ci
ski, Ryszard: Shah of Shahs, 367–68Achebe, Chinua: Anthills of the Savannah, 87–88
chador, 243–44
Agee, James, 153;
The African Queen (film), 153;
A Death in the Family, 153;
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, 153;
The Night of the Hunter (film), 152–56
Alias Grace (novel): Grace Marks, 211, 212, 213–14, 215;
James McDermott, 211, 212, 214, 215;
Life in the Clearings versus the Bush (Moodie), 211;
Nancy Montgomery, 211, 212, 214, 215;
Susanna Moodie, 210–11, 212, 213, 215;
Alone of All Her Sex (Warner), 183
American vernacular in literature, 251–52. See also Tishomingo Blues
Anansi: See House of Anansi Press
Anderson, Marjorie: Dropped Threads and Dropped Threads 2, 362–63
Anderson, Sherwood, 252, 300, 311, 376
Anderson-Dargatz, Gail: The Cure for Death by Lightning, 207
Animal Farm (Orwell), 331–33, 334, 336
Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery), 141, 295;
Anne “phenomenon,” 141–42;
child/adult relationships in, 145–46;
Nature, as motif in, 142;
theme, orphan as heroine, 142–43
Anthology: See CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, The (Richler), 233
“appropriation of voice,” 86, 312
Maxfield Parrish, illustrator, 365
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, 259–62. See also Homer;
Camera d’Or (Cannes), 259;
Genie Awards, 259;
Pakak Innuksuk, 262;
Toronto International Film Festival, 261;
Zacharias Kunuk, director, 259
Atwood, Margaret: ancestors, 77–80, 107;
Aunt J., 72, 73–75, 76, 77, 80, 81, 82, 83–84;
Aunt K., 76, 77, 78–79, 80, 81, 82, 83–84;
birth of, 197;
cameo appearance in Typing by Matt Cohen, 303;
childhood visits to Nova Scotia, 79–80;
early years in Ottawa, 197–98;
as editor at House of Anansi Press, 297;
first trip to Europe (1964), 173–74, 175–82;
first writers’ conference (Montreal, 1958), 72, 73–75;
as graduate student, Harvard Department of English Literature, 35, 65, 66;
Graeme Gibson, partner, 32, 242–43, 311, 395, 403–4;
Great-Aunt Winnie, first woman to receive MA from Dalhousie University, 79;
as instigator for Ground Works, 293;
Jess, daughter, 158–59, 242–43;
living in West Berlin, 102;
mother (Margaret Killam Atwood), 72, 76, 77, 78–79, 144;
Perry Miller, Harvard professor, 107;
pilgrimage to Beechy Island, 395–96, 399–401, 402–404;
on reviewing the work of others, 3–4;
Second Cousin Lindsay, English professor at Dalhousie University, 73;
Shakesbeat Latweed, 14;
teaching Canadian literature in Alabama, 44;
trip to Afghanistan (1978), 242–44;
at Victoria College, University of Toronto, 13–14;
works of: See Alias Grace;
The Blind Assassin;
Cat’s Eye;
The Circle Game;
Good Bones;
The Handmaid’s Tale;
The Journals of Susanna Moodie;
Lady Oracle;
Morning in the Burned House;
Murder in the Dark;
Oryx and Crake;
Power Politics;
The Robber Bride;
Second Words;
Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature;
Wilderness Tips
Austen, Jane, 35, 107, 361, 370;
Pride and Prejudice, 160
Barclay, Byrna, 30
Barney’s Version (Richler), 233
beatniks/Beat Generation, 83, 148, 175, 298, 372
Beckett, Samuel: Krapp’s Last Tape, 201;
The Unnameable, 388;
Waiting For Godot, 294
Be Cool (Leonard), 263
Beechy Island, 395, 396, 403, 404, 405
Bellamy, Edward: Looking Backward, 104, 283
Beloved (Morrison), 59–64, 170;
American slavery experience as paradigm, 59, 61–62;
supernatural elements in, 60, 63;
theme, black vs. white, 62–63
Berlin Wall, the, 5, 9, 11, 337
