The primary function of CHIMO is that of spreading information: information about membership, about members’ activities, about events held by the Association, about events in which our members can participate, about publications and conferences in Canada and abroad. Besides information that reaches our office through official channels, we need information that our own members are able to share. Please send such information to me or to Diana at the University of Guelph.

We do not intend to duplicate the work of such journals as WLWE and ARIEL in publishing scholarly articles. However, we would like to review books written by members in future issues. If you would like a brief review of your book to appear in CHIMO, please send us a copy for review.

CHIMO would also like to do much more by way of assisting development of Commonwealth literature courses by sharing news of courses and book lists with information about text availability. I would, therefore, like to invite members to send material about courses they teach which will be of interest to the membership. There are exciting developments in the teaching of our field and we need to communicate these new opportunities and experiences to others teaching in this field.

Please send any information you would like to see appear in CHIMO to me, and please also send suggestions about what you would like to see in the newsletter and how you would like to see it.

Patrick Holland

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President’s Letter

This is the first newsletter to be published from CACLALS’ new headquarters at Guelph. We welcome your suggestions as to how CHIMO may better serve your needs. We hope to upgrade its appearance and to increase the information provided, perhaps even to establish a forum for the airing of ideas about present and future directions in our field.

We have been elected for a three-year term, from May 1989 until May 1992. In addition to our yearly meetings at the Learneds each spring, we plan a major international conference to be held at Guelph in October 1991. If you have any ideas about possible conference themes or writers to invite, please send them to us. The plans for this conference will be on the agenda for discussion at the 1990 Learneds meeting at the University of Victoria.

Elsewhere in this issue, you will find the call for the submission of papers to be considered for presentation in Victoria. Please send us your abstracts. We plan a lively programme and need your participation to make it work.

Your executive is here to serve you. Feel free to contact us with your concerns or ideas about how we can continue to develop Commonwealth literary studies in Canada and the United States. We work in an expanding field. Since our election, we have received fifty new memberships. However, we are still below our objectives, so that any help with recruitment would be appreciated. It is an exciting time to be involved with CACLALS.

Diana Brydon

President

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Call for Papers

CANADIAN LEARNED SOCIETY MEETINGS

University of Victoria

May 20-21, 1990

Campus representative: Professor Smaro Kamboureli, Department of English, University of Victoria

Programme chair: Professor Aruna Srivastava, Department of English, University of British Columbia

CACLALS invites paper proposals on any topic within the Commonwealth/post-colonial field: comparative, theoretical, single author, text or country, Abstracts should be between 250 and 500 words in length. Completed papers should not exceed twenty minutes in delivery time. Proposals must be postmarked no later than March 1, 1990, to be considered for delivery. Please send your proposals to:

Professor Diana Brydon

Department of English

University of Guelph

Guelph, Ontario

N1G 2W1

All proposals will be read by a sub-committee of the executive. Only proposals submitted by CACLALS members in good standing will be considered.

Although our call this year is open, we especially encourage papers on the intersections or contradictions between post-colonialism and post-modernism. We have arranged a joint session on this theme with the Association for the Study of Canadian and Quebec Literatures (ACQL) to be held from 9:00 a.m. until 12 noon on Monday, May 21. The morning will consist of a panel discussion on the topic between two ACQL and two CACLALS nominees, followed by four papers, two selected by CACLALS from our membership and two by ACQL from theirs.

If interest is sufficiently high, as indicated by proposals received, papers on this topic will be scheduled throughout the conference. In other words, you will not be subjected to increased competition for limited space if you choose to submit on this topic.

Note on the Victoria Meeting

Although the official dates for our Victoria meeting are Sunday, May 20 and Monday, May 21 (see “Call for Papers” elsewhere in CHIMO), we invite all registrants to attend an opening informal wine-and-cheese reception, to be held in conjunction with on-site registration at the Green Room (Commons 203) from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 19. This event will give members an opportunity to meet and exchange news and greetings before the official programme gets under way.

CACLALS members are also invited to attend the University President’s Reception on Monday, May 21.

The other social gathering of the Association will be a dinner. Details for this and for the entire programme will be printed in the Spring 1990 issue of CHIMO, to be mailed in mid-April.

