American Review of Canadian Studies articles from March 1999

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from March 1999

Editorial: a scholar's life lived: Arnold E. "Ted" Davidson.
March 22, 1999... Fittingly, I first met Ted Davidson at an ACSUS Biennial, the 1977 meeting in Burlington, Vermont. I was a second-year Ph.D. student at the University of Manitoba, it was my first academic paper, I had never been to an academic conference...

Louis Riel and the United States.
March 22, 1999... Among the ironies of Canadian history is the fact that the most prominent individual ever executed for treason against the Canadian state--Louis Riel--was at the time of his execution an American citizen. Riel's relationship with the United...

From fathers to sun: Northrop Frye and the history of English-Canadian poetry.
March 22, 1999... When John Ayre's biography of Northrop Frye was published in 1989, its dustjacket suggested that Frye ought to be considered the foremost figure in Canadian intellectual history. He "has authored," it proclaimed, "three of the most influential...

Margaret Atwood, Carol Shields, and "that Moodie bitch".
March 22, 1999... Susanna Moodie, Victorian gentlewoman, unwilling emigrant to the Ontario backwoods and author of Roughing It in the Bush (1832), has long been established in the canon of Canadian literature. Her status owes much to the efforts of a number of...

Noble Canadians, ugly Americans: anti-Americanism and the Canadian ideal in British readings of Canadian literature.
March 22, 1999... For some years now Canadian literature has been generating immense attention on the international stage. This has been no less true in Great Britain, the erstwhile imperial center, where Canada has been the long-time subject of British...

Pre- and post-mortem: regendering and serial killing in (Helene) Rioux, (Anne) Dandurand, (Claire) De, and (Margaret) Atwood.
March 22, 1999... When Northrop Frye wrote his now-famous concluding essay for the 1965 Literary History of Canada, he argued that Canadians historically have had significant respect for law and order in the face of mammoth, threatening, and sometimes monstrous...

Postcolonial guilt in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing.
March 22, 1999... Think of being the parent or the child of a concentration camp guard. One would want to say: `This person is not my own,' and yet one could not. The facts of birth are inescapable. So are the very facts of belonging to the civilisation that has...

Reading together and apart: feminism and/versus ethnicity in Margaret Laurence and Margaret Atwood: a conversation.
March 22, 1999... What happens when three feminist literary critics, accustomed to reading and writing separately, get together to work through a difference of opinion? Several times a semester, we met for brown-bag lunches in Veronica's office and, as is...

Review essay: (Margaret) Atwood's Toronto: Arnold E. Davidson: Seeing in the dark: Margaret Atwood's Cat's eye.
March 22, 1999... Arnold E. Davidson, Seeing in the Dark: Margaret Atwood's "Cat's Eye." Toronto: ECW Press, 1997. I am delighted to have this opportunity to reflect here on Seeing in the Dark, an ECW monograph by Ted Davidson on Margaret Atwood's Cat's...