Best American Short Stories, 1989, The: choosing entries for, 85–87, 91–92, 93–98;
“reading blind,” 86–87;
Shannon Ravenel, series editor, 86
Bettelheim, Bruno: The Uses of Enchantment, 184
birdwatching, 328. See also Oryx and Crake Birthday of the World and Other Stories, The (Le Guin), 281, 285, 287, 289–92;
Ekumen, 284–86
nobody owns th earth, 15
Blind Assassin, The (novel), 116–17;
Booker Prize, 117
Bluest Eye, The (Morrison), 87
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 140, 320–23;
Iraq, U.S. invasion of, 322;
Napoleonic Wars, 36;
Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, 320, 322
Bowering, George, 297;
Burning Waters, 207;
The Gangs of Kosmos, 15
Boyd, Blanche McCrary: “The Black Hand Girl,” 96
Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451, 284;
The Martian Chronicles, 284
Breath of Fresh Air, A (Houghton), foreword to, 351–59. See also Victory Gardens
Brown, Larry: “Kubuku Rides (This Is It)”, 96
Buckler, Ernest: The Mountain and the Valley, 81–82
Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories (Carter), 188, 189–90
Butler, Samuel: Erewhon, 104, 283
Callaghan, Morley, 295, 296, 311, 372–81, 381;
comparison with Hemingway and Fitzgerald, and others, 376;
The Complete Stories, Volume 4, introduction to, 372–81;
making a living in Canada as a writer, 374–75;
Calvino, Italo: Difficult Loves, 23–25
Canada, Upper and Lower: See also Alias Grace, Roughing It in the Bush;
early history, 36–37;
immigrants to, 36–37;
literature of, 40–41
Canada House (London), 174, 175
Canadian Authors Association, 73
Canadian Green Consumer Guide, The, preface to, 70–71. See also environmental issues
Canadian literary magazines, 296, 297;
Acta Victoriana, 14
Canadian writers in the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s, hurdles facing, 295–96
Cariboo Horses, The (Purdy), 224
Carter, Angela, 300;
Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories, 188, 189–90
CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), 30, 149, 204, 212, 217;
Bob Weaver (former producer of Anthology), 30
Centaur, The (Updike), 17
Chandler, Raymond, 91, 246, 252, 324;
The Simple Art of Murder, 91, 246
Circle Game, The (poetry volume), 14;
Governor General’s Award for Poetry, 14
civil rights movement, the, 298, 383, 390;
Clifford and Virginia Durr (activists), 385–86
Clemens, Samuel: See Twain, Mark
Cohen, Leonard, 148, 150, 313, 314;
Let Us Compare Mythologies, 150
Cohen, Matt, 300;
author as Rumpelstilt-skin, 301–2, 304, 309–10;
fabulism vs. literary realism, 300–302, 303–4, 309, 312–14;
literary realism in writing, 300, 306, 314
Columbus and the Fat Lady (Matt Cohen), 302, 303, 305, 313;
the fifteen stories that comprise, 305–308
Company of Wolves, The (Carter), 188
Complete Stories, The, Volume 4 (Callaghan), introduction to, 372–81
Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness, 240
Cooper, James Fenimore, 203, 251;
Leatherstocking Tales, 124, 251
Cuba Libre (Leonard), 263
Cunningham, Michael: “White Angel,” 94
Dain Case, The (Hammett), 248
Murther and Walking Spirits, 207
Death: Will the Circle Be Unbroken? (Terkel), 382–83
DeMarinis, Rick: “The Flowers of Boredom,” 94
Dickens, Charles, 174, 202, 233, 278;
A Christmas Carol: Marley’s ghost, 326, 340;
Dickinson, Emily, 18, 41, 160, 324, 388
Difficult Loves (Calvino), 23–25
Disinherited, The (Matt Cohen), 308
Diviners, The (Laurence), 67, 206
Division Street America (Terkel), 382
Doctor Glas (Söderberg), 315–19
