Studies in Canadian Literature

Volume 23.1, 1998

"WRITING CANADIAN SPACE/ÉCRIRE L'ESPACE CANADIEN"
Co-edited by John Clement Ball, Robert Viau, and Linda Warley

"'Space' is very much on the agenda these days." - Doreen Massey

Canadian literary critics have always, in one way or another, put space onthe agenda. Many concepts that recur in Canadian literature and Canadianliterary criticism have a distinctly spatial character: wilderness,garrison, north, region, border, city, home. Interdisciplinary modelsemerging from cultural geography, post-colonial and feminist studies, aswell as literary studies, are opening up new ways of theorizing spaces.Critics are asking provocative questions about the politics and poetics ofspace, and the production, representation, and occupation of space.

SCL/ÉLC is proud to announce the publication of a special issue devoted tospace and spatiality in anglophone and francophone Canadian literature."Writing Canadian Space/Écrire l'espace canadien" is our biggest issueever, featuring 15 articles and over 260 pages. The resulting assortmentreflects not only the methodological variety of research on Canadianliterary space, but also the spatial variety of Canada itself. FromHearne's Arctic Fort to Lowry's Dollarton to Roberts's Tantramar Marshes,we move from coast to coast to coast; moreover, with stops along the way insuch locales as Grove's snowbound prairie, Callaghan's Toronto, and Scott'spost-Massacre Montreal, this collection engages with a mixture ofwilderness, rural, and urban spaces, and covers a broad temporal range.Most importantly, perhaps, the 15 articles attend not only to physicalspaces - natural and built - but also to the symbolic spaces, imaginaryspaces, and spaces of desire that may reveal the most about what Canadianwriters make of their world.For information about subscriptions and single copy sales, click here.

Articles

Introduction: Mapping the Ground
Linda Warley, John Clement Ball, Robert Viau

Mapping Culture onto Geography: 'Distance from the Fort' in Samuel Hearne's Journal
Kathleen Venema

"Lords of the World": Writing Gender and Imperialism on Norhtern Space in C.C. Vyvyan's Arctic Adventure
Heather Smyth

A Geography of "Snow": Reading Notes
W.H. New

(Re)Writing Home: Daphne Marlatt's Ghost Works
Michèle Gunderson

Literary Sites and Cultural Properties in Canadian Poetry
D.M.R. Bentley

Rendre l'espace lisible : le Récit de voyage au XIX^e siècle
Pierre Rajotte

Du rivage au terroir: L'expulsion de la mer de la littérature canadienne au XIX^e siècle
Alessandra Ferraro

Overcoming the Two Solitudes of Canadian Literary Regionalism
Lisa Chalykoff

Iconicity, Space, and the Place of Sharon Butala's "The Prize"
Ian Adam

L'invention romanesque de noms réels : Kamouraska et la métaphore toponymique
Luc Bonenfant