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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in University of Toronto Quarterly.daily12024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 1 (1931-1932) through current issue (with gaps in vols. 22, 40)Latest Articles: University of Toronto QuarterlyTWOProject MUSE®University of Toronto Quarterly1712-52780042-0247Latest articles in University of Toronto Quarterly. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Emergent Fiction
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912776
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In "Conspicuous Consumption: Economies of Virtue and the Commodification of Indigeneity," Elwood Jimmy and Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti examine the unsustainability of our "modern/colonial habits of being." One such issue is the failure to consider the "material reality in which we are embedded," which is fostered by a mind/body dualism:
the occupation of lands and the subjugation and elimination of peoples are symptoms of a deeper predicament related to our sense of separation or "separability" from the living land, or what we have come to call "nature," and what this separability does to our relationship with reality, time, knowledge, pain, life, and death, and to our sense of being, belonging, and worth.1
The
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallEmergent Fiction2023-11-29text/htmlen-USEmergent Fiction2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®943142024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Established Fiction
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912777
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When talented writers come at the issues and perplexities of human life, it is always interesting to see what has preoccupied them – what recent social developments they have picked up and what they have stepped around. Interestingly, the 2020 pandemic barely registers in the 2021 works of Canada's established fiction writers, while other issues appear more insistently: migrancy, growing economic inequity, the decline of privacy in our technologies, celebrity, and reproductive issues. Traumas play a major role – some perennial (the Holocaust, drug addiction), some that have risen to the centre of national discussions (the hardships of Indigenous people), and some almost forgotten in Canada (the 2010 Haiti
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallEstablished Fiction2023-11-29text/htmlen-USEstablished Fiction2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®1057692024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Poetry
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912778
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In the case against contemporary poetry, the evidence takes many shapes. There is the overripe blather of blurbs, award citations, and promotional materials. There is the wearying narcissism of the poetry itself, a relentless concern with the minutiae of authors' lives. No few poets write endlessly of personal and supposedly private affairs, but what more than a half-century ago was subversive is now, when memoirs and other forms of autobiographical disclosure are ubiquitous, merely commonplace. Self-description is routinely mistaken for self-examination. Worse is the preoccupation with the burden of being a poet. "Uneasy lies the head" is the dreary theme of innumerable books, their authors, like Napoleon, having
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallPoetry2023-11-29text/htmlen-USPoetry2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®1262072024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Traductions/Translations
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912779
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La traduction se porte bien. Oui, elle se porte même très bien. La plupart des livres que j'ai eu l'occasion, et souvent le plaisir, de lire pour cette chronique en sont la preuve. Que ce soit dans une langue ou dans l'autre, leur traduction est à la fois fidèle et inventive. Quelques traducteurs et traductrices sont également poètes, romanciers ou romancières, ce qui leur permet sans doute de s'immerger plus facilement dans l'univers de l'autre.Je remarque que la majorité des éditeurs anglophones indiquent désormais leurs noms sur la page couverture. Certains ajoutent même une courte biographie à la fin du livre. Quelques francophones le font aussi (je parle du nom sur la couverture ; pour la biographie, il nous
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallTraductions/Translations2023-11-29text/htmlen-USTraductions/Translations2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®705382024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling by Esi Edugyan (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912780
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Esi Edugyan's 2021 Massey Lectures invite readers and listeners to think about the "world of shadows" that "edges our written histories," histories that train the gaze where the light is most brilliant and blinding. The "shadow stories" that she tracks are those involving Black lives, unjustly confined to the obscured edges of representation both historical and artistic. These are essays in the fullest sense of the term, exploratory meditations on contemporary racial politics and historical Black subjects that deftly weave together personal experience, global history, art, and geography.The occulted histories of people of African descent are the common thread running through the five essays, a preoccupation that
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallOut of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling by Esi Edugyan (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USOut of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling by Esi Edugyan (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®63052024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Global University Rankings and the Politics of Knowledge ed. by Michelle Stack (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912781
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This edited volume provides an up-to-date and reflective set of perspectives on the use of university rankings. Michelle Stack brings together a variety of perspectives, in geographical and disciplinary terms, that offer a broadly critical view of the world of university rankings, while respecting their power. Stack acknowledges early on that, for many institutions, ignoring rankings equates to "invisibility." This power is explicitly examined through the frame of the "politics of knowledge," which considers both the detrimental and even colonial aspects of rankings alongside their role as a tool of power and politics. But the power of rankings does not go unchallenged, as each of the chapters highlights both for
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallGlobal University Rankings and the Politics of Knowledge ed. by Michelle Stack (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USGlobal University Rankings and the Politics of Knowledge ed. by Michelle Stack (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®47312024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada ed. by Vinh Nguyen and Thy Phu (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912782
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While Canada often champions itself as a welcoming and tolerant haven for forcibly displaced persons globally, the nation-state is maintaining a history of excluding racialized asylum seekers and other migrants as well as disappearing refugees within its nebulous detention system. This collection of essays – Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada, edited by Vinh Nguyen and Thy Phu – investigates this contradiction and brings much needed historical and theoretical attention to how Canada constructs itself and conducts itself in relation to refugees. Providing a framework for the collection, the editors poignantly argue that the figure of the refugee remains central to Canada's nation-building projects.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallRefugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada ed. by Vinh Nguyen and Thy Phu (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USRefugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada ed. by Vinh Nguyen and Thy Phu (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®105682024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Life and Death in Revolutionary Ukraine: Living Conditions, Violence, and Demographic Catastrophe, 1917–1923 by Stephen Velychenko (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912783
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In his new book, Life and Death in Revolutionary Ukraine: Living Conditions, Violence, and Demographic Catastrophe, 1917–1923, Stephen Velychenko shows his readers what the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse – war, pestilence, famine, and death – did behind the Eastern front when Ukraine became the battlefield between Russia and the West in the early twentieth century. The author shifts his focus from political events to social history and documents Ukraine's civilian deaths caused by bullets and germs or the deliberate killings and appalling living conditions. The jacket image of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Triumph of Death provides the fitting metaphor. The book's focus is physical, not metaphorical, death and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallLife and Death in Revolutionary Ukraine: Living Conditions, Violence, and Demographic Catastrophe, 1917–1923 by Stephen Velychenko (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USLife and Death in Revolutionary Ukraine: Living Conditions, Violence, and Demographic Catastrophe, 1917–1923 by Stephen Velychenko (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®64812024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Indigenous Celebrity: Entanglements with Fame ed. by Jennifer Adese and Robert Alexander Innes (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912784
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Editors Jennifer Adese and Robert Alexander Innes present Indigenous Celebrity: Entanglements with Fame as a collection that "provide[s] an Indigenous-centred engagement with celebrity and fame that foregrounds Indigenous perspectives and objectives." Their introduction offers detailed support for their argument that "celebrity studies has been unable to offer a sufficiently and necessarily nuanced understanding of Indigenous people's encounters with celebrity" or the ways in which "Indigenous people navigate celebrity and the accumulation of attention capital within a landscape of racism and global processes of colonization." Moreover, they find that academic writing on Indigenous celebrity is often "geared to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallIndigenous Celebrity: Entanglements with Fame ed. by Jennifer Adese and Robert Alexander Innes (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USIndigenous Celebrity: Entanglements with Fame ed. by Jennifer Adese and Robert Alexander Innes (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®78832024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29All Things in Common: A Canadian Family and Its Island Utopia by Ruth Compton Brouwer (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912785
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That there was ever a "utopian community" on Prince Edward Island (PEI) is a little-known fact amongst the general population of Prince Edward Islanders. It is not a story that is taught in grade six social studies or grade eleven or twelve history. It might not even be taught in undergraduate PEI history classes. Not that the founders of B. Compton Limited ever called it a "utopia"; rather, it was journalists and scholars who, in comparing the enterprise to communities in other parts of Canada and the United States, such as Sointula, British Columbia, or Oneida, New York (and later Vermont), labelled it as such. But an 1888 novel describing utopia, Looking Backward: 2000–1887 by Edward Bellamy, was "the best-known
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallAll Things in Common: A Canadian Family and Its Island Utopia by Ruth Compton Brouwer (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USAll Things in Common: A Canadian Family and Its Island Utopia by Ruth Compton Brouwer (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®66152024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29The Trial of Jeanne Catherine: Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva ed. by Sara Beam (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912786
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With rare exceptions, undergraduate students receive few opportunities to dive fully into early modern judicial records. Brief translated primary-source excerpts can be found in larger source collections, and causes célèbres have been examined for readers in secondary sources. However, accessible full-length transcripts of trials are simply not available. Sara Beam's edited and translated work of a trial for a double infanticide offers faculty a valuable and engaging classroom tool to assist students in their study of early modern social and cultural history.Through a careful presentation of sixty-one individual folios composed between 6 May and 31 July 1686, readers will find a series of documents concerning the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallThe Trial of Jeanne Catherine: Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva ed. by Sara Beam (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USThe Trial of Jeanne Catherine: Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva ed. by Sara Beam (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®55812024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29The Akunin Project: The Mysteries and Histories of Russia's Bestselling Author ed. by Elena V. Baraban and Stephen M. Norris (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912787
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Between 1998 and 2021, when the volume under review was published, Grigorii Chkhartishvili became one of the most successful writers in post-Soviet Russia. Under the pen names Anatolii Brusnikin, Anna Borisova, Akunin-Chkhartishvili, and, most famously, Boris Akunin, Chkhartishvili published over sixty books and engaged readers in other ways in what Elena V. Baraban and Stephen M. Norris, the volume's editors, describe as "the Akunin Project." Boris Akunin began the project with The Winter Queen (Azazel' in Russian), the first novel in the sixteen-book mystery series starring tsarist secret policeman Erast Fandorin. The series sold over fifteen million copies in Russia alone, and its market has extended beyond
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallThe Akunin Project: The Mysteries and Histories of Russia's Bestselling Author ed. by Elena V. Baraban and Stephen M. Norris (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USThe Akunin Project: The Mysteries and Histories of Russia's Bestselling Author ed. by Elena V. Baraban and Stephen M. Norris (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®74342024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Revolutionary Routines: The Habits of Social Transformation by Carolyn Pedwell (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912788
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I first became interested in theorizations of habit after encountering Sara Ahmed's work in Queer Phenomenology (2006), where she discusses how orienting or distancing oneself from a subject or an object is the result of familiarization and habituation processes. Carolyn Pedwell's fascinating book, Revolutionary Routines: The Habits of Social Transformation, honours Ahmed's legacy by urging readers to question learned habits, drawing from a robust body of feminist anti-racist theories, affect studies, and continental and pragmatist philosophical traditions. This transdisciplinary framework allows Pedwell to map out some distinctive habitual formations at this historical juncture, characterized by increasing
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallRevolutionary Routines: The Habits of Social Transformation by Carolyn Pedwell (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USRevolutionary Routines: The Habits of Social Transformation by Carolyn Pedwell (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®51622024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Persons and Other Things: Exploring the Philosophy of the Hebrew Bible by Mark Glouberman (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912789
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Mark Glouberman's Persons and Other Things: Exploring the Philosophy of the Hebrew Bible is an original and a distinct work of philosophy. The original part lies in the five interconnected theses that make up the book's core. First, the Hebrew Bible should be regarded foremost as philosophy; second, its fundamental philosophical claim is ontological; third, its ontology challenges the outlook of Greek philosophy and, more generally, paganism; fourth, the Hebrew Bible differs from all paganism in its claim about the essential particularity of persons who are thereby separated from other, merely worldly, things; and, fifth, this claim appears in the account of humans' creation in the second chapter of the Book of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallPersons and Other Things: Exploring the Philosophy of the Hebrew Bible by Mark Glouberman (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USPersons and Other Things: Exploring the Philosophy of the Hebrew Bible by Mark Glouberman (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®59042024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Comparative Literature around the World: Global Practice ed. by Eugene Eoyang, Gang Zhou, and Jonathan Hart (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912790
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Comparative Literature around the World: Global Practice is an edited collection of fifteen theoretical essays by an international group of comparatists. Most of the essays are written for American Comparative Literature Association conferences and International Comparative Literature Association Congresses, showcasing the diversity of global practices in the field of comparative literature. Conventionally thought to have originated in nineteenth-century Europe, the study of comparative literature has been growing across many other national, linguistic, and cultural boundaries today. And its widespread presence varies greatly depending on local histories, literary traditions, and institutional background. As
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallComparative Literature around the World: Global Practice ed. by Eugene Eoyang, Gang Zhou, and Jonathan Hart (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USComparative Literature around the World: Global Practice ed. by Eugene Eoyang, Gang Zhou, and Jonathan Hart (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®65802024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29The Life of Permafrost: A History of Frozen Earth in Russian and Soviet Science by Pey-Yi Chu (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912791
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Climate change has led to a major discussion about the permafrost regions in Russia as their thawing is considered a tipping point for the entire global climate. As a result, the Russian permafrost regions in northern Russia and the Arctic have become part of apocalyptic visions prophesying the end of the world as we know it.Pey-Yi Chu takes the current concern with the topic as an opportunity to shed light on the history of the scientific concept of permafrost: "Water or ground, ice or earth, space or substance, structure or condition – what did scientists mean by permafrost?" In contrast to studies of permafrost science, she places importance on the historical and social contexts in her book, which she considers
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallThe Life of Permafrost: A History of Frozen Earth in Russian and Soviet Science by Pey-Yi Chu (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USThe Life of Permafrost: A History of Frozen Earth in Russian and Soviet Science by Pey-Yi Chu (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®66042024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Dostoevsky at 200: The Novel in Modernity ed. by Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912792
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The ten chapters in this excellent collection marking the bicentenary of Fyodor Dostoevsky's birth all deal in various ways with what editors Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland call the novelist's attempts to depict "the experience of temporality within modernity" and the "tension between living within modernity and formal representation." In so doing, collectively, the essays offer a rich account of what Dostoevsky meant by describing his fiction as a genre of "fantastic realism." George Clay has described Dostoevsky's writing as "the most that can happen," in contrast to Leo Tolstoy's "what happens the most." Greta Matzner-Gore, in her chapter on Crime and Punishment, calls this a "poetics of improbability,"