Doerr, Harriet: “Edie: A Life,” 96
Douglass, Frederick, 221–22
Dropped Threads and Dropped Threads 2 (Shields, Anderson, ed.), 362–63
Utopias vs. Dystopias, 103–106
Edible Woman, The (novel), 407
Eliot, T. S., 41, 72, 174, 222
Elizabeth and After (Matt Cohen), 312;
Governor General’s Award for Fiction, 312
End of Nature, The (McKibben), 339
Engel, Marian, 26–33, 44, 206, 298, 311;
Governor General’s Award for Fiction, 31;
Writers’ Union of Canada, 32
Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age (McKibben), 339, 340, 343–46, 347, 349;
genetic engineering, 343–45;
immortality, 346–48;
Mother Nature, 346;
nano-technology, 345
environmental issues. See also Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age;
“horror stories of the north”;
Victory Gardens;
acid rain, 49–50;
conservation, salvaging, and rationing as solutions, 70–71;
disappearance of arable land, 358;
pesticide use, 356;
“Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.”, 71;
space junk, 57;
“the Disposable Period,” 355–56;
U.S. lack of environmental protections, 326
“European Jews” trilogy, The Spanish Doctor, Nadine, Emotional Arithmetic (Matt Cohen), 305, 312
Experiment in Love, An (Mantel), 191–94, 195;
theme, mother as controller, 192–94
fabulism vs. literary realism, 300–302, 303–304, 309, 312–14
Faulkner, William, 252, 257, 258, 278, 324;
Sanctuary, 257
female leaders, 99–101. See also She;
Wonder Woman
feminists, feminism, and feminist principles, 41, 144, 158, 160, 165, 166–67, 168, 170, 174, 180, 188, 288, 307, 311, 336, 361, 362, 363, 408. See also women’s movement, the;
fairy tales attacked by feminists, 184;
Mother Goose as feminist heroine, 184
Findley, Timothy, 28, 207, 275–77, 314;
Peter Rabbit, 275–77;
Writers’ Union of Canada, 28
Fire-Dwellers, The (Laurence), 67
First World War, 83, 109, 280, 322, 366
Fisherman of the Inland Sea, A (Le Guin), 290
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 324, 374, 376
Franklin (Sir John) expedition, 206, 233, 396, 399, 401–402, 403–404, 405. See also Terror and Erebus;
Beechy Island, 395, 396, 403, 404, 405
Fraser, Antonia, 99–101
From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers (Warner), 183, 185–87;
Mother Goose as feminist heroine, 184, 185
Frye, Northrop, 375;
Anatomy of Criticism, 150;
The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance, 239–40
“The Concert Party,” 97
García Márquez, Gabriel, 137, 138–40
General in His Labyrinth, The (García Márquez), 137, 138–40;
Simon Bolívar (The Liberator), 137–40
Get Shorty (Leonard), 263
Gibson, Graeme, 32, 242–43, 311, 395, 403–4;
Communion, 314;
Perpetual Motion, 207
Gift, The: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property (Hyde), 218–20, 223
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins: Herland, 289
Glass Key, The (Hammett), 248
Glitz (Leonard), 263
Glover, Douglas: “Why I Decide to Kill Myself and Other Jokes,” 96
Good Bones (short stories), 116
Governor General’s Award, 14, 31, 65, 66, 312, 362
Govier, Katherine: Angel Walk, 207
Gowdy, Barbara, 314;
“Disneyland,” 94
Great Depression, the, 75, 154, 203, 233, 265, 295–96, 297, 372, 374, 382, 383
Greene, Graham, 46, 94, 175–176, 176, 200, 263;
The Lawless Roads, 94;
The Ministry of Fear, 200
Ground Works (Bök, ed.), 293, 297, 299. See also Beckett, Samuel;
Ondaatje, Michael;
“experimental fiction,” 293–95, 298, 299;
Grubb, Davis: The Night of the Hunter (novel), 153, 265
