American Review of Canadian Studies articles from September 2000

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from September 2000

Montreal's place in the North American economy.
September 22, 2000... The position of Montreal and its regional economy in the economic space of North America, and indeed the world, has experienced considerable change during the past three decades. This is the result of, first, a series of events in the evolution...

"I told you so": newspaper ownership in Canada and the Kent Commission twenty years later.
September 22, 2000... "I told you so" was part of Tom Kent's reply when asked recently about the state of the newspaper industry in Canada (Cobb 1996b, A1). Kent, Chairperson of the 1980 Royal Commission on Newspapers, might be forgiven his expression of...

Searching Bluebeard's chambers: Grimm, Gothic, and Bible mysteries in Alice Munro's The love of good woman.
September 22, 2000... Like her 1992 story, "a Wilderness Station," Alice Munro's 1996 "The Love of a Good Woman" is a concealed murder mystery whose luminous, disturbing power emanates in great part from her transformations of Grimm's Bluebeard tales, compounded...

Evolution of the North American energy market: implications of continentalization for a strategic sector of the Canadian economy.
September 22, 2000... If Canadians think of energy at all as an element in "continentalization," they are likely to regard it as part of the bilateral relationship between Canada and the United States only. They may also regard it as strictly one-way traffic--with...

Writing the present in Nicole Brossard's Baroque d'aube.
September 22, 2000... Un projet de livre sur la mer Nicole Brossard has explored many different geographical settings in her writing. She has populated the island, the city, the labyrinth, and the desert with women, opening up spaces for what Alice Parker has...

Wilderness and the natural environment: Margaret Atwood's recycling of a Canadian theme.
September 22, 2000... Verena Buehler Roth. Wilderness and the Natural Environment: Margaret Atwood's Recycling of a Canadian Theme. Swiss Studies in English No. 124. Tubingen: Francke Verlag, 1998. viii + 206 pp. Danielle Schaub's Mavis Gallant is part of the...

Mavis Gallant (article in the Canadian Literature portion of Twayne's World Authors Series).
September 22, 2000... Danielle Schaub. Mavis Gallant. Twayne's World Authors Series No. 871. New York: Twayne, 1998. xv + 232 pp. Danielle Schaub's Mavis Gallant is part of the Canadian Literature portion of Twayne's World Authors Series, edited by Robert...

So close to the States: the emergence of Canadian Feature Film Policy.
September 22, 2000... Michael Dorland. So Close to the State/s: The Emergence of Canadian Feature Film Policy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. xi + 199 pp. $60.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. So Close to the State/s is a fitting follow-up to Michael...

Canoe in Canadian cultures.
September 22, 2000... John Jennings, Bruce W. Hodgins, and Doreen Small, eds. The Canoe in Canadian Cultures. Toronto: Natural Heritage/Natural History, 1999. viii + 300 pp. $24.95 paper. Canadians divide into two groups: those who use and love canoes, and the...

Environmental management on North America's borders.
September 22, 2000... Richard Kiy and John D. Wirth, eds. Environmental Management on North America's Borders. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1998. xvi + 306 pp. $27.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. The 1992-93 debate over NAFTA brought enormous new...

Lesbian and gay rights in Canada: social movements and equality seeking, 1971-1995.
September 22, 2000... Miriam Smith. Lesbian and Gay Rights in Canada: Social Movements and Equality-Seeking, 1971-1995. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. xiv + 211 pp. $50.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Miriam Smith is to be commended for bringing so much to...

Regional geography of Canada.
September 22, 2000... Robert M. Bone. Regional Geography of Canada. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2000. xviii + 507 pp. $35.00 cloth. Professor Bone is not new to the field of Canadian geography. Having taught at the University of Saskatchewan for more...

Civil War years: Canada and the United States.
September 22, 2000... Robin Winks. The Civil War Years: Canada and the United States, 4th ed. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. xxvi + 430 pp. $22.95 paper, $65.00 cloth. When Robin Winks's finely nuanced study of U.S.-Canada...

Faith and fiction: a theological critique of the narrative strategies of Hugh MacLennan and Morley Callagham.
September 22, 2000... Barbara Pell. Faith and Fiction: A Theological Critique of the Narrative Strategies of Hugh MacLennan and Morley Callaghan. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1998. vi + 146 pp. $24.95 paper. In some ways Hugh MacLennan and Morley...

New World myth: postmodernism and postcolonialism in Canadian fiction.
September 22, 2000... Marie Vauthier. New World Myth: Postmodernism and Postcolonialism in Canadian Fiction. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. xxiv + 339 pp. $55.00 cloth. Marie Vauthier's New World Myth is a serious and interesting...

Gaullist attack on Canada, 1967-1997.
September 22, 2000... John F. Bosher. The Gaullist Attack on Canada, 1967-1997. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. xx + 331 pp. $22.95 paper. Within the last decade or so, international relations scholars have become intrigued by the...

Bark, skin and cedar: exploring the canoe in Canadian experience.
September 22, 2000... James Raffan. Bark, Skin and Cedar: Exploring the Canoe in Canadian Experience. Toronto: HarperCollins, 1999. xiii + 274 pp. $30.00 cloth. Canadians divide into two groups: those who use and love canoes, and the rest. The first group has...