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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in International Journal of Canadian Studies.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 47 (2013) - vol. 63 (2025)Latest Articles: International Journal of Canadian StudiesTWOProject MUSE®International Journal of Canadian Studies1923-52911180-3991Latest articles in International Journal of Canadian Studies. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Foreword #63
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976795
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The International Journal in Canadian Studies/Revue Internationale d’Etudes Canadiennes is interdisciplinary and bilingual. It was founded by the International Council in Canadian Studies (ICCS), which, since the 1980s, has brought together Canadian and international researchers whose field of study is Canada. Its contributors and the members of its scientific and editorial committee work in the various disciplines of the humanities and social sciences: geography, Native studies, history, arts and art history, literature, and social and political sciences.Volume 63 of the International Journal in Canadian Studies/Revue Internationale d’Etudes Canadiennes contains articles on the theme of “On the Margins of Canada,”
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/629/image/coversmallForeword #632025-12-11text/htmlen-USForeword #632025-12-112025TWOProject MUSE®64602026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-11On the Margins of Genre(s): Eva Stachniak’s Bestselling Novels as Archival Fantasies
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976796
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Eva Stachniak is a Polish-born Canadian writer whose best-selling novels can be located on the margins of biofiction, biographies, and historical novels, yet at the same time, the books offer an extension of the aforementioned genres, and are called archival fantasies by the writer herself. The author has managed to secure a solid position for her narratives on the difficult North American, both the US and Canadian, literary markets. From the beginning of her writing career, Stachniak’s interests have included issues connected to migration, (un)belonging, and history. Her debut novel Necessary Lies (2000) and early short stories were devoted to migration themes and situated Poles within the context of the North
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/629/image/coversmallOn the Margins of Genre(s): Eva Stachniak’s Bestselling Novels as Archival Fantasies2025-12-11text/htmlen-USOn the Margins of Genre(s): Eva Stachniak’s Bestselling Novels as Archival Fantasies2025-12-112025TWOProject MUSE®651622026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-11Les couleurs de la migration: Un regard phénoménologique et psychanalytique sur un classique de la littérature québécoise
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976797
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Le ciel est loin et la terre immenseAncien poème chinoisL’objectif de cette étude1 est, d’une part, de libérer la migration d’une vision politique qui tend aujourd’hui à assimiler la migration à une catastrophe sociale, et d’autre part, de revisiter l’interprétation offerte par une certaine critique littéraire dans le passé (Moisan et Hildebrand 2001, 331–335), dont l’idéalisme quelque peu excessif a en un sens préparé le terrain pour la crise actuelle. La perspective que je développe ici ne relève ainsi ni de l’utopie ni de la dystopie mais envisage l’immigration comme un drame. C’est sous cet angle que je propose une relecture d’un classique de la littérature québécoise, Les Lettres chinoises de Ying Chen2.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/629/image/coversmallLes couleurs de la migration: Un regard phénoménologique et psychanalytique sur un classique de la littérature québécoise2025-12-11text/htmlen-USLes couleurs de la migration: Un regard phénoménologique et psychanalytique sur un classique de la littérature québécoise2025-12-112025TWOProject MUSE®1244932026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-11Marginal Voices: Ying Chen’s Ecocritical Discourse in Ahimsa
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976798
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In Ying Chen’s “série fantôme” (Yang 2013),1 published between 1998 and 2013, the narrator presented multiple subjectivities in diverse and imaginative ways, whether by remembering past lives (Immobile, 1998; Le Champ dans la mer 2002), encountering her double (Querelle d’un squelette avec son double 2003), relating her unusual experiences as the granddaughter of a human–fish hybrid (Le Mangeur 2006b), or transforming into a cat (Espèces 2010). This latter perspective from below allowed the narrator to reflect on the actions and values of human beings and revealed her suitability to life as a feline, with its approximation to what Agamben (1998, 85) called a “bare life.” Ahimsa, published in 2023, is the third work
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/629/image/coversmallMarginal Voices: Ying Chen’s Ecocritical Discourse in Ahimsa2025-12-11text/htmlen-USMarginal Voices: Ying Chen’s Ecocritical Discourse in Ahimsa2025-12-112025TWOProject MUSE®1073552026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-11Settler-Colonial Violence and Commodification of Indigenous Bodies: Canada’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Marie Clements’ Play The Unnatural and Accidental Women and Carl Bessai’s Film Unnatural & Accidental
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976799
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In 2004 Amnesty International released a report on the phenomenon of disproportionately high numbers of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada that had developed into a national phenomenon; they were called the “Stolen Sisters” of Canada. Now some 20 years later, the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) phenomenon has taken monstrous proportions, having become a national concern, with many organizations, institutions, communities, and individual groups dealing with missing loved ones in their midst, the shock and grief of a missing and murdered woman case, and the dire consequences, while the missed and murdered women and girls have suffered indescribable horrors of violent attacks (see
