American Review of Canadian Studies articles from September 2001

American Review of Canadian Studies archives from September 2001

Public and private violence: "Une mise en discours de la violence" in Aline Chamberland's La Fissure.
September 22, 2001... The Discourse of Violence In the first volume of his Histoire de la sexualite, Michel Foucault develops his concept of "une mise en discours du sexe" (29), created since the seventeenth century. He speaks of the condemnation and denial of...

Engendering metafiction: Textuality and closure in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace.
September 22, 2001... In the five years since Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace (1996) appeared, a number of readers have been attracted to the implications of the quilting trope. Each of the novel's fifteen parts takes its name from a traditional pattern in quilt...

Scene, symbol, subversion: The evolving uses of mapping in Margaret Atwood's fiction.
September 22, 2001... In several of her novels, Margaret Atwood offers a clear picture of Toronto. That picture is so accurate that, when the Modern Language Association met in Toronto in 1997, The Margaret Atwood Society could sponsor a walking tour of the city...

Introduction: SHAFR 2000 and North American Culture(s).(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2001... Several weeks after the academic conference where the five following presentations were first made, the Canadian edition of Time magazine (10 July 2000) carried a cover story with the provocative title, "What Border?" The article described the...

Death of the nation-state? Global mass culture in the twenty-first century: A roundtable discussion.
September 22, 2001... Editor's Note: This essay is Professor Stuart's summation of the opening roundtable he moderated at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations meeting in Toronto, Ryerson University, June 2000. Panelists: Tyler Cowen,...

Being French in North America: Quebec culture and globalization.
September 22, 2001... My task in the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations panel on "Death of the Nation State?" was to examine the difficult, yet fascinating theme of the complex and controversial relationships that exist between Quebecois and...

The U.S. Cultural impact upon Canada.
September 22, 2001... Introduction The extent to which the existence of an independent nation-state requires the support of a national culture is a subject that both academics and cultural types have been debating hotly. Some argue for the government-assisted...

No Bite, no bark: The mystery of magazine policy.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2001... It has been over one hundred years since the federal government first introduced policies aimed at managing magazine production and distribution (Canada 1999, 6). Since that time, successive governments have expressed concern over the extent of...

A Chance to end culture trade conflict between Canada and the United States.
September 22, 2001... More than a year has passed since the dispute between the United More States and Canada over the latter's legislation on magazines, Bill C-55, was resolved. Canada agreed to amend this bill to accommodate U.S. concerns, and the United States...

Review essay: Canada in a Coma.(Douglas Coupland books)
September 22, 2001... Douglas Coupland. Generation X. New York: St. Martin's, 1991. 183 pp. $14.95 paper. Douglas Coupland. Shampoo Planet. New York: Pocket Books, 1993. 312 pp. $14.00 paper. Douglas Coupland. Life after God. New York: Pocket Books, 1994....

Economics. (Book Reviews).(Innovation, Institutions and Territory)
September 22, 2001... J. Adam Holbrook and David A. Wolfe, eds. Innovation, institutions and Territory: Regional Innovation Systems in Canada. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. xxii + 204 pp. $22.95 paper. Students of Canada-U.S....

Environmental studies. (Book Reviews).(Sustaining the Forests of the Pacific Coast)
September 22, 2001... Debra J. Salazar and Donald K. Alper, eds. Sustaining the Forests of the Pacific Coast: Forging Truces in the War in the Woods. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2000. viii + 256 pp. $75.00 cloth. British Columbia and the...

Film studies. (Book Reviews).(Gendering the Nation)
September 22, 2001... Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow, and Janine Marchessault, eds. Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. 329 pp. Edited by four film scholars, three of whom are also filmmakers,...

Geography. (Book Reviews).(Geography of British Columbia)
September 22, 2001... Brett McGillivray. Geography of British Columbia: People and Landscapes in Transition. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2000. 235 pp. $85.00 cloth, $39.95 paper. Several volumes on the geography of British Columbia have been...

History. (Book Reviews).(Noble, Wretched, and Redeemable)
September 22, 2001... C.L. Higham. Noble, Wretched, and Redeemable: Protestant Missionaries to the Indians in Canada and the United States, 1820-1900. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press and Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2000. viii + 283 pp. $24.95...

David Massell. Amassing power. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... David Massell. Amassing Power: J.B. Duke and the Saguenay River, 1897-1927. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. ix + 301 pp. $49.95 cloth. Most Canadian historians know the story of the "Fabulous Kingdom of the...

International Relations. (Book Reviews).(Canada and the United States)
September 22, 2001... John H. Thompson and Stephen J. Randall. Canada and the United States: Ambivalent Allies. 2nd ed. Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 1997. xvi + 384 pp. This volume is part of a larger series, "The United States and the...

Peter Hayden. Sea power and maritime strategy in the 21st century. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Peter Hayden. Sea Power and Maritime Strategy in the 21st Century: A Medium Power Perspective. Halifax: Dalhousie University, 2000. xix + 141 pp. In today's increasingly global world, maritime issues appear to have been disregarded as an...

Politics. (Book Reviews).(Pepper in Our Eyes)
September 22, 2001... W. Wesley Pue, ed. Pepper in Our Eyes: The APEC Affair. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2000. xxii + 241 Pp. $39.95 cloth. Seattle, Washington, D.C., Windsor, Melbourne, and Prague--these names no doubt stand out to...

Christopher P. Manfredi. Judicial power and the charter. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Christopher P. Manfredi. Judicial Power and the Charter: Canada and the Paradox of Liberal Constitutionalism. 2nd ed. Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2001. xvii + 276 pp. $29.95 paper. This is a truly important book. It brings...

Quebec studies. (Book Reviews).(The Struggle for Quebec)
September 22, 2001... Robert A. Young. The Struggle for Quebec: From Referendum to Referendum? Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. xii + 210 pp. $55.00 cloth. $22.95 paper. Although he introduces this volume with the contention...

Sociology. (Book Reviews).(Canadian Society)
September 22, 2001... Dan Glenday and Ann Duffy, eds. Canadian Society: Meeting the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century. 2nd ed. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2001. x + 366 pp. $19.95 paper. This is the second edition of an edited volume first...