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 27 NUMBER 2

PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK

© 2002

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:

Jennifer Andrews University of New Brunswick Neil Besner University of Winnipeg E.D. Blodgett University of Alberta Gary Boire Wilfrid Laurier University Barry Cameron University of New Brunswick 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

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 Robert Viau Université du Nouveau-Brunswick Linda Warley University of Waterloo Darryl Whetter University of Windsor Herb Wyile Acadia University

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SCL/ÉLC VOLUME 27.2, 2002

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Geometries of Nation-Building:

Triangulating Female Homosociality in Richardson’s Wacousta L. CHRIS FOX 5

Screening Modernity: Cinema and Sexuality in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall On Your Knees 29

CANDIDA RIFKIND 29

The Sex-cited Body in Margaret Atwood

VICTORIA BOYNTON 51

The History of the Book, Literary History, and Identity Politics in Canada TRAVIS DECOOK 71

L’ambiguïté de Neuf Jours de haine : Roman de guerre dionysiaque et canadien? VICTOR-LAURENT TREMBLAY 88

Éclairage à contre-jour de l’expérience d’un dépossédé : Les termes francisés dans La vache morte du canyon de Jacques Ferron

RICHARD PATRY 104

De la réflexion à l’oeuvre : une analyse des dossiers scénarique et scriptique du Passager de Gilbert La Rocque KENNETH MEADWELL 123

Sleeping with Herodotus in The English Patient VERNON PROVENCAL 140

“inventory is useless now but just to say”:

The Politics of Ambivalence in Dionne Brand’s Land to Light On SOPHIA FORSTER 160

SCL/ÉLC Interview

The Heart Still Singing: Raymond Souster at 82 TONY TREMBLAY 183

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 202