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallDostoevsky at 200: The Novel in Modernity ed. by Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USDostoevsky at 200: The Novel in Modernity ed. by Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®68112024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Mennonite Farmers: A Global History of Place and Sustainability by Royden Loewen (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912793
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In an innovative examination of the history of Mennonite agriculture that blends local and global histories of place, Royden Loewen's Mennonite Farmers demonstrates that even distinct, isolated communities are connected by larger patterns of faith and connection to the land.What sets Mennonite Farmers apart is Loewen's methodology of developing and utilizing a team of researchers who were each embedded in local Mennonite agricultural communities around the world. This allowed him to weave together an expansive narrative that does not lose sight of the distinctive histories and contexts of each place, while connecting the themes of faith, land, and peace that unite each of these communities in different ways. This
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallMennonite Farmers: A Global History of Place and Sustainability by Royden Loewen (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USMennonite Farmers: A Global History of Place and Sustainability by Royden Loewen (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®64312024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29On Record: Audio Recording, Mediation, and Citizenship in Newfoundland and Labrador by Beverley Diamond (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912794
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Much of the literature on the history of sound recording originates in, or is focused on, the United States and Britain. Ethnomusicologists have made significant contributions that address this global imbalance, and it is within this context that Beverley Diamond's impressive study, On Record: Audio Recording, Mediation, and Citizenship in Newfoundland and Labrador, is even more remarkable. While Diamond's work focuses closely on the unique features of music and sound recording in Newfoundland – its history, its shifting social and economic foundations, and its cultural vibrancy – its theoretical purview is much wider than that, interpreting the significance of sound recording in Newfoundland from a variety of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallOn Record: Audio Recording, Mediation, and Citizenship in Newfoundland and Labrador by Beverley Diamond (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USOn Record: Audio Recording, Mediation, and Citizenship in Newfoundland and Labrador by Beverley Diamond (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®66842024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts by Margaret Kovach (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912795
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A natural extension from its first iteration, this second edition of Margaret Kovach's influential book responds to the blossoming of Indigenous research methodologies in literature and academic practice over the past decade. In stemming from work originally written and published in 2009, Kovach effectively honours the past and envisions the future of Indigenous methodological work through offering strategies for the further evolution of Indigenous research. This is the most notable difference between the two editions of this work: the first acted as a political commentary and call for space in a time when there was not much, while this second edition recognizes that this space is actively being created, and works
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallIndigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts by Margaret Kovach (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USIndigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts by Margaret Kovach (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®66722024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Shakespeare, the Renaissance, and Empire. Vol. 2: Geography and Language by Jonathan Locke Hart (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912796
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William Shakeseare's status as a global figure and the infrastructure surrounding this title are key components of Jonathan Locke Hart's Shakespeare, the Renaissance, and Empire: Geography and Language. Questions surrounding how Shakespeare is represented to the world, his contemporaries, and, ultimately, himself guide Hart's discussion on rhetoric, empire, and the place of Shakespeare's plays and their subsequent adaptations, with a particular focus on Asia. Indeed, Hart writes that this book aims to explore "how Shakespeare uses poetry to represent the world, and how he creates meaning and pleasure for his reader and audience as they complete and as they perform it." Beginning with the assertion that Shakespeare
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallShakespeare, the Renaissance, and Empire. Vol. 2: Geography and Language by Jonathan Locke Hart (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USShakespeare, the Renaissance, and Empire. Vol. 2: Geography and Language by Jonathan Locke Hart (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®70092024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29The Grammar Rules of Affection: Passion and Pedagogy in Sidney, Shakespeare, and Jonson by Ross Knecht (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912797
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The argument of Ross Knecht's The Grammar Rules of Affection is motivated by a simple association: the humanist pedagogical program that prioritized learning the rules of Latin grammar through application and daily usage rather than through rote memorization allowed for a connection between the rigours of grammar and the expressive possibilities of language. What Knecht does with this association, however, is anything but simple. The thesis of this well-informed and sophisticated study is that emotions appear in Renaissance literature as rule-bound practices "structured and constrained by conventional standards just as language is governed by grammatical rules" and that when writers of the early modern period want
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallThe Grammar Rules of Affection: Passion and Pedagogy in Sidney, Shakespeare, and Jonson by Ross Knecht (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USThe Grammar Rules of Affection: Passion and Pedagogy in Sidney, Shakespeare, and Jonson by Ross Knecht (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®64562024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Heavenly Fatherland: German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire by Jeremy Best (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912798
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In Heavenly Fatherland, Jeremy Best weaves together multiple strands of analysis linking colonial East Africa, Germany, and international networks of Protestant missionaries into a single tapestry that portrays how the German Protestant missionary movement participated in and attenuated Germany's engagement in colonial and global modernity. By focusing on German missionaries and their institutions, Best's intervention crosses several historiographical domains. Although the history of colonial culture in Germany has received increased attention in recent years, Best seeks to revise this primarily secular history by incorporating missionaries into the narrative, particularly since they were some of the most important
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallHeavenly Fatherland: German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire by Jeremy Best (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USHeavenly Fatherland: German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire by Jeremy Best (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®69902024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Authorized Heritage: Place, Memory, and Historic Sites in Prairie Canada by Robert Coutts (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912799
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Robert Coutts traces back how certain places in Manitoba and Saskatchewan were designated as historically significant by Parks Canada and the Historic Sites and Monuments Board (HSMB). He labels these government-sanctioned historic places as authorized heritage and seeks to examine "how and why [they] were commemorated by government, how they are interpreted, and how that interpretation might have changed over time." He also aims to identify competing understandings of the past, the "vernacular narratives of community-based heritage" that have often been ignored. Thus, this study covers similar ground already considered by historians since the mid-1990s such as J.C. Taylor, Alan McCullough, Frits Pannekoek, Shannon
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallAuthorized Heritage: Place, Memory, and Historic Sites in Prairie Canada by Robert Coutts (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USAuthorized Heritage: Place, Memory, and Historic Sites in Prairie Canada by Robert Coutts (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®66012024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Roman
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912800
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Il s'est produit beaucoup de mouvement dans le domaine du roman en 2021. D'illustres romancières et romanciers québécois nous ont quittés : Marie-Claire Blais, Abla Fahroud, Claude Jasmin et Naïm Kattan. A également tiré sa révérence le Belge Henri Vernes, lequel, comme le soulignait Jacques Hellemans dans un essai de 20191, avait joui d'une diffusion privilégiée dans la Belle Province. De célèbres éditeurs ont eux aussi passé l'arme à gauche : François Hébert, qui avait cofondé les Herbes rouges avec son frère Marcel en 1968, et Michel Brûlé, fondateur des éditions des Intouchables (1993-2014), qui avait racheté en 2005 puis rebaptisé à son nom en 2007 les éditions Lanctôt. Reconnu coupable d'agression sexuelle en
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallRoman2023-11-29text/htmlen-USRoman2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®1278112024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Nouvelle
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912801
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La récolte de nouvelles en 2021 est bien mince. L'année est marquée surtout par de belles rééditions, dont La conférence inachevée (1987) de Jacques Ferron, Le lendemain n'est pas sans amour (1963) d'Andrée Maillet et Eaux troubles (2011) de Camille Deslauriers, et quelques rares beaux recueils, dont celui d'Hélène Robitaille (Villes où je n'irai jamais), de Julie Bouchard (Férocement humaines), de Serge Labrosse (L'encre sèche et on oublie) et de l'incontournable Gilles Archambault (Il se fait tard). Cela dit, je ne peux cacher ma déception devant certains recueils. Je me dis que, dans ces cas-là, le silence est préférable. Je n'ai pas pour mission de pourfendre tout ce qui me déplaît, mais de souligner le plus
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallNouvelle2023-11-29text/htmlen-USNouvelle2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®726002024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Poésie
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912802
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2021 sera-t-elle rétrospectivement perçue comme l'année où la poésie aura pleinement réintégré la sphère publique – elle qui ne s'est pourtant jamais dessaisie du réel ? On pourrait le croire, tant il est vrai que l'année avait commencé avec un soleil éblouissant d'espoir : Amanda Gorman lisant son poème « The Hill We Climb » à l'investiture présidentielle de Joe Biden. De notre côté de la frontière, ce n'est pas une figure qui a retenu l'attention, mais plutôt un commun élan. « Sans le savoir, j'attendais ce recueil depuis longtemps », écrit Laure Waridel pour ouvrir sa préface au recueil Projet Terre.1 On ne saurait si bien dire.Toutes et tous, nous l'attendions, et il faut savoir gré à Michel Thérien et à Nelson
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallPoésie2023-11-29text/htmlen-USPoésie2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®1002382024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Théâtre
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912803
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L'édition du théâtre en 2021 porte les traces d'une pandémie mondiale qui a fermé les portes de la plupart des théâtres en mars 2020 et remis à plus tard plusieurs projets de création. Plusieurs artistes et travailleurs ont quitté le milieu, de manière temporaire ou définitive. D'autres ont essayé de renouveler les formes dramatiques ou théâtrales, ou bien ont migré vers des plateformes numériques. Parmi les parutions en théâtre en 2021, peu abordent la pandémie de front, hormis la mention des créations remises ou des conditions de production particulières. Plusieurs touchent à des questions connexes d'affirmation et de mise en relation : la diversification des voix, l'identité de genre et de culture souvent donnée
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallThéâtre2023-11-29text/htmlen-USThéâtre2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®1169292024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Relations par lettres de l'Amérique septentrionale by Antoine-Denis Raudot (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912804
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Enrichir à rebours un corpus qui, comme celui de la Nouvelle-France, donne une impression de complétude n'est pas une mince tâche. C'est pourtant ce à quoi s'est consacré Pierre Berthiaume tout au long de sa carrière, du Journal d'un voyage de Charlevoix (PUM, 1994) aux Mœurs, coutumes et religion des Sauvages d'Amérique septentrionale de Perrot (PUM, 2004). Annoncé dans Éditer la Nouvelle-France (PUL, 2011), le présent ouvrage peut être qualifié de colossal, à la fois pour la complexité de son objet et la somme d'érudition nécessaire pour le mener à terme. Car il s'agissait ici non seulement de procurer une édition critique de la Relation par lettres de l'Amérique septentrionale (deux manuscrits conservés à Paris
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallRelations par lettres de l'Amérique septentrionale by Antoine-Denis Raudot (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USRelations par lettres de l'Amérique septentrionale by Antoine-Denis Raudot (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®90282024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Archive(s), mémoire, art. Éléments pour une archivistique critique by Anne Klein (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912805
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Depuis une vingtaine d'années, tant l'archive (en tant que concept) que les archives (en tant que matériel documentaire) bénéficient d'un regain d'intérêt. Les expositions virtuelles et les installations artistiques mettant en valeur les documents d'archives, sans oublier les récitals d'archives à voix haute qui se multiplient. Ces initiatives culturelles contribuent à sortir les documents des centres d'archives et des salles de consultation afin de les rendre visibles et accessibles à un public plus vaste, alors invité à interagir avec eux. C'est ce changement dans l'utilisation des archives qui mène Anne Klein, professeure au Département des sciences historiques de l'Université Laval, à repenser l'archivistique
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallArchive(s), mémoire, art. Éléments pour une archivistique critique by Anne Klein (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USArchive(s), mémoire, art. Éléments pour une archivistique critique by Anne Klein (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®123502024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Ukraine, the Middle East and the West by Thomas M. Prymak (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912806
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As the title of this work implies, Thomas Prymak seeks, largely through the means of political and cultural history, to highlight Ukraine's historical connections beyond Russia and Eastern Europe, especially prior to the country's independence in 1991, which has generally been overlooked by scholars. Indeed, this reviewer, in a Mediterranean Quarterly article published in 2017 titled "Ukraine and the Middle East" and dealing mostly with the post–Cold War period, lamented the fact that academics, policymakers, and journalists interested in that country's foreign connections focused to the west and the east, with far less attention directed to the south. With the current Russia-Ukraine war, it has become evident to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallUkraine, the Middle East and the West by Thomas M. Prymak (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USUkraine, the Middle East and the West by Thomas M. Prymak (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®63182024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Paroles spectrales, lectures hantées. Médiation et transmission dans le témoignage concentrationnaire by Anne Martine Parent (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912807
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Paroles spectrales, lectures hantées. Médiation et transmission dans le témoignage concentrationnaire d'Anne Martine Parent, professeure agrégée au Département des arts et lettres de l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, est un essai littéraire tiré de la thèse doctorale de l'autrice soutenue à l'Université Laval en 2006 qui propose une réflexion sur les enjeux de la parole testimoniale dans son rapport à « la transmission d'une expérience traumatique extrême », celle de la Shoah. Si le lecteur peut comprendre cette approche critique, il sera toutefois peut-être étonné de constater que le corpus principal de cet essai, subdivisé en huit chapitres, exclut délibérément les paroles testimoniales de témoins directs de
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallParoles spectrales, lectures hantées. Médiation et transmission dans le témoignage concentrationnaire by Anne Martine Parent (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USParoles spectrales, lectures hantées. Médiation et transmission dans le témoignage concentrationnaire by Anne Martine Parent (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®130642024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Écrire l'actualité : Edme Boursault spectateur de la cour et de la ville dir. by de Marie-Ange Croft et Françoise Gevrey (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912808
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Comme les autres volumes de la collection « Héritages critiques » dirigée par Bernard Teyssandier et Jean-Louis Haquette, cet ouvrage réunit une édition critique et des études autour d'une problématique spécifique, en l'occurrence les œuvres d'un écrivain du XVIIe siècle mal connu de nos jours, Edme Boursault (1638-1701), qui entretiennent un rapport à la presse périodique et à l'émergence du journalisme à l'époque de la fin de règne de Louis XIV. Il s'agit plus précisément d'une comédie en cinq actes et d'un recueil épistolaire qui contiennent d'autres types d'écrits tels que des fables. Mieux connu aujourd'hui pour sa querelle avec Molière et Boileau, aussi bien que pour un roman épistolaire, Lettres à Babet
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallÉcrire l'actualité : Edme Boursault spectateur de la cour et de la ville dir. by de Marie-Ange Croft et Françoise Gevrey (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USÉcrire l'actualité : Edme Boursault spectateur de la cour et de la ville dir. by de Marie-Ange Croft et Françoise Gevrey (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®96002024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29L'œil du maître. Figures de l'imaginaire colonial québécois by Dalie Giroux (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912809
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À lui seul, le titre de l'essai de Dalie Giroux, L'œil du maître, porteur de bien des évocations, ouvre plusieurs pistes : comment ne pas entendre, sans même quelque consentement de votre part, l'air et le refrain de la comptine enfantine « Bonhomme, bonhomme, sais-tu jouer ? », les voix enfantines du refrain répondant : « Tu n'es pas maître dans ta maison / Quand nous y sommes ! » à la question que pose de multiples fois la comptine, chaque reprise de la question demandant au maître s'il sait jouer de tel ou tel instrument de musique. Et qui, d'un certain âge, ne se souvient pas du message publicitaire célèbre de la compagnie RCA Victor montrant un chien avec, au-dessus de lui, un haut-parleur, le tout accompagné
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallL'œil du maître. Figures de l'imaginaire colonial québécois by Dalie Giroux (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USL'œil du maître. Figures de l'imaginaire colonial québécois by Dalie Giroux (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®207772024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Présences intermittentes des Amériques by Ariane Audet (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912810
