S T U D I E S I N C A N A D I A N L I T E R A T U R E É T U D E S E N L I T T É R A T U R E C A N A D I E N N E

VOLUME 29 NUMBER 2

PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK

© 2004

Editor: John Clement Ball

Associate Editors: Laurel Boone, Mary Rimmer Managing Editor: Sabine Campbell Contributing Editors: Anne Brown, Fred Cogswell Editorial Assistants: Shannon Armstrong, Katrine Raymond

Advisory Board:

Ajay Heble University of Guelph

Smaro Kamboureli University of Victoria Susan Knutson Université Ste-Anne Denyse Lynde Memorial University of Nfld Kathy Mezei Simon Fraser University Jean Morency Université de Moncton Laura Moss University of British Columbia Norman Ravvin Concordia University Linda Warley University of Waterloo Darryl Whetter University of Windsor Herb Wyile Acadia University

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ISSN 0380-6995

Jennifer Andrews University of New Brunswick Neil Besner University of Winnipeg E.D. Blodgett University of Alberta Gary Boire Wilfrid Laurier University Marie Carrière Université du Nouveau-Brunswick J. Edward Chamberlin University of Toronto Annick Chapdelaine Université McGill David Creelman University of New Brunswick Gwen Davies University of New Brunswick Thomas Gerry Laurentian University Terry Goldie York University Sherrill Grace University of British Columbia

SCL/ÉLC VOLUME 29.2, 2004

TABLE OF CONTENTS

“Hollow at the core”: Deconstructing

Yann Martel’s Life of Pi FLORENCE STRATTON 5

Believing in Tigers:

Anthropomorphism and Incredulity in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi

STEWART COLE 22

Beyond the “Talking Cure”: The Practical Joke as Testimony for Intergenerational Trauma in Eden Robinson’s “Queen of the North”

VIKKI VISVIS 37

Tales from the Canadian Crypt: Canadian Ghosts, the Cultural Uncanny, and the Necessity of Haunting in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees

JOEL BAETZ 62

Narrative Community in

Edna Alford’s A Sleep Full of Dreams JEREMY LALONDE 84

Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost:

Civil Wars, Mystics, and Rationalists JOHN BOLLAND 102

The English Patient and His Narrator: “Opener of the Ways”

JANIS HASWELL AND ELAINE EDWARDS 122

No-Man’s Land: Mythic Crisis in

Gwendolyn MacEwen’s The T.E. Lawrence Poems BRENT WOOD 141

SCL/ÉLC Interview

Rediscovering the Poet: Evelyn Lau ISABEL CASTELAO 163

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 177