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Canadian Association for Commonwealth

Literature and Language Studies (CACLALS)

Much of the most exciting writing in English today comes not from England or the United States, but from countries once colonized or settled by English-speaking peoples. The Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies was founded in 1975 to study this literature and the transformations effected through the transportation process in the English language and its literary traditions.

Commonwealth literature provides Canadians with a context for understanding their own literature as part of a global system, as well as introducing a deeper understanding of other cultures, whose influences are increasingly being felt throughout the world as well as within Canada itself. The Association encourages the kind of cross-cultural communication vital to the success of a multicultural society. Our members’ work creating and explicating literature promotes cross-cultural understanding and shows how literature may both reveal a culture’s specificity and cross-cultural boundaries to touch the humanity of all.

An organization of teachers, scholars, writers and students, CACLALS’ membership reflects the Canadian mosaic and the increasing interest in Canadian and Commonwealth studies around the world. In addition to its annual meeting held at the Learned Societies Conference, the Association holds a triennial conference called the Commonwealth-in-Canada Conference. Three such conferences have been held: in Montreal (1978); in Winnipeg (1981) and in Wolfville (1985). A fourth conference is planned for Guelph in 1991. A newsletter published twice a year keeps members in touch with activities in the field at home and abroad. The Association participates in newsletter exchanges with similar organizations around the world.

Since Commonwealth literature is very much a contemporary study, with many of the great writers in the field still living, the Association seeks to bring writers and readers together for creative exchange. Through such activities, the Association itself actively contributes to the vitality and diversity of a living culture. We promote and publicize the work of younger writers and critics while preserving and conveying the heritage of the past.

MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS:

--Copies of CHIMO (the association newsletter) and the ACLALS bulletin;

--Financial assistance to conference participants, as grants are made available;

--Eligibility to attend or participate in conferences of ACLALS and international affiliates;

--A vote at all Annual Meetings of CACLALS;

--Access to information about the teaching of Commonwealth literature in Canada and elsewhere;

--Opportunity for contact with international artists, scholars, and teachers, and to attend social and cultural gatherings in Canada and abroad.

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The ACLALS Silver Jubilee

The following is the text of comments made by Diana Brydon, president of CACLALS, at the ACLALS Silver Jubilee Conference held at the University of Kent in August, 1989. The remarks constitute a contribution as part of the final panel discussion:

"I am fascinated by the ways in which questions that were hotly debated at earlier conferences have been silently answered in the assumptions behind this one as we reconstitute our field and remake our history. Remember when we debated whether or not it was appropriate to include black British, Scottish or Irish writing in the field we surveyed? That question no longer arises. People are doing it, and we are now asking a different set of questions--questions about representation, ideology, literary production and reception, questions that cut across our old definitions of a demarcated field.

Six years ago at Guelph, we discussed the theme: “Beyond Nationalism”. At that time, many participants attacked the premises of that theme. They were not willing to abandon “nation” as a category of classification. Although as a Canadian, I still see some value for Canadians in the construction of our nation as a “diminutive pole” of resistance to the pull of U.S. imperialism (as Wilson Harris put it earlier this week), I think more of us are willing to acknowledge the constructedness of nation as a concept and its too often realized potential for repression. Here at this conference, “beyond nationalism” has hardly been an issue. It has formed the starting point for several of our keynote speakers.

Edward Said spoke of the need for a global perspective; Derek Walcott of writing for the glory of God; Wilson Harris of the cross-cultural imagination. These are not the old universalisms in new disguise; they are an attempt to think through (not across--the preposition is important) our differences toward new understandings of our common humanity as enriched by the specifics of Harris’ diminutive poles that keep the magnetic pulls of our field in constant creative flux.

Such a practice demands attentive listening. Our focus is shifting, I think, from finding a voice to lending an ear, to educating all our senses to respond to the nuances of shifting contexts and changing definitions. No words are neutral. As Derek Walcott has reminded us, the glory of God resonates differently in the Caribbean than it does in North America. Words that imply utopian values--words such as multiculturalism or pluralism--may be used for repressive political control. Resistant works may be pulled back into the orbit of the familiar. We are constantly seeking to keep our critical practice open to the liberating potential in seeing differently--through other eyes--and resistant to the closed, to the tendency to recuperate, to translate that difference back into the familiar. As Stephen Slemon put it, ours is an ambivalent practice--to be simultaneously open and resistant, not for us the certainties of a totalizing imagination.