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Le projet du livre d'Ariane Audet – jeune poète et titulaire d'un doctorat en études littéraires de l'UQAM – se dévoile dès l'exergue qui déploie un vers du poète chicano contemporain Gary Soto : « America is somewhere – Now touch my hand ». Manière stimulante d'annoncer que l'ouvrage propose d'explorer l'espace nord-américain par le biais de la poésie et d'une quête de lieux et de présence. Il s'agit d'une étude comparatiste de la spatialité dans les poésies québécoise et chicana (mexicano-américaine) des années 1960 à 1985 à partir des œuvres des Québécois Gaston Miron, Paul-Marie Lapointe, Michel van Schendel, Paul Chamberland et Jacques Brault et des Chicanos Alurista, Luis Omar Salinas, Gary Soto et Abelardo
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallPrésences intermittentes des Amériques by Ariane Audet (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USPrésences intermittentes des Amériques by Ariane Audet (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®138752024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Le rêve de Phonsine. Poétique / psychocritique du Cycle du Survenant de Germaine Guèvremont by David Décarie (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912811
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En 2013, David Décarie et Lori Saint-Martin font paraître aux PUM l'édition critique de Tu seras journaliste et autres œuvres sur le journalisme, « premier volume de la série des Œuvres de fiction », ainsi qu'on peut le lire dans la « Présentation » de l'ouvrage. Édition critique par ailleurs coiffée d'un surtitre qui englobe en quelque sorte toute l'entreprise, Les écrits de Germaine Guèvremont. Ceux-ci, selon les auteurs, « peuvent se diviser en trois séries : "Le Cycle du Survenant," "Les Œuvres de fiction" et "Les textes autobiographiques, journalistiques et épistolaires" ».Le titre du « premier volume de la série des Œuvres de fiction », Tu seras journaliste, est lui-même le titre d'un roman-feuilleton publié
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallLe rêve de Phonsine. Poétique / psychocritique du Cycle du Survenant de Germaine Guèvremont by David Décarie (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USLe rêve de Phonsine. Poétique / psychocritique du Cycle du Survenant de Germaine Guèvremont by David Décarie (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®192612024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29L'envers du monde. Anne Hébert, Georges Bataille by Mélanie Beauchemin (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912812
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Cet essai représente une contribution très importante à l'avancement de l'état de la recherche dans le domaine des études hébertiennes. La comparaison constante et approfondie entre l'univers de l'écrivain français, Georges Bataille, et celui de la Québécoise Anne Hébert est vraiment inattendue, et pourtant très originale et éclairante pour les deux auteurs, ce qui offre ainsi une double motivation de lecture au moins. Cette comparaison à elle seule ouvre à une meilleure saisie de ces deux monuments littéraires. À ma connaissance, il n'y a pas d'autre étude qui mette ainsi en rapport ces deux univers qu'on aurait pu croire opposés en tout, mais qui en fait sont infiniment proches, au point que le dialogue provoqué
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallL'envers du monde. Anne Hébert, Georges Bataille by Mélanie Beauchemin (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USL'envers du monde. Anne Hébert, Georges Bataille by Mélanie Beauchemin (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®76812024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Parlons de nuit, de fureur et de poésie. Entretiens sur la lecture et la création littéraire by Gérald Gaudet (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912813
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L'homme des questions qu'est Gérald Gaudet renouvelle son expérience de l'entretien d'écrivains québécois contemporains avec cet autre recueil, cette fois en interrogeant dix auteurs et huit autrices, qu'il a regroupés en quatre parties. Il se montre de nouveau soucieux de poursuivre son projet d'une histoire de la littérature vivante et, pour certains, il avait eu l'excellente idée de les enregistrer avant leur mort pour des revues, comme ici avec le poète Yves Boisvert (décédé à 62 ans en 2012) qu'il a rencontré pour deux entretiens, l'un en 1983 et l'autre en 2000, complétés d'une interview du réalisateur Yan Giroux pour le beau film poignant qu'il lui a consacré en 2018 (À tous ceux qui ne me lisent pas). Ce
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallParlons de nuit, de fureur et de poésie. Entretiens sur la lecture et la création littéraire by Gérald Gaudet (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USParlons de nuit, de fureur et de poésie. Entretiens sur la lecture et la création littéraire by Gérald Gaudet (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®224112024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Souvenirs de prison by Jules Fournier (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912814
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À l'instar des Arthur Buies, Claude-Henri Grignon (celui de Valdombre) et Olivar Asselin (dont il était ami), Jules Fournier aura marqué le début du XXe siècle au Canada français par sa plume pamphlétaire qui, dans son cas, n'épargnait pas la classe politique : Adélard Turgeon, Louis-Alexandre Taschereau et le premier ministre Lomer Gouin ont subi de virulentes attaques de la part de Fournier. Pour avoir écrit, à la une du journal Le Nationaliste, un article intitulé « La prostitution de la justice », où il s'en prend à deux juges liés au Parti libéral, Fournier sera traduit en justice à la demande de Gouin et se verra condamné à trois mois de prison à l'été 1909. Alors limité dans ses lectures, plus encore dans
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallSouvenirs de prison by Jules Fournier (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USSouvenirs de prison by Jules Fournier (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®49792024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Vie(s) d'Eugène Seers / Louis Dantin. Une biochronique littéraire by Pierre Hébert (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912815
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C'est une véritable somme que Pierre Hébert offre sur la vie et l'œuvre de Louis Dantin, pseudonyme d'Eugène Seers, l'un des acteurs les plus en vue de la vie littéraire québécoise de la première moitié du XXe siècle. Sous-titré biochronique littéraire, l'ouvrage impressionne par la quantité de recherches que Pierre Hébert a dû effectuer pour parvenir à couvrir le territoire de cette vie éprouvante, vécue comme un calvaire d'un bout à l'autre.Presque rien n'est dit des deux premières décennies d'Eugène Seers, sinon pour préciser qu'il « est né à Beauharnois, près de Montréal, le 28 novembre 1865 », qu'il a fait des études brillantes, et qu'à 18 ans, il part pour l'Europe à l'instigation de son père, « juge de
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallVie(s) d'Eugène Seers / Louis Dantin. Une biochronique littéraire by Pierre Hébert (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USVie(s) d'Eugène Seers / Louis Dantin. Une biochronique littéraire by Pierre Hébert (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®119152024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Le fils du notaire. Jacques Ferron : genèse intellectuelle d'un écrivain by Marcel Olscamp (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912816
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Grand spécialiste de Jacques Ferron, Marcel Olscamp, pour notre plus grand bonheur, vient de mettre à jour son édition du Fils du notaire déjà parue chez Fides en 1997. Ce quart de siècle a peu changé l'image que l'on se faisait de ce géant de nos lettres, mais cette réédition remet à jour l'actualité de cette œuvre fondamentale et par trop négligée du corpus québécois.Cette impressionnante biographie, qui remonte aux origines de celui qui deviendra l'un des plus grands intellectuels du Québec, ne couvre pas toute la vie de Ferron, mais les années qui vont de sa naissance, en 1921, à 1949, année où il instaure sa pratique médicale sur la rive sud de Montréal à Ville Jacques-Cartier, bientôt annexée à Longueuil.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallLe fils du notaire. Jacques Ferron : genèse intellectuelle d'un écrivain by Marcel Olscamp (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USLe fils du notaire. Jacques Ferron : genèse intellectuelle d'un écrivain by Marcel Olscamp (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®126782024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Relation and Resistance: Racialized Women, Religion, and Diaspora ed. by Sailaja Krishnamurti and Becky R. Lee (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912817
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In a 2012 Feminist Review essay in conversation about Avtar Brah's Cartographies of Diaspora, Stuart Hall elaborates on Brah's conceptualization of "spaces of diasporic articulation." As Hall and Brah both show, diaspora, defined as the dispersion or scattering of a population from one geography to another site away from their established homeland, is a shifting term that cannot be framed within the context of homogeneity or purity. Diasporic formations are a process, not an event, unfolding over time and across new cartographies. Rather than a linear model of diaspora, which assumes static notions of migration flows to a new country, diasporic formations are malleable, constantly changing, and recalibrating.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallRelation and Resistance: Racialized Women, Religion, and Diaspora ed. by Sailaja Krishnamurti and Becky R. Lee (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USRelation and Resistance: Racialized Women, Religion, and Diaspora ed. by Sailaja Krishnamurti and Becky R. Lee (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®82542024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Avec ou sans Partis pris. Le legs d'une revue by de Gilles Dupuis et al. (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912818
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Aventure éditoriale singulière, la revue Parti pris, dans sa brève existence de 1963 à 1968, a marqué les esprits dans la mouvance sociale de la Révolution tranquille. Essentiellement le fruit des actes d'un colloque tenu en 2013, Avec ou sans Partis pris. Le legs d'une revue présente, avec quelques textes inédits, la lecture que faisaient les partipristes du foisonnement politique et culturel qui caractérisait cette époque, et expose, ultimement, l'héritage de cette revue occupée à définir le Québec moderne.Divisé en quatre parties (« L'ère des précurseurs », « Filiations et désaffiliation catholiques », « L'air du temps » et « Singularités à l'œuvre »), l'ouvrage illustre de façon évidente ce désir de passer, sur
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallAvec ou sans Partis pris. Le legs d'une revue by de Gilles Dupuis et al. (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USAvec ou sans Partis pris. Le legs d'une revue by de Gilles Dupuis et al. (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®47402024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Les années d'éclosion (1970-1978) by de Claude Janelle et Marc Ross Gaudreault (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912819
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Les énormes sommes encyclopédiques sur le fantastique et la science-fiction que Claude Janelle compile depuis des décennies ont de quoi susciter l'admiration. Véritable archiviste de ces genres au Québec, il a déjà publié, avec une équipe de collaborateurs, « 17 tomes de L'Année de la science-fiction et du fantastique québécois consacrés à la période 1984-2000 [et] un tome dédié à la décennie 1960 (La Décennie charnière) ». Cela, sans oublier son ouvrage sur Le XIXe siècle en Amérique française (Québec, Éditions Alire, 1999) et Le Daliaf. Dictionnaire des auteurs des littératures de l'imaginaire en Amérique française (Alire, 2011). Depuis des années, il travaille à la couverture de « la période intermédiaire
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallLes années d'éclosion (1970-1978) by de Claude Janelle et Marc Ross Gaudreault (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USLes années d'éclosion (1970-1978) by de Claude Janelle et Marc Ross Gaudreault (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®68862024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Les usages littéraires de Thomas Bernhard et de Peter Handke au Québec. Les modalités d'une affiliation interculturelle by Louise-Hélène Filion (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912820
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L'essai que voici est la publication d'une thèse dirigée par Robert Dion (UQAM), codirigée par Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Université de la Sarre, Allemagne), soutenue en mai 2017. L'objectif de Louise-Hélène Filion : suivre deux périodes où la réception des cultures germaniques s'est reflétée dans la revue Liberté, avec un point culminant dans les années 1980, que Robert Dion avait présenté dans son livre L'Allemagne de Liberté : sur la germanophilie des intellectuels québécois (2007). Cette étude a donné le coup d'envoi aux travaux de l'auteure qui traite essentiellement des « usages littéraires de Thomas Bernhard et de Peter Handke au Québec » dans des œuvres québécoises entre 1989 et 2011. Elle établit ces usages
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallLes usages littéraires de Thomas Bernhard et de Peter Handke au Québec. Les modalités d'une affiliation interculturelle by Louise-Hélène Filion (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USLes usages littéraires de Thomas Bernhard et de Peter Handke au Québec. Les modalités d'une affiliation interculturelle by Louise-Hélène Filion (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®203122024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Manitobaines engagées by Lise Gaboury-Diallo et Michelle Smith (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912821
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Manitobaines engagées, ouvrage préparé par Lise Gaboury-Diallo et Michelle Smith, avec la précieuse collaboration d'Hélène Roy, a pour origine un constat : il existe un nombre très restreint d'ouvrages sur les rôles des femmes au sein de leurs communautés au Manitoba. C'est lors du centenaire de l'obtention du droit de vote des femmes du Manitoba — il s'agit de la première province à avoir légiféré dans ce sens en 1916, on a tendance à l'oublier — que ce projet a commencé à germer. Le comité organisateur des célébrations s'est heurté à une difficulté significative, la rareté « des données pour établir une liste représentative de femmes méritant d'être reconnues ». Parmi les rares publications sur ce sujet
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallManitobaines engagées by Lise Gaboury-Diallo et Michelle Smith (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USManitobaines engagées by Lise Gaboury-Diallo et Michelle Smith (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®96362024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Nulle part qu'en haut désir by Gaëtan Brulotte (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912822
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Auteur de nombreux livres dans presque tous les genres, Gaëtan Brulotte est aussi à l'aise dans l'essai que la nouvelle, son genre de prédilection, le roman, et le théâtre. Dans son dernier essai, Nulle part qu'en haut désir, il parle avec passion de la littérature en s'appuyant sur nombre d'écrivains et sur son œuvre en y puisant de nombreux exemples. Il se demande au préalable « pourquoi encore écrire » ? Suit une liste de trois pages anaphoriques : « Écrire pour cracher un morceau de réel […] Écrire pour éveiller […] Écrire pour la chaleur de la compassion […] Écrire pour ouvrir la langue quotidienne aux feux d'artifices du sens et de l'image […] Écrire malgré tout pour résister sans relâche à la pensée
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallNulle part qu'en haut désir by Gaëtan Brulotte (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USNulle part qu'en haut désir by Gaëtan Brulotte (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®59082024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Appelée à comparaître : la littérature dans les fictions québécoises du XXIe siècle by David Bélanger (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912823
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Cet ouvrage porte sur la représentation de la littérature dans les œuvres de fiction québécoises contemporaines. À partir d'un large corpus regroupant près d'une quarantaine d'œuvres qui, publiées entre 2000 et 2015, donnent à lire le monde des lettres et ses représentants, Bélanger se demande : « comment envisage-t-on la littérature aujourd'hui, au Québec » et quelle est dorénavant sa place dans la société ? Ces questions découlent d'une posture de recherche bien explicitée par l'auteur qui affirme parler après, c'est-à-dire après « un discours confiant, positif – voire positiviste ! – de la littérature » ; discours ayant été ébranlé au XXe siècle par deux grandes pertes que Bélanger établit dès l'introduction de
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallAppelée à comparaître : la littérature dans les fictions québécoises du XXIe siècle by David Bélanger (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USAppelée à comparaître : la littérature dans les fictions québécoises du XXIe siècle by David Bélanger (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®176412024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Contributors/Collaborateurs
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912824
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Emergent FictionShazia Hafz Ramji,Department of English, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, CanadaEstablished FictionReinhold Kramer,Department of English, Drama, and Creative Writing, Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, CanadaPoetryNicholas Bradley,Department of English, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, CanadaTraductions/TranslationsHélène Rioux,Writer and Literary Translator / Écrivaine et traductrice littéraire, Montréal, Québec, CanadaRomanPatrick Bergeron,Département d'études françaises, Université du Nouveau-Brunswick, Frédéricton, Nouveau-Brunswick, CanadaNouvelleMichel Lord,Département d'études françaises, Université de Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaPoésieÉlise
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallContributors/Collaborateurs2023-11-29text/htmlen-USContributors/Collaborateurs2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®186972024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Index to Books Reviewed/Index des ouvrages recensés
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912825
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Acorn, Milton, and bill bissett, I Want to Tell You Love, 257–58Adese, Jennifer, and Robert Alexander Innes, eds., Indigenous Celebrity, 289–90Ah-Sen, Jean Marc, Emily Anglin, Devon Code, and Lee Henderson, Disintegration in Four Parts, 209–10Aitken, Will, The Swells, 224Alexis, André, Ring, 238Anctil, Pierre, History of the Jews in Quebec (Histoire des Juifs du Québec), 274Archambault, Gilles, Il se fait tard, 485, 494Arthurson, Wayne, L'automne de la disgrâce (Fall from Grace), 272–73Audet, Ariane, Présences intermittentes des Amériques, 565–69Awad, Mona, All's Well, 218–19Babin, Miléna, The Strange Scent of Saffron (L'étrange odeur du safran), 270–71Backhouse, Constance, Cynthia E. Milton, Margaret Kovach, and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallIndex to Books Reviewed/Index des ouvrages recensés2023-11-29text/htmlen-USIndex to Books Reviewed/Index des ouvrages recensés2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®380642024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Demanding Equality: One Hundred Years of Canadian Feminism by Joan Sangster (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912826
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Demanding Equality is the work of a skilled and confident historian synthesizing a career's worth of reading and research while exercising academic humility and the critical open-mindedness so essential to meaningful scholarly work. In producing this substantial study that takes a long view of the history of women and the political project of feminism in Canada, Joan Sangster has given us a volume that can, and should, serve as a core reference not only for historians but also for others seeking to understand and learn from women's struggles for equality. This is a book that is thoughtful and thorough while remaining accessible in language and interpretation.In ten chapters plus a useful introduction and pointed
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallDemanding Equality: One Hundred Years of Canadian Feminism by Joan Sangster (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USDemanding Equality: One Hundred Years of Canadian Feminism by Joan Sangster (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®64102024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Languages of Trauma: History, Memory, and Media ed. by Peter Leese, Julia Barbara Koehne, and Jason Crouthamel (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912827
