Canadian Review of Comparative Literature  

Warren Cariou, Isabelle St-Amand

"This special issue of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue canadienne de littérature comparée showcases comparative perspectives on the issues of environmental ethics and activism in Indigenous cultures, and also highlights the relationshi... see more

Norah Bowman

Discusses Indigenous responses to "Canada’s, and one of the world’s, largest and most impactful mining disasters of its kind, [on] August 4, 2014, [when] approximately 25 million cubic metres of contaminated water and ground mining waste, or tailings, spi... see more

Karine Bertrand

"Le collectif Arnait Video Productions, une initiative de la cinéaste Marie-Héle`ne Cousineau, qui regroupe des femmes inuits de la communauté d’Igloolik, utilise la vidéo pour démontrer l’importance de la femme inuit dans le développement et la cohésion ... see more

William Huggins

"A vast literature exists of past as well as current treaty violations committed against First Nations and Native Americans, most notably with regard to resource development. More importantly, many of these ecologically destructive projects have occurred ... see more

Gabrielle Marcoux

"nous proposons que le slam L’âme en tannage démontre une tentative explicite de décolonisation a` travers une résistance et une résurgence culturelles, exprimées notamment par le biais d’une mise en emphase de différences identitaires nettes et assumées,... see more

Jonathan A Allan

William Calin in his book, The Twentieth Century Humanists: From Spitzer to Frye, declares that Northrop Frye was “arguably the last great humanist critic and the first major theoretician” (118). In this paper, I am concerned with the latter part of his c... see more

Maryna Romanets

By focusing on the discursive spaces of the Imperial Harem as one of the biggest mystifications of Orientalism, which mirrored Western psychosexual needs and provided a space on which to project fantasies of illicit eroticism, this article examines three ... see more

miaowei weng

“Gui lai” in Chinese carries the same meaning as “volver” in Spanish: both mean “to return.” Volver, released in 2006, is a hard-hitting drama by Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar; Gui lai, released in 2015, is a historical romance by Chinese director Zha... see more

Troy Michael Bordun

Review article of Aaron Michael Kerner and Jonathan L. Knapp, Extreme Cinema: Affective Strategies in Transnational Media (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2016); and Mattias Frey, Extreme Cinema: The Transgressive Rhetoric of Today’s Art Film Culture (New Brunsw... see more

Stephen R. Reimer, Kate Rees, Letizia Fusini, Kahlil Chaar-Pérez, Kristin George Bagdanov, Adam Barrows

Reviews of: R. Howard Bloch et al., Rethinking the New Medievalism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2014); Barbara Vinken, Flaubert Postsecular: Modernity Crossed Out (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2015); A. Kirk Denton, ed., The Columbia Companion to Modern Chines... see more