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Download Full Issue Canadian Literature / Littérature canadienne A Quarterly of Criticism and Review Number 203, Winter 2009, Home, Memory, Self Published by The University of British Columbia, Vancouver Editor: Margery Fee Associate Editors: Laura Moss (Reviews), Glenn Deer (Reviews), Larissa Lai (Poetry), Réjean Beaudoin (Francophone Writing), Judy Brown (Reviews) Past Editors: George Woodcock (1959–1977), W.H. New (1977–1995), Eva-Marie Kröller (1995–2003), Laurie Ricou (2003–2007) Editorial Board Heinz Antor University of Cologne Alison Calder University of Manitoba Kristina Fagan University of Saskatchewan Janice Fiamengo University of Ottawa Carole Gerson Simon Fraser University Helen Gilbert University of London Susan Gingell University of Saskatchewan Faye Hammill University of Strathclyde Paul Hjartarson University of Alberta Coral Ann Howells University of Reading Smaro Kamboureli University of Guelph Jon Kertzer University of Calgary Ric Knowles University of Guelph Louise Ladouceur University of Alberta Patricia Merivale University of British Columbia Judit Molnár University of Debrecen Maureen Moynagh St. Francis Xavier University Reingard Nischik University of Constance Ian Rae King’s University College Roxanne Rimstead Université de Sherbrooke Sherry Simon Concordia University Patricia Smart Carleton University David Staines University of Ottawa Cynthia Sugars University of Ottawa Neil ten Kortenaar University of Toronto Marie Vautier University of Victoria Gillian Whitlock University of Queensland David Williams University of Manitoba Mark Williams Victoria University, New Zealand Editorial Margery Fee Home, Memory, Self 6 Articles Katie Mullins Questioning Comics: Women and Autocritique in Seth’s It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken 11 Peter Jaeger “But Could I Make A Living From It”: Jeff Derksen’s Modular Form 30 Wendy Roy The Word is Colander: Language Loss and Narrative Voice in Fictional Canadian Alzheimer’s Narratives 41 Articles, continued Amy J. Ransom Ce Zombi égaré est-il un Haïtien ou un Québécois? Le vaudou chez les écrivains haïtiano-québécois 64 Jimmy Thibeault Fuir le regard de l’Autre ou apprendre à habiter l’espace d’immigration : la quête du Soi dans Ce pays qui est le mien de Didier Leclair 85 Christa Zeller Thomas “I had never seen such a shed called a house before”: The Discourse of Home in Susanna Moodie’s Roughing It in the Bush 105 Poems Shane Rhodes 10, 122 David Solway 62 Tom Wayman 28 John Slater 84 Clint Burnham 40 Tim Prior 103 Books in Review Forthcoming book reviews are available at http://www.canlit.ca Authors Reviewed Dede Crane 138 Noël Audet 150 Libby Creelman 140 Irene Baird 123 Monique Deland 184 Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo 136 John DeMont 188 Jean-François Beauchemin 124 Robert D. Denham 141 Mark Benson 125 Louise Deschênes 144 Robert Berrouët-Oriol 184 Rose Després 136 Steven Michael Berzensky 147 Michael Dolzani 141 Nadine Bismuth 126 Jeffrey Donaldson 145 Fiona A. Black 170 Ray Fenwick 146 Josée Bonneville 150 Patricia Lockhart Fleming 170 Alan Bradley 127 Claude Forand 130 P.K. Brask 160 Patrick Friesen 160 Denise Brassard 129 Mark Frutkin 147 Allan Briesmaster 147 Len Gasparini 148 Nicole Brossard 