Can Lit 188 Spring 2006 18/07/06 17:00 Page 1 Canadian Literature/ Littératurecanadienne A Quarterly of Criticism and Review Number , Spring 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 Koln 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 Leslie Monkman Queen’s University Maureen Moynagh St. Francis Xavier University Élizabeth Nardout-Lafarge Université de Montreal 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 Editorial Laurie Ricou Soyez mystérieuses Articles Sean Kane Skaay on the Cosmos Suzette Mayr Absent Black Women in Dany Laferrière’s How to Make Love to a Negro R. Darren Gobert The Antitheatrical Paradox in Michel Marc Bouchard’s Les Feluettes, or La Répétition d’un drame romantique Heather Murray “And every Lawyer’s Clerk writes rhyme”: Robert Baldwin as Poet, York, 1819-20 Can Lit 188 Spring 2006-#3x 22/06/06 08:21 Page 2 Articles, continued Meredith Criglington Urban Undressing: Walter Benjamin’s “Thinking- in-Images” and Anne Michaels’ Erotic Archaeology of Memory Heather Milne Something Fishy at Boundary Bay: Frances Herring and the Literary Construction of British Columbia Poems John Reibetanz John Donlan John Newton David Zieroth Tom Wayman Hendrik Slegtenhorst Books in Review Forthcoming book reviews are available at the Canadian Literature webwebsite: site: http://www.cdn-lit.ubc.cahttp://www.canlit.ca Authors Reviewed Mark Frutkin 152 Kim Anderson 171 Miriam Fuchs 142 Sara Angel 181 Leo Furey 175 Karen Armstrong 161 Gary Geddes 122 Constance Backhouse 174 Shree Ghatage 163 Nancy L. Backhouse 174 Cyril Goodyear 165 John Clement Ball 189 Katherine Govier 146 Chris Banks 153 Charlotte Gray 181 Byrna Barclay 163 Anne-Marie Gronhovd 154 Dominic A. Beneventi 170 Amita Handa 157 Paul M. Bidwell 133 Steven Heighton 170 Dionne Brand 183 Michael Helm 186 Juan Butler 137 Freeman G. Henry 190 Barry Callaghan 147 Tomson Highway 139 Licia Canton 170 Jack Hodgins 176 Claudia Casper 150 James Hoffman 179 Norma Charles 130 Cornelia Hoogland 153 Jim Christy 134 Catherine Hunter 152 Anne Coleman 161 Mark Anthony Jarman 146 Angela Cozea 154 D’Arcy Jenish 149 Michael Crummey 165 Julie Johnston 168 Moira Day 127 Ric Knowles 143 Mary Eagleton 142 Sunil Kuruvilla 124 Paul John Eakin 159 Harold Sonny Ladoo 140 Moira Farr 122 Patrick Lane 161 David Fennario 139 Bonita Lawrence 171 Len M. Findlay 133 Eliza W.Y. Lee 136 Dennis Foon 129 Kathy-Diane Leveille 126 Charles Foster 145 Greg Locke 165 Tess Fragoulis 170 Karen Love 131 Can Lit 188 Spring 2006-#3x 22/06/06 08:21 Page 3 D.R. MacDonald 150 Reviewers Michael Lewis MacLennan 124 Antony Adolf 131 Paul Chanel Malenfant 167 Satwinder K. Bains 157 Andy McKim 127 Kathryn Barnwell 142 Corynne McSherry 133 Andrew Bartlett 122 Roy Miki 178 Guy Beauregard 178 John Miska 170 Gary Boire 147 Laura Moss 120 Gordon Bölling 150 Lianne Moyes 170 Luc Bonenfant 167 Alice Munro 158 Albert Braz 170 Élisabeth Nardout-Lafarge 185 Russell Morton Brown 186 W. H. New 153 Helen M. Buss 161 Charles Noble 122 Alison Calder 173 Jacques Ouellet 167 Timothy Callin 175 Lisa Pasold 153 Kathryn Carter 126 John Pass 134 David Chariandy 140 Ian Pearson 122 Jennifer Delisle 165 Paul Quarrington 130 Ian Dennis 141 Harold Rhenisch 143 Jo-Ann Episkenew 171 Peter H. Riddle 145 Dianne J. Ferris 192 Christian Riegel 184 Susan Fisher 191 J. Jill Robinson 126 Wes Folkerth 143 Leon Rooke 143 Carole Gerson 181 Jean Royer 167 Elizabeth M.A. Hodgson 184 Dorothy W. Rungeling 169 Elizabeth Hopkins 168 Sheryl Salloum 131 Coral Ann Howells 158 Djanet Sears 124 Douglas Ivison 193 Robert Sedlack 141 Madelaine Jacobs 177 Shyam Selvadurai 188 Kirsty Johnston 127 R. Scott Sheffield 177 Anne Kaufman 163 Joseph Sherman 122 Suha Kudsieh 146 Carol Shields 158 Sonnet L’Abbé 153 Jaspreet Singh 163 André Lamontagne 185 Donna E. Smyth 126 John Lennox 194 Shelagh Lynn Supeene 130 I. S. MacLaren 149 Susan Swan 173 Ann Martin 189 Peter Trower 134 Travis V. Mason 123, 152 Helen Tsiriotakis 170 Kevin McCabe 129, 192 Sheri-D Wilson 152 Robert McGill 130 Julian Wolfreys 123 Laurie McNeill 159 Émile Zola 137 George Melnyk 179 Jisha Menon 188 Of Note Maria N. Ng 136 Giles Blunt 193 Linda Pratt 130 Roo Borson 191 Gregory J. Reid 139 Graeme Gibson 193 Shane Rhodes 122 Clint Hutzulak 193 Laurie Ricou 134 John Lunn 192 Duffy Roberts 176 Roy MacSkimming 194 Marilyn Rose 193 Mike McCarthy 192 Ralph Sarkonak 137, 154 Can Lit 188 Spring 2006 18/07/06 17:00 Page 4 Books in Review, continued Jessica Schagerl 174 Monique Tschofen 145 Steven D. Scott 193 Penny van Toorn 120 Nadine Sivak 124 Jacqueline Viswanathan 190 Marni Stanley 142 Samara Walbohm 169 Batia Boe Stolar 133 Evelyn C. White 183 Terri Tomsky 163 Opinions & Notes Mark Harris Soustitrage à rebours Copyright © 2006 The University of British For subscriptions, back issues (as available), Columbia and annual and cumulative indexes, write Managing Editor, Canadian Literature, at Subject to the exception noted below, repro- the address below. duction of the journal, or any part thereof, in any form, or transmission in any manner Publications Mail Agreement no. 40592543 is strictly prohibited. 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Also available is an online searchable index for all previous issues of Canadian Literature from 1959 to 2005. This more efficient and user- friendly online index will replace the paper supplemental index we have published in previous years. Can Lit 188 Spring 2006-#3x 22/06/06 08:21 Page 6 Editorial Soyez mystérieuses Laurie Ricou I have met Mavis Gallant perhaps four times. Two meetings were of the routine introduce-the-guest-writer sort. Surprise marked our first encounter and made it memorable.