Like Slemon and Helen Tiffin, I believe that our creative writers are our best guides into decolonization. It has been instructive and pleasurable to hear from so many of them here. They lead us out of the state of simile into metaphor (Derek Walcott’s formulation), educating our imaginations through cross-cultural encounter. But we are still struggling to find a critical language that can do justice to their insights. The institutionalized format of our papers and sessions tends to flatten, confine and reduce our thinking rather than opening it up.

Wilson Harris’s comments on recuperation made me think of Janet Frame’s novel The Carpathians. In The Carpathians, a whole street in New Zealand is wiped out in a midnight rain of letters, as the alphabets of every language in the world descend to confound them. The inhabitants scream and die. Their neighbours cannot deal with this suddenly opened fissure in the ordinary rhythms of their experience. They construct a narrative to recuperate this gap back into the smooth linear development of events. The catastrophe is rewritten into an ordinary narrative of understandable comings and goings. The seismic potential for revolutionary change is lost. Wilson Harris warned us against this kind of recuperation. I fear it is what our traditional literary criticism encourages us to do with such texts.

The Carpathians itself contains this moment of devastation as a warning against such forgetting while insisting on the necessity of finding a more creative way of trusting contradictions instead of seeking to resolve them. Perhaps this is a direction we could be exploring. To simply label a work like The Carpathians postmodernist, while not inaccurate, is to weaken its ability to change our thinking. Perhaps we need to be developing our own critical language out of our encounters with such texts. Perhaps our critical practice might seek to express itself through formats other than the twenty-minute paper. Could we have more panel discussions centred on a question or a text? What else could we be doing? Shouldn’t we be talking in a more focused way about our teaching?

I have enjoyed this conference, but I have been disturbed by its growing resemblance to the Modern Language Association. As an organization, we ourselves potentially embody a different mode of engaging with literature and returning it to the world. My strongest impression remains the double challenge we face as, no longer marginalized, we find that the so‑called mainstream is welcoming us into its fold, naming us into a new existence that is hard to resist. On the one hand, we face that critical establishment. On the other, we face our own fictional texts. At the Wilson Harris panel, Russell McDougall remarked that these texts were teaching us to read as we had never read before. We’re still learning."

Diana Brydon

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CACLALS at Kent

The following is a list of papers given by our members at the Silver Jubilee ACLALS conference held at the University of Kent in August 1989:

C. Abrahams, “Language, Literature and Politics: Abrahams, LaGuma and Soyinka”

Harold Barratt, “Women as Survivors in Commonwealth Fiction”

Anthony Boxill, “Women and Migration in the Short Fiction of Bissoondath and Mukherjee”

Diana Brydon, “Rethinking Canadian Discourse: Bicultural, Multicultural, Transcultural”

Saros Cowasjee, “Women Writers of the Raj: The British View of India”

Colleen Cowman, “Transforming Realism: Subverting the Metanarrative of ‘Progress’ in Janice Kulyk Keefer’s Constellations”

Selwyn Cudjoe, “Cross‑cultural Connections: The Travel Writings of A.R.F. Webber”

Robin Dizard, “How the Subject Changes: The Beauties and the Furies”

Kelly Hewson, “For God’s Sake, Open Up the Universe a Little More!: The Manifold World of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children”

Graham Huggan, “Maps, Dreams, and the Presentation of Ethnographic Narrative: Brody and Chatwin”

S. Islam, “Desai, Kureishi and Mukherjee”

Mary Jarrett, “Landscape, Migration and Cultural Identity in Elizabeth Jolley’s The Sugar Mother”

Donald Jewison, “The Image of the Child in the Fiction of Mavis Gallant and Katherine Mansfield”

Rosemary Jolly, “The Secret Ladder: Wilson Harris’ Annunciation of the Post-Structuralist Dialogue”

Mark Kemp, “Caliban’s Memoirs: Lamming’s The Pleasures of Exile and Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks as Collective Autobiography”

Linda Lamont-Stewart, “The Role of A.I.M. Smith in Constructing the Canadian Poetic Canon”

Bernth Lindfors, “The Teaching of African Literature in Anglophone African Universities: Some Notes on Canon Formation”