Haggard, H. Rider, 150, 167, 229, 234–35, 237, 238, 239–40, 282;
She, 150, 167, 229, 234–36, 237–40, 282
Hammett, Dashiell, 245–57, 258–59, 324;
American vernacular in literature, 251–52;
Jo Hammett, daughter, 247–48, 249, 255, 257, 258;
Josephine Dolan, wife, 247, 249, 250;
Lillian Hellman, 246, 248, 249, 250, 256;
Mary Hammett, daughter, 247–48, 250;
Hammett, Jo: See also Hammett, Dashiell;
Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers, 247–48, 249, 255–56, 257, 258
Handmaid’s Tale, The (novel), 4, 9, 10, 11, 102, 106, 107, 110, 111, 244, 330, 335, 336. See also Afghanistan;
Nineteen Eighty-four;
Orwell, George;
as speculative fiction, 103;
as theocracy, 108;
Utopias vs. Dystopias, 103–106
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 153, 170;
Hébert, Anne: Kamouraska, 206, 312
Hellman, Lillian, 248, 249, 250, 256;
Pentimento, 246
Hemingway, Ernest, 189, 278, 324, 374, 376;
The Sun Also Rises, 252
Hiassen, Carl, 252;
Skin Tight, 258
Hoban, Russell: Riddley Walker, 284
Hogan, Linda: “Aunt Moon’s Young Man,” 96
House of Atreus, 260;
The Iliad, 260
Honeyman Festival, The (Engel), 27, 31
Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times (Terkel), 382, 383, 385, 387, 388, 389, 390–94;
Cesar Chavez, 389;
Clifford and Virginia Durr (civil rights activists), 385–86;
Dennis Kucinich, 394;
Frances Moore Lappé, 393–94;
General Paul Tibbetts (pilot of the Enola Gay), 390
“horror stories of the north,” 55–56
House of Anansi Press, 302;
Dennis Lee as editor, 14–15, 304;
Margaret Atwood as editor, 297
Hudson, W. H.: A Crystal Age, 104, 105, 289
Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World, 104, 283, 333, 336, 337, 343
Hyde, Lewis, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 274
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (Calvino), 23
Invisible Cities (Calvino), 23
Iran, 366
Iraq, 366;
American Iraqis, 391;
U.S. invasion of (2003), 322, 326, 366, 394. See also Bonaparte, Napoleon
Italian Folk Tales (Calvino), 23
Jameson, Anna: Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, 40
Jefferson, Thomas, 387
Jest of God, A (Laurence), 65, 66, 67–68, 69;
Rachel Cameron, 66–69
“Joe the Painter and the Deer Island Massacre” (King), 121–24, 125;
as parody of Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, 124
Journals of Susanna Moodie, The (poetry volume), 35, 206, 210. See also Alias Grace Joyce, James, 87;
Dubliners, 376;
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 222;
Ulysses, 319
Kapuciski, Ryszard: Shah of Shahs, 367–68
Kinnear, Thomas: See Alias Grace
Koestler, Arthur: Darkness at Noon, 106, 333
Lady Oracle (novel), 15
Langton, Anne: A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada, 40
Lappé, Frances Moore: Diet for a Small Planet, 393–94
Larry’s Party (Shields), 362;
Orange Prize, 362
Last of the Crazy People, The (Findley), 276
Last Seen (Matt Cohen), 301, 308, 312–13
Laurence, Margaret, 65, 66, 67, 68, 196, 206, 298
Layman, Richard, ed.: The Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921–1960, 247, 249–50
Le Carré, John, 264
“Dennis-as-editor,” 15–16;
House of Anansi Press, 14–15;
Shakesbeat Latweed, 14;
Alligator Pie, 16
LeFanu, Sheridan: Carmilla, 239
Left Hand of Darkness, The (Le Guin), 285
Le Guin, Ursula K., 281, 284, 285–87;
awards, 284
Leonard, Elmore, 252, 263, 264–66, 267–68, 271, 273;
demotic stylings of, 263
Lessing, Doris: The Golden Notebook, 179