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It has been argued that the twenty-first century has ushered in a post-trauma age. Humans are no longer only haunted by singular, inexplicable, and unrepresentable traumatic images, the argument goes, but deal with the ubiquity and frequency of traumatic events (private, collective, global) on a daily basis. Post-trauma in this context signals the move from the expression of debilitating physical, mental, or emotional traumatization to the proliferation of what Michael Basseler, in "Stories of Dangerous Life in the Post-Trauma Age," refers to as "pluralistic theoretical and methodological" frameworks that are culturally and politically dependent. This is the fundamental argument successfully supported through Peter
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallLanguages of Trauma: History, Memory, and Media ed. by Peter Leese, Julia Barbara Koehne, and Jason Crouthamel (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USLanguages of Trauma: History, Memory, and Media ed. by Peter Leese, Julia Barbara Koehne, and Jason Crouthamel (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®89802024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Mass Capture: Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-Citizens by Lily Cho (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912828
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Lily Cho's Mass Capture delves into a little-known archive of Canadian history: the "Chinese Immigration 9s" (CI 9s). Part of the Chinese Immigration Act (1885–1923; 1923–47), CI 9s were "certificates of leave" for which all Chinese migrants registered to leave Canada temporarily. Despite the staggering number of documents – Library and Archives Canada holds over forty-one thousand certificates on microfilm – and the wealth of information in each file, few scholars have worked in this collection. With reference to high-resolution photographs of the microfilm record, Cho organizes her study along thematic lines, first illustrating how the state used CI 9s to track Chinese subjects. The subsequent chapters reclaim
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallMass Capture: Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-Citizens by Lily Cho (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USMass Capture: Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-Citizens by Lily Cho (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®65972024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future: The Legacy of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples ed. by Katherine Graham and David Newhouse (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912829
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The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) issued its final report in 1996. In November 2016, 150 people gathered in Winnipeg to assess its impact, the state of Indigenous–settler relations in Canada, and the progress toward fulfilling the report's recommendations. Sharing the Land contains twenty-one papers and addresses given at this meeting, with an introduction and conclusion. The papers are now slightly dated, yet the result is still a powerful and important assessment of Indigenous–settler relationships in Canada and what is needed to establish right relationships between Indigenous peoples and settler Canadians. The "Introduction" notes that the RCAP's call for a new relationship between Indigenous
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallSharing the Land, Sharing a Future: The Legacy of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples ed. by Katherine Graham and David Newhouse (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USSharing the Land, Sharing a Future: The Legacy of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples ed. by Katherine Graham and David Newhouse (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®66512024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition by Rinaldo Walcott (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912830
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In his brief, lively, and readable 2021 dispatch, On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition, Rinaldo Walcott traces the full implications of what it would mean to abolish private property and return the earth's natural and social resources to the commons. Building upon the Black radical tradition – one that includes, for instance, C.L.R. James, Angela Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and the Rastafarians who left a profound imprint on Walcott during his formative years in Barbados – Walcott conceives of property as a foundational site of the modern world, one that grounds society's most basic and commonplace attitudes, practices, and structures, including anti-Blackness, capitalist exploitation, and the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallOn Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition by Rinaldo Walcott (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USOn Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition by Rinaldo Walcott (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®53542024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Higher Teaching: A Handbook for New Post-secondary Faculty by John Oughton (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912831
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John Oughton's Higher Teaching is a timely and welcome addition to the theory and practice of post-secondary education. For those of us accustomed to blackboards and chalk, it is reassuring to have Josiah Bumstead's words from a century and a half ago in The Blackboard in the Primary Schools: "The inventor of [this] system deserves to be ranked among the best contributors to learning and science, if not the greatest benefactors of mankind." Hyperbole aside, Oughton laments the loss of the blackboard but offers other alternatives in contemporary instruction and warns that instructors should not spend much time facing the board, lest they lose their students' attention. How could Northrop Frye's circles on the board
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallHigher Teaching: A Handbook for New Post-secondary Faculty by John Oughton (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USHigher Teaching: A Handbook for New Post-secondary Faculty by John Oughton (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®53332024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Entangling the Quebec Act: Transnational Contexts, Meanings, and Legacies in North America and the British Empire ed. by Ollivier Hubert and François Furstenberg (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912832
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The gerund entangling is not the most obvious choice for the title of a book dealing with one of the key constitutional documents in Canadian history. Editors Ollivier Hubert and François Furstenberg justify the term by highlighting the international context and implications of the Quebec Act of 1774. For the editors, this collection of essays demonstrates "the interconnected nature of early modern history." By recognizing French civil law in the newly acquired territory of Quebec and extending provincial boundaries in order to centralize policy toward Indigenous peoples in the Midwest, the Quebec Act became a turning point in many histories.The contributors to this collection explore the far-reaching consequences
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallEntangling the Quebec Act: Transnational Contexts, Meanings, and Legacies in North America and the British Empire ed. by Ollivier Hubert and François Furstenberg (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USEntangling the Quebec Act: Transnational Contexts, Meanings, and Legacies in North America and the British Empire ed. by Ollivier Hubert and François Furstenberg (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®66712024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies by Dylan Robinson (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912833
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In Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies, Dylan Robinson (Stó:lō) offers an interdisciplinary analysis of music and listening that uplifts both Indigenous and non-Indigenous experiences with sound. Speaking from his xwélméxw (Stó:lō) positionality, Robinson expresses the sovereign potential of form by including event scores alongside text and writing "irreconcilable" spaces exclusively for Indigenous readers. The book's title Hungry Listening (shxwelítemelh xwélalà:m) brings attention to the frictions of settler-colonial and Indigenous sensory orientations that foreground his larger critique of extractive listening practices and unmarked forms of perception. The concept of hungry listening
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallHungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies by Dylan Robinson (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USHungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies by Dylan Robinson (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®72212024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29L.M. Montgomery and Gender ed. by E. Holly Pike and Laura M. Robinson (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912834
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L.M. Montgomery and Gender is the most recent in a series of essay collections inspired by the biennial conference of the L.M. Montgomery Institute of Prince Edward Island. A book such as this one has two related dynamics: so much has been written about Montgomery and her fiction in the past thirty years (especially Anne of Green Gables and its sequels) that there is little critical room in which to manoeuvre, and, as editors E. Holly Pike and Laura M. Robinson note in their introduction, any collection is bound to have "inevitable gaps and exclusions." Nevertheless, L.M. Montgomery and Gender puts together significant pieces of the puzzle of Montgomery and her work.In their introduction, Pike and Robinson ask the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallL.M. Montgomery and Gender ed. by E. Holly Pike and Laura M. Robinson (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USL.M. Montgomery and Gender ed. by E. Holly Pike and Laura M. Robinson (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®68162024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912835
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From the 2020 Canadian Literature Centre's Kreisal Lecture Series, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's A Short History of the Blockade reframes the discourse on the seemingly emergent, and often fraught, politics of blockades in so-called Canada. Simpson, a celebrated Indigenous storyteller, artist, and scholar, offers four Nishnaabeg stories from the wisdom of the beaver nation and the foundational teachings of their blockades (dams) as an established practice of world-building resistance. Together, the stories are also a commentary on current issues of social media, lateral violence, binary thinking, and surveillance that house the potential to hinder the generative, relational, and reciprocal nature of Indigenous
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallA Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USA Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®57382024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Narratology in Practice by Mieke Bal (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912836
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In 1985, when Mieke Bal published Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, the field of narratology was still finding its feet; indeed, it found them partly thanks to her seminal book, now in its fourth edition. Bal is a prodigious thinker and a challenging one. As my doctoral supervisor warned me when I started exploring narrative theory, Bal is essential reading but "hard going." Despite its inviting title, Narratology in Practice is no exception.I assumed "in practice" indicated a handbook on how to do narratology, but Bal's sense of practice is more ambitious – less how to than a form of praxis she calls "cultural analysis." Narratology matters, for Bal, insofar as it enables political awareness
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallNarratology in Practice by Mieke Bal (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USNarratology in Practice by Mieke Bal (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®62392024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Hysteria in Performance by Jenn Cole (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912837
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The feminist interest in late nineteenth-century hysteria has gained new vitality ever since the inception of #MeToo. In a remarkable interdisciplinary book, Jenn Cole contributes to the recent resurgence of "hysteria studies" by examining how female patients treated for hysteria at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris were compelled to perform by neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot and his associates. But that is not all. Hysteria in Performance is incredibly timely for additional reasons, as it addresses both the spectacularized abuse inflicted by medical authority under the guise of scientific experimentation and the arsenal of resistances deployed by vulnerable victimized women. In so doing, Cole explores how
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912838
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The human brain and mind are some of the biggest mysteries of life. It is no wonder that humans have always been eager to try to solve, or at least get to know more about, them. For this reason, questions regarding the brain have been analysed in different disciplines and areas ranging from natural sciences and humanities to applied disciplines such as neurology, psychology, psychiatry, medicine, and others. However, these fields of study have attempted to understand the workings of the brain in ways that were not always discipline specific. Frank Stahnisch's book A New Field in Mind reveals how interdisciplinary collaborations between the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century laid the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallA New Field in Mind: A History of Interdisciplinarity in the Early Brain Sciences by Frank W. Stahnisch (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USA New Field in Mind: A History of Interdisciplinarity in the Early Brain Sciences by Frank W. Stahnisch (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®67972024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Royally Wronged: The Royal Society of Canada and Indigenous Peoples ed. by Constance Backhouse et al. (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912839
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Featuring the artwork of Coast Salish artist Shain Jackson, the cover alone is worth the price of admission: Double-Headed Golden Eagle (Ch'as-kin) Rising (2018) depicts Ch'as-kin, a double-headed golden eagle and supernatural creature. Representing courage, resilience, and resurgence, it captures the recurring themes and ultimate promise of Royally Wronged, a wonderful collection of essays about the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), its historical treatment of Indigenous peoples and Indigenous knowledge, and where it might go from here. In her foreword, Cindy Blackstock, Indigenous scholar and fearless advocate for Indigenous children, maintains that discrimination is "deeply rooted" in the RSC. In fact, it was her
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912840
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Digital Performance in Canada, edited by David Owen, is a volume in the New Essays on Canadian Theatre Series from Playwrights Canada Press, offering insight into the ubiquitous ways in which digital technology influences performance across its nine essays. Organized into three sections, the collection illuminates how a renewed relationship between theatre and the digital is necessary not just because of the utility of technology as a tool to supplement performance practice but also, as the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated, the potential of the digital to be the sole means of production, transmission, and reception.The essays in this collection are necessarily wide-ranging; much as the digital has pervaded our world
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallDigital Performance in Canada ed. by David Owen (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USDigital Performance in Canada ed. by David Owen (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®66312024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Canada to Ireland: Poetry, Politics, and the Shaping of Canadian Nationalism 1788–1900 by Michele Holmgren (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912841
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The history of the Irish in Canada has been receiving due scholarly critical attention for only the past few decades. In Canada to Ireland, Michele Holmgren accomplishes that which many of her nineteenth-century Irish Canadian subjects recommend for Canada's future success. With exemplary scholarship, she provides a highly informed analysis of the kinds of engaging materials that the likes of Thomas D'Arcy McGee recommended to Canadian writers as the fittest subjects for the inspiration of Canadian readers. The full title of the book accurately describes its ambitious scope, which Holmgren fully realizes. Or perhaps that observation should be qualified, favourably so: for readers also get a thorough contextualizing
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallCanada to Ireland: Poetry, Politics, and the Shaping of Canadian Nationalism 1788–1900 by Michele Holmgren (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USCanada to Ireland: Poetry, Politics, and the Shaping of Canadian Nationalism 1788–1900 by Michele Holmgren (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®106042024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Inventing the Thrifty Gene: The Science of Settler Colonialism by Travis Hay (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912842
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Traumatized and impoverished, Indigenous communities dwelling in remote locations face significant health problems. Diabetes disproportionally affects Indigenous communities in Canada, but there were previous deadly epidemics. Indigenous morbidity has been typically framed as a "mystery" – something that scientists should investigate. Researching the history and ideology of the scientific "quest" against Indigenous disease, Travis Hay quotes Charles Darwin himself witnessing genocidal devastation inflicted on Indigenous peoples during his famous round-the-world trip: "Besides these several evident causes of destruction," Darwin remarks, "there appears some mysterious agency generally at work," and wherever "the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallInventing the Thrifty Gene: The Science of Settler Colonialism by Travis Hay (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USInventing the Thrifty Gene: The Science of Settler Colonialism by Travis Hay (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®78132024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Daughters of Aataentsic: Life Stories from Seven Generations by Kathryn Magee Labelle (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912843
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Daughters of Aataentsic is a remarkable example of the symmetry that can be found within nuanced studies of the past, alongside Native communities, with clear intentions of being attentive to community-based participatory research that aligns with ethical research. By working within an "ongoing and genuine relationship building and support with a commitment to action and social change," Kathryn Magee Labelle and the Wendat/Wandat Women's Advisory Council have presented a series of histories about Native women across time and place that "redresses the historical conversation from a discourse of destruction to discussions of cultural healing, resistance, and resilience." To put this plainly, Magee Labelle's
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallDaughters of Aataentsic: Life Stories from Seven Generations by Kathryn Magee Labelle (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USDaughters of Aataentsic: Life Stories from Seven Generations by Kathryn Magee Labelle (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®54332024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29The Court and Its Critics: Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy by Paola Ugolini (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912844
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Paola Ugolini's fine monograph, The Court and Its Critics, explicates the ubiquity and variety of anti-court sentiments in Renaissance Italy. Scholars of the Renaissance will find familiar anti-court writers as well as lesser-known ones whose works are expertly woven together in a thematic treatment of the failings of court culture. Individual chapters analyse the links between anti-court sentiments and the making of the courtier, critiques of courts and misogynistic debates, and the synergies between the pastoral, the satirical, and the discourse against court culture in Italian literature. Each chapter devoted to these themes might stand on its own, but, together, they make a convincing case for the centrality of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallThe Court and Its Critics: Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy by Paola Ugolini (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USThe Court and Its Critics: Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy by Paola Ugolini (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®68022024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Men Out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties by Marko Dumančić (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912845