Oliver Lovesey, “Accommodation and Revolt: Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Devil on the Cross”

Amin Malak, “Minority Discourse and the ‘Third World’ Dimension in Canadian Writing”

Malcolm Page, “Multicultural Canadian Drama”

Uma Parameswaran, “Literature of the Indian Diaspora in Canada”

Faye Pickrem, “RE/POSITIONING: Shifting Positions in Post/Colonial Literature”

V. Ramraj, “The Indo-Caribbean Experience of Marginality”

Danielle Schaub, “Mavis Gallant’s Experiments with Narrative Techniques in The

Peignitz Junction”

John Scheckter, “Outside Insight: Pacific Participation in the Recent Australian Novel:

Drewe, Koch, Stow and Astley”

Jamie S. Scott, “Out of Histories, Hope: Reading Bessie Head’s The Village Saint as

Religious Allegory”

G.N. Sharma, “Ideology and Myth: Use of Religious Myth for Political Purposes in the

Fiction of Rao, Ngugi and Mais”

Stephen Slemon, “Reading Resistance in Post‑Colonial Criticism”

Craig Tapping, “Mistry, Mukherjee, Namjoshi and Seth: North‑American Contact/ Captivity Narratives”

Thomas E. Tausky, “The ‘Indian Interest’ of Sara Jeanette Duncan”

H. Nigel Thomas, “The Rain Metaphor in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather”

C.H. Wyke, “The Arkansas Testament: Autobiography as Travel Literature”

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Commonwealth Writers Prize, 1989

The Commonwealth Writers Prize is awarded annually, and is jointly sponsored by the Commonwealth Foundation and ACLALS. Awards are made in two categories: Best Book and Best First Book. Winners in these two categories are chosen from shortlisted winners in each of four geographical regions.

In recent years, the competition has been organized from outside the U.K. In 1989 and again for 1990, the administrative centre is Australia. It is likely that Canada will take its turn after that.

As president of CACLALS, Diana Brydon was Chair of the Caribbean & Canada regional competition and participated in the overall judging. The two major prizes were announced at the Sydney Opera House on November 8, 1989. Janet Frame of New Zealand won the Best Book award for her novel The Carpathians and the prize for the Best First Book was awarded to Bonnie Burnard of Canada, for Women of Influence.

The following is the complete list of shortlisted winners, for Best Book and Best Short Book, respectively:

Africa: Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe), Nervous Conditions; no award for Best First Book.

Caribbean & Canada: Erna Brodber (Jamaica), Myal; Bonnie Burnard (Canada), Women of Influence.

Eurasia: Marina Warner (England), The Lost Father; I. Allan Sealy (India), The Trotter-Nama.

SE Asia & South Pacific: Janet Frame (New Zealand), The Carpathians; Gillian Mears (Australia), Ride a Cock Horse.

ANSETT N.Z. BOOK AWARDS 1988:

Fiction: Janet Frame, The Carpathians (Century Hutchinson)

Poetry: Cilla McQueen, Benzina (McIndoe)

Non-fiction: Ron Keam, Tarawera

Book Production: Les Molloy, Fold of the Land (Allen Unwin)

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World Literature Written in English

G.D. Killam has stepped down as editor of World Literature Written in English. The journal will remain at the University of Guelph under the editorship of Diana Brydon. WLWE is a refereed journal, which welcomes papers on any aspect of the Commonwealth literatures and especially encourages work of a comparative or theoretical nature. Papers should be sent to the editor at the University of Guelph. A subscription order form appears below:

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The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Commonwealth Literature

A plan to produce a 1,300-page reference encyclopaedia on Commonwealth Literature has been awarded a Major Project grant by S.S.H.R.C. The volume will be published by Routledge (London), and it is scheduled to appear in the Spring of 1993. Editors of the Encyclopaedia will be Professors Eugene Benson, L.W. Conolly and G.D. Killam, all at the University of Guelph.

The Encyclopaedia will document the history and development of Commonwealth literature and will relate to the literatures of some fifty Commonwealth countries and mandated territories (excluding the United Kingdom). Its significance derives from the richness and variety of the Commonwealth experience as reflected in so many literatures and from the common historical experiences (colonialism and post-colonialism) that have influenced these literatures. Entries will be comparative in nature so that the literature of one Commonwealth country may be interpreted in light of the literature of another. The entry on Robertson Davies, for example, will draw comparisons with the work of George Lamming (Barbados), Martin Boyd and Patrick White (Australia), Chinua Achebe (Nigeria), and V.S. Naipaul (Trinidad).