Lethem, Jonathan: Motherless Brooklyn, 252
Lewis, Bernard: The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror, 366–67
Life in the Clearings versus the Bush (Moodie), 35, 36, 210
literary critics and criticism, 162
Long Distance (McKibben), 339
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 256, 258. See also Hammett, Dashiell;
Giles Corey of the Salem Farms, 256–57, 258;
“The Children’s Hour,” 256
Louie, David Wong: “Displacement,” 96
Maalouf, Amin: The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, 366
MacDonald, Anne-Marie: Fall on Your Knees, 207
MacDonald, Wilson, 74
MacEwen, Gwendolyn, 147, 148, 149–51, 206, 399, 402, 405;
Franklin expedition, 150, 206, 233, 396, 399, 401–402, 403–404, 405;
Gwendolyn MacEwen Park (Toronto), 404–5
Mackenzie, William Lyon, 198, 214. See also Alias Grace
MacLennan, Hugh, 311
Mad Trapper of Rat River, 53
Maladicta (scholarly journal devoted to foul language), 264
Maltese Falcon, The (Hammett), 248–49, 253
Many Coloured Coat, The (Callaghan), 378–81
Marcus, Steven: See also Hammett, Dashiell;
Dashiell Hammett: Crime Stories and Other Writings, 247, 251, 253
Marias, Javier: All Souls, 201–202
Marks, Grace: See Alias Grace
Marlatt, Daphne: Ana Historic, 207
McCarthy Red Scare, 246, 249, 257, 297, 383, 384
McDermott, James: See Alias Grace
McKibben, Bill, 339, 340–41, 343, 344, 345, 346, 347, 349
Medea (Euripides), 167, 169–70
Michaels, Anne: Fugitive Pieces, 207, 314
Middle Eastern literature, 364–66
Miller, Arthur, 324;
The Crucible, 257;
Death of a Salesman, 273–74, 378
Montgomery, Lucy Maud, 143–46, 295. See also Anne of Green Gables
Montgomery, Nancy: See Alias Grace
Monuments and Maidens (Warner), 183
Moodie, Susanna, 34–39, 40, 41, 210–11, 212, 213, 215. See also Traill, Catharine Parr
Moore, Brian: Blackrobe, 207
Morning in the Burned House (poetry volume), 116
More, Sir Thomas, 103;
Morris, William: News From Nowhere, 104, 283
Morrison, Toni, 59, 62, 63, 64, 87, 170;
Sula, 167
Moshiri, Farnoosh: The Bathhouse, 370–71
Mother Nature, 346;
Wordsworth’s Mother Nature, 18, 238
motifs: confrontation with a harsh and vast geography, 40, 50–52, 298;
illusion vs. reality, 268;
Mukherjee, Bharati: “The Management of Grief,” 96
Munro, Alice, 27, 97–98, 207, 298, 313, 360, 362;
“A Wilderness Station,” 207;
the “Munro Doctrine,” 362;
“The Dance of the Happy Shades,” 313
Murder in the Dark (short stories), 116
Nafisi, Azar: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, 369–70
nationalism, Canadian cultural, 298, 311
Native writing, emergence of humour in, 120–21. See also King, Thomas
Nature: as motif in literature, 38, 53, 120, 142, 310
Newby, Eric: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, 39–40
Nichol, bp, 149
Night of the Hunter, The (film), 152–56, 325. See also Grubb, Davis;
Charles Laughton, director, 152–53, 154;
James Agee, screenwriter, 153;
theme, struggle between evil and innocence, 154, 155
9/11: See September 11
Nineteen Eighty-four (Orwell), 104, 105, 106, 201, 283, 333–35, 336, 337. See also Handmaid’s Tale, The;
dystopias, 335–36
No Clouds of Glory (Engel), 26
Not Wanted on the Voyage (Findley), 275
“old days,” the, 54–55
Ondaatje, Michael, 15, 207, 294, 297, 314;
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, 15, 294;
The English Patient, 207;
In the Skin of a Lion, 207, 314
“One Good Story, That One” (King), 121, 125–28
Orwell, George, 331–33, 334, 335, 336, 337, 338, 373. See also Handmaid’s Tale, The;