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Two main contributions of Marco Dumančić's engaging and thoroughly researched book are evident already in its title, Men Out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties. First, the book, unlike many other studies of masculinity in the Soviet Union, focuses not on soldiers, heroes of labour, or other ideologically approved and normative categories of Soviet men but, instead, on those men who failed to live up to these widely disseminated models and found themselves disoriented and lost in the rapidly modernizing post-Stalinist Russia. This new Russia was defined, Dumančić notes, by mass consumerism, (sub)urbanization, technological revolution, and a changing public space that became more inclusive of
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912846
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The curse of knowledge, a pedagogical parable of sorts, names the difficulty that accomplished and expert practitioners have relating the rudiments of a field of study to beginners. The curse keeps the accomplished from remembering what it was like to approach the field without any background and without any experience. And the best books on teaching point neither to formal definitions nor to clever illustrations as easy curse breakers but insist that becoming a practitioner in astronomy, biology, criticism, or any other field is always going to involve apprenticeship and practice. To become free to practice requires arts.Any good apologia for the liberal arts should present some purpose for the sake of which we
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallFalsehood and Fallacy: How to Think, Read, and Write in the Twenty-first Century by Bethany Kilcrease (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USFalsehood and Fallacy: How to Think, Read, and Write in the Twenty-first Century by Bethany Kilcrease (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®57642024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Disruptive Prisoners: Resistance, Reform, and the New Deal by Chris Clarkson and Melissa Munn (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912847
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Chris Clarkson and Melissa Munn's Disruptive Prisoners is an immensely valuable contribution to the study of Canadian corrections. At the most basic level, the book is an interdisciplinary retelling of the period of monumental changes in federal prisons between 1930 and 1960 that centres the experiences of the prisoners themselves. However, the book is more than a very successful history from below. In the spirit of the resistance of prisoners – whose capacity for disruption is an integral part of how correctional policy is produced and implemented – Clarkson and Munn also challenge key assumptions about the theory and practice of prison reform, both mainstream and critical.To tell the story of the modernization of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallDisruptive Prisoners: Resistance, Reform, and the New Deal by Chris Clarkson and Melissa Munn (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USDisruptive Prisoners: Resistance, Reform, and the New Deal by Chris Clarkson and Melissa Munn (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®60892024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29On the Other Side(s) of 150: Untold Stories and Critical Approaches to History, Literature, and Identity in Canada ed. by Linda M. Morra and Sarah Henzi (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912848
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On the Other Side(s) of 150: Untold Stories and Critical Approaches, edited and introduced by Linda Morra and Sarah Henzi, is a major contribution to literary and cultural studies in Canada. The collection, which stems from a 2017 conference, Untold Stories of the Past 150 Years, includes eighteen chapters from nineteen contributors, all of whom are invested in interrogating, contesting, and revising prevailing narratives of Canada's past. The chapters are organized into four sections: "Contemporary Counter Memories and Narratives," "Unbecoming Narratives," "Memories from Below and Beyond the Border," and "Rhetorical Renegotiations." A separate chapter by Kim Anderson (Métis) and Rene Meshake (Anishinaabe), "We Are
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallOn the Other Side(s) of 150: Untold Stories and Critical Approaches to History, Literature, and Identity in Canada ed. by Linda M. Morra and Sarah Henzi (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USOn the Other Side(s) of 150: Untold Stories and Critical Approaches to History, Literature, and Identity in Canada ed. by Linda M. Morra and Sarah Henzi (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®83982024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29The United States of Medievalism ed. by Tison Pugh and Susan Aronstein (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912849
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This volume offers an illuminating collection of essays that help to explain how medievalism – the reuse of medieval stories or symbols in later periods – shapes many aspects of the United States as a nation. The essays in this collection discuss American medievalism that manifests in physical forms – such as medieval revival architecture – and in ideas or traditions – such as fraternity culture, which has medieval origins.The book is separated into three parts, each of which tackles a distinct way in which the Middle Ages permeate the American past and present. Part One, "Building the American Middle Ages," examines "medieval" physical spaces and ideas that have constructed American society, inculcating, for
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallThe United States of Medievalism ed. by Tison Pugh and Susan Aronstein (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USThe United States of Medievalism ed. by Tison Pugh and Susan Aronstein (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®69432024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Angles on a Kingdom: East Anglian Identities from Bede to Ælfric by Joseph Grossi (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912850
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This book explores the regional identity of early medieval East Anglia from (roughly) the seventh century through to the early eleventh century, arguing for the distinctiveness of East Anglia as a region (though acknowledging diversity and difference within it) and tracing the ways in which it both catalyzed and troubled the early development of an English "national" consciousness and imaginary. The five chapters cover questions of conversion and identity (centred on Bede's accounts of Rædwald), the cult of Æthelthryth and its role in bridging "region" and "nation" and helping to forge an English "national" consciousness, Felix's Life of St. Guthlac and its contexts, with particular reference to East Anglian and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallAngles on a Kingdom: East Anglian Identities from Bede to Ælfric by Joseph Grossi (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USAngles on a Kingdom: East Anglian Identities from Bede to Ælfric by Joseph Grossi (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®62512024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Ours by Every Law of Right and Justice: Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provinces by Sarah Carter (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912851
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This richly researched and strongly argued study complexifies suffrage history, moving beyond outright national celebration to investigate local significance and impact and relate the past to present activism. Sarah Carter's decades-long expertise in Prairie history ensures that the objective of viewing women's suffrage in both the wider socio-political context and the local environmental setting are handled with aplomb. This is a contribution to a new set of books, edited by Veronica Strong-Boag, that, revisiting an important historical marker of women's equality with fresh twenty-first-century postcolonial eyes, seek to acknowledge and explain how and why all women were not enfranchised at the same time. Carter's
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallOurs by Every Law of Right and Justice: Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provinces by Sarah Carter (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USOurs by Every Law of Right and Justice: Women and the Vote in the Prairie Provinces by Sarah Carter (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®65142024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29William Blake: Modernity and Disaster ed. by Tilottama Rajan and Joel Faflak (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912852
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It is rare to find a book that makes you think very hard on each page, but this one does. These essays comprise an astonishingly complex and subtle set of readings. They are not for the first-time reader of William Blake, and, indeed, all the authors assume, not unfairly or inappropriately, that they are writing for an audience well versed in existing scholarship and well educated in theological, philosophical, and psychoanalytic approaches to modernity and disaster. But readers with foreknowledge in any of these areas are bound to find something to stimulate them. The volume is good at exposing the proliferation of catastrophe in Blake's works – the conditions of seemingly irredeemable fallenness in which we are
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallWilliam Blake: Modernity and Disaster ed. by Tilottama Rajan and Joel Faflak (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USWilliam Blake: Modernity and Disaster ed. by Tilottama Rajan and Joel Faflak (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®56962024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Politics and the British Novel in the 1970s by J. Russell Perkin (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912853
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J. Russell Perkin uses "a flexible and pragmatic definition of the political" to identify eight novelists who published novels in the 1970s "where ideological positions are consciously represented and where the narrative implies the need for some kind of action": Margaret Drabble, John Fowles, John le Carré, Richard Adams, Malcolm Bradbury, David Lodge, Doris Lessing, and V.S. Naipaul. Politics and the British Novel in the 1970s offers close readings of novels by these authors in order to explore the relationship between the novel and politics in Britain in the 1970s, with particular consideration of the literary tradition of the "condition-of-England" novel and the political tradition of Liberalism.The strength of
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912854
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As a settler scholar with some knowledge of Anishinaabemowin, I read Helen Olsen Agger's cultural history of the Namegosibii Anishinaabeg (the Trout Lake Anishinaabeg of northwest Ontario) with great appreciation. Agger's important book, in which she also generously shares information about her family, is based on the dadibaajim (oral narratives) of eight Namegosibii Anishinaabeg of three different generations. Their narratives present "events, teachings, belief systems, and descriptions of lands that together constitute their sense of distinctiveness as the Namegosibii Anishinaabe," about whom little documentation exists. Agger emphasizes the importance of variations in traditions, ceremony, and beliefs among
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912855
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"Practically all of them are out of print. And since when are you interested in these writers, anyway? I find them a bit icky," a bookseller tells the protagonist in the film version of Javier Cercas's bestselling novel Soldiers of Salamis when she enquires about books by Rafael Sánchez Mazas, who was one of the key figures of the Spanish Falange. Founded in 1933 and inspired by Benito Mussolini, the Falange would form the ideological backbone of the Franco dictatorship (1939–1975).Set in the late 1990s, Cercas's novel illustrates the extent to which, a quarter century after Francisco Franco's death, mainstream Spanish culture preferred to forget about its homegrown fascists, almost as if studying them meant
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912856
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Historians tell two apparently unrelated stories about Western societies in the 1960s. One focuses on youth culture, student protest, and the rise of the New Left. The other story concerns the religious ferment of the decade and the decline of mainline Christian churches in numbers and influence. In this book, Algoma University historian Bruce Douville shows that these two stories, in Canada at least, are in fact deeply intertwined. He makes a compelling case that not only were young Christian radicals an important ingredient in the emergence of the New Left in Canada but that their ideals were also embraced by sympathetic figures in the country's largest denominations, eventually leading to major changes to these
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallThe Uncomfortable Pew: Christianity and the New Left in Toronto by Bruce Douville (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USThe Uncomfortable Pew: Christianity and the New Left in Toronto by Bruce Douville (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®64192024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29On the Queerness of Early English Drama: Sex in the Subjunctive by Tison Pugh (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912857
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Tison Pugh's On the Queerness of Early English Drama: Sex in the Subjunctive provides an important contribution to early English drama studies, applying queer theory to texts whose queerness has been historically under-explored. The introduction and first chapter of Pugh's book lay down his theoretical framework, where he studies sexuality through the "subjunctive." He claims that "grammatically, the subjunctive mood indicates not the actual but the anticipated, not the determined but the desired"; thus, he navigates early English drama not through explicit, enacted queerness but, rather, through moments where queerness can be read as anticipated or desired. He reads this subjunctive type of queerness through four
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallOn the Queerness of Early English Drama: Sex in the Subjunctive by Tison Pugh (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USOn the Queerness of Early English Drama: Sex in the Subjunctive by Tison Pugh (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®66312024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29In the Public Good: Eugenics and the Law in Ontario by C. Elizabeth Koester (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912858
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According to the author, previous literature has suggested that not much happened in Ontario with respect to eugenics, as evidenced by a lack of legislation. In the Public Good thoroughly demonstrates the faultiness of this conclusion. In an approach that at first seems counter-intuitive, Elizabeth Koester turns to a legal perspective in order to trace eugenic activity and ideas in Canada's most populous province during the tumultuous period between 1910 and 1938. The result is an important examination of how eugenic ideas intersected with the law and how eugenic ideas were promoted and, in some cases, deflected.After a general introduction and a chapter introducing the "Places and People," the body of the book
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallIn the Public Good: Eugenics and the Law in Ontario by C. Elizabeth Koester (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USIn the Public Good: Eugenics and the Law in Ontario by C. Elizabeth Koester (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®66092024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Hall-Dennis and the Road to Utopia: Education and Modernity in Ontario by Josh Cole (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912859
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The 1968 landmark report Living and Learning: The Report of the Provincial Committee on Aims and Objectives of Education in the Schools of Ontario, commissioned by Progressive Conservative Minister of Education Bill Davis in 1965, is the subject of Josh Cole's well-researched book. Commonly known as the Hall-Dennis Report, its members were tasked with devising a plan to create an educational modernity in what was perceived as Ontario's dystopic school system. Cole's analysis of the utopian aspirations of the Hall-Dennis Report contributes significantly to understanding the numerous challenges besetting education in the present. According to Cole, the challenges to present-day education posed by neoliberal
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallHall-Dennis and the Road to Utopia: Education and Modernity in Ontario by Josh Cole (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USHall-Dennis and the Road to Utopia: Education and Modernity in Ontario by Josh Cole (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®65382024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Chinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw by Hua Li (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912860
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In her latest book, Hua Li demonstrates that many of the themes that define Chinese-language science fiction today – ecological concerns, the role of intellectuals, the past and possible futures of Chinese civilization – were already sprouting in the increasingly popular science fiction narratives of the post-Mao cultural thaw. Indeed, she concludes that "many of the characteristics usually associated with New Wave Chinese SF [science fiction] actually appeared in PRC [People's Republic of China] SF as early as the thaw era." Li also shows how the patriotic undertones that still linger in some contemporary stories were built into the genre through its close ties to youth literature and its explicit goal of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallChinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw by Hua Li (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USChinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw by Hua Li (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®64242024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Callings and Consequences: The Making of Catholic Vocational Culture in Early Modern France by Christopher Lane (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912861
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In this interesting book, Christopher Lane exposes a relatively understudied topic: the major contribution of seventeenth-century French Catholic reformers to the development of concepts and practices of vocational discernment and life. Although acknowledging the fundamental importance of the teachings of the Council of Trent and the insights of Ignatius of Loyola and François de Sales in shaping regulations for vocations and methods of spiritual discernment, he focuses on a set of theological, pastoral, and reforming writers of the succeeding generation. By analysing the views of these (mainly male) commentators on vocation, Lane enlarges our knowledge, showing that figures such as Louis Bourdaloue, Charles
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallCallings and Consequences: The Making of Catholic Vocational Culture in Early Modern France by Christopher Lane (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USCallings and Consequences: The Making of Catholic Vocational Culture in Early Modern France by Christopher Lane (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®64722024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Alone Together: Poetics of the Passions in Late Medieval Iberia by Henry Berlin (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912862
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As its oxymoronic title advances, Alone Together studies the conflicting medieval attempts to mould and control the passions by focusing on fifteenth-century writing about sentiment from Castile, Aragon, and Portugal. In this respect, the monograph represents a serious and well-researched contribution to the recent "affective turn" in medieval and Hispanic literary and cultural studies. Drawing on the idea that cultural and political developments are related, the book makes two fundamental proposals. The first is that Iberian authors were not only the last defenders of pre-modern inter-subjectivity but that they also used the debate about passions to express ethical and political positions in a time of crisis.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallAlone Together: Poetics of the Passions in Late Medieval Iberia by Henry Berlin (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USAlone Together: Poetics of the Passions in Late Medieval Iberia by Henry Berlin (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®85162024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Boom Kids: Growing Up in the Calgary Suburbs, 1950–1970 by James A. Onusko (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912863
