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Canadian Literature / Littérature canadienne A Quarterly of Criticism and Review Number 228/229, Spring/Summer 216, Emerging Scholars 2 Published by The University of British Columbia, Vancouver Editor: Laura Moss Associate Editors: Nicholas Bradley (Reviews), Stephen Collis (Poetry), Glenn Deer (Reviews), Kathryn Grafton (CanLit Guides) Assistant Editor: Sarah Henzi (Francophone Writing) Past Editors: George Woodcock (1959-1977), W. H. New (1977-1995), Eva-Marie Kröller (1995-23), Laurie Ricou (23-27), Margery Fee (27-215) Editorial Board Alison Calder University of Manitoba Carrie Dawson Dalhousie University Cecily Devereux University of Alberta Kit Dobson Mount Royal University Janice Fiamengo University of Ottawa Helen Gilbert University of London Faye Hammill University of Strathclyde Lucie Hotte University of Ottawa Smaro Kamboureli University of Toronto Ric Knowles University of Guelph Christopher Lee University of British Columbia Linda Morra Bishop’s University Lianne Moyes Université de Montréal Maureen Moynagh St. Francis Xavier University Reingard Nischik University of Konstanz Vanja Polic´ University of Zagreb Ian Rae King’s University College Julie Rak University of Alberta Roxanne Rimstead Université de Sherbrooke Gillian Roberts University of Nottingham Sherry Simon Concordia University Cynthia Sugars University of Ottawa Neil ten Kortenaar University of Toronto Marie Vautier University of Victoria Gillian Whitlock University of Queensland Mark Williams Victoria University, New Zealand Lorraine York McMaster University Editorial Laura Moss Notes from a CanLit Killjoy 6 Articles Lucia Lorenzi “Am I not OK?”: Negotiating and Re-Defining Traumatic Experience in Emma Donoghue’s Room 19 Melissa Li Sheung Ying “Liv[ing] Poetically upon the Earth”: The Bioregional Child and Conservation in Monique Proulx’s Wildlives 35 Articles, continued Shaun A. Stevenson Sacred and Sacrificial Landscapes: Reading and Resisting Settler Canadian Environmental Discourse in M. T. Kelly’s A Dream Like Mine and the Navigation Protection Act 53 Shane Neilson Claire’s Head and Pain: Beyond the Sign of the Weapon 73 Sharlee Cranston-Reimer “It is life you must write about”: Fixity and Refraction in Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging 93 Kate Siklosi “the absolute / of water”: The Submarine Poetic of M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! 111 Jessica McDonald Beyond Generic Hybridity: Nalo Hopkinson and the Politics of Science Fiction 133 Jeff Fedoruk Plotting “Nowhere”: Towards a Theory of Urban Folklore on Vancouver’s Gentrifying Frontier 151 Brenna Clarke Gray Border Studies in the Gutter: Canadian Comics and Structural Borders 170 Janie Beriault The Sublime and Picturesque Aesthetics in John Richardson’s Wacousta 189 Paul Barrett Paraphrasing the Paraphrase OR What I Learned from Reading Every Issue of Canadian Literature / Littérature canadienne and Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne 208 Poems Jean-Paul Daoust 18 Tom Wayman 131 Bill Howell 34 Pearl Pirie 150 Cyril Dabydeen 52 Amanda Charlotte Earl 168 Ruby Turok-Squire 72 Sam Weselowski 188 Alexandra Dexel 91 Maleea Acker 206 Erinn Beth Langille 110 Shazia Hafiz Ramji 226 Books in Review Forthcoming book reviews are available at canlit.ca/reviews Authors Reviewed Nicole Markoti´c 230 Tappan Adney 227 Neal McLeod 256 Samuel Archibald 228 Edmund Metatawabin 259 C. Ted Behne 227 Kathryn Mockler 238 Juliane Okot Bitek 230 Rick Monture 259 George Bowering 232 Mareike Neuhaus 256 Rebecca Bromwich 234 Morris Panych 253 Nicole Brossard 235 Liza Piper 246 François Caillat 237 Anna Poletti 260 Angela Carr 235 Julie Rak 260 Monique Marie DeJong 234 Rachel Rose 263 Dina Del Bucchia 238 Michael L. Ross 241 Mark Dickinson 264 Alexandra Shimo 259 Stan Dragland 239 Carolyn Smart 263 OmiSoore H. Dryden 241 Patrik Svensson 260 Marilyn Dumont 243 Lisa Szabo-Jones 