The Encyclopaedia will be organized around three major categories: National Entries; Major Subject Entries; and Biographical and Critical Entries on Individual Authors. There will also be important overview essays for each major subject entry.

The Board of Research Consultants, drawn from Canadian universities, includes Professors Diana Brydon (Guelph), Gwendolyn Davies (Acadia), John P. Matthews (Queen’s), Govind Narain Sharma (Acadia), and Rowland Smith (Dalhousie).

National Editors include Professor C.D. Narasimhaiah (India), Professor Kenneth Goodwin (Australia), Professor C. Tiffin (South Pacific), Professor D. Massa (Malta), Professor Samuel Asein (West Africa), Professor Stephen Gray (South Africa), Professor I.R. Mbise (East and Central Africa), Professor Diana Brydon (Canada), Professor Terry Sturm (New Zealand), Professor D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke (Sri Lanka), and Professor Kirpal Singh (Malaysia and Singapore).

At least 300 scholars throughout the world will participate.

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Conference Announcements

Ninth Ibadan Annual African Literature Conference

March 12-15, 1990

University of Ibadan, Nigeria

“Africa and the Black Diaspora”

Enquiries to Dr Harry Garuba (Coordinator), Ibadan Annual African Literature Conference, Dept of English, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.

EACLALS Triennial Conference

April 3-7, 1990

University of Lecce, Italy

“Commonwealth Literary Cultures: New Voices: New Approaches”

Enquiries to Professor Bernard Hickey, EACLALS Conference, Universita di Lecce, Dipartimento di Lingue & Lett. Straniere, Via V. Carluccio, 73100, Lecce, Italy.

Tradition and Transition in African Letters

(The Common Wealth of Letters at Yale University)

April 19-20, 1990

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

“Tradition and Transition in African Letters”

Enquiries to Professor Michael G. Cooke, Director, The Commonwealth of Letters, 1119 Yale Station, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.

Fifth Biennial Canadian Studies Conference

(Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand)

July 19-22, 1990

University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia

Coordinators for literature are Mr. Dennis Drummond (Division of French, University of New England) for French; Dr Jim Sait (Department of English, University of New England) for English. Enquiries to Professor John Warhurst, Department of Politics, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia.

Seventh Inuit Studies Conference

August 19-23, 1990

Fairbanks, Alaska

Co-Chairs for the session: “The Development of Indigenous Literature” are Elsie Mather (P.O. Box 443, Bethel, Alaska 99559) and Robin McGrath (Department of English, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E5). Enquiries to Dr Lydia Black, Dept of Anthropology, University of Alaska; Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA.

Conference on Fourth World Literatures

First week of April, 1991

State University College at Cortland, NY

Enquiries to Dr Emmanuel S. Nelson, Associate Professor of English, State University College, Cortland, NY 13045, USA.

Commonwealth Literature Conference of Female Writers 1991

University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Enquiries to Britt Olinder, University of Gothenburg, Welanderg 24, 2-41656, Gotenborg, Sweden.

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New Journals and Publications

Signature is a new journal committed to the study of critical theory internationally and in the Canadian context. Two issues per year are planned. The first issue (Summer 1989) includes articles by Terry Eagleton, Linda Hutcheon, Barbara Godard, and Pamela McCallum. Subscriptions (individuals $15, institutions $25) and manuscripts should be sent to Signature, Department of English, University of Victoria, B.C. V8W 2Y2.

Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada is edited by Thomas E. Tausky and published at the University of Western Ontario. It is described as “a lively look at literary culture down under.” It is published twice a year. Two issues (Spring and Fall 1989) have already appeared, including good representation of CACLALS members. The journal receives some financial support from CACLALS as a result of a decision taken at the annual meeting in Laval. Subscriptions (individuals $10, institutions $15) and manuscripts should be sent to Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada, Department of English, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 3K7.

