Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Womenâs Poetry

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Table of Contents for Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Womenâs Poetry , edited by Di Brandt and Barbara Godard A New Genealogy of Canadian Literary Modernism | Di Brandt The Making of Canadian Literary Modernism The Writing Livesays: Connecting Generations of Canadian Modernism | Ann Martin Feminist and Regionalist Modernisms in Contemporary Verse, CV1 and CV2 | Christine Kim P.K. Page: Discovering a Modern Sensibility | Sandra Djwa Tradition, Individual Talent, and âa young woman / From backwoods New Brunswickâ: Modernism and Elizabeth Brewsterâs (Auto)Poetics of the Subject | Bina Toledo Freiwald âAnd we are homesick stillâ: Home, the Unhomely, and the Everyday Anne Wilkinson | Kathy Mezei Anne Marriott: Modernist on the Periphery | Marilyn J. Rose Discontinuity, Intertextuality, and Literary History: Gail Scottâs Reading of Gertrude Stein | Lianne Moyes Literary Modernism as Cultural Act âThey cut him downâ: Race, Class, and Cultural Memory in Dorothy Livesayâs â;Day and Nightâ | Pamela McCallum Dorothy Livesay and CBC Radio: The Politics of Modernist Aesthetics, Gender, and Regionalism | Peggy Lynn Kelly Phyllis Webb as Public Intellectual | Pauline Butling âA Collection of Solitary Fragmentsâ: Miriam Waddington as Critic | Candida Rifkind âOur hearts both leapt / in love with metaphorâ: P.K. Pageâs Professional Elegies | Sara Jamieson The Passionate and Sublime Modernism of Elizabeth Smart | Anna Quéma Jay Macphersonâs Modernism | Miriam Nichols Word, I, and Other in Margaret Avisonâs Poetry | Katherine Quinsey Reading P.K. Page in English/Italian; or, On the Politics of Translating Modernist Gender | Elena Basile Contributors Index Contributorsâ Bios Elena Basile teaches in the English department at York University, where she is completing her dissertationon questions of translation and experimental poetic practices. Recent publications include âResponding to the Enigmatic Address of the Other: A Psychoanalytical Approach to the Translatorâs Labour,â New Voices in Translation Studies (2005), and âItchy Language Scars:Thoughts on Translation as a Poetics of Cultural Healing,â in Traducciòn, Género y Postcolonialismo:De Signis; Publicaciòn de la Federaciòn Latinoamericana de Semitiòca (Spring 2008). Di Brandt is the award-winning author and editor of more than a dozen books. Her poetry titles include questions i asked my mother (1987), Agnes in the sky (1990), Jerusalem, beloved (1995), Now You Care (2003), and Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandt (2006). Her prose titles include Wild Mother Dancing: Maternal Narrative in Canadian Literature (1993) and So this is the world & here I am in it (2007). Her libretto for Emily, the Way You Are , a one-woman opera about the life and work of Emily Carr, composed by Jana Skarecky, premiered at the McMichael Gallery, Kleinburg, Ontario, in April 2008. Her website address is www.dibrandt.ca. Di Brandt holds a Canada Research Chair at Brandon University, Manitoba. Pauline Butling taught Canadian Literature at Selkirk College in Castelgar, BC, David Thompson University Centre in Nelson, BC, and at the Alberta College of Art in Calgary. She currently lives in Vancouver, where she is writing a family history/memoir. Her publications include Seeing in the Dark: The Poetry of Phyllis Webb (1997), Poets Talk, with Susan Rudy (2005), and Writing in Our Time: Canada's Radical Poetries , with Susan Rudy (2005). Sandra Djwa, Professor Emerita of Simon Fraser University, has written extensively on Canadian poetry and Canadian poets. Her books include E.J. Pratt: The Evolutionary Vision (1974), the Complete Poems of E.J. Pratt , 2 vols. (1989), and the Selected Poems of E.J. Pratt (1999), co-edited with Zailig Pollock and W.J. Keith. Her biographies include F.R. Scott: The Politics of the Imagination (1987), F.R. Scott: Une vie (translation 2001), and Professing English: A Life of Roy Daniells (2002), a mini-history of the discipline of English and the development of a Canadian literature. She is working on a biography of P.K. Page. Bina Toledo Freiwald, graduate program director and professor of English at Concordia University, teaches and researches on critical theory, contemporary womens writing across genres and national literatures, autobiographical practices, and identity discourses of gender, sexuality, and nation. Recent publications include chapters in Identity, Community, Nation (2002), Postmodernism and the Ethical Subject (2004), Tracing the Autobiographical (2005), Unfitting Stories: Narrative Approaches to Disease, Disability, and Trauma (2007), and The Jewish Diaspora as a Paradigm (2008). Her current research project is âGender, Nation, and Self-Narration: The Construction of National and Diasporic Identities in Jewish Womens Life Narratives in Palestine/Israel and Canada.â Barbara Godard, Historical Chair of Canadian Literature at York University, has published widely on Canadian and Québec literatures and on feminist and literary theory. Her translations and essays on translation theory have contributed to the âcultural turnâ in translation studies. Among her publications are the edited volumes Gynocritics/Gynocritiques: Feminist Approaches to the Writing of Canadian and Québec Women (1987); Collaboration in the Feminine: Writings on Women and Culture from Tessera (1994); Intersexions: Issues of Race and Gender in Canadian Womenâs Writing (1996); and Re:Generations: Canadian Women Poets in Conversation , with Di Brandt (2005). Canadian Literature at the Crossroads of Language and Culture , a volume of her essays, appeared in 2008. For more information, see her website at www.yorku.ca/bgodard/. Sara Jamieson is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Carleton University where her research interests include intersections of Victorian and modernist poetic practice in the work of twentieth-century Canadian women poets, as well as representations of aging in Canadian writing. She has published articles in Canadian Literature , Canadian Poetry , and Studies in Canadian Literature . She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Soundless Grieving: Women Poets, Mourning, and Modernism in Canada. Peggy Lynn Kelly specializes in Canadian womenâs writing. She has published in Atlantis , Open Letter , Canadian Poetry , Studies in Canadian Literature , Literary Encyclopedia Online , The History of the Book in Canada , Framing Our Past: Canadian Womenâs History in the Twentieth Century , and Limited Edition: Voices of Feminism, Voices of Women . She is editor of the second edition of Shackles by Madge Macbeth (2005), and associate general editor for Tecumseh Press's Early Canadian Women Writers Series. Peggy Kelly teaches English literature and composition at Algonquin College and the University of Ottawa. Christine Kim is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. Her teaching and research focus on Asian North American literature and theory, contemporary Canadian literature, and diasporic writing. She has published articles in Mosaic , Open Letter , and Studies in Canadian Literature . She is currently working on a book-length project titled From Multiculturalism to Globalization: The Cultural Politics of Asian North American Writing . Ann Martin is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan, where she teaches twentieth-century British literature. She is the author of Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in Bed: Modernismâs Fairy Tales (2006), and is currently researching the role of the automobile in the fiction of Dorothy L. Sayers. Pamela McCallum is professor of English at the University of Calgary. She recently co-edited, with Wendy Faith, Linked Histories: Postcolonial Studies in a Global World (2005) and published an edited and annotated edition of Raymond Williamsâs Modern Tragedy (2006). Her research interests are focussed on representations of history, materiality, and globalization in literature and other cultural texts. Kathy Mezei teaches in the Department of Humanities at Simon Fraser University. She has published articles on translation studies, Canadian literature, narrative theory, and modern British women writers, and has edited special issues on domestic space for Signs (2002) and BC Studies (2003â2004). Her translations of French and Quebec poets have appeared in ellipse and La Traductiére . Her most recent book, co-written with Chiara Briganti, is Domestic Modernism, the Inter-war Novel, and E.H. Young (2006). She runs a website on domestic space at www.sfu.ca/domestic-space. She is a participant in the project Bibliography of Comparative Studies in Canadian, Quebec and Foreign Literatures

About the Author :
Di Brandt has received numerous awards for her poetry, including the CAA National Poetry Prize, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, and the Gerald Lampert Award. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Creative Writing at Brandon University. Barbara Godard teaches English and Women`s Studies at York University. Her nimble translation of The Tale of Don l'Orignal, the first of her many distinguished book-length translations, recreates the spirit and the raucous dialogue in an English that's colourful, familiar, and just strange enough to capture the magic of the Fleas.

Review :
`` Wider Boundaries of Daring is an important new book which reimagines literary modernism in Canadaâan overdue historical revision which responds to calls issued by David Arnason in 1983, by Barbara Godard in 1984, and by Carole Gerson in 1992.... Together, the essays in this collection reveal that these women were not passive participants in modernism, nor were they the followers of male leaders; among other things, they did not subscribe to the âmasculinist model of aestheticism divorced from the challenges and the obligations of personal life.â'' -- Linda Quirk -- Canadian Literature, 290, Summer 2011 ``Utilizing criticism of gender, biography, and semioticsâamong the usual suspectsâthe generally jargon-free scholarship will be a treat for those who have gotten bogged down in postmodern feminist criticism. This book may entice US readers whose knowledge of Canadian literature is limited primarily to the work of Margaret Atwood to look northward.... Recommended.'' -- R.H. Solomon, formerly, University of Alberta -- CHOICE, February 2010 ``The editors of Wider Boundaries of Daring have collected essays by some of the finest scholars of Canadian literature on the subject of critically marginalized poets and modernist poetry, and in so doing they have produced an important collection, one that revises not only the erroneous and discriminatory genealogy of Canadian modernism but also re-imagines the very nature of modernism.'' -- Melanie Brannagan Frederiksen, University of Manitoba -- Prairie Fire, Vol. 10, #4, 2010 `` Wider Boundaries of Daring borrows its title from Dorothy Livesay's poem "We Are Alone", written in the 1930s, as Di Brandt informs her readers in her comprehensive introductory essay. Here Brandt explains the rationale behind this collection, which is an attempt to reassess the artistry and relevance of Canadian women poets in the modernist period given the neglect they have suffered from in their own country.... Given the in-depth analysis one finds in every single essay in this collection, the book well deserves the recognition it received. It was the winner, in 2009, of the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Literary Criticism.'' -- Eleonora Rao, University of Salerno, Italy -- British Journal of Canadian Studies, Volume 24, #2, 2011