Book reviews written by readers and published on digital sites such as Goodreads are a new force in contemporary book culture. This article uses feminist standpoint theory to investigate the langua...

Faraway, So Close: Seeing the Intimacy in Goodreads Reviews:

ou probably know the scenario. Hyperimaginative orphan Anne Shirley sits on the front seat of Matthew Cuthbert’s buggy as they travel from the Avonlea train station to Anne’s new home, Green Gables. Her loquacious rhapsodizing over the beauty of Prince edward island is brought to an abrupt halt as she is struck dumb by the vision of the “Avenue” (soon to be rechristened “the White Way of delight”):

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

In Anne of Tim Hortons (2011), Herb Wyile argues that Leo McKay’s novel Twenty-Six (2003) situates the 1992 Westray coal mining disaster in a broad set of economic and social conditions affecting Atlantic Canada at the end of the twentieth century. This essay considers McKay’s novel in the context of a wider debate over public space in northern Nova Scotia’s Pictou County through post-industrial critiques from Tim Edensor, Rebecca Scott, and Stephen High and David Lewis. While the state’s memorial infrastructure privileges straightforward narratives about the bravery and sacrifice of the miners who were killed in Westray and other disasters, and presents a smooth transition between the dangerous and violent industrial era and the clean and efficient post-industrial era, Twenty-Six employs a nonlinear timeline and images of abandoned space to contest this progressive image of the region.

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Extraction, Memorialization, and Public Space in Leo McKay’s Albion Mines

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Passing: Herb Wyile and the Future of Atlantic-Canadian Literary Criticism

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Susan Billingham

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Writing the Everyday: Women's Textual Communities in Atlantic Canada