No. 257 (2024): Canadian Literature

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.14288/cl.vi257

Published: Jan. 3, 2025 (UTC)

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Editorials

History x Literature

Christine Kim

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Forum

Islanding Canada, Islanding the World

Guy Beauregard, Cornel Bogle, Eva Rosa Darias Beautell, Joanne Leow
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Articles

From the Past, For the Future An Interview with Paul Yee

Chris Lee

44-68
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“Breathing forests and fields” Reading “History Lesson” Within and Beyond the Crises of Settler Colonial Power

Allison

69-92
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Reading Chelsea Vowel’s “âniskôhôcikan” Alongside Current Indigenous Language Revitalization Efforts

Johanna Lederer

93-117
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Lines, Lineage, and Belonging in Louise Erdrich’s Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country and Lisa Bird-Wilson’s Probably Ruby

Cara Schwartz

118-137
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A Romance of Denialism In the Skin of a Lion as a Settler Literary Land Claim

David Kootnikoff

138-159
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Poetry

Notes Before a Departure

Alison Braid-Fernandez

160-162
On Let Bide

M. V. Downey

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Impossible Household

John Wall Barger

164-165
Doras na sióg (The Fairy Door)

Annick MacAskill

166-168
Do not forget ੴ

Moni Brar

169-170
I am a Mother's Daughter

Mary Kelly

171-172
An Anthology of Saturdays

Ellie Sawatzky

173-174
The Raven-Necklaced Sky

Kelly Shepherd

175

Books in Review

Counternarratives of Migration A review of I Will Be More Myself in the Next World: Poems, by Matsuki Masutani; and Primal Sketches, by Caroline Wong

Rina Garcia Chua

176-178
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The Witty and the Weird A review of The Running Trees: Stories, by Amber McMillan; and God Damned Avalon: Flash Fiction, by Paul Edward Costa

Krzysztof Majer

178-180
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A Dual Longing A review of alfabet/alphabet, by Sadiqa de Meijer

Dani Spinosa

181-182
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Elegies for a Prairie Pastness, Rhythms of Desire A review of Kitotam: He Speaks to It, by John McDonald; and nedí nezų (Good Medicine), by Tenille K. Campbell

Aislinn Clare McDougall

183-186
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A Chorus of Marginalized Voices A review of The Diary of Dukesang Wong: A Voice from Gold Mountain, by Dukesang Wong, David McIlwraith, ed., Wanda Joy Hoe, trans.; and In/Appropriate: Interviews with Canadian Authors on the Writing of Difference, by Kim Davids Mandar

Botao Wu

186-190
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Haida Manga and Beyond A review of Mischief Making: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Art, and the Seriousness of Play, by Nicola Levell

Emma Morgan-Thorp

190-191
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Disorderly Conduct A review of Hour of the Crab, by Patricia Robertson; Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road, by Marion Quednau; and Tamara, by John Krizanc

Penelope Hetherington

192-194
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