The Rushdie Controversy

Selwyn R. Cudjoe of Wellesley College, Massachusetts, has sent us some copies of a booklet he has edited entitled Salman Rushdie and His Verses. The booklet arises out of a discussion held at Wellesley College, and includes short essays by Selwyn Cudjoe, Sunil Sethi, Ansori M. Nawawi, and Larry Rosenthal. It is published by Calaloux Publications. The cost of the booklet is $3.25 (Canadian) and you can obtain copies from Patrick Holland, Department of English, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1.

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NEWS OF MEMBERS

Victor Ramraj (Calgary) is the new editor of ARIEL.

Diana Brydon (Guelph) is the new editor of WLWE.

Selwyn Cudjoe (Wellesley College) has edited a collection of points of view on The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie and His Verses (Wellesley: Calaloux, 1989). He has also published and written the introduction to Those That Be in Bondage by A.R.F. Webber. A collection entitled Caribbean Women Writers is forthcoming.

David Dowling (Trent) has two pieces in the Fall 1989 issue of Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada: “Historiography in Some Recent New Zealand Fiction” and “A Katherine Mansfield Bibliography.”

Margery Fee (Queen’s) has provided entries on Canadian English and other topics for the forthcoming Oxford Companion to the English Language. Her article “Why C.K. Stead didn’t like Keri Hulme’s The bone people: Who Can Write As Other?” appeared in the Spring 1989 issue of Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada.

Carole Gerson (Simon Fraser) is the author of A Purer Taste: The Writing and Reading of Fiction in English in Nineteenth-Century Canada.

Susan Gingell (Saskatchewan) has served on the editorial board responsible for the production of the Collected Works of E.J. Pratt; she edited Pratt’s Unpublished Drama and Unpublished Poetry for Part Two of the Collected Poems (eds. Sandra Djwa and R.G. Moyles), published by University of Toronto Press in 1989.

Terry Goldie (York) has had his book Fear and Temptation: The Image of the Indigene in Canadian, Australian and New Zealand Literatures published by McGill Queen’s U.P. (1989).

James Harrison is writing a study of Salman Rushdie’s work to be published by G.K. Hall in the Twayne’s World Authors series.

Helen Hoy (Lethbridge) has two pieces completed on Alice Munro. “‘Rose and Janet’: Alice Munro’s Metafiction” appeared in the Summer 1989 issue of Canadian Literature; her “Alice Munro: Unforgettable, Indigestible Messages” is forthcoming in Journal of Canadian Studies.

M. Travis Lane (New Brunswick) is the author of Solid Things: Poems New and Selected, published by Cormorant Press in 1989.

Roger Langen (York) is project coordinator for an upcoming conference, tentatively titled “Glasnost and the Global Village” to be held at York University, February 12-15, 1991.

Arun Mukherjee (York) is the author of Towards an Aesthetic of Opposition, published by Williams-Wallace Publishers in 1988.

W.H. New (U.B.C.) has recently published Dreams of Speech and Violence and A History of Canadian Literature; he has also edited volume four of the Literary History of Canada and volume eight of the Dictionary of Literary Biography.

Jamie S. Scott (York) is co-editor of the book Sacred Places and Profane Spaces: Essays in the Geographics of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, forthcoming from Greenwood Press.

Paul St. Pierre (Simon Fraser) is author of the forthcoming The Limits of Omniscience: Narrative Methodology in Australian Fiction.

H. Nigel Thomas (Laval) is the author of From Folklore to Fiction: A Study of Folk Heroes and Rituals in the Black American Novel, published by Greenwood Press in 1988.

Lee Thompson (Vermont) is author of Introducing ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, forthcoming.

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Directory of CACLALS Members , 1989

Dr. Cecil Abrahams, Dean of Humanities, Brock University; St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1

Professor Ian Adam, Head, Dept. of English, University of Calgary; 2500 University Drive, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4

Dr. R.F. Anderson, Dept. of English, University of Alberta; Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E6

Dr. Harold Barratt, Dept. of Languages & Letters, College of Cape Breton; Sydney, Nova Scotia B1P 6G1

Ms. Nancy E. Batty, Dept. of English, University of Western Ontario; London, Ontario N6A 3K7

Dr. Eugene Benson, Dept. of English, University of Guelph; Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1

Sim Boey, Dept. of English, Andrews Hall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Lincoln, Nebraska 68588‑0333

