Canadian Review of Comparative Literature  

Joni Adamson

This essay explores the ways in which a growing number of indigenous women writers around the world are depicting the links between their ancient cultures and foodways, human rights, and environmental justice. Like their North American counterparts, indig... see more

Tzu-Shiow Chuang

In exilic writing, the return home involves reframing a painful past into a narrative. Both pied-noir novelist Marie Cardinal and native Algerian French writer Assia Djebar depict their imaginations of their homeland through autobiographical memoirs. In A... see more

Rudolphus Teeuwen

In Goethe’s novel Elective Affinities there is that startling assertion: “You cannot walk among palm trees with impunity, and your sentiments must surely alter in a land where elephants and tigers are at home.” In this emotional outburst of one of Goethe’... see more

Jenny Wen-chuan Chu

Migration involves a sense of belonging, nostalgia and diaspora issues. Adoption in the migrant family illustrates the fluidity and tenacity of racial boundaries in different national and racial origins. In Gish Jen’s The Love Wife, migration and adoption... see more

Benaouda Lebdai

The North and South relations have changed in terms of migratory flow in the last 50 years. From colonial to postcolonial times, economic and political forces have been influencing men and women all over the world, particularly in Africa because of the he... see more

Yu-yen Liu

This paper aims to negotiate the conceptual tensions within and between “memory” and “place.” To address the differing terrain of complex nexus between place, memory and emotion, the paper explores three Vietnamese American autobiographical novels, Lan Ca... see more

Natalia Starostina

My paper will address the construction of the émigré “self” and the question of subjectivity in the writing of Elsa Triolet (1896-1970), Irène Némirovsky (1903–1942), and Nadezhda Teffi (1872-1952), Russian émigrés. These writers faced a necessity to oper... see more

Jen-chieh Tsai

Yann Martel’s Life of Pi showcases a singular odyssey in which the protagonist demonstrates not so much a rhetoric of persuasion as a rhetoric of identification. One finds no conquest of otherness in the novel as is oftentimes witnessed in classical rheto... see more

I-Chun Wang

This paper examines colonial anxiety in Roanoke Island as represented in Paul Green’s The Lost Colony, a symphony drama first performed in 1937. Roanoke colony can be referred to 1583 when the British attempted settlement which resulted in the abandonment... see more

Linda Hogan

The Five Major Tribes of the Southeastern United States were removed to Indian Territory, Oklahoma. Indian Territory was a location created to contain all tribal peoples of the U. S. inside it, and then to have walls built around it so none could escape. ... see more