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/629/image/coversmallSettler-Colonial Violence and Commodification of Indigenous Bodies: Canada’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Marie Clements’ Play The Unnatural and Accidental Women and Carl Bessai’s Film Unnatural & Accidental2025-12-11text/htmlen-USSettler-Colonial Violence and Commodification of Indigenous Bodies: Canada’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Marie Clements’ Play The Unnatural and Accidental Women and Carl Bessai’s Film Unnatural & Accidental2025-12-112025TWOProject MUSE®1084592026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-11International Canadian Studies: A Survey of Teaching, Research, and Needed Support
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976800
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The scholarship in international Canadian Studies1 has been of national interest for many decades in Canada. The 1951 Massey Commission report noted “the substantial public interest and concern” with the study of Canada abroad due to the scholarship’s potentially unique contributions (Symons 1975, 246). A 1975 report by the Commission on Canadian Studies, which was initiated by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada to examine the state of teaching and research in Canadian Studies, explains that “the needs and issues relating to Canadian Studies abroad are so extensive and so complex” that they often require an assessment that is independent from Canadian Studies as a domestic field of study
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/629/image/coversmallInternational Canadian Studies: A Survey of Teaching, Research, and Needed Support2025-12-11text/htmlen-USInternational Canadian Studies: A Survey of Teaching, Research, and Needed Support2025-12-112025TWOProject MUSE®1094112026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-11Ambivalent Mobilities? Social Resilience and the Experiences of International Students in Canada
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976801
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More and more students are crossing borders for the purposes of study. In 2020 the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, France, Canada and Japan were significant destination countries. Among them “Canada has seen the sharpest increase in its popularity among international students; 7% of all international students in the OECD studied in Canada in 2020” (OECD 2022, 122). This increase is related, in part, to measures adopted by both the Canadian government and educational institutions to actively recruit and retain international students (Crossman et al. 2022, 1).The growth in numbers reflects the importance of international students within Canada’s managed migration schemes and typifies the country’s
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/629/image/coversmallAmbivalent Mobilities? Social Resilience and the Experiences of International Students in Canada2025-12-11text/htmlen-USAmbivalent Mobilities? Social Resilience and the Experiences of International Students in Canada2025-12-112025TWOProject MUSE®1216382026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-11Julie Doucet: Traverser les Frontières Influences internationales d’une autrice québécoise majeure
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976802
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Si elle vient de la scène alternative, Julie Doucet est incontestablement la Québécoise dont l’influence a été la plus palpable sur la scène internationale. Lors d’échanges informels, le directeur de Québec BD m’indiquait ainsi en 2021 que lors de ses voyages allant de l’Amérique latine au Japon, la seule personne citée systématiquement était Doucet. La réception de son Grand Prix de la ville d’Angoulême en 2022 témoigne aussi de cette influence majeure, des autrices et auteurs aussi divers que Powerpaola (Colombie), Helena Janečić (Croatie) ou Fabrice Neaud (France) ont alors souligné l’importance de son œuvre pour leur construction personnelle. Comme le soulignent Izabeau Legendre et Julien Lefort-Favreau l’œuvre
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/629/image/coversmallJulie Doucet: Traverser les Frontières Influences internationales d’une autrice québécoise majeure2025-12-11text/htmlen-USJulie Doucet: Traverser les Frontières Influences internationales d’une autrice québécoise majeure2025-12-112025TWOProject MUSE®493402026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-11Aimé Césaire’s “Boomerang Effect” and the 1970 October Crisis in the Global Cold War
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976803
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This article applies Césaire’s theory of the boomerang effect to the October Crisis of 1970, where the Canadian government invoked the War Measures Act to limit civil liberties in response to the actions of the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ), a nationalist organization with ideological connections to third-world anti-imperialist movements. To explore this connection, this article examines how the Canadian government’s response to the FLQ reflected a global normalization of state violence and acceptance of anti-imperialism as an existential threat to the nation, which in turn justified the use of excessive force against a country’s citizens. The 1960s were an era of seismic global change. The Cold War raged hot
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/629/image/coversmallAimé Césaire’s “Boomerang Effect” and the 1970 October Crisis in the Global Cold War2025-12-11text/htmlen-USAimé Césaire’s “Boomerang Effect” and the 1970 October Crisis in the Global Cold War2025-12-112025TWOProject MUSE®681632026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-11Strong or Weak, Leader or Enemy: Populist Characterizations of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in Alberta Political Cartoons (1974–1983)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976804
