Volume 32, Number 2 (2007)

Special Issue – Poetics and Public Culture in Canada

Table of Contents

Front Matter PDF

Surviving the Paraphrase: Poetics and Public Culture in Canada

Introduction: Surviving the Paraphrase: Poetics and Public Culture in Canada HTML PDF
Diana Brydon, Manina Jones, Jessica Schagerl, Kristen Warder

SwiftCurrent: Tangled Histories and Bodily Poetics

Towards Canada as Aesthetic State: François-Xavier Garneau’s Canadien Poetics HTML PDF
Len Findlay
Machine-Age Discourse, Mechanical Ballet, and Popular Song as Alternative Document in Dorothy Livesay’s "Day and Night" HTML PDF
Brenda Carr Vellino
Rita Wong’s monkeypuzzle and the Poetics of Social Justice HTML PDF
Christine Kim
‘Whatever That Is’: Hiromi Goto’s Body Politic/s HTML PDF
Wendy Gay Pearson

From There to Here: Place and Public Cultures

Finding Narratives: George, Vancouver and the Process of Discovery HTML PDF
Michelle Hartley
(Un)Settling the Prairies: Queering Regionalist Literature and the Prairie Social Landscape in Shane Rhodes’s The Wireless Room HTML PDF
Kristen Warder
Newfoundland Poetry as "Ethnographic Salvage": Time, Place, and Voice in the Poetry of Michael Crummey and Mary Dalton HTML PDF
Paul Chafe

Post-National Arguments: Global Poetics

Poetics and the Politics of Globalization HTML PDF
Imre Szeman
Transnational Subjectivities: Roy Miki’s Surrender and Global Displacements HTML PDF
Kit Dobson
The Poetics of Vulnerability: Diaspora, Race, and Global Citizenship in A.M. Klein’s The Second Scroll and Dionne Brand’s Thirsty HTML PDF
Heike Härting

Cultural Mischief: Contested Poetics

Notes from and beyond my Conference Reading HTML PDF
Frank Davey
"Frank Davey" and the Method of Cool HTML PDF
Smaro Kamboureli
Frank Davey and the Firing Squad HTML PDF
Aritha van Herk
Notes on Contributors HTML PDF


ISSN: 1718-7850