246 Raoul Fernandes 245 Larry Tremblay 228 Sheila Fischman 228 Sheryda Warrener 230 Don Gillmor 232 Tom Wayman 232 David Theo Goldberg 260 Gillian Whitlock 251 Jon Gordon 246 Donald Winkler 228 Daniel Grenier 248 Kathleen Winter 239 Helen Hajnoczky 245 Brent Wood 264 Susan Holbrook 249 Showey Yazdanian 266 David Homel 237 Marcus Youssef 253 Smaro Kamboureli 255 Daniel Zomparelli 238 Michael Keren 251 Jan Zwicky 235 Dennis Lee 243 Suzanne Lenon 241 Reviewers Astrid Lohöfer 249 Dan Adleman 238 James Long 253 Lourdes Arciniega 234 Bryden MacDonald 253 Myra Bloom 235 Lee Maracle 255 Misao Dean 227 Books in Review, continued Jeff Fedoruk 239 Anne Marie Miraglia 228 Susan Gingell 255 Saghar Najafi 266 Julian Gunn 241 Nazeer Patel 256 Crystal Hurdle 230 Neil Querengesser 243 Suzanne James 259 Michael Roberson 249 Daniel Laforest 248 Asma Sayed 251 Lucia Lorenzi 246 Shelley Scott 253 Andrea MacPherson 263 Justin Shaw 260 Joel Martineau 232 Paul Watkins 264 Philip Miletic 245 Carl Watts 238 Canadian Literature, a peer-reviewed journal, welcomes original, unpublished submissions of articles, interviews, and other commentaries relating to writers and writing in Canada and of previously unpublished poems by Canadian writers. The journal does not publish fiction. Articles—6,-7, words (including Notes and Works Cited), double-spaced, and in 12-point font size—should be submitted online through the Open Journal Systems (OJS). Please go to canlit.ca/submit to register and submit. Submissions must be in Rich Text Format (.rtf) or Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx). Submissions should include a brief biographical note (5-1 words) and an abstract (15 words). Articles should follow MLA guidelines for bibliographic format. Littérature canadienne est une revue avec comité de lecture. Elle publie des articles, des entrevues et des commentaires originaux sur les écrivains et l’écriture au Canada, ainsi que de la poésie canadienne pour publication initiale. La revue ne publie pas de fiction. Les articles—6-7 mots (notes et références bibliographiques comprises), à double interligne, taille de la police 12—peuvent être soumis en ligne sur canlit.ca/submit, où vous serez automatiquement redirigé vers notre nouvelle plateforme OJS (Open Journal Systems). Les soumissions doivent être en format de texte enrichi (.rtf) ou Microsoft Word (.doc ou .docx) et doivent comprendre une brève note biographique (5-1 mots) et un résumé (15 mots). Les articles doivent respecter le style de citation MLA. Canadian Literature online (canlit.ca): Archives (canlit.ca/issues) Issues #1 to 27 are freely available online as are all editorials and pre-print book reviews, including unpublished upcoming reviews, from issue #28 onwards. CanLit Guides (canlitguides.ca) A modular learning resource that introduces students to reading and writing at a university level. Open Journal Systems (canlit.ca/submit) Submit articles, poetry, and book reviews online. 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Editorial 1 Notes from a CanLit Killjoy Laura Moss I have nothing soothing to tell you . —Dionne Brand, Inventory i hate canada: because “canada” is the most powerful ideological tool deployed historically and still deployed in the interests of a settler colony’s colonial project. —peter kulchyski, “bush/writing” To be involved in political activism is thus to be involved in a struggle against happiness. Our activist archives are thus unhappy archives. Even if we are struggling for different things, even if we have different worlds we want to create, we might share what we come up against. —Sara Ahmed, “Feminist Killjoys (And Other Willful Subjects)” Although demonstrations and assemblies are often not enough to produce radical change, they do alter our perceptions about who the people are, and they assert fundamental freedoms that belong to bodies in their plurality. Only a broad-based mobilization—a form of embodied