Newfoundland and Labrador Studies Volume 23 No.1

ISSN 1719-1726

Spring 2008

Contents

An Aesthetics of Intensity: Lisa Moore’s Sublime Worlds TRACY WHALEN

1

Emblem of our country: The Red, White, and Green Tricolour CAROLYN LAMBERT

21

The Shape of Authenticity in Elliott Merrick’s Northern Nurse ELIZABETH A. HUMBER

45

Young Women in Coastal Newfoundland and Labrador Talk About Their Social Relationships and Health DEBBIE MARTIN AND LOIS JACKSON

61

RESEARCH NOTE The Origin of Fog: A Labrador Inuit Folk Tale

HANS ROLLMANN

79

REVIEWS Wendy Roy. Maps of Difference: Canada, Women, and Travel by

Roberta Buchanan

85

Ron Pumphrey. Human Beans by Gail Weir

87

Bernice Morgan. Cloud of Bone by Robin McGrath

90

Agnes Walsh. Going Around with Bachelors by Ruth Roach Pierson

95

Susan Chalker Browne. The Land of A Thousand Whales by Margaret

Mackey

99

Linda Cullum, Carmelita McGrath, and Marilyn Porter, eds. Weather’s

Edge: A Compendium by Linda Kealey

101

Ronald Rompkey. Literature and Identity: Essays on Newfoundland and

Labrador by Terry Goldie

103

Mary Dalton. Red Ledger by Janet Fraser

105

Alison Pick. Question and Answer: Poems by Roberta Buchanan

106

Dale Jarvis. The Golden Leg and Other Ghostly Campfire Tales by

Richard Bleiler

108