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No. 263 (2025): Canadian Literature

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Table of Contents and Front Matter

Table of Contents and Front Matter

Canadian Literature

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Editorials

"Ripped in Half"

Mary Chapman

8-11
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Forum

Green Grass, Troubled Waters: A Forum on Thomas King After Disclosure — Introduction

Mary Chapman

12-13
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Inconvenient Returns Teaching Indigenous Literature amid Identity Controversy

Dallas Hunt

14-17
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The Native in Literature

Marilyn Dumont

18-19
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Not Such a Good Story after All

Daniel Heath Justice

20-25
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Who Is Kin?

Louise Bernice (Sky Dancer) Halfe

26-29
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"We've Got It from Here"

Gage Karahkwí:io Diabo

30-33
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Indigenous Literary Biography — Introduction

Renae Watchman, Maddie Reddon

34-35
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Lee Maracle

Cora Coady

36-51
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Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

Frederick White

52-59
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Drew Hayden Taylor

Amy S. Fatzinger

60-69
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Winona LaDuke

Melissa Borgia-Askey

70-83
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Tommy Orange

Melissa Borgia-Askey

84-94
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Cherie Dimaline

Aubrey Hanson, Danielle Marie Bitz

95-109
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Billy-Ray Belcourt

Paulina R. Johnson

110-118
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Joshua Whitehead

Christian Isbister

119-126
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Articles

“No Landfill Is a Grave” Learning to Listen to Indigenous Women’s Poetry in wînipêk

Jamie Paris

127-152
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Belonging to Place Gendered Nature and Female Agency in L. M. Montgomery’s Emily Trilogy

Michaela Wipond

153-174
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The Gloriously Ugly in Marian Engel's No Clouds of Glory (Sarah Bastard's Notebook)

Sharon Engbrecht

175-196
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Decomposition as Pedagogy Notes Towards a Practice of (Un)Becoming

Melissa Jacques

197-218
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An Interview with Sherrill Grace A Life with Canada's Literature and the Arts

Margery Fee, Sherrill Grace

219-247
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Books in Review

Poetry

The reconciliation

Amanda Fayant

259
Snowflakes Out of Season

Avis Blackbird

260
In another line of time—

Alison McBain

261
Witness

K. I. Press

262-263
Staining

Zav Levinson

264-265
Mosquitoes

Chelsea Tesch

266-267
Hungry ghosts

Y. S. Lee

268-269
Before I loved my curls—

Maria Giesbrecht

270

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