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First elected prime minister in 1968, Pierre Elliot Trudeau went on to become one of the longest-serving and most influential prime ministers in Canadian history. Responsible for major political reforms and programs, such as the repatriation of the Canadian Constitution Act and the introduction of the National Energy Program, he was also controversial, particularly in the western provinces. In Alberta, the Trudeau name remains contentious, and his legacy continues to influence Albertan politics and federal relations.Characterized as a “cultural phenomenon” (Litt 2008, 30) in the late 1960s, Trudeau’s election marked a shift when the party’s “supporters engaged with unusual vigour in the civic ritual of a national
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/629/image/coversmallStrong or Weak, Leader or Enemy: Populist Characterizations of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in Alberta Political Cartoons (1974–1983)2025-12-11text/htmlen-USStrong or Weak, Leader or Enemy: Populist Characterizations of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in Alberta Political Cartoons (1974–1983)2025-12-112025TWOProject MUSE®1049942026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-11The Canadian Shields: Stories and Essays by Carol Shields ed. by Nora Foster Stovel (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976805
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As a French researcher/lecturer in Canadian studies and literature, my interest in Carol Shields and her novels stems from the one encounter I had with her at the University of Rouen in 1996 where she, along with Neil Bissondath and John Ralston Saul, had read excerpts from some of her novels. The event was part of a French literary festival called “Les Belles Étrangères,” organized by the Centre National du Livre to promote a number of writers from a different country each year. That year, Canada was the guest country and had sent 10 writers. Shields’s writing immediately appealed to me, and the memory of that scene is still very vivid almost thirty years later. I can still see her and hear the mesmerizing tone of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/629/image/coversmallThe Canadian Shields: Stories and Essays by Carol Shields ed. by Nora Foster Stovel (review)2025-12-11text/htmlen-USThe Canadian Shields: Stories and Essays by Carol Shields ed. by Nora Foster Stovel (review)2025-12-112025TWOProject MUSE®264072026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-11The Contemporary Leonard Cohen. Response, Reappraisal, and Rediscovery ed. by Kait Pinder and Joel Deshaye, and: Les révolutions de Leonard Cohen ed. by Chantal Ringuet and Gérard Rabinovitch, and: Leonard Cohen ed. by John Zeppetelli and Victor Shiffman (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976806
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By receiving a review copy of The Contemporary Leonard Cohen from Wilfrid Laurier University Press, my mandate would be to write a conventional evaluation about this collection of academic papers. The following pages, however, present a wider scope: I do not wish to hide my academic background in comparative literature or my personal background of Central Europe (even if I have been living in Montreal for years). I chose to offer a dialogue between the French essay volume conceived before Cohen’s death but published in the year he left us; then the catalogue of the exhibition that opened at the Musée d’Art Contemporain (Montreal) in November 2017, just a year after he passed away; and, finally, the collection of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/629/image/coversmallThe Contemporary Leonard Cohen. Response, Reappraisal, and Rediscovery ed. by Kait Pinder and Joel Deshaye, and: Les révolutions de Leonard Cohen ed. by Chantal Ringuet and Gérard Rabinovitch, and: Leonard Cohen ed. by John Zeppetelli and Victor Shiffman (review)2025-12-11text/htmlen-USThe Contemporary Leonard Cohen. Response, Reappraisal, and Rediscovery ed. by Kait Pinder and Joel Deshaye, and: Les révolutions de Leonard Cohen ed. by Chantal Ringuet and Gérard Rabinovitch, and: Leonard Cohen ed. by John Zeppetelli and Victor Shiffman (review)2025-12-112025TWOProject MUSE®175602026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-11Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity by Raymond B. Blake (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976807
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A long-time professor of history at the University of Regina and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Raymond B. Blake has long developed an interest in Canadian identity and values. His original research focused on Newfoundland’s integration into Canada and later expanded to the development of welfare policy in Canada. His interest in Canada’s prime ministers is not new, since he edited a book on Brian Mulroney in 2007 (Transforming the Nation: Canada and Brian Mulroney, McGill-Queen’s Press).His most recent book means to show how Canada’s prime ministers, through their words and rhetoric, have made crucial contributions to the way the country’s national narratives were constructed and reconstructed over time.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/629/image/coversmallCanada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity by Raymond B. Blake (review)2025-12-11text/htmlen-USCanada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity by Raymond B. Blake (review)2025-12-112025TWOProject MUSE®201942026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-11Avant-propos n°63
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976808
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La Revue Internationale d’Etudes Canadiennes/International Journal in Canadian Studies est interdisciplinaire et bilingue. Elle a été fondée par le Conseil International d’Études Canadiennes (CIEC), rassemblant depuis les années 1980, des chercheurs canadiens et internationaux dont l’objet d’étude est le Canada. Ses contributeurs et les membres de son comité scientifique et éditorial travaillent dans les diverses disciplines des sciences humaines et sociales: géographie, études autochtones, histoire, arts et histoire de l’art, littératures, sciences sociales et politiques.Ce volume n°63 de la Revue Internationale d’Etudes Canadiennes/International Journal in Canadian Studies, publie des articles autour de la
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/629/image/coversmallAvant-propos n°632025-12-11text/htmlen-USAvant-propos n°632025-12-112025TWOProject MUSE®72572026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-12-11