Dr. Anthony Boxill, Dept. of English, University of New Brunswick; Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3

Dr. Diana Brydon, Dept. of English, University of Guelph; Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1

Prof J. Edward Chamberlin, Dept. of English, University of Toronto; Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1

Mr. Roger Clark, #706, 2725 Melfa Road, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1N4

Dr. Saros Cowasjee, Dept. of English, University of Regina; Regina, Saskatchewan S4S 0A2

Ms. Colleen J. Cowman, 1376 Plains Road East, Burlington, Ontario L7R 3P8

Dr. Terence Craig, Dept. of English, Mount Allison University; Sackville, New Brunswick

Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe, Dept. of Black Studies, Wellesley College; Wellesley, Massachusetts 02181 USA

Dr. Robin Dizard, 41 High Street, Amherst, MA 01002 USA

Dr. David Dowling, Dept. of English, Trent University; Peterborough, Ontario K91 7B8

Dr. Lorris Elliott, #817‑1420 Towers Street, Montreal, Que. H3H 2E1

Dr. D.R. Ewen, Dept. of English, York University; North York, Ontario M31 1P3

Dr. Margery Fee, Dept. of English, Queen’s University; Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6

Dr. Carole Gerson, Dept. of English, Simon Fraser University; Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6

Dr. Susan Gingell, Dept. of English, University of Saskatchewan; Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N OWO

Dr. Horace Goddard, c/o Lorris Elliott, #817‑1420 Towers Street, Montreal, Que. H3H 2E1

Dr. Terry Goldie, Dept. of English, York University; North York, Ontario M3J 1P3

Dr. Sarah Harasym, Dept. of English, Trent University; Peterborough, Ontario K91 7B8

Prof. Bernhard Harder, Dept. of English, University of Windsor; Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4

Prof. James Harrison, Dept. of English, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1

Mr. R. Alexander G. Hart, Box 46133, Station G, Vancouver, B.C. V6R 4G5

Mr. T.W. Hastings, #6‑795 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M6G 1C7

Dr. J.J. Healy, Associate Dean of Arts, Carleton University; Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6

Ajay Heble, Dept. of English, 7 Kings College Circle, University of Toronto; Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1

Dr. Kelly Hewson, Dept. of English, University of Alberta; Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E5

Dr. Patrick Holland, Dept. of English, University of Guelph; Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1

Dr. Helen Hoy, Chair, Dept. of English, University of Lethbridge; Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4

Dr. Graham Huggan, Dept. of English, Harvard University, Warren House, Cambridge Massachusetts 02138

Dr. Shamsul Islam, 4690 Borden Avenue, Montreal, Que. H4B 2P5

Dr. Mary Jarrett, Dept. of English, Westfield College, University of London; Kiddipore Avenue, London NW3 7ST UK

Dr. Don Jewison, Dept. of English, University of Winnipeg; 515 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9

Ms. Rosemary Jolly, 15 Bideford Avenue, Apt #601, Toronto, Ontario M5M 4C2

Dr. Smaro Kamboureli, Dept. of English, University of Victoria; P.O. Box 1700, Victoria, B.C. V8W 2Y2

Dr. Chelva Kanaganayakam, Dept. of English, Trinity College, University of Toronto; 6 Hoskin Avenue, Toronto, Ont. M5S 1H8

Mr. Mark Kemp, 234 Guthrie Drive, Apt. #104, Kingston, Ontario K7K 6K8

Dr. G.D. Killam, Dept. of English, University of Guelph; Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1

Dr. Linda Lamont-Stewart, Dept. of English, York University; North York, Ontario M3J 1P3

Dr. M. Travis Lane, 807 Windsor Street, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 4G7

Mr. Roger Langen, #9350 Ontario Street, Toronto, Ontario M4X 1X3

Mrs. Margaret J. Lazenby, Dept. of English, Humber College of Applied Arts; Rexdale Avenue, Toronto, Ontario

Dr. Bernth Lindfors, Dept. of English, University of Texas; Austin, Texas 78712 USA

Dr. Oliver Lovesey, Dept. of English, University of British Columbia; Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5

Dr. Bruce F. MacDonald, Dept. of English, Luther College, University of Regina; Regina, Saskatchewan S4S 0A2

Mr. Amin Malak, 9, 8408‑105 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T6E 4H5

