Volume 31.2, 2006

Table of Contents

Note from the Editors
John Clement Ball and Jennifer Andrews

Articles

Exploring the Competing Narratives of Isabella Valancy Crawford’s Malcolm’s Katie
Ceilidh Hart

Nation, Indigenization, the Beothuk:
A Newfoundland Myth of Origin in Patrick Kavanagh’s Gaff Topsails
Jennifer Bowering Delisle

The Book as (Anti)National Heroine:
Trauma and Witnessing in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan
Eva C. Karpinski

“The animal out of the desert”:
The Nomadic Metaphysics of Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion
Jody Mason

“Struggle Work”:
Global and Urban Citizenship in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For
Kit Dobson

Technics and the Human at Zero-Hour:
Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
Grayson Cooke

Tricks with “a Sad Ring”:
The Endings of Alice Munro’s “The Ottawa Valley”
Tracey Ware

“The Immense Odds Against the Fossil’s Occurrence”:
The Poetry of Christopher Dewdney as Materialist Historiography
Geoffrey Hlibchuk

Serge Patrice Thibodeau and the Sufi Encounter
Émile J. Talbot

Writing-Translating (from) the In-Between:
An Interview with Gail Scott
Gillian Lane-Mercier

Notes on Contributors