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Canadian Literature / Littérature canadienne A Quarterly of Criticism and Review Number 200, Spring 2009, Strategic Nationalisms Published by The University of British Columbia, Vancouver Editor: Margery Fee Associate Editors: Laura Moss (Acting Editor), 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 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 Maureen Moynagh St. Francis Xavier University Ian Rae McGill University Roxanne Rimstead Université de Sherbrooke Patricia Smart Carleton University David Staines University of Ottawa David Williams University of Manitoba Mark Williams Victoria University, New Zealand Editorial Laura Moss Strategic Cultural Nationalism 6 Articles Tony Tremblay and Ellen Rose The Canadian Little Magazine Past and Present: Can Digitizing a Literary Subculture Make a Movement? 16 Erica Kelly “Was Ever an Adventure Without its Cost?”: The Price of National Unity in E.J. Pratt’s Towards the Last Spike 37 Janice Fiamengo “Seeing religiously that his socks were always darned”: Serving Idols in As For Me and My House 56 Tim McIntyre “The Way the Stars Really Do Come Out at Night”: The Trick of Representation in Alice Munro’s “The Moons of Jupiter” 73 Articles, continued Joubert Satyre Fantômes du passé chez Émile Ollivier et Gérard Étienne : De l’écriture comme exorcisme 90 Eileen Lohka Diaspora, anti-souchitude ou les écrivains sans frontière(s) 107 Poems Russell Thornton 15 Richard Harrison 89 Richard Harrison 36 Dave Margoshes 105 Lolette Kuby 55 Neile Graham 120 Helen Guri 72 Books in Review Forthcoming book reviews are available at http://www.canlit.ca Authors Reviewed Marita Dachsel 146 Janice Acoose 137 Daniel Danis 139 Marie-Célie Agnant 122 Denise Desautels 148 Mike Apsey 123 Ranj Dhaliwal 140 Jo-ann Archibald/ Cory Doctorow 198 Q’um Q’um Xiiem 124 Ken Drushka 123 Luanne Armstrong 123 Bernice Eisenstein 142 Sally Armstrong 157 Julia V. Emberley 189 Chris Arnett 137 John Ennis 143 Edo van Belkom 198 Jane Everett 144 Nadine Bismuth 126 Roger Farr 146 George Blondin 127 Jane Finlay-Young 157 Maggie Blot 185 Tol Foster 137 Antoine Boisclair 187 Linda Gaboriau 194 Claude Boisvert 185 Michèle Gagné 148 Stéphanie Bolster 129 Steven Galloway 152 Clare Bradford 130 Irene Gammel 149 Di Brandt 157 Erika Gottlieb 134 Denise Brassard 161 Faye Hammill 150, 151 Lisa Brooks 137 Sébastien Harrisson 139 Marc André Brouillette 129 Maggie Helwig 152 Colin Browne 178 Stephen Henighan 131 Diana Brydon 131 Polly Horvath 154 Rob Budde 178 LeAnne Howe 137 Margaret Burgess 133 Matt Hughes 123 William D. Coleman 131 Helen Humphreys 155 Shannon Cowan 134 Nancy Huston 126 Ivan E. Coyote 136 Suzanne Jacob 126 Beryl Mildred Cryer 137 Annie Jacobsen 157 Alan Cumyn 136 Marthe Jocelyn 154 Gilles Cyr 183 K.V. Johansen 158 Reg Johanson 146 Noëlle Sorin 191 Daniel Heath Justice 137 Raymond Souster 177 Sergio Kokis 159 Cathy Stonehouse 134 Peter Kulchyski 124 Jennifer Surridge 192 Michaël La Chance 161 Cheryl Suzack 137 Louise Ladouceur 162 Christopher B. Teuton 137 Dany Laferrière 163 Sean Teuton 137 Patrick Lafontaine 183 H. Nigel Thomas 122 Ron F. Laliberte 165 Judith Thompson 194 Fiona Tinwei Lam 134 Miriam Toews 196 Tania Langlais 166 Michèle Vinet 185 Steve Laplante 139 Padma Viswanathan 197 Suzanne Lebeau 139 Pauline Wakeham 189 Carl Leggo 175 Robert Warrior 137 Laurette Lévy 167 Robert Charles Wilson 198 Tim Lilburn 169 Craig S. Womack 137 Robert K. Logan 167 Steve Zipp 200 Moberley Luger 169 Rozena Maart 170 Reviewers I.S. MacLaren 172 Christopher G. Anderson 188 Randall Maggs 143 Douglas Barbour 169, 178 Pierre Manseau 159 Roberta Birks 194 Daphne Marlatt 169 Tim Blackmore 198 David W. McFadden 173 Daniel Burgoyne 173 Stephanie McKenzie 143 Alison Calder 150 George McWhirter 173 Nelson Charest 129 Roy Miki 175 Tim Conley 146 Robert Moore 175 Myrl Coulter 155, 170 Philip Carroll Morgan 137 Jonquil Covello 200 A.F. Moritz 177 Karen Crossley 136 Wajdi Mouawad 139, 194 Barbara Dancygier 167 W.H. New 178 Paul Denham 196 Mary Novik 180 Daniela Di Cecco 191 Morgan Stafford O’Neal 127 Kit Dobson 131, 189 Madeleine Ouellette- Greg Doran 152 Michalska 181 Phinder Dulai 140 Holly Phillips 198 Caroline Dupont 185 Michel Pleau 129 Janice Fiamengo 149 Daniel Poliquin 144 Andre Furlani 175 Laurent Poliquin 183 Mark Harris 163 Andrew Pyper 196 Elizabeth Hodgson 180 Mavis Reimer 184 Shelley Hulan 122 François Ricard 187 Madelaine Jacobs 124 Agnès Riverin 148 Suzanne James 130 Kimberly Roppolo 137 J. Kieran Kealy 158 Stuart Ross 173 Adrienne Kertzer 134 Dany Rossignol 185 Louise Ladouceur 144 Gabrielle Roy 187 Catherine Leclerc 162 Patricia E. Roy 188 Benjamin Lefebvre 184 Deena Rymhs 189 Judith Leggatt 165 Kim Selody 194 Amanda Lim 177 Natalie Simpson 146 Sylvain Marois 183 Reviewers, continued Niigonwedom J. Sinclair 137 Keavy Martin 127 Nadine Sivak 197 Jean-Sébastien Ménard 148 Patricia Smart 181 Linda Morra 133 Paul G. Socken 187 Janice Morris 142 Jocelyn Thorpe 172 Eric Paul Parent 139 Ariane Tremblay 167 Linda Quirk 157 Katrin Urschel 143 Noële Racine 161 Nathalie Warren 126, 166 Laurie Ricou 123 Lynn (J.R.) Wytenbroek 154 Pascal Riendeau 159 Lorraine York 151 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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