Dr. Pamela McCallum, Dept. of English, University of Calgary; Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4

Dr. Judith McCombs, 1912 Norvale Road, Silver Spring, Maryland 20906‑1933 USA

Dr. Robin McGrath, Dept. of English, University of Alberta; Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E5

Ms. Barbara McLean, R.R.2, Holstein, Ontario N0G 2A0

Dr. Marian B. McLeod, Dept. of Speech & Theater, Trenton State College; Trenton, New Jersey 08625 USA

Dr. Lorraine McMullen, Dept. of English, University of Ottawa; Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5

Uppinder Mehan, 1 Riverlea Road, Weston, Ontario M9P 2S1

Dr. John Moss, Dept. of English, University of Ottawa; Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5

Ms. Laura J. Murray, Dept. of English, 250 Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University; Ithaca, New York 14850 USA

Dr. Arun P. Mukherjee, Division of Humanities, Winters College, York University; North York, Ontario M31 1P3

Dr. Bruce Nesbitt, 541 Mariposa Avenue, Rockcliffe Park, Ontario K1M 0S5

Dr. W.H. New, 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5

Dr. J.P. O’Carroll, Bayview Glen School, 275 Duncan Mill Road, Toronto, Ontario M3C 1M9

Dr. Malcolm Page, Dept. of English, Simon Fraser University; Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6

Dr. Uma Parameswaran, Dept. of English, 515 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9

Ms. Faye A. Pickrem, Apt. #210, 35 Shoreham Drive, North York, Ontario M3N 1S5

Dr. Victor J. Ramraj, Dept. of English, University of Calgary; Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4

Douglas Rollins, Dept. of English, Lafontaine Campus, Dawson College; 1001 Sherbrooke Street East, Montreal, Quebec H21 1L3

Prof. Danielle Schaub, Dept. of English, University of Haifa; 48 Denya Street, P.O. Box 542, 34980 Haifa, Israel

John Scheckter, 1 Tulip Lane, Commack, New York 11725 USA

Dr. Jamie S. Scott, Religious Studies/Humanities, York University; 4700 Keele Street, North York, Ontario M3J 1P3

Dr. Govind Sharma, Box 257, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia B0P 1X0

Dr. Stephen Slemon, Dept. of English, University of Alberta; Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2F5

Dr. Rowland Smith, Dept. of English, Dalhousie University; Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3J5

Prof. P. Sri, Dept. of English, University of Alberta; Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2F5

Prof. Aruna Srivastava, Dept. of English, University of British Columbia; Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5

Dr. Paul M. St. Pierre, Dept. of English, Simon Fraser University; Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6

Dr. Thomas Tausky, Dept. of English, University of Western Ontario; London, Ontario N6A 3K7

Dr. H. Nigel Thomas, Dept. des Litteratures, Universite Laval; Quebec City, Quebec G1K 7P4

Dr. Lee Thompson, Dept. of English, 315 Old Mill, University of Vermont; Burlington, Vermont 05405‑6114

Ms. Joanne Tompkins, 258-35 Shoreham Drive, Downsview, Ontario M3N 1S5

Aritha van Herk, Dept. of English, University of Calgary; Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4

Robin Visel, #23‑302 Berini Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 3P7

Dr. Clement Wyke, 31 Martindale Place, Winnipeg, Manitoba R2P 0C9

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CACLALS Executive Committee

PRESIDENT Diana Brydon

Department of English

University of Guelph

Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1

SEC/TREASURER Patrick Holland

Department of English

University of Guelph

Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1

PAST PRESIDENT Lorris Elliott

#817‑1420 Towers Street

Montreal, Quebec H3H 2E1

PACIFIC REP. Aruna Srivastava

Department of English

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1W5

PRAIRIE REP. Stephen Slemon

Department of English

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E5

QUEBEC REP. Shamsul Islam

4690 Borden Avenue

Montreal, Quebec H4B 2P5

ATLANTIC REP. Rowland Smith

Department of English

Dalhousie University

Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3J5

Note: By a decision of the A.G.M. held at Laval University in 1989, those representatives elected in absentia will be nominated for confirmation in their positions at the A.G.M. to be held at the University of Victoria in May 1990. If confirmed, the above executive committee will serve until Spring 1992.

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Acknowledgement to Gail McGinnis for her help in preparing the manuscript.

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