160 Normand Génois 184 Marie Cadieux 129 Carole Gerson 170 Katia Canciani 130 Elma Gerwin 163 Jacques Cardinal 131 Adam Getty 160 Anne Laurel Carter 133 Sky Gilbert 149 Marjorie Chan 134 Branko Gorjup 179 Nicolas Charette 126 Edgard Gousse 187 Tina Charlebois 136 Sherrill Grace 134 Ying Chen 137 Jessica Grant 172 Guy Cloutier 182 C.H. Grignon 150 Donna Coates 134 Eva Gruber 151 Ian Colford 138 G. Guèvremont 150 Marcil Cossette 182 Rawi Hage 153 Johanne Alice Côté 129 Sarah N. Harvey 154 Niels Hav 160 Carol Shields 163 Karl S. Hele 155 Maggie Siggins 192 A.K. Hellum 162 Lee Spinks 190 Maurice Henrie 157 Robert J.C. Stead 123 Sharon A. Roger Hepburn 158 Pamela Stewart 138 Gerald Hill 160 Mariko Tamaki 133 Colin Hill 123 Darcy Tamayose 153 Edward Hoagland 162 Drew Hayden Taylor 151 Jean Horton 123 Martin Thibault 187 Allison Howard 163 Madeleine Thien 137 Blanche Howard 163 Peter Unwin 188 Shelley Hrdlitschka 154 André Vanasse 150 Frances Itani 127 Joan Elizabeth von Memerty 190 Krzysztof Jarosz 165 Marie Wadden 155 Wayne Johnston 188 Barbara Williams 192 J.M. Kearns 166 Alissa York 127 Stephen Kimber 158 Mila Younes 194 Larry Krotz 167 Andrée Laberge 150, 168 Reviewers Yvan Lamonde 169, 170 Sophie Bastien 150 Marie-Andrée Lamontagne 172 Gisèle M. Baxter 133 Patrick Lane 172 Renald Bérubé 125 Marie-Hélène Larochelle 175 Tim Blackmore 146 Mélanie Léger 176 Emmanuel Bouchard 182, 187 Brenda Leifso 145 Susan Butlin 183 Lewis MacKinnon/Lodaidh Julie Cairnie 166 MacFhionghain 176 Emily Carr 160 Robert Majzels 160 Lisa Close 151 Catherine Mavrikakis 177 Donna Coates 147 Melchior Mbonimpa 178 Carrie Dawson 153 rob mclennan 145 Emir Delic 180 Barbara Meadowcroft 179 Sofie De Smyter 190 Jacques Michon 170 David Dorais 126 Lisa Moore 172 Benoit Doyon-Gosselin 157 Erín Mouré 160 Caroline Dupont 178 Arthur Motyer 163 Jesse Patrick Ferguson 145 Nina Newington 167 Janice Fiamengo 192 Robert Nunn 151 Graham Nicol Forst 141 Jean O’Grady 141 Louise H. Forsyth 186 François Ouellet 180, 181 Louise Frappier 172 Michel Ouellette 157 Sarah Galletly 179 Neil Querengesser 123 Elizabeth A. Galway 154 Pascale Quiviger 185 Julie Gaudreault 168 François Paré 181 Stéphane Girard 129 Pierre Raphaël Pelletier 182 Patricia Godbout 148 Jacques Poitras 183 Lisa Grekul 172 Daniel Poliquin 148 Beverley Haun 127 Joël Pourbaix 184 Stéphane Inkel 131, 175 Edeet Ravel 133 Suzanne James 167 Aurélie Resch 129 Eva-Marie Kröller 170 Candida Rifkind 186 René La Fleur 124 Hélène Rioux 137 André Lamontagne 181 Ringuet et A. Rivard 150 Dorothy F. Lane 138, 140 Marcelle Roy 144 Yves Laroche 129 Ahmad Saidullah 140 Jody Mason 123 Reviewers, continued Valerie Raoul 194 Tanis MacDonald 149 Mariloue Sainte-Marie 144 Keavy Martin 155 Matthew Jordan Schmidt 185 Marissa McHugh 134 Pamela V. Sing 137 Lindsay Milligan 176 Émilie Théorêt 184 Catriona Mortimer- Veronica Thompson 163 Sandilands 162 Laure Tollard 130 Maureen Moynagh 158 Ariane Tremblay 165 François Paré 136 Nathalie Warren 177 Ryan Porter 188 Kinga Zawada 176 Maxime Prévost 169 Opinions and Notes Niigonwedom James Sinclair Inks of Knowledge, Permanence, and Collectivity: A Response to Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry 196 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. 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