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 26 NUMBER 1

PUBLISHED BY

THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK

© 2001

Editor: John Clement Ball

Associate Editors: Laurel Boone, Mary Rimmer Managing Editor: Sabine Campbell Contributing Editors: Anne Brown, Fred Cogswell

Editorial Assistant: Holly Luhning

Advisory Board:

Jennifer Andrews University of New Brunswick Neil Besner University of Winnipeg Gary Boire Wilfrid Laurier University E.D. Blodgett University of Alberta Barry Cameron University of New Brunswick J. Edward Chamberlin University of Toronto Annick Chapdeleine Université McGill Thomas Gerry Laurentian University Terry Goldie York University Sherrill Grace University of British Columbia

Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne (SCL/ÉLC) is a biannual refereed journal devoted to the scholarly and critical study of Canadian literature in English and French; it is indexed in the Canadian Periodical Index, the MLA Index, and the American Humanities Index, and is available on-line in the Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database and in micro-form from Micromedia Ltd., 20 Victoria St., Toronto ON, M5C 2N8.

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the University of New Brunswick, and the Province of New Brunswick, and the Government of Canada, through the Publications Assistance Program (PAP) toward our mailing costs.

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SCL/ÉLC VOLUME 26.1 2001

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Playing the Fool:

The Satire of Canadian Cultural Nationalism in Mordecai Richler’s The Incomparable Atuk

LINDA MORRA 1

“The Negative Capability of Camouflage”: Fleeing Diaspora in Fred Wah’s Diamond Grill CYNTHIA SUGARS 27

« Les poètes n’ont pas le droit de se taire » : l’oeuvre de Raymond Guy LeBlanc ROBERT VIAU 46

Historical Figures and Paradoxical Patterns: The Quilting Metaphor in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace JENNIFER MURRAY 65

Going Native in Robert Kroetsch’s Gone Indian JUSTIN D. EDWARDS 84

« Comment être dans un monde postmoderne? » : une Québécoise en Amérique dans Copies conformes KARIN SCHWERDTNER 98

Gender Trespass and Masculine Privilege: “Male Trouble” in Jack Hodgins’s Spit Delaney’s Island ANDREW LESK AND BATIA BOE STOLAR 112

“Against the Source”: Daphne Marlatt’s Revision of Charles Olson SABRINA REED 132

SCL/ÉLC Interview

Doubly-Crossing Syllables: Thomas O’Grady on Poetry, Exile, and Ireland ANNE COMPTON 145

Notes on Contributors 172

APPEL D’ARTICLES

numéro spécial de

Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne

«Choses du passé: l’histoire et le roman historique au Canada»

UN PRÉJUGÉ TENACE VEUT QUE LE CANADA soit un pays sans histoire, et pourtant les

écrivains canadiens ont produit une quantité étonnante de romans historiques. En effet, raconter le passé a été un des grands thèmes de la littérature du Canada des deux derniers siècles et en particulier au cours des trois dernières décennies. Afin de mettre en lumière ce phénomène littéraire, nous sollicitons des articles pour un numéro spécial de SCL/ÉLC sur les rapports entre l’histoire et la littérature du Canada francophone et anglophone. Les articles peuvent adopter une perspective théorique ou traiter d’auteurs et de textes spécifiques. Nous accepterons des articles sur toutes les périodes historiques.

Sujets et approches possibles:

• étude théorique des rapports entre l’histoire et la littérature • le rôle de la nation dans la rédaction de romans historiques • l’influence du postmodernisme sur l’historiographie et les romans historiques

• le rapport entre l’histoire de la vie privée et l’histoire publique • la sexuation de l’histoire, l’histoire des femmes et l’historiographie féministe • récrire le passé: le révisionnisme dans les romans historiques • problématiques, stratégies et thèmes postcoloniaux • l’importance de la race, de l’ethnicité et de la culture dans la rédaction de romans historiques

• étude comparative de l’histoire telle que racontée par les auteurs québécois

et les auteurs canadiens-anglais • l’histoire et l’espace • l’histoire des Premières nations et leurs romans historiques

Les manuscrits (max. 7 000 mots) en français ou en anglais doivent nous parvenir avant le 1er décembre 2001. Ce numéro spécial sera coédité par Jennifer Andrews, Robert Viau et Herb Wyile et publié en 2002.

Veuillez envoyer deux copies de votre manuscrit à:

email: scl@unb.ca http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SCL

Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne Université du Nouveau-Brunswick CP 4400

Frédéricton N-B E3B 5A3 Canada

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue

Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne

“Past Matters: History and Canadian Fiction”

GIVEN THE STEREOTYPE OF CANADA as a country with little history, Canadian writers have produced a surprising amount of historical fiction. Indeed, engaging the past has been a consistent and profound concern in Canadian fiction over the last two centuries and particularly during the last three decades. To explore this concern, we invite submissions for a special issue on history in anglophone and francophone Canadian fiction. Articles may be broadly theoretical and/or may focus on particular writers or texts, and submissions on any periods or histories are welcome.

Possible topics:

• theorizing the relationship between history and fiction • the role of nation in the writing of historical fiction • the influence of postmodernism on historiography and historical fiction • the relationship between private and public histories • the gendering of history, women’s history, and feminist historiography • rewriting the past: revisionism in historical fiction • postcolonial issues/themes/strategies • the significance of race, ethnicity, culture in the writing of historical fiction • comparisons between treatments of history by English-Canadian and

Quebecois writers • history and sense of place • First Nations history and historical fiction

Manuscripts (not longer than 7,000 words) in either English or French should arrive by 1 December 2001. The issue will be co-edited by Jennifer Andrews, Robert Viau, and Herb Wyile, and will be published in 2002.

Please send two copies of manuscripts to:

Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne

University of New Brunswick

PO Box 4400

Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3 Canada

email: scl@unb.ca http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SCL