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Download Full Issue 190CanLitFall2006-6 11/15/06 14:53 Page 1 Canadian Literature/ Littératurecanadienne A Quarterly of Criticism and Review Number , Fall , South Asian Diaspora Published by The University of British Columbia, Vancouver Editor: Laurie Ricou Associate Editors: Laura Moss (Reviews), Glenn Deer (Reviews), Kevin McNeilly (Poetry), Réjean Beaudoin (Francophone Writing), Judy Brown (Reviews) Past Editors: George Woodcock (1959–1977), W.H. New, Editor emeritus (1977–1995), Eva-Marie Kröller (1995–2003) Editorial Board Heinz Antor Universität Köln Janice Fiamengo University of Ottawa Carole Gerson Simon Fraser University Coral Ann Howells University of Reading Smaro Kamboureli University of Guelph Jon Kertzer University of Calgary Ric Knowles University of Guelph Neil ten Kortenaar University of Toronto Louise Ladouceur University of Alberta Patricia Merivale University of British Columbia Judit Molnár, University of Debrecen Leslie Monkman Queen’s University Maureen Moynagh St. Francis Xavier University Élizabeth Nardout-Lafarge Université de Montréal Ian Rae Universität Bonn Roxanne Rimstead Université de Sherbrooke Patricia Smart Carleton University David Staines University of Ottawa Penny van Toorn University of Sydney David Williams University of Manitoba Mark Williams University of Canterbury Guest Editorial M.G. Vassanji Am I a Canadian Writer? Articles Jodi Lundgren “Colour Disrobed Itself from the Body”: The Racialized Aesthetics of Liberation in Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion Andrew Lesk Ambivalence at the site of authority: Desire and Difference in Funny Boy Susan Fisher History, Memory, Home: An Exchange with M.G. Vassanji Manina Jones Collaborative Auto/biography and Aboriginal “Enfranchisement” in Occupied Canada 190CanLitFall2006-6 11/15/06 14:53 Page 2 Poems debbi waters Sonja Greckol Barry Dempster Dave Margoshes Eric Miller Books in Review Forthcoming book reviews are available at the Canadian Literature website: http://www.canlit.ca Authors Reviewed Robert Dickson 155 Aislin 83 Michael Dolzani 161 Robert Allen 163 Stan Dragland 159 Sara Angel 173 Melanie Dugan 108 David Arnason 140 Rishma Dunlop 81 Margaret Atwood 141 Louise Dupré 165 T.C. Badcock 104 Liam Durcan 105 Nelson Ball 158 Ramabai Espinet 136 Brent Beardsley 143 F.T. Flahiff 106 Paul Bélanger 152 Merna Forster 91 Allison Berg 122 Micheline Fournier- Claudine Bertrand 146 Thibault 85 Neil Bissoondath 120 Northrop Frye 161 Walid Bitar 156 Steve Galluccio 138 Lise Blouin 150 Isabelle Gaudet-Labine 165 Gérard Bouchard 100 Carole Giangrande 95 Hédi Bouraoui 169 Catherine Gildiner 94 Roland Bourneuf 152 Rachna Gilmore 114 Michael F. Brown 130 David Gilmour 98 Mark Brownell 124 Charlotte Gray 173 Phillip Buckner 93 Françoise Hamel-Beaudoin 145 Pauline Butling 110, 117 Steven Hayward 95 Tantoo Cardinal 88 Tomson Highway 88 Dave Carley 138 Renate Hildebrand 84 Katerine Caron 147 Julie Hivon 150 Franco Catanzariti 169 Stephen Hume 91 Paul Chamberland 145 Des Kennedy 104 Jean-François Chassay 147 Michael Kenyon 163 Don Coles 108 Ric Knowles 127 Margaret Michèle Cook 146 Henry Kreisel 135 Carle Coppens 87 Alexandre Laferrière 171 Jean-Francois Côté 170 Patrick Lane 158 Susan Crean 83 Monique Le Maner 150 Cyril Dabydeen 116 Mark Leiren-Young 124 Roméo Dallaire 143 Nadine Ltaif 145 Frank Davey 159 Michael Lewis MacLennan 124 Carole David 165 Rabindranath Maharaj 120 Michael Dawson 80 Robert Majzels 102 Robert D. Denham 153 Tariq