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Using children and youth as the "viewfinder" into a history of Canadian suburbia, James A. Onusko illuminates a world both familiar and forgotten. Familiar in the sense that Boom Kids focuses on Banff Trail, a typical post-war working-and middle-class Canadian suburb; forgotten, in that by zeroing in on children and youth, Onusko adds a chapter to the emergent field of children and youth history, drawing our attention to the quotidian and often overlooked texture of suburban life as experienced by young people. Post-war suburbia persists in holding our collective attention for its ability to represent new beginnings and a physical and emotional escape from the long years of Depression and war. Its offer of relative
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallBoom Kids: Growing Up in the Calgary Suburbs, 1950–1970 by James A. Onusko (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USBoom Kids: Growing Up in the Calgary Suburbs, 1950–1970 by James A. Onusko (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®66792024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29The Saint and the Count: A Case Study for Reading Like a Historian by Leah Shopkow (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912864
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"Novice readers of history," Leah Shopkow writes, "assume that all historians are doing is reporting factual information." In The Saint and the Count: A Case Study for Reading Like a Historian, she sets about disabusing students of this notion, using a close examination of Stephen of Fougères's Life of St. Vitalis to demonstrate that what historians are really doing is "arguing, analyzing, constructing, and … drawing on the work of other scholars." In the process, she provides scholars of medieval hagiography with an insightful and thoroughly documented study of the text while also introducing students to the complexities and pleasures of historical thinking.The chapters of the book make visible the often invisible
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallThe Saint and the Count: A Case Study for Reading Like a Historian by Leah Shopkow (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USThe Saint and the Count: A Case Study for Reading Like a Historian by Leah Shopkow (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®65352024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency by Stephen Lee Naish (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912865
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Stephen Lee Naish's Screen Captures, a collection of essays on film and media at the intersection of politics, addresses the exigencies and effects of our contemporary moment. Part diatribe, part call to action, and part auto-theoretical excavation, Naish's work intertwines immersive screen culture with our simultaneously complicated, sometimes uplifting, and often frustrating political time. In twelve short chapters, Naish moves deftly through an array of works that speak to times spanning before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic. He begins where one might expect: "Shut Up, Capitalism!" The apropos title of the introductory chapter rails against the system and historicizes our collective traumas of living
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallScreen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency by Stephen Lee Naish (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USScreen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency by Stephen Lee Naish (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®66572024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29The End of the CBC? by David Taras and Christopher Waddell (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912866
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Canada's national public broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), is in danger, warn David Taras and Christopher Waddell in their 2020 book The End of the CBC? Their ultimate message: "Reinvent the CBC or allow it to die." It may sound hyperbolic, but the authors put forth a strong argument in this compelling look at the corporation's recent history.Throughout the book, Taras and Waddell go into detail about the budget cuts that the CBC has endured and the lack of political will to give it what it needs to be successful. They note that, while the Broadcasting Act lays out an extensive mandate for the CBC that means it needs "to be all things to all people all the time," without adequate resources
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallThe End of the CBC? by David Taras and Christopher Waddell (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USThe End of the CBC? by David Taras and Christopher Waddell (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®53662024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Indentured Servitude: Unfree Labour and Citizenship in the British Colonies by Anna Suranyi (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912867
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Anna Suranyi's latest book explores the subject of servitude in the British American colonies to demonstrate how servitude informed nascent ideologies of citizenship. Rather than write an intellectual history of this subject, Suranyi instead takes a social and cultural history approach, blending a discussion of servant experiences with how establishing and policing the institution shaped "ideals of citizenship on both sides of the Atlantic."Beginning with a strong discussion of the ways in which servitude was not akin to race-based slavery, the first half of Suranyi's book focuses on the legal, literary, and political discourses around indentured servitude to show how British writers, thinkers, and politicians
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallIndentured Servitude: Unfree Labour and Citizenship in the British Colonies by Anna Suranyi (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USIndentured Servitude: Unfree Labour and Citizenship in the British Colonies by Anna Suranyi (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®55062024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Moments of Perception: Experimental Film in Canada by Stephen Broomer and Michael Zyrd (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912868
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As I write this review, tributes for Michael Snow have begun rolling in. Perhaps the best known of Canada's experimental filmmakers, Snow built an international profile in the 1960s with a body of influential, groundbreaking work that spanned the media fields of film, sculpture, poetry, and painting. Upon his death on 5 January 2023 at the age of ninety-four, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation remembered him as an artist that "knew no boundaries."Those looking to learn more about Canada's diverse and boundary-pushing experimental film history can look no further than a new volume published by Goose Lane called Moments of Perception: Experimental Film in Canada. Written by Stephen Broomer and Michael Zyrd and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallMoments of Perception: Experimental Film in Canada by Stephen Broomer and Michael Zyrd (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USMoments of Perception: Experimental Film in Canada by Stephen Broomer and Michael Zyrd (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®56162024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Multispecies Modernity: Disorderly Life in Postcolonial Literature by Sundhya Walther (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912869
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In her book,Multispecies Modernity: Disorderly Life in Postcolonial Literature, Sundhya Walther focuses on India and locates "unhygienic proximities," moments of human-to-non-human animal connection in a wide range of literary, artistic, and cultural examples. Walther's work brings South Asian postcolonial literature and scholarship into conversation with animal studies, thinking carefully about how Gayatri Spivak's foundational concept of the subaltern "extends across species boundaries, and in what ways nonhuman animals can be and are subaltern." Multispecies Modernity starts with the example of "Robin Hood" monkeys in Shimla who scatter stolen cash from rooftops, then, in short, generative "provocations" placed
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallMultispecies Modernity: Disorderly Life in Postcolonial Literature by Sundhya Walther (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USMultispecies Modernity: Disorderly Life in Postcolonial Literature by Sundhya Walther (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®57442024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Queer Atlantic: Masculinity, Mobility, and the Emergence of Modernist Form by Daniel Hannah (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912870
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Daniel Hannah's Queer Atlantic: Masculinity, Mobility, and the Emergence of Modernist Form explores the queerness of a mobile white male subject in modernist fiction and its late nineteenth-century precursors, tracing what Hannah calls a "'queer Atlantic' narrative form." In texts by writers working "between European and American representational forms, epistemologies, and imaginings of subjectivity" – namely, Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and Ford Madox Ford – Hannah locates privileged modes of liminality and mobility that both discipline normative manhood and encourage its queer undoing at the turn of the twentieth century. The project sits at the intersection of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallQueer Atlantic: Masculinity, Mobility, and the Emergence of Modernist Form by Daniel Hannah (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USQueer Atlantic: Masculinity, Mobility, and the Emergence of Modernist Form by Daniel Hannah (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®64902024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Writing the Empire: The McIlwraiths, 1853–1948 by Eva-Marie Kroller (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912871
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This ambitious prosopographical study focuses on the ways in which three generations of McIlwraiths "articulated their identity as imperial subjects over time" as they emigrated from Ayrshire in Scotland to Queensland, Australia, and Ontario, Canada, making frequent side trips to other parts of the empire along the way.This volume focuses primarily on the family's prodigious commitment to life writing through the generations – diaries, scrapbooks, publications, estate papers, letters, and business postcards. The author has done a commendable job assembling this impressive mass of sources and in complementing and contextualizing this life writing with a breathtaking array of other primary and secondary sources. The
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallWriting the Empire: The McIlwraiths, 1853–1948 by Eva-Marie Kroller (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USWriting the Empire: The McIlwraiths, 1853–1948 by Eva-Marie Kroller (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®63102024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Canada 1919: A Nation Shaped by War ed. by Tim Cook and J.L. Granatstein (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912872
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For at least a generation now, Canadians have widely associated World War I with the forging of a modern, confident, united Canada. Canada 1919, a collection of essays edited by Tim Cook and J.L. Granatstein, reminds readers that the war's impact on Canada and its people was far more complex than today's nationalist rhetoric often suggests. Cook and Granatstein's volume offers a rich selection of interpretations from scholars of the World War I period, including senior members who have enriched the field for decades as well as younger historians who are carrying the literature in promising new directions.Canada 1919 is the product of a three-day conference hosted by the Canadian War Museum in early 2019 to mark the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallCanada 1919: A Nation Shaped by War ed. by Tim Cook and J.L. Granatstein (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USCanada 1919: A Nation Shaped by War ed. by Tim Cook and J.L. Granatstein (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®61552024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Mosaic Fictions: Writing Identity in the Spanish Civil War by Emily Robins Sharpe (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912873
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Emily Robins Sharpe's Mosaic Fictions brings to the fore Canadian and other North American writings on the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and analyses them in a way that offers new insights into several scholarly fields, including Spanish Civil War studies, Jewish studies, and Canadian studies. Through a "nuance[d]" and "complicate[d]" series of readings, Sharpe problematizes the now traditional Spanish Civil War historical narratives of Republican and International Brigades inclusivity and diversity, casting into relief "the war's stakes for individuals who were themselves at the margins." She examines the intricate folds of identity formation and how North American writings use Spain as a way to more fully
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallMosaic Fictions: Writing Identity in the Spanish Civil War by Emily Robins Sharpe (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USMosaic Fictions: Writing Identity in the Spanish Civil War by Emily Robins Sharpe (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®68142024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29The Long Emancipation: Moving Toward Black Freedom by Rinaldo Walcott (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912874
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Rinaldo Walcott's book The Long Emancipation: Moving toward Black Freedom ventures into the "potential of Black freedom" in twenty-two chapters. At times as brief as three pages, they read like essay notes providing "glimpses of Black freedom." This structure not only renders the book reader friendly but also astutely plays into the author's main argument: freedom, Walcott suggests, has never been fully realized for Black people; rather, it occurs as "potential" and "glimpses," apparent in those experiences, artistic and cultural practices that exist and create outside of, and/or counter to, oppressive dominant modes of being.Walcott begins by making the crucial distinction between the two terms emancipation and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallThe Long Emancipation: Moving Toward Black Freedom by Rinaldo Walcott (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USThe Long Emancipation: Moving Toward Black Freedom by Rinaldo Walcott (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®66562024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Humanizing Mental Illness: Enhancing Agency through Social Interaction by Abigail Gosselin (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912875
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Abigail Gosselin's Humanizing Mental Illness is a powerful and thought-provoking analysis of the importance of addressing the stigmatization of people with mental illness. Gosselin advocates for the importance of treating people with mental illness as full moral agents with a moral identity and as members of the moral community who can meaningfully contribute to society.One of the most compelling aspects of the book is the author's unique perspective as both a philosopher and someone who has personally experienced mental illness. Gosselin skillfully weaves together descriptions of personal experiences and philosophical analysis to provide a complex understanding of the issues related to agency and social
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallHumanizing Mental Illness: Enhancing Agency through Social Interaction by Abigail Gosselin (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USHumanizing Mental Illness: Enhancing Agency through Social Interaction by Abigail Gosselin (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®71742024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective ed. by Margaret E. Boyle and Sarah E. Owens (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912876
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Margaret Boyle's and Sarah Owens's edited volume Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective is a cohesive collection that explores well-being in gendered communities throughout the Spanish Empire. It offers historical, theological, and literary approaches, and the essays address such topics as healing practices, access to medical knowledge, childbirth, New World remedies, intersections of science and spirituality, and women's experience of health. Boyle's and Owens's anthology notably contributes to Hispanic and early modern studies. In particular, it addresses a gap in studies of fifteenth- to eighteenth-century Spain and Spanish America, where women's role in medicine and other
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallHealth and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective ed. by Margaret E. Boyle and Sarah E. Owens (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USHealth and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective ed. by Margaret E. Boyle and Sarah E. Owens (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®70042024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830 ed. by Clorinda Donato and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912877
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The volume edited by Clorinda Donato and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink is a major contribution to the history of encyclopedic compilations between 1630 and 1830. The volume adopts a fruitful point of view that has been so far quite overlooked: "the transnational, transcultural and intercultural dimensions" of the encyclopedic compilations.The thirteen contributions of this collection explore the complex and fascinating processes of knowledge transfer operated by encyclopedic compilations through adaptations and translations of other encyclopedic works as well as of other kind of textual sources. One of the many merits of the volume is to expand the corpus of encyclopedic works studied by encompassing works from many
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallTranslation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830 ed. by Clorinda Donato and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USTranslation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830 ed. by Clorinda Donato and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®62812024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Dance on the Razor's Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos by Svenja Bethke (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912878
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This study describes the process of regulating and realizing definitions of crime and punishment in the Warsaw, Vilna, and Lodz ghettos. Based on various primary sources in German, Polish, Yiddish, and rich secondary literature, Svenja Bethke documents the development of the objectives of the Jewish councils and the institutions established in the ghettos. While challenging and re-evaluating classic assumptions that the councils had no scope for action and that the Jewish society had a high level of morality, this original study proposes a novel perspective focused on the implications of the inner legal systems in the ghettos and the power relations that formed them. The agency of the Jewish councils and tenants is
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallDance on the Razor's Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos by Svenja Bethke (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USDance on the Razor's Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos by Svenja Bethke (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®64502024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust by Jeffrey Veidlinger (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912879
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During the period of revolution and civil war in Eastern Europe that was touched off by World War I and the collapse of empires, the territory of Ukraine was the scene of massive anti-Jewish violence, pogroms that took over a hundred thousand lives. It was the largest mass killing of Jews between the Khmelnytsky massacres of the mid-seventeenth century and the Holocaust. This carnage is what Jeffey Veidlinger's book is about.Veidlinger, who had previously written a book on the shtetl in Soviet Ukraine, is able to reconstruct in detail local economies and societies, including relations between Christians and Jews, just before the pogroms broke out. He presents a series of detailed narratives about the eve, course
