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Canadian Literature / Littérature canadienne A Quarterly of Criticism and Review Number !"#, Autumn !"$" Published by %e University of British Columbia, Vancouver Editor: Margery Fee Associate Editors: Laura Moss (Reviews), Glenn Deer (Reviews), Larissa Lai (Poetry), Réjean Beaudoin (Francophone Writing), Judy Brown (Reviews) Past Editors: George Woodcock ($&'&–$&((), W.H. New ($&((–$&&'), Eva-Marie Kröller ($&&'–!"")), Laurie Ricou (!"")–!""() Editorial Board Heinz Antor University of Cologne Alison Calder University of Manitoba Cecily Devereux University of Alberta 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 Julie Rak University of Alberta 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 Beyond Boomer Nationalism 6 Articles Kevin Flynn The Colony of Unrequited Dreams: Wayne Johnston’s Newfoundland Conversion Narrative !" Katja Lee Goddard v. Mowat: F***ing the Facts Fifteen Years Later "# François Ouellet Tayaout ou la réfutation d’Agaguk $% Articles, continued Lee Rozelle Liminal Ecologies in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake &! Jeanette den Toonder Aaron d’Yves Thériault, ou comment transgresser l’entre-deux *$ Y-Dang Troeung Forgetting Loss in Madeleine Thien’s Certainty 91 Poems Robert O. Norman 12 Changming Yuan 73 Eric Zboya 29 Phoebe Wang 88 Roger Farr 45 George Elliott Clarke 109 Kate Braid 60 Books in Review Forthcoming book reviews are available at http://www.canlit.ca Authors Reviewed +ierry Dimanche !)" Robert Arthur Alexie !!# James Doyle !(& Nicole Balvay-Haillot !!! Lorne Dufour !!# Bruce Barton !&' Frédérick Durand !'% David Bateman !!( Marie Elliott !(% Corinne Bayle !!$ Deborah Ellis !(# Mathieu Bergeron !)" Gail Faurschou !*! Gregory Betts !&* Janice Fiamengo !"# Mark Blagrave !!' Adrian Fowler !"( E.D. Blodgett !*' Vittorio Frigerio !"" Giles Blunt !!& Rivka Galchen !%) Michel Bock !"% Shoshannah Ganz !** Gérard Bouchard !&$ Bill Gaston !$& Craig Boyko !!* Martin Genetsch !"$ Robert Bringhurst !!) Bertrand Gervais !"' Diana Fitzgerald Bryden !*( Hamida Ghafour !"& Walter Buchignani !(# Graeme Gibson !$* Clint Burnham !%# Anne Gilbert !"% Rosemary Chapman !(! Kim Goldberg !%' Wayson Choy !"& Branko Gorjup !($ Daniel Coleman !(( Hiromi Goto !!( Jean Yves Collette !%$ Anne Guilbault !!$ Hugues Corriveau !%$ Lori Hahnel !!' Douglas Coupland !(" Nancy Hartry !") Normand de Bellefeuille !%" Lee Henderson !$# Barry Dempster !'! Robert Hogg !$! Robert D. Denham !($ Robert Hough !$( William Deverell !!& Coral Ann Howells !$$ Caroline De Wagter !&' Tristan Hughes !$& Stephen Hume !(% Monique Proulx !*) Kevin Hutchings !$* Sina Queyras !%# Dean Irvine !"# David Rampton !%( Elizabeth Jameson !$) Diane Régimbald !%" Gillian Jerome !*' Stuart Ross !!* Josephene Kealey !** André Roy !%$ Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen !'! Jacob Scheier !%' Jane Koustas !'( Gregory Sco,eld !%* Eva-Marie Kröller !$$ Peter Dale Scott !%# Andrée Lacelle !'" William Neil Scott !%) Gilles Lacombe !*& Anna Marie Sewell !%* Dany Laferrière !'$ Josef Skvorecky !)# Larissa Lai !!( Nathalie Stephens !!! Robert Lalonde !'' Imre Szeman !*! Lori Lansens !'* Joseph Yvon-+ériault !"% Daniel Leblanc-Poirier !'% Fiona Tolan !)! Dennis Lee !%# Larry Tremblay !)" Monique Le Maner !&# +uong Vuong-Riddick !"& Mireille Levert !)* Fred Wah !*' Eileen Lohka !&# Zoe Whittall !)$ Steve Lundin !&! Emma Wilson !)' Gerald Lynch !** Sharon Rose Wilson !)& Jim Lynch !&( Rita Wong !!( Jeanette Lynes !'* Tim Wynne-Jones !"), !)* Linden MacIntyre !&" Jocelyne Mallet-Parent !&$ Reviewers David Manicom !$( Ariane Audet !%" Ashok Mathur !"( Damon Barta !&( Marc Maufort !&' Mike Borkent !'! Norah McClintock !!& Nicholas Bradley !$*, !%* Ian McKay !&* Alison Calder !$) Neal McLeod !%* Adeline Caute !!$ Sheila McManus !$) Richard Cassidy !!* Anne Michaels !&) Maria Cotroneo !&$ Tolowa M. Mollel !)* Karen Crossley !'* Sourayan Mookerjea !*! Natasha Dagenais !'(, !*& Shani Mootoo !*( Jennifer Bowering Delisle !"( François Moreau !!$ Cecily Devereux !"# Joanne Morency !'% Mark Diotte !(% Alice Munro !&) Kit Dobson !*! Pierre Nepveu !*$ Paul Dubé !"% Pierre Ouellet !*$ Scott Duchesne !&' Madeleine Ouellette- Timothy Dugdale !!' Michalska !*) Pierre-Paul Ferland !&# Kelly Parsons !%' Graham Forst !($, !%( Christopher Patton !%' Aaron Giovannone !%# Philip Kevin Paul !%* Stéphane Girard !'" Barbara Colebrook Peace !%' Margo Gouley !$! Sasenarine Persaud !*' Beverley Haun !&) Anthony Phelps !*& Susan Holbrook !!( Joseph Pivato !** Coral Ann Howells !)!, !)& Ronald Poulton !(& Madelaine Jacobs !!# Reviewers, continued Valerie Raoul !(& Sam Knowles !"$ Du-y Roberts !$# Louise Ladouceur !(! Mariloue Sainte-Marie !%$ René LaFleur !'% Sylvano Santini !"' Vincent C. Lambert !)" M. Sean Saunders !") Charles Le Blanc !'' Emer Savage !)# Élise Lepage !*$ Maïté Snauwaert !!! Farah Leplat !"" Reece Steinberg !(#, !$( Daniel Letendre !*) Robert +acker !&! Amanda Lim !%' Jimmy +ibeault !'$ John Moss !!& Monique Tschofen !)' Saleema Nawaz !$& Hilary Turner !)* Stephen Ney !(( Carolyne Van Der Meer !*( Maria N. Ng !"& Bart Vautour !&* Claire Omhovère !$$ Emily Wall !*' Pamela Owen !&" Paul Watkins !!) 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