Malik 114 Denise Desautels 145, 165 Carol Malyon 104 Patrice Desbiens 155 Cecilia Macheski 122 Daniela Di Cecco 170 Lee Maracle 88 Pier Giorgio Di Cicco 156 Masala Trois Collective 81 190CanLitFall2006-6 11/15/06 14:53 Page 3 Chandra Mayor 105 Terry Wotherspoon 130 John Metcalf 101 Richard B. Wright 112 Sylvain Meunier 125 Dan Yashinsky 88 Gaston Miron 115 Clément Moisan 84 Of Note Réjean Beaudoin 176 Marie-Hélène Montpetit 128 Bill Gallaher 175 Germaine Mornard 128 Annette Hayward 176 Kamala Elizabeth Nayar 119 Julia Ulrike Köneke 177 Lyle Neff 163 Robert Kroetsch 179 bpNichol 162 André Lamontagne 176 Patrick Nicol 171 David Layton 178 Émile Ollivier 125 Rozena Maart 178 Pierre Ouellet 133 Emily Pohl-Weary 178 Madeleine Jim Westergard 179 Ouellette-Michalska 128 Claude Paradis 152 Reviewers Nelofer Pazira 111 Stella Algoo-Baksh 120 Patricia Pearson 112 Michelle Ariss 83 Alison Preston 105 Douglas Barbour 163 Pascale Quiviger 147 Gregory Betts 159 Norman Ravvin 135 Thierry Bissonnette 165 Robert Richard 167 Dominic Blanchette 150 Emma Richler 98 Gordon Bölling 177 Martyne Rondeau 166 Christopher Bracken 130 Leon Rooke 159 Stephen Cain 162 Stuart Ross 162 Julie Cairnie 178 Marcelle Roy 146 Catherine Carstairs 91 Jean Royer 152 Mridula Nath Chakraborty 81 Susan Rudy 110, 117 Paulomi Chakraborty 114 Bernard Schissel 130 Natalie Chevalier 169 Emily Schultz 140 Sally Chivers 141 Gordon Snell 83 Mélanie Collado 146, 166 Paul Socken 90 Natasha Dagenais 84, 143 Daniel Soha 149 Susan Dalton 167 Peter Steele 131 Carrie Dawson 112 Kathryn Sullivan Kruger 122 Kit Dobson 117 Paul François Sylvestre 170 Charmaine Eddy 122 François Tétreau 133 Renate Eigenbrod 88 Joanne Tompkins 127 Len Falkenstein 124, 127, 138 Emanuelle Tremblay 170 Graham N. Forst 161 Gaston Tremblay 85 Robyn Fowler 83 Michel Tremblay 138 Carole Gerson 173 Peter Trower 158 Lyne Girard 172 Alan Twigg 80 Bryan N.S. Gooch 131 Priscilla Uppal 81 Rainier Grutman 176 Yves Vaillancourt 133 Aurian Haller 156 Marc Vaïs 172 Tim Haner 140 France Vézina 166 Sandra Hobbs 147 Louise Warren 87 Lucie Hotte 170 Andy Weaver 156 Doris R. Jakobsh 119 Thomas Wharton 96 Chelva W.B. Worthen 127 Kanaganayakam 136 190CanLitFall2006-6 11/15/06 14:53 Page 4 Reviewers, continued Afra Kavanagh 98 François Paré 155 Jon Kertzer 135 Marilou Potvin-Lajoie 149 Vincent Charles Neil Querengesser 179 Lambert 152 Suzanne Rintoul 108 Martine-Emmanuelle Duffy Roberts 96 Lapointe 133 Juliette M. Rogers 170 Amy Leask 94 Adam Rudder 175 Cynthia Lévesque 145 Joubert Satyre 125 Ori Livneh 102 Pilar Somacarrera 116 Tanis MacDonald 110 Melissa Steele 105 Laurent Mailhot 115 Margaret Steffler 104 Sylvain Marois 87, 128 Nora Foster Stovel 90 Travis V. Mason 158 Christine St. Pierre 171 Lindsey McMaster 80 Christl Verduyn 93 Johanne Melançon 85 Robert Vigneault 100 George Melnyk 106 Samara Walbohm 95 Robert James Merrett 153 Malcolm Woodland 111 John Moss 101 Lynn (J.R.) Wytenbroek 178 Opinions & Notes Susan Fisher Teaching Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance: Two Cheers for Universalism? Last Pages Eva-Marie Kröller Kanadische Literaturgeschichte 190CanLitFall2006-6 11/15/06 14:53 Page 5 Copyright © 2006 The University of British Publications Mail Agreement no. 40592543 Columbia Registration no. 08647. Subject to the exception noted below, repro- return undeliverable canadian duction of the journal, or any part thereof, addresses to in any form, or transmission in any manner is strictly prohibited. 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