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For

Phanuel Antwi 194

A Human Conversation about Goodness: Carol Shields’s Unless Margaret Steffler 223

A Desire for the Real: The Power of Film in The Englishman’s Boy Robert Zacharias 245

Indigenous Writing and the Residential School Legacy: A Public Interview with Basil Johnston Sam McKegney 264

Notes on Contributors 275