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Special Section

Adolescence in Canadian Literature

Co-Editors

Heather Snell, Heidi Butler,

John Clement Ball, and Jennifer Andrews

Volume 36 Number 1

Published by

The University of New Brunswick

© 2011

Editors: Jennifer Andrews, John Clement Ball Associate Editors: Anne Brown, Mary Rimmer

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Table of Contents § Special Section

Adolescence in Canadian Literature

Introduction: Adolescence in Canadian Literature Heather Snell, Heidi Butler,

John Clement Ball, and Jennifer Andrews 5

Terry Fox and the National Imaginary: Reading Eric Walters’s Run Tanis MacDonald 18

Growing up in Nature: Health and Adolescent Dance in L.M. Montgomery’s Emily Series Jenn Macquarrie 34

Mobilizing the Power of the Unseen: Imagining Self / Imagining Others in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables Lesley Clement 51

Ravines and the Conscious Electrified Life of Houses: Margaret Atwood’s Suburban Künstlerromane Cheryl Cowdy 69

"Hello, abattoir!": Becoming Through Slaughter in Miriam Toews’s A Complicated Kindness Ella Soper 86

"On the Cusp": Liminality and Adolescence in Arthur Slade’s Dust, Bill Richardson’s After Hamelin, and Kit Pearson’s Awake and Dreaming Deborah Wills and Amy Bright 100

"We’re writing our own stories": An Examination of Youth Writing in Our Story: The Canadian Aboriginal Writing Challenge

Jennifer Hardwick 124

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John Richardson’s Unlikely Narrative of Nationhood: History, the Gothic, and Sport as Prophecy in Wacousta

Michael Buma 143

Saying Goodbye to Mariposa: Robertson Davies’s Deptford and the Small-Town Convention Ryan Porter 163

The Sacrificial Poetics of A.J.M. Smith Claudine Gélinas-Faucher 186

La « Belle Bête » de la littérature contemporaine : la présence de l’animal dans les romans de Marie-Claire Blais Eva Pich Ponce 204

Delirious Cities: Lisa Robertson’s

Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture Geoffrey Hlibchuk 223

Notes on Contributors 243