Canadian Review of Comparative Literature  

Jessica Tsui-yan Li

"This special issue of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée mainly derives from the annual meeting of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association at the University of Calgary from 28 to 30 May 2016, wh... see more

Paul D. Morris

"various communities within multinational Canada adhere to different understandings of the nation, and, further, these same communities are at differing stages in their negotiation of an ethnic or civic form of nationalism. Multiculturalism emerged in the... see more

Jessica Tsui-yan Li

"Digital culture generates paradoxical implications in contemporary Hong Kong Canadian communities: it facilitates Chinese Canadians’ transnational and transcultural communication through social media, electronic devices, and travelling across oceans and ... see more

Magali Sperling Beck

"Holly Luhning and Karen Connelly are among a group of contemporary Canadian women writers who incorporate the experience of “not being at home” into their works as a way to reinvent their selves. For them, the crossing of borders is marked by their gende... see more

Doris Hambuch

"Although “Barbie-Q” (1991) by Chicana Sandra Cisneros and “The Couch” (2010) by Emirati Fatima H. Al Mazrouei originate in very different cultural contexts, these two texts have more in common than their brevity and poetic style, and it is their similari... see more

Lourdes Arciniega

"In 1919, Margaret Sanger...edited a special issue of The Birth Control Review in order to address reproductive politics in the context of the African American population. Sanger’s periodical featured two reproductive-rights texts by African American wome... see more

Shlomo Gleibman

Discusses Maggie Anton's Miriam (2007) and K. David Brody's Mourning and Celebration (2009) as "two works of historical fiction that portray male same-sex eroticism in relation to Judaism and Jewish community. Each of these two novels revisits the convent... see more

Lambert Barthélémy

"La littérature océanienne contemporaine thématise ... la question du lieu malade et cherche a` prendre en charge les vulnérabilités des territoires affectés, afin de reconfigurer et d’articuler les communautés que l’histoire coloniale a mis au contact le... see more

Andrea Speltz

"The period from the mid-1750s to the mid-1760s was marked by the Seven Years’ War, a proto-nationalistic military conflict that saw a death toll of over a million, as well as the rise of sentimentalism, an intellectual movement based on the principles of... see more

Jenna Brooke

"The discussion that follows integrates poetic excerpts from authors often associated with trauma literature, such as Audre Lorde, Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Canadian Indigenous author Beckylane. My use of literature serves to model how poetr... see more

Ana Lúcia Beck

"This paper compares the works of two visual artists whose œuvres operate in in-between spaces between the visual and the verbal as much as between the self and the Other. Comparing the works of José Leonilson (Brazil, 1957- 93) and Louise Bourgeois (Fran... see more

William J. Urban, Sathya Rao, David Barnett, Yukiko Shigeto, Graz?yna Zygadlo, Ziad Bentahar

Reviews of Angus Fletcher, The Topological Imagination: Spheres, Edges, and Islands (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2016); Yves Chevrel, Annie Cointre, and Yen-Maï Tran-Gervat, eds., Histoire des traductions en langue française XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (Paris:... see more