S C L / É L C

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 38 Number 1 Published by

The University of New Brunswick

© 2013

Editors: John Clement Ball (University of New Brunswick), Herb Wyile (Acadia University) Associate Editors: Anne Brown, Mary Rimmer

Managing Editor: Kathryn Taglia Editorial Assistants: Sumaiya Ahsan, Lisa Alward, Rob Ross, Réjean Ouellette Design & Layout: Ian LeTourneau

Advisory Board:

Jennifer Andrews University of New Brunswick Guy Beauregard National Taiwan University Monika Boehringer Mount Allison University Daniel Coleman McMaster University David Creelman University of New Brunswick Adam Dickinson Brock University Janice Fiamengo University of Ottawa Danielle Fuller University of Birmingham Thomas Gerry Laurentian University Helen Gilbert Royal Holloway, University of London Terry Goldie York University Sherrill Grace University of British Columbia Faye Hammill University of Strathclyde Douglas Ivison Lakehead University Smaro Kamboureli University of Toronto Catherine Khordoc Carleton University Susan Knutson Université Sainte-Anne

Sophie McCall Simon Fraser University Kathy Mezei Simon Fraser University Jean Morency Université de Moncton Linda Morra Bishop’s University Laura Moss University of British Columbia Norman Ravvin Concordia University Chantal Richard Université du Nouveau-Brunswick Christian Riegel University of Regina Gillian Roberts University of Nottingham Chantal Savoie Université du Québec à Montéal Heather Snell University of Winnipeg Nora Foster Stovel University of Alberta Cynthia Sugars University of Ottawa Anthony Tremblay St. Thomas University Gerry Turcotte St. Mary’s University College Marie Vautier University of Victoria Kathleen Venema University of Winnipeg

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Scl/Élc Volume 38.1

Table of Contents

Farewell Editorial John Clement Ball 5

Politicizing Difference: Performing (Post)Colonial Historiography in Le Théâtre de Neptune en la Nouvelle-France and Sinking Neptune

Kailin Wright 7

The Bird of Passage and the Petit Panthéon: Frances Brooke, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé fils, and Where to Begin a National Literature Alexander Beecroft 31

“Off to one side of the curve”: Perpetual Expedition and Regional Identity in M. Wylie Blanchet’s The Curve of Time Carl Watts 50

« Traduire à l’oreille » : vers une poétique de la « musicaméricanité » chez Michel Tremblay Sathya Rao 69

For Play and Gaming: Robert Kroetsch’s Ongoing Godgame Paul Barrett 94

“A Half-Understood Massiveness”: Revisiting John Newlove’s “The Pride” J.A. Weingarten 113

Turning Round About: The Use of Nursery Rhyme in Daphne Marlatt’s Ana Historic Shane Neilson 136

A Family of Migrant Workers: Region and the Rise of Neoliberalism in the Fiction of Alistair MacLeod Jody Mason 151

“One thing can look like another”: The Aesthetics and Performance of Trauma in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees Michelle Coupal 170

Tradition, Modernity, and the Enmeshing of Home and Away: The Shipping News and Proulx’s 1990s Newfoundland

Dervila Cooke 190

À la découverte de l’Occident : le discours inuit sur le Sud dans les œuvres de Minnie Aodla Freeman et de Zebedee Nungak Nelly Duvicq 210

“Magic Moments”: Temporal Modelling and the Call for Responsibility in Lee Maracle’s Daughters are Forever Elizabeth Jackson 226

Death, Animals, and Ethics in David Bergen’s The Time in Between Katie Mullins 248

“Excursions into the Sublime”: A Personal Reminiscence of Carol Shields Nora Foster Stovel 267

Notes on Contributors 281