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Reviews ment, Roy MacGregor's article on "Sports Writing" pokes some witty but goodnatured barbs at Canada's hockey obsession. Dozens ofarticles are by scholars who take some useful liberties from the coolly dry literary reference book style. Particularly attractive is the affectionate tone ofSteven Scobie's article on the experimental poet Barrie Phillip Nichol, noting how Nichol aided the efforts ofmany other Canadian artists while producing a substantial body of boundary-busting literature. The oral literature of various First Nations is sensitively examined by Robert Bringhurst, a poet outside ofthat heritage who has translated a large body ofthat literature with painstaking care. Only Misao Dean's article on the artist/ writer Emily Carr seems to betray an unappreciative eye. Much ado is made about the well known fact that Carr was not always factually accurate in her autobiographical writings, and Dean acts as ifher knuckles should have been rapped for such a transgression, all the while acknowledging that "Autobiographical writing is always in some senses a fictional project" (183). But sour notes like this are few and far between, and to have such uniformly well written contributions in so massive a literary reference volume is rare indeed. Writers most familiar to U.S. readers—Margaret Atwood, Robertson Davies, Michael Ondaatje—are well served, but the excitement readers of this book will experience are the hundreds oflesserknown literary figures ripe for discovery. Now that the University ofToronto Press has so fulfilled the need for a comprehensive guide to Canadian writing, perhaps they can be encouraged to create a one-volume literary anthology that as well serves the literary heritage of our northern neighbor. ·& Sandra Pouchet Paquet. Caribbean Autobiography: CulturalIdentity andSelf-Representation. Madison: The University ofWisconsin Press, 2002. 345p. Deborah Weagel University of New Mexico Sandra Pouchet Paquet, a native ofTrinidad, has skillfully drawn upon years of scholarship in the area ofCaribbean autobiography to produce this well-researched text. She has incorporated some previously published material, and in the preface explains that revisions of former writings exhibit a "continuing interest in the constitutive forms ofCaribbean autobiographical culture" as well as "a heightened appreciation of the dynamics of the genre in respect to variables of Caribbean SPRING 2003 * ROCKY MOUNTAIN REVIEW * 115 personality and presence" (ix). Her purpose is to examine how different and distinct types ofautobiographical texts can be related, and to explore how these works might be useful in better understanding the challenges ofdiaspora and intercultural identity. In her analyses of the narratives, she takes into account "environment and history, race and culture, class and caste, gender and sexuality, and language and theory" (7). The book is part of the Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography series, which is edited by William L. Andrews. It is divided into four parts: 1) Gender, Voice, and Self-Representation; 2) The Estranging Sea; 3) Birthrights and Legacies; and 4) Autobiography, Elegy, and Gender Identification. In the first part Paquet discusses the nineteenth-century narratives of four women: Anne Hart Gilbert, Elizabeth HartThwaites, Mary Prince, and Mary Seacole.The Hart sisters each wrote a spiritual autobiography based on their respective experiences with the Methodist church. Mary Prince, a household slave, dictated her history, and Mary Seacole, a free black Jamaican woman, wrote a text which is both a travel narrative and autobiography . Part 2 shifts to the twentieth century and to an analysis ofthe masculine voice, and discusses the writings ofClaude McKay, George Lamming, CL.R. James, and Derek Walcott. In this section Paquet "explores links between geography and being, exile and otherness" (9). In the third part, she mixes gender and presents the contrasting works offour writers: VS. Naipaul, Anna Mahese, Yseult Bridges and Jean Rhys. She focuses on the concepts of "group identification" and "cultural localization" (176) by discussing the complexity ofgenealogies in Caribbean autobiographical narratives and the quest to find space and place in the Caribbean community. Finally, in Part 4, Paquet presents the elegies of Kamau Brathwaite and Jamaica Kincaid and explains how "both writers internalize the deceased other" (9). She also delves into "cross-gender indentifications" (9). Paquet successfully brings together a diverse and vast array ofautobiographical work in an organized and coherent manner. Each of the four major parts of...

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