No. 262 (2025): Canadian Literature

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.14288/canlit.vi262

Published: Mar. 18, 2026 (UTC)

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Table of Contents and Front Matter

Table of Contents and Front Matter

Canadian Literature

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Editorials

Canadian Literature 8.0

Mary Chapman

7-11
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Articles

We Are Full of (Literary) Things Thingful Fabrication, Narrative Embalming, and Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian)

Alex Prong

12-33
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The Mad, Queer Time and Space of bill bissett’s lunarian Narratives

Drew McEwan

34-56
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Meeting on the Shoals Survivance in Kiss of the Fur Queen and Soucouyant

Joseph Mauro

57-78
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"Talking to" and Creating Coresistances with Diasporas in Lee Maracle’s Talking to the Diaspora

Christine Campana

79-102
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"The Spirits Write the Story" Smaro Kamboureli in Conversation with Norma Dunning

Smaro Kamboureli, Dr. Norma Dunning

103-125
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Opinions & Notes

It Matters Who You Believe, and Why A Reply to Sara Minogue

Julie Rak

126-135
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Review Essays

Bewilderment and Wonder Review of All New Animal Acts: Essays, Stretchers, Poems, by Don McKay

Nicholas Bradley

136-144
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Finding Something Review of Finding Nothing: The VanGardes, 1959-1975, by Gregory Betts

Scott Inniss

145-153
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Meditations on Mortality

Shoshannah Ganz

154-158
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Books in Review

Review of Temerity & Gall, by John Metcalf

Paul Barrett

159-161
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Review of Mordecai Richler's Imperfect Search for Moral Values, by Shana Rosenblatt Mauer

Ruth Panofsky

162-163
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Review of Bronwen Wallace: Essays on Her Works, by Wanda Campbell, ed.

Erin Wunker

164-165
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Review of Lives Lived, Lives Imagined: Landscapes of Resilience in the Works of Miriam Toews, by Sabrina Reed

Evangeline Holtz-Schramek

165-166
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Review of Reading Mennonite Writing: A Study in Minor Transnationalism, by Robert Zacharias; The Vernacular Strain in Newfoundland Poetry: The 2020 Pratt Lecture, by Mary Dalton; and Reading Wide and Deep: The Canadian Long Poem, by Ken Norris and Bruce Whiteman

Michael Minor

167-169
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Review of Of Sunken Islands and Pestilence: Restoring the Voice of Edward Taylor Fletcher to Nineteenth-Century Canadian Literature, by James Gifford, ed.

Carole Gerson

170-171
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Review of Between Empire and Republic: America in the Colonial Canadian Imagination, by Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy

Taylor Breckles

171-173
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Review of Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U. S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies, by Molly P. Rozum

Robert Thacker

173-175
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Review of Mass Capture: Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-Citizens, by Lily Cho

Julia-Rose DiPalo

175-177
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Poetry

Unchosen Art

Calvin White

178-179
How it Happened

Kathleen McHale

180-181
Through Leaves of Grass

Cyril Dabydeen

182
Guidelines for Fostering Butterflies

kerry rawlinson

183-184
Might As Well

Noelle Brody

185-186
Haikus for Loss

Amber McMillan

187-188
Another Poem That Wants to Have Something to Do with History, Sex, Death, and Art, but Nothing to Do with Me, or so I Thought

Chris Hutchinson

189-191
a study on the family dynamics of ontario wildlife

Lillian Wraight

192-194