Canadian Literature

Entangled Environments

2024-07-12T11:06:46-07:00

Read Christine Kim's full editorial, "Entangled Environments," on our Canadian Literature website at https://canlit.ca/article/entangled-environments/.

Long Monologues

2021-11-22T19:47:12-08:00

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All Aboard

2021-11-25T13:35:57-08:00

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Moral Philosophy in Need of Attention

2021-11-26T15:08:22-08:00

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Tenants of Time

2021-11-30T13:16:42-08:00

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Beyond the Body

2021-11-29T16:21:16-08:00

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Animals within and Among

2021-11-28T15:54:32-08:00

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Woven Narratives

2021-12-06T10:05:58-08:00

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Beautifully Broken Buffoon

2021-12-13T21:13:47-08:00

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The Places We Were

2021-12-30T08:47:06-08:00

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Gaming Lit, Winning Crit?

2022-01-06T10:24:52-08:00

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Stories to Live By

2022-01-10T09:08:09-08:00

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Agents against Their Erasure

2022-01-22T12:13:15-08:00

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Ecstatic and in Flux

2022-01-31T15:17:08-08:00

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Recessive Potentials

2022-02-13T10:10:55-08:00

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En plein air

2022-02-23T17:16:59-08:00

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Life-Writing Trilogy

2022-02-17T18:02:23-08:00

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Stories to Move Spirits

2022-02-18T09:14:55-08:00

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The Pull of the North

2022-02-22T07:08:17-08:00

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Language, Land, and Body: An Indissoluble Nexus

2022-02-24T14:04:59-08:00

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Unearthing (Her)stories

2022-02-20T10:57:17-08:00

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The Freedom to Mother

2022-02-27T08:10:14-08:00

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In Current News

2022-03-01T21:22:18-08:00

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Redefining Love

2022-03-01T21:23:51-08:00

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Human Stories

2022-03-01T20:37:55-08:00

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Yeats

2022-08-29T20:29:04-07:00

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(S)laughter

2022-09-04T07:03:28-07:00

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Atypical

2022-10-15T19:02:15-07:00

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The Conference of the Birds

2022-11-12T13:45:01-08:00

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In a Station of the Kyiv Metro

2022-11-12T21:07:40-08:00

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By Mullet River

2022-11-29T06:00:58-08:00

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Old Boys

2022-11-29T11:39:39-08:00

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Narcissus

2023-01-01T08:06:24-08:00

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The Maritime Labor Herald (1921-1926) and the Genealogy of Socialist Feminism in Canada

2023-08-01T15:27:36-07:00

Examining women's contributions to the The Maritime Labour Herald, a radical weekly published in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, this paper argues that the Herald's "Women's Column" staged a significant intervention into the genealogy of socialist feminism in Canada. Though shortlived, the Column constituted a key juncture of the radical left, feminism, and modern literature in the 1920s. More broadly, the Herald provided discursive space for prominent socialist women—including Rose Henderson, Florence Custance, and Becky Buhay--to enter dialogue with working-class women in Nova Scotia, sustaining a vibrant textual community that predates the hieght of proletarian literature in 1930s Canada. Though rarely modernist in form, these womens' writing achieved a modern sensibility by occupying a stance of uncompromising critique. In this, they not only anticipate leftist modernism of the 1930s, but also put into practice a genealogy that embraced a collective past to imagine different ways of being in the future.

“we’se’ll stick togedder always”

2023-01-15T11:27:40-08:00

This article reads Frank Parker Day’s Rockbound (1928) queerly. To do so, I use Sedgwick’s concept of the erotic triangle, paired with historical context of male relations in the early-twentieth century, to argue that desire between men is more complex within isolated male work spaces in Atlantic Canada than may be assumed. The article begins with a discussion of how Rockbound has been read and received to date, with attention to ideas of authenticity and the illegibility of queer desire in the past. Then, I map the development of relations between David Jung and young Gershom Born in the novel, in turn urging readers to consider alternative ways of reading their relationship outside of traditional binaries.

“Bloody Sore”

2023-09-14T10:25:12-07:00

This article examines the significance of eugenic rhetoric in Irene Baird’s 1939 novel Waste Heritage. I argue that Baird uses rhetorical strategies consonant with eugenic movements popular at the time, rendering the labour unrest in 1930s British Columbia as a sickness in need of a cure. My analysis reveals the prevalence of a rank and sort metric for assessing bodily fitness in the novel’s depiction of its main characters, inducing readers to understand the labour strife the novel depicts through a eugenic framework. I show how this framework permeates the novel and positions the strikers as incapable of enacting meaningful political change. Drawing from the work of disability theorists and the history of eugenics in Canada, I explore how concepts such as the “universal worker” and the “bodily norm” provide useful tools for understanding the novel’s depiction of race, ability and unemployment.

Margaret Randall and Transnational Domestic Space

2023-08-01T13:39:01-07:00

This article undertakes a reading of archival correspondence between Canadian poet George Bowering and the editors of the bilingual poetry journal El corno Emplumado / The Plumed Horn (1962-1969), Margaret Randall and Sergio Mondragón, as they collaborated on a special issue that would become Bowering’s third book of poetry, The Man in Yellow Boots / El hombre de las botas amarillas (1965). This correspondence demonstrates the innovative ways in which Randall, Mondragón, and Bowering understand the home not as a non-political sphere closed off from the power structures of international politics and literary institutions, but rather as the necessary grounds for a transnational literary community that grew more politically engaged as the sixties unfolded. Randall, Mondragón, and Bowering’s approach to mid-century domestic space offers distinctly different possibilities, even as this work unfolded within and against the patriarchal structures that defined life in both normative and countercultural contexts.

The Media of Environmental Listening in Don McKay’s Songs for the Songs of Birds

2023-02-24T11:20:04-08:00

Drawing on media ecology and acoustic ecology, this article "reads" Don McKay's audiobook, Songs for the Songs of Birds (2008). The essay explains this audiobook as a meditation on listening and on media and technology, such as headphones and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), that produce an interplay between the natural environments of birds and our built environments. It also contends that various metaphorical abstractions and deterritorializations in the recording and imagery of the audiobook are part of McKay's lament for extinct birds and his concern for threatened species, not only birds but also humans.

A Working Bibliography of Texts by May Agnes Fleming

2022-08-15T09:11:59-07:00

"A Working Bibliography of Eexts by May Agnes Fleming" is a companion piece to my article "Confronting Elsewhereness: May Agnes Fleming and Late Nineteenth-Century Trans-Border Authorship." Ideally, it should be published alongside the article, if accepted, to complement my discussion of cultures of unauthorized reprinting and Fleming's extensive bibliography.