Abou-Rihan,
Fadi.
“Queer Marks/Nomadic Difference: Sexuality and
the Politics of Race and
Ethnicity.” Canadian
Review of Comparative Literature 21 (March-June 1994):
255-263.
Literary
and gay/lesbian theory and criticism; ethnocentrism; gay men/
lesbians;
queer theory.
Abou-Rihan, Fadi.
“Queer Sites: Tools,
Terrains, Theories.” Canadian Review
of Comparative
Literature
24(3)(Sept. 1997): 501-508.
Alexander, Jonathan.
“Making
Strange.” Lambda Book Report [
Ref.: Seminal, p. 352, in section on Norm Sacuta.
Allen, Dennis W.
“Mistaken Identities:
Re-Defining Lesbian and Gay Studies.” Canadian
Review
of Comparative
Literature 21 (March-June 1994): 133-148.
Author
works elsewhere; included because journal Canadian and subject
not
country-specific.
Andrews, Jennifer.
“Irony, Métis Style: Reading the Poetry of Marilyn Dumont and Gregory
Scofield.” Canadian Poetry 50 (2002): 6-31.
Ref.: Seminal, p. 352.
“Anne of ‘Gay
Gables’.” Maclean’s,
Laura
Robinson, English professor at the
Gables stories.
Bacon, C.
“‘…That World Inverted’: Encoded Lesbian Identity in Elizabeth Bishop’s
‘Love Lies Sleeping’ and ‘Insomnia’.” In Divisions of the Heart:
Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Memory and Place, pp. 199-208.
Edited by Sandra Barry, Gwendolyn Davies, and Peter Sanger.
Essay at a
symposium held at
Ball, Matthew Bruce.
“Dictionaries and
Ideology: The Treatment of Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals in
Lexicographic
Works.” MA thesis,
(228 p.)
Banting, Pamela.
“The Phantom Limb
Syndrome: Writing the Postcolonial Body in Daphne Marlatt’s
Touch to My Tongue.” ARIEL: A Review of International English
Literature
24 (July 1993): 7-30.
Treatment
of lesbianism; relationship to the other.
Barclay, Michael.
“Hidden
Cameras: One Nation under a Fag.” Exclaim!,
Ref.: Seminal, p. 340, in section concerning Joel Gibb.
Barton, John, 1957-
“Introduction [to Seminal].” In Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male
Poets,
pp. 7-30. Edited by John Barton and
Billeh Nickerson.
Arsenal Pulp Press, c2007.
Compiler note: The introduction provides an overview of history and
issues regarding Canadian gay poets and poetry. Barton notes (p. 24) that
“the number of
gay male poets writing in
with nearly half of the poets in Seminal publishing their first book that
contains (openly) gay-themed poems since the late 1980s.”
Barton, John.
“Men of Honour: Prototypes of the Heroic in the Poetry of Douglas LePan.”
Arc 58 (2007): no pagination given.
Ref.: Seminal, p. 346.
Barton, John.
“Silences Longer Than We
Can Bear.” Poetry
Barton
discusses development of his writing towards being more openly
gay
and “how I came to publish Great Men.” (p. 6)
Beaucage,
Christian.
“Théâtre et
homosexualité: prendre part à la différence.”
Québec français,
no. 124, hiver
2001-2002, pp. 38-42.
“Réflexion
d’un professeur de littérature au collégial sur le
contact des étudiants avec personnages homosexuels de la littérature
québécoise; commentaire sur trois oeuvres, [par Michel Tremblay,
Michel-Marc Bouchard et Serge Boucher]” –Repère résumé.
Ben Wa, Peter.
“Canadian Gay Jokes.” Maledicta: The International Journal of
Verbal Agression
[Santa Rosa, Calif.] 9 (1986-1987): 105-108.
Bennett, Susan.
“Only in
17 (Fall 1996): 160-174.
Angels
in America is by American playwright, Tony Kushner.
Bernstein, Charles.
“Robin on His Own.” West Coast Line 29(2) (1995): 114-121.
Ref.: Seminal, p. 333, concerning poet Robin Blaser.
Bertin,
Raymond.
“Scènes (roses) de voix
d’hommes pour rendre compte, infiniment, d’une parole qui
me touche.” Jeu 28 (1983): 66-75.
“Portrait
général du théâtre portant sur l’homosexualité, