Studies in Canadian Literature

Études en littérature canadienne

Surf’s Up! The Rising Tide of Atlantic-Canadian Literature

Volume 33 Number 2

Published by

The University of New Brunswick

© 2008

Editors: Jennifer Andrews, John Clement Ball

Associate Editors: Laurel Boone, Anne Brown, Mary Rimmer

Managing Editor: Kathryn Taglia

Editorial Assistant: Jesse Ferguson

Design & Layout: Robert M. Weger

Advisory Board:

Guy Beauregard National Tsing Hua University

E.D. Blodgett University of Alberta

Monika Boehringer Mount Allison University

Marie Carrière University of Alberta

Annick Chapdelaine Université McGill

Daniel Coleman McMaster University

David Creelman University of New Brunswick

Justin D. Edwards University of Wales, Bangor

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

Ajay Heble University of Guelph

Douglas Ivison Lakehead University

Smaro Kamboureli University of Guelph

Catherine Khordoc Carleton University

Susan Knutson Université Sainte-Anne

Kathy Mezei Simon Fraser University

Jean Morency Université de Moncton

Laura Moss University of British Columbia

Norman Ravvin Concordia University

Christian Riegel University of Regina

Chantal Savoie Université Laval

Florence Stratton University of Regina

Nora Foster Stovel University of Alberta

Cynthia Sugars University of Ottawa

Gerry Turcotte U of Notre Dame, Sydney

Kathleen Venema University of Winnipeg

Linda Warley University of Waterloo

Herb Wyile Acadia University

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Scl/Élc Volume 33.2 2008

Table of Contents

Surf’s Up! The Rising Tide of Atlantic-Canadian Literature

Herb Wyile and Jeanette Lynes 5

“Lest on too close sight I miss the darling illusion”:

The Politics of the Centre in “Reading Maritime”

Tony Tremblay 23

The Crest of the Wave: Reading the Success Story of Bestsellers

Danielle Fuller 40

Swept Under: Reading the Stories of Two Undervalued Maritime Writers

David Creelman 60

“As if there were just the two choices”: Region and Cosmopolis in Lisa Moore’s Short Fiction

Susanne Marshall 80

“The Little State of Africadia Is a Community of Believers”: Replacing the Regional and Remaking the Real in the Work of George Elliott Clarke

Alexander MacLeod 96

Re-Visioning Fredericton: Reading George Elliott Clarke’s Execution Poems

Jennifer Andrews 115

Repetition with a Difference: The Paradox of Origins in Alistair MacLeod’s No Great Mischief

Cynthia Sugars 133

“Every Sea-Surrounded Hour”: The Margin in Maritime Poetry

Wanda Campbell 151

Living the Authentic Life at “The Far East of the Western World”:

Edward Riche’s Rare Birds

Paul Chafe 171

Shoring against Our Ruin: Sheldon Currie, Alistair MacLeod, and the Heritage Preservation Narrative

Thomas Hodd 191

SCL/éLC Interview

An Equal-Opportunity Satirist: An Interview with Edward Riche

Herb Wyile 210

Notes on Contributors 229