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallIn the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust by Jeffrey Veidlinger (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USIn the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust by Jeffrey Veidlinger (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®65542024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Making and Breaking Settler Space: Five Centuries of Colonization in North America by Adam J. Barker (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912880
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While this book offers messages for readers of all racialized identities, ultimately, Adam J. Barker is doing work that Indigenous and non-Indigenous racialized scholars and activists have been asking, pleading, demanding of settlers for generations: settlers need to have critical conversations with other settlers about decolonizing. By identifying patterns of settler spatial production, Barker shows how space, power, and identity are produced in settler-colonial societies. He argues that Canada and the United States are defined by historic and ongoing domination of the land, thereby erasing Indigenous sovereignties, cultures, and, at times, people. In showing other settlers not only the normative structures and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallMaking and Breaking Settler Space: Five Centuries of Colonization in North America by Adam J. Barker (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USMaking and Breaking Settler Space: Five Centuries of Colonization in North America by Adam J. Barker (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®67302024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War by Tim Cook (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912881
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Emblematic of his extensive publication record, Tim Cook's The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War is a supremely written and well-researched book that is a must-read for academic historians and the general public alike. A natural continuation of his two-volume history of Canada's World War II (The Necessary War: Canadians Fighting the Second World War, 1939–1943 and Fight to the Finish: Canadians in the Second World War, 1944–1945), Cook seeks to "untangle" the shifting meaning and memory of Canada's war in The Fight for History. Leveraging social memory – which Cook defines as "the constellation of thoughts, ideas, and key events that people create and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallThe Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War by Tim Cook (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USThe Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War by Tim Cook (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®64282024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Canadian Primal: Poets, Places, and the Music of Meaning by Mark Dickinson (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912882
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Mark Dickinson has written a significant study of what is primal to Canadian poetry – how poets and places have a music of meaning that has implications for poetry, literature, and culture in Canada and internationally. An inspiration for Dickinson was the appearance of Thinking and Singing: Poetry and the Practice of Philosophy (2002), which consists of essays by Robert Bringhurst, Dennis Lee, Tim Lilburn, Don McKay, and Jan Zwicky, who had already made contributions to Canadian literature and culture. Dickinson distills their accomplishment as friends and poets: "Their core achievement as a group – the recovery of a mode of musical thinking open to ancestors, non-human beings, natural processes, and the genius of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallCanadian Primal: Poets, Places, and the Music of Meaning by Mark Dickinson (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USCanadian Primal: Poets, Places, and the Music of Meaning by Mark Dickinson (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®68822024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Communal Justice in Shakespeare's England: Drama, Law, and Emotion by Penelope Geng (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912883
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A compelling contribution to law and literature scholarship, Penelope Geng's first book, Communal Justice in Shakespeare's England: Drama, Law, and Emotion, investigates how dramatic works by William Shakespeare and his contemporaries envision the involvement of lay community members in the administration of justice. Central to the book are two distinct early modern narratives of justice: as lawyers and magistrates, who were increasingly educated at London's Inns of Court, sought to centralize legal authority and fashion themselves as professionals, popular discourses responded by emphasizing the involvement of local communities in the administration of justice. These latter decentralized and communal contributions
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallCommunal Justice in Shakespeare's England: Drama, Law, and Emotion by Penelope Geng (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USCommunal Justice in Shakespeare's England: Drama, Law, and Emotion by Penelope Geng (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®71642024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Kafka's Italian Progeny by Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912884
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Setting out to reposition and rethink twentieth-century Italian literature in relation to world literature, Saskia Ziolkowski's substantive study combines an expansive vision of the work of Italian writers with a detailed engagement with selected texts. Its introduction eloquently makes the point that critical analysis of modern Italian literature has tended to privilege reading authors and texts within national, regional, and local contexts at the expense of uncovering connections with literature from other places and times. As such, points of contact are overlooked between Italian and international authors and, crucially, between Italian authors who are "hard to place" within a national literary taxonomy. The
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallKafka's Italian Progeny by Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USKafka's Italian Progeny by Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®64352024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Listening to the Fur Trade: Soundways and Music in the British North American Fur Trade, 1760–1840 by Daniel Robert Laxer (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912885
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How does one listen to a historical period bereft of audio recordings? Daniel Robert Laxer prefaces his ambitious study with this seemingly impossible task. Nevertheless, with ears pricked up for descriptions of sound and musical events translated in the oral accounts, written records, and cultural artefacts of the fur trade, Laxer manages to amplify the songs, instruments, and practices noted in previous studies of Canada's early colonial history that have until now been kept quiet in the margins.For Laxer, the ephemeral, sonic exchanges between polyglot European and Indigenous communities from 1760 to 1840 – whether it be cannon salutes or Midéwiwin initiation ceremonies – were just as important as the economic
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallListening to the Fur Trade: Soundways and Music in the British North American Fur Trade, 1760–1840 by Daniel Robert Laxer (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USListening to the Fur Trade: Soundways and Music in the British North American Fur Trade, 1760–1840 by Daniel Robert Laxer (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®67202024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29This Strange Loneliness: Heaney's Wordsworth by Peter Mackay (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912886
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The title of Peter Mackay's magnificent book quotes a phrase from the third of Seamus Heaney's "Glanmore Sonnets": "I won't relapse / From this strange loneliness I've brought us to." Since Heaney's lines recall a conversation in which his wife pre-empted a comparison to William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Mackay's title hints at a self-deprecating joke about the business of literary comparison. But the allusion in Mackay's title mainly draws attention to the seriousness, in the fullest sense, of Heaney's lifelong communion with Wordsworth – a seriousness of commitment that is matched by Mackay's scholarly undertaking. Wordsworth's influence on Heaney's poetry and criticism is a central topic of Heaney scholarship and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallThis Strange Loneliness: Heaney's Wordsworth by Peter Mackay (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USThis Strange Loneliness: Heaney's Wordsworth by Peter Mackay (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®63502024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29The Material Theory of Induction by John D. Norton (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912887
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There are two important traditions in the philosophy of induction. According to theories of induction in the formal tradition, which has dominated the literature for the last couple of centuries, inductive inferences are warranted by rules. These rules tell us whether the premises of an inference support its conclusion and, maybe, to which degree. Bayesianism and inference to the best explanation are notable theories of induction in this tradition. According to theories of induction in the material tradition, inductive inferences are warranted by matters of fact. John Norton's material theory of induction (MTI) is the most influential contemporary approach in this tradition, a space that is shared, for example
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallThe Material Theory of Induction by John D. Norton (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USThe Material Theory of Induction by John D. Norton (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®60582024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Communities of the Soul: A Short History of Religion in Puerto Rico by José E. Igartua (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912888
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During the twentieth century, the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico experienced one of the most extraordinary religious transformations in the Americas. A predominantly Catholic country colonized by Spain in 1493, it became much more heterogeneous in religious terms, after the US invasion and recolonization of the island in 1898. From their humble beginnings in the first Anglican church in Ponce in 1872, Protestants represented only 1.2 per cent of the island's population in 1910, but they increased to 15.7 per cent in 1962, 27 per cent in 1985, and 33 per cent in 2014. The growing diversity of Puerto Rico's "communities of the soul" is the recurrent theme of José Igartua's narrative, based upon the blending of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallCommunities of the Soul: A Short History of Religion in Puerto Rico by José E. Igartua (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USCommunities of the Soul: A Short History of Religion in Puerto Rico by José E. Igartua (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®68112024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Being German Canadian: History, Memory, Generations ed. by Alexander Freund (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912889
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The historiography of German-speaking immigrants in Canada has been as diverse as they are. German speakers have come to Canada from Germany itself, from other Eastern European states, and from Russia; they have been Lutheran, Catholic, and Jewish, and have come over many years. German Canadian scholarship has also been diverse – from filiopietistic accounts to questionable Volkish-inspired contribution histories and from glaring omissions to what Angelika Sauer termed a "culture of complaint." Being German Canadian is a refreshing collection of essays by seasoned academics and graduate students who use the German Canadian experience in the twentieth century as a subject but use those stories to probe questions of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallBeing German Canadian: History, Memory, Generations ed. by Alexander Freund (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USBeing German Canadian: History, Memory, Generations ed. by Alexander Freund (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®60572024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Warfare and Logistics along the US-Canadian Border during the War of 1812 by Christopher D. Dishman (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912890
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The uninterrupted operation of the logistical line from Montreal to Kingston and its continuation to points farther west was paramount to Britain in preserving British North America during the Anglo-American War of 1812; for America, getting personnel, equipment, and the stores to its northern theatre of war was crucial to its war effort. Both faced considerable challenges as logistics shaped the course of the war. That the study of the role of logistical operations by either protagonist during this conflict has received insufficient attention is a major gap in the historiography of the war, now partially filled by Christopher D. Dishman's Warfare and Logistics.British interests spanned the vast and sparsely
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallWarfare and Logistics along the US-Canadian Border during the War of 1812 by Christopher D. Dishman (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USWarfare and Logistics along the US-Canadian Border during the War of 1812 by Christopher D. Dishman (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®87682024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29The Sword of Luchana: Baldomero Espartero and the Making of Modern Spain, 1793–1879 by Adrian Shubert (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912891
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Victory has a hundred fathers, while defeat is always an orphan. This sentence, attributed to many public figures (from Galeazzo Ciano to John F. Kennedy), defines very well the life of Baldomero Espartero (1793–1879). Not because his was a failure (the author of this biography, Adrian Shubert, and this reviewer think the opposite) but because he lived during the nineteenth century, the time that supposedly certified Spain's failure to become a successful nation or, to put it differently, to preserve its grand power status. Precisely when Europe was conquering (or, rather, subjugating) the world, Spain sank to the status of third-rate power. What a defeat for a monarchy that, at the beginning of the century, still
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallThe Sword of Luchana: Baldomero Espartero and the Making of Modern Spain, 1793–1879 by Adrian Shubert (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USThe Sword of Luchana: Baldomero Espartero and the Making of Modern Spain, 1793–1879 by Adrian Shubert (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®73022024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire, Volume II: Poetry, Philosophy and Politics by Jonathan Locke Hart (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912892
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Jonathan Locke Hart's Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire is the second volume of an in-depth study of Shakespeare's "universal particular" and "particular universal." The author questions the reasons for Shakespeare's worldwide appeal. Why do people all over the world, despite their cultural, linguistic, and historical differences and life experience still reflect upon, and find their inspiration in, the poet's characters? As Hart reveals the names of thinkers, scholars, historians, politicians, poets, writers, actors, journalists, and activists, and, among them, those who contributed to changing the world by opposing tyranny and injustice, it appears that humanity can hardly act without a prior glance at a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallShakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire, Volume II: Poetry, Philosophy and Politics by Jonathan Locke Hart (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USShakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire, Volume II: Poetry, Philosophy and Politics by Jonathan Locke Hart (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®52862024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29No Better Home? Jews, Canada, and the Sense of Belonging ed. by David S. Koffman (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912893
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This book's title speaks to a recurrent and current event topic. Plans to admit an unprecedented number of immigrants have ensured that immigration remains a front-page topic. It is almost a Canadian catechism to assume that our "multicultural mosaic" and official embracing of diversity, combined with economic opportunities, makes us a wonderful destination. This might be a reasonable assumption given that much journalistic ink has detailed immigrants' success stories. Certainly, many immigrants are delighted to be here. But one wonders: was Canada the best location they could have chosen, assuming they had choices? Raising this question leads to others, two of which have particular resonance for immigration
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallNo Better Home? Jews, Canada, and the Sense of Belonging ed. by David S. Koffman (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USNo Better Home? Jews, Canada, and the Sense of Belonging ed. by David S. Koffman (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®78622024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29J'Accuse … ! (Poem versus Silence) by George Elliott Clarke (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912894
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Against the background of the mob slaughter of the Roman poet Cinna (44 BC) and set against the foil of the Dreyfus Affair (1894–1906), George Elliott Clarke's most recent poetic work J'Accuse … ! (Poem versus Silence) emerges as a lyrical treatise in fourteen parts. At the centre is a personal reckoning with a media-spoiled culture that does not allow any pardon for alleged intellectual "crimes" and that, instead of relying on factual evidence to condemn or exonerate, builds an accusatory case on sensational what-ifs. Thus, rational argument and truth are silenced and are replaced by prejudicial polemics and emotional sentiment.Whereas Cinna's lynching by a frenzied crowd during the turmoil of Julius Caesar's
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallJ'Accuse … ! (Poem versus Silence) by George Elliott Clarke (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USJ'Accuse … ! (Poem versus Silence) by George Elliott Clarke (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®111092024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Chekhov's Children: Context and Text in Late Imperial Russia by Nadya L. Peterson (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912895
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In this splendid study of Anton Chekhov's fictional representation of children and the child's point of view, Nadya L. Peterson uses two very important lenses: a wide-angle lens that encompasses the full scope of Russian society during Chekhov's time and a close-up camera that concentrates on specific characters, passages, and narrative methods of rendering a child's experience in Russia. The combination renders a three-dimensional picture of childhood and demonstrates to readers just how precise, thoughtful, and deliberate Chekhov was in his fictional portrayals. While readers sometimes dismiss the early Chekhov – Antosha Chekhonte, the author of humorous bits for what Peterson calls the "small press" – as less
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallChekhov's Children: Context and Text in Late Imperial Russia by Nadya L. Peterson (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USChekhov's Children: Context and Text in Late Imperial Russia by Nadya L. Peterson (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®56662024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Modest Hopes: Homes and Stories of Toronto's Workers from the 1820s to the 1920s by Don Loucks and Leslie Valpy (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912896
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In Modest Hopes, Don Loucks and Leslie Valpy combine architectural design analysis, history, and narrative storytelling into a highly readable account of the development of "workers' cottages" in Toronto from the early nineteenth century to the 1920s: "For every Rosedale mansion, there were hundreds of these workers' cottages" built for and often by the workers who made the city. In these "modest hopes," the authors find material and symbolic value far beyond modesty. As they recount, workers' cottages improved lives, represented family values and social mobility, and "embodied their hopes for the future" – these structures were "modest in size but grand in hope." Drawing on archival records, interviews with former
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallModest Hopes: Homes and Stories of Toronto's Workers from the 1820s to the 1920s by Don Loucks and Leslie Valpy (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USModest Hopes: Homes and Stories of Toronto's Workers from the 1820s to the 1920s by Don Loucks and Leslie Valpy (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®94982024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Future Possible ed. by Mireille Eagan (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912897
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Mireille Eagan, curator of contemporary art at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery in St. John's, has co-written and edited a lively book about the visual culture of Newfoundland and Labrador. Published by The Rooms and Goose Lane Editions, Future Possible follows two linked exhibitions curated by Eagan. The first exhibition surveyed art, craft, and artefacts up to 1949 and was exhibited at The Rooms in 2018, and the second, shown in 2019, showcased works from 1949 to the present. Launched in 2021, the book is well designed, generously illustrated, and brings together seventeen texts by some of the province's most engaging and knowledgeable writers.The three-hundred-plus-page book is a lovely object, with almost two
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallFuture Possible ed. by Mireille Eagan (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USFuture Possible ed. by Mireille Eagan (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®61702024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Portraits of Battle: Courage, Grief and Strength in Canada's Great War ed. by Peter Farrugia and Evan J. Habkirk (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912898
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Portraits of Battle is, as Peter Farrugia explains in his reflective introduction, an effort to step away from the view of the Great War experience that homogenizes everybody and everything into madness and catastrophic grief and to look at the complex contemporary experience of Canadians and their role as actors with agency. The basic objective was to focus on a given period of the war, usually a battle, explore it through a personal story, and reflect on the historiography. As a result, Portraits of Battle presents the past as a complex lived experience: a story of people from a broad range of backgrounds wrestling with their own notions of service, community, and sacrifice.The chapters in this collection are
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallPortraits of Battle: Courage, Grief and Strength in Canada's Great War ed. by Peter Farrugia and Evan J. Habkirk (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USPortraits of Battle: Courage, Grief and Strength in Canada's Great War ed. by Peter Farrugia and Evan J. Habkirk (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®49302024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29An Army of Never-Ending Strength: Reinforcing the Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944 by Arthur W. Gullachsen (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912899
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One of the least popular areas of military history is logistics, the supply of the essential manpower, weapons, and resources needed to sustain combat. The history lacks the glamour and drama of actual fighting, while the administrative details and statistical data associated with issues of supply and reinforcement seem dull by comparison. Nevertheless, in modern warfare and, above all, in all of the major World Wars, the logistical system was essential in sustaining the capacity to fight effectively. With this in mind, it is all the more surprising that it has attracted so little attention.These considerations have not deterred Arthur W. Gullachsen from producing a first-rate study of how the Canadian army in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallAn Army of Never-Ending Strength: Reinforcing the Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944 by Arthur W. Gullachsen (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USAn Army of Never-Ending Strength: Reinforcing the Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944 by Arthur W. Gullachsen (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®65302024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29The Far Shore: Indie Games, Superbrothers, and the Making of Jett by Adam Hammond (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912900
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When the stylish, idiosyncratic, critically acclaimed adventure game Super-brothers: Sword & Sworcery Expansion Pack was released in 2011, many academics took notice. Adam Hammond, a professor of modernist literature, was captivated, dedicating a chapter of his first monograph to the game and even putting it on the cover. After corresponding with Sworcery developer Craig D. Adams, Hammond unexpectedly found himself visiting Adams in rural Quebec and starting a book about his highly anticipated next game. What was intended to be a short project became something else entirely as development stretched into a challenging eight-year journey before Jett: The Far Shore was finally released in 2021. This is a book about
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallThe Far Shore: Indie Games, Superbrothers, and the Making of Jett by Adam Hammond (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USThe Far Shore: Indie Games, Superbrothers, and the Making of Jett by Adam Hammond (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®68852024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29The Pedagogy of Images: Depicting Communism for Children ed. by Marina Balina and Serguei A. Oushakine (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912901
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Marina Balina, professor emerita of Russian studies, and Serguei Alex Oushakine, professor of anthropology and Slavic languages and literatures, have edited an impressive, nearly six-hundred-page volume, The Pedagogy of Images: Depicting Communism for Children, and the University of Toronto Press has done valuable work in publishing the book with ample colour illustrations. Indeed, the volume is very visual, as it should be considering its theme and, in this sense, also pedagogical, as the reader can really immerse themself in the fascinating world of the illustrations of the early Soviet Union's children's books. Images of the books are not merely illustrations but part of the research. Thus, the form of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallThe Pedagogy of Images: Depicting Communism for Children ed. by Marina Balina and Serguei A. Oushakine (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USThe Pedagogy of Images: Depicting Communism for Children ed. by Marina Balina and Serguei A. Oushakine (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®67692024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Being and Its Surroundings by Gianni Vattimo (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912902
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Gianni Vattimo's latest volume collects a number of his short essays – some of which are previously published talks – addressing a variety of themes. They culminate in a reappraisal of Martin Heidegger in light of his Nazi sympathies (made more apparent through the publication of his Black Notebooks). Within each essay, Vattimo, like a butterfly alighting upon various flowers, effortlessly moves from one topic to another – from hermeneutics to political commentary, from metaphysical violence to aesthetics, and beyond. Less sympathetic readers might consider his approach to be a kind of meandering stream of consciousness. Indeed, there is not a uniform thesis presented within the volume but, rather, a constellation
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallBeing and Its Surroundings by Gianni Vattimo (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USBeing and Its Surroundings by Gianni Vattimo (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®66782024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Language, Citizenship and Sámi Education in the Nordic North, 1900–1940 by Otso Kortekangas (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912903
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The Sámi, an Indigenous group of the Nordic north, refer to the land they historically inhabit as Sápmi. Stretching across contemporary northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, it is home to a plethora of distinct Sámi cultural traditions, livelihoods, and languages. Notably, the range of Sámi languages or varieties spoken differ substantially from the state-backed majority languages of the region – namely, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, and Russian.Set against this backdrop, historian Otso Kortekangas explores the educational provisions aimed at the Sámi minority in three Nordic countries: Norway, Sweden, and Finland. The book deals primarily with the period from 1900 to 1940, which was characterized by the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallLanguage, Citizenship and Sámi Education in the Nordic North, 1900–1940 by Otso Kortekangas (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USLanguage, Citizenship and Sámi Education in the Nordic North, 1900–1940 by Otso Kortekangas (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®67922024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Flight from Grace: A Cultural History of Humans and Birds by Richard Pope (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912904
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When I first received Flight from Grace in the mail, I was immediately impressed by the beautiful cover and title. I opened it at random to page 206. What I read first was Richard Pope's account of a class he used to teach on animals in literature. He would begin by asking students to name animals that they considered important, and then "I would stand at the blackboard and record the named animals in rough groupings; when the board was covered I would stand back and go over all the animals – dogs, cats, horses, lions, tigers, bears, pandas, elephants, and so on – and then I would ask whether anything was missing. Someone might say 'giraffes' or 'moose' or some such other thing, but no one ever said 'humans.'" I
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallFlight from Grace: A Cultural History of Humans and Birds by Richard Pope (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USFlight from Grace: A Cultural History of Humans and Birds by Richard Pope (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®59482024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Just the Usual Work: The Social Worlds of Ida Martin, Working Class Diarist by Michael Boudreau and Bonnie Huskins (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912905
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With the advent of public education in the nineteenth century, a growing number of people documented aspects of their personal lives. One of them was Ida Martin (1907–2004), the seventh of ten children raised in a rural community near Sussex, New Brunswick. In her adult life, she wrote a few lines nearly every day in her five-year diaries for a remarkable forty-seven years from 1945 to 1992. Despite the constraints of the diary format, she bequeathed a valuable record of the preoccupations of her family and friends and of the larger trends in twentieth-century Canada, among them changes in consumer culture, the introduction of new technologies, and the impact of the welfare state.Ida Friars married Allan Robert
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallJust the Usual Work: The Social Worlds of Ida Martin, Working Class Diarist by Michael Boudreau and Bonnie Huskins (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USJust the Usual Work: The Social Worlds of Ida Martin, Working Class Diarist by Michael Boudreau and Bonnie Huskins (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®59522024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29White Coal City: A Memoir of Place and Family by Robert Boschman (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912906
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Robert Boschman's White Coal City both explores and is shaped by the logic of trauma. In this memoir, as in the box of family records and keepsakes that furnishes much of Boschman's source material, intimate letters give way to carefully preserved local news items, juvenile ephemera, and other traces of a past that is hauntingly and, at times, painfully present. Echoing how trauma can profoundly impact one's memories and experience of time, the book not only veers from one thread of family lore to another but also circles back, repeatedly, to incidents already addressed, which are then considered in light of the emotional insight gained by the process of trying to bring these threads together. In this manner, White
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallWhite Coal City: A Memoir of Place and Family by Robert Boschman (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USWhite Coal City: A Memoir of Place and Family by Robert Boschman (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®54092024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Beowulf as Children's Literature ed. by Bruce Gilchrist and Britt Mize (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912907
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This admirable collection is intended for scholars interested in Beowulf's reception history, in adaptations of canonical texts, and in contemporary approaches to children's literature. Britt Mize accurately describes the volume as a "[h]istory and process of remaking Beowulf for young readers." Focusing on picture books, illustrated storybooks, and youth novels, the collection is organized both chronologically and thematically and includes twenty-seven highly useful illustrations, an updated and fully documented cumulative bibliography of Beowulf books for children, and an extended interview with James Rumford and Rebecca Barnhouse. Part of the project is to dispel the common assumption that adaptations for
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallBeowulf as Children's Literature ed. by Bruce Gilchrist and Britt Mize (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USBeowulf as Children's Literature ed. by Bruce Gilchrist and Britt Mize (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®68582024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29"Truth behind Bars": Reflections on the Fate of the Russian Revolution by Paul Kellogg (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912908
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As an excited reader of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in the 1960s and, of course, his subsequent Gulag trilogy, I looked forward to reading this book and was not disappointed. The mid- to late 1960s were also the years in which I read the most about Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, and Iulii Martov, learning to be what was then called a Sovietologist. This book brings it all back.The author's attempt to "rethink the arc of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its aftermath" is a successful one. In Part One, he describes and analyses important post-Revolution mass movements, with a focus on rebellious coal miners and forced-labour prisoners revolting against Stalin in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmall"Truth behind Bars": Reflections on the Fate of the Russian Revolution by Paul Kellogg (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-US"Truth behind Bars": Reflections on the Fate of the Russian Revolution by Paul Kellogg (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®54912024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Portrait of an English Migration: North Yorkshire People in North America by William E. Van Vugt (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912909
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This new work on English immigration to the United States and Canada increases our knowledge of one of the most understudied migrant groups in North America. The late Charlotte Erickson, in her pioneering work on English emigration to the United States, described the English as "invisible immigrants." More recent work sees the English as a "hidden diaspora," especially when compared to the number of studies on their Irish and Scottish neighbours. William Van Vugt takes us in a new direction by focusing on the predominantly rural county of North Yorkshire. Using rich collections of emigrant letters, especially from small archives in the county itself, he tells a somewhat new story. English emigration to America
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallPortrait of an English Migration: North Yorkshire People in North America by William E. Van Vugt (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USPortrait of an English Migration: North Yorkshire People in North America by William E. Van Vugt (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®65952024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Joseph Roberts Smallwood: Masthead Newfoundlander, 1900–1949 by Melvin Baker and Peter Neary (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912910
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Joseph Smallwood is a pivotal figure in both Newfoundland and Labrador and Canadian history in the twentieth century, and, yet, this is the first biography of him by academics. There are competent and accessible biographies by journalists Richard Gwyn and Harold Horwood. Smallwood himself penned an official autobiography and a stream of self-promoting accounts of his life and accomplishments. Yet no Canadian historians or political scientists have turned their hand to a history of the man and the context in which he lived.This is partly because biographies are not considered within the academy to be a suitable sort of book for a professional historian or political scientist to write. Thus, it falls to journalists
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallJoseph Roberts Smallwood: Masthead Newfoundlander, 1900–1949 by Melvin Baker and Peter Neary (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USJoseph Roberts Smallwood: Masthead Newfoundlander, 1900–1949 by Melvin Baker and Peter Neary (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®67252024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Mischief Making: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Art, and the Seriousness of Play by Nicola Levell (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912911
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Maps and mouths, eyes and hands, teeth and turquoise triangles – seven English words might try, but will fail, to capture the medley of images merging and morphing in Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas's Sinking into the Ocean (2020) – the cover image of Nicola Levell's Mischief Making: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Art and the Seriousness of Play. Where these seven words will fall short of making mischief themselves, the motifs ripple along – among an array of others that readers will discern as they read this compulsively "lookable" and expansively researched text.Engaging with this artwork – and the several others pieces showcased within – means to see something different on each occasion. This will depend on where you
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallMischief Making: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Art, and the Seriousness of Play by Nicola Levell (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USMischief Making: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Art, and the Seriousness of Play by Nicola Levell (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®61472024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29Chocolate: How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature by Erin Alice Cowling (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912912
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Chocolate consumption has undoubtedly been on the rise from its earliest origins in the Mayan and Aztec civilizations to the present day. Nowadays, chocolate is one of the most profitable ingredients in the confectionery sector worldwide. The size of the global chocolate market was valued at more than $120 billion in 2022. More than ever, consumers care about what they consume and want to know exactly where their chocolate comes from, valuing the origin, traceability, and sustainability of the product. The major cocoa producers are no longer the Latin American countries but, rather, the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Indonesia, and Nigeria, which produce more than seventy percent of the world's cocoa. However, we still
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/303/image/coversmallChocolate: How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature by Erin Alice Cowling (review)2023-11-29text/htmlen-USChocolate: How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature by Erin Alice Cowling (review)2023-11-292023TWOProject MUSE®83482024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-29