“prose like a window pane,” 189, 337, 373
Oryx and Crake (novel), 229;
birdwatching, 328;
as speculative fiction, 330;
writing of, 328–330
Pagan Babies (Leonard), 263
Paine, Tom, 386
Phillips, Dale Ray: “What Men Love For,” 95
Piano Man’s Daughter, The (Findley), 207
Piercey, Marge: Woman on the Edge of Time, 104, 289
pilgrimages in literature, 402;
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer), 397–98, 399, 400;
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Lord Byron), 398, 399, 400;
The Pilgrim’s Progress (John Bunyan), 398, 399
Pilgrim (Findley), 276
Planet of Exile (Le Guin), 284
Poems for All the Annettes (Purdy), 224
Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen, The (MacEwen), 147, 151
Power Politics (poetry volume), 15
publishing, Canadian: Canadian Authors Association, 73;
early paperback book industry, 203, 295;
Giller Prize, 233;
Governor General’s Awards, 14, 31, 65, 66, 312, 362;
Writers’ Union of Canada, 28, 32
publishing presses, small Canadian, 297. See also Contact Press;
House of Anansi Press
Puritans and Puritanism, American, 17, 20, 41, 107, 108, 109, 110, 153, 155, 210
“reading blind,” 86–87
Reaney, James, 148, 150, 206, 295, 313;
Alphabet (magazine), 150;
A Suit of Nettles, 295;
“The Box Social,” 313;
“The Bully,” 313
Rebellion of 1837, 198, 205, 214. See also Alias Grace
Red Harvest (Hammett), 248
Republic of Love, The (Shields), 361
Richards, Mark: “Strays,” 95
Richler, Mordecai, 3, 229, 232–33, 311;
Giller Prize, 233
Robber Bride, The (novel), 116
Robinson, Arthur: “The Boy on the Train,” 95
Rocannon’s World (Le Guin), 284
Room of One’s Own (Engel), 27
Roughing It in the Bush (Moodie), 34–35, 39, 41, 210–11;
confrontation with a harsh and vast geography, as motif in, 40;
Nature, as motif in, 38
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 140, 332
Roy, Gabrielle: The Tin Flute, 311
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The, 365
Salem novels, the (Matt Cohen), 306, 311
Salutin, Rick: The Farmers’ Rebellion, 206
Sandburg, Carl: “Chicago,” 383–84
Sarah Bastard’s Notebook (Engel), 27
The Question, 371
Satrapi, Marjane: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, 368–69, 370
Schroeder, Andreas, 297
science fiction: as literary label, 281–84, 288;
rearranged human societies in, 283;
reliance on anthropology, 286–87;
science-fiction fantasy, 281–284;
science fiction proper, 281, 284;
speculative fiction, 103, 281, 283
Scott, F. R., 74
Second Words (nonfiction), 1, 2, 4
Second World War, 75, 106, 199, 203, 233, 249, 295–96, 297, 322, 351, 355, 374, 383, 390. See also Victory Gardens
September 11 (World Trade Center attack), 5, 229, 261, 329, 337, 391, 394
Sharif, M. T.: “The Letter Writer,” 95
She (Haggard), 150, 167, 229, 234–36, 237–40, 282
Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein, 191, 234, 294, 343;
as the first work of science fiction, 282
early books, 361–62;
study of Jane Austen, 361
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 167, 169
Söderberg, Hjalmar, 316
Solomon Gursky Was Here (Richler), 233;
Franklin expedition, 233
space junk, 57
Spadework (Findley), 276
speculative fiction, 281, 283, 330;
Oryx and Crake as, 330
Stoker, Bram: Dracula, 163, 230, 234, 239
Stone Angel, The (Laurence), 65, 67, 196
Stone Diaries, The (Shields), 207, 361, 362;
American Pulitzer Prize, 362;
Governor General’s Award for Fiction, 362
supernatural elements in novels: Beloved, 60, 63
Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (nonfiction), 15, 119
Swann (Shields), 361
Swift, Jonathan, 283;
Gulliver’s Travels, 282
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 200;
Idylls of the King, 238
Terkel, Studs, 382, 383–89, 394;
book program on NPR, 384–85;
John Kenneth Galbraith, 382;
Mahalia Jackson, 384;
McCarthy Red Scare, 384;
Studs’s Place (television talk show), 383
Terror and Erebus (MacEwen), 206, 399, 402, 405
That Summer in Paris (Callaghan), 377–78
themes: black vs. white: See Beloved;
Tishomingo Blues;
mother as controller: See Experiment in Love, An;
orphan as heroine: See Anne of Green Gables;
robber as folk hero: See Tishomingo Blues;
struggle between good and evil: See Night of the Hunter, The (film);
wickedness and mischief: See Witches of Eastwick, The
Thin Man, The (Hammett), 253, 255
Thomson, Tom, 52–53
Thoreau, Henry David, 41, 218;
“Civil Disobedience,” 265;
as “father of environmentalism,” 324
Tishomingo Blues (Leonard), 263–64, 266–67, 268–71, 272–73;
American Civil War, 270–72;
demotic stylings in, 263;
motif, illusion vs. reality, 268;
theme, black vs. white, 270;
theme, robber as folk hero, 265–66;
trickster figure in, 269, 271;
Tunica, Mississippi, 267–268, 269
Tolkein, J. R. R.: The Lord of the Rings, 240, 282
To the Lighthouse (Woolf), 278–280
Traill, Catharine Parr, 37, 40, 206;
The Canadian Settler’s Guide, 37;
The Young Emigrants;
or, Pictures of Canada, 37
trickster figures and traits, 220–21, 222, 269, 271
Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art (Hyde), 218, 220–23;
trickster figures and traits, 220–21, 222
Tunica, Mississippi, 267–68, 269
Huckleberry Finn, 155, 251, 386;
American vernacular in literature, 251;
theme, black vs. white, 270
Typing: A Life in 26 Keys (Matt Cohen), 301, 302, 303, 308, 313
Updike, John, 17, 18, 19–20, 21, 22
Urquhart, Jane: Away, 207, 312;
U.S. invasion of Iraq (2003), 322, 326, 366, 394. See also Bonaparte, Napoleon
Vanderhaeghe, Guy: The Englishman’s Boy, 207
Victory Gardens, 71, 355, 356, 359;
agriculture and horticulture, 353–54;
Second World War, 351, 355, 356
“voice of the story,” 87–90
Voltaire, 400–401
Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse Five, 283
Warner, Marina, 183, 184, 185, 186–87
Warrior Queens, The (Fraser), 99–101;
Boadicea, 99–100;
female leaders, 99–101;
Watson, Sheila: The Double Hook, 298, 314
Webb, Phyllis, 148
Wells, H. G., 234;
The Island of Dr. Moreau, 283;
The War of the Worlds, 283
Wharton, Edith: The Custom of the Country, 171;
“The Pelican,” 3
Whitman, Walt, 210, 222, 225, 252, 324, 386
Wiebe, Rudy, 311;
The Scorched Wood People, 206;
The Temptations of Big Bear, 206
Wilde, Oscar, 117, 275–76, 277, 386
Wilderness Tips (short stories), 115
Wilkinson, Anne, 148
Wilson, Edmund, 374;
O Canada, 372
Wister, Owen: Virginian, 252
Witches of Eastwick, The (Updike), 17–22;
as magic realism, 20;
theme, wickedness and mischief, 17–19;
Vietnam War as backdrop, 19, 21
Wizard of Earthsea, A (Le Guin), 285
women’s movement, the, 2, 19, 41, 164, 165, 392, 406. See also feminists, feminism, and feminist principles
Wonder Woman, 236
Woolf, Virginia, 278–79
Wordsworth, William: See also Mother Nature;
Lyrical Ballads, 373
World War I: See First World War World War II: See Second World War
Writers’ Union of Canada, 28, 32
Wyndham, John, 283;
“Consider Her Ways,” 289
Unimaginable Island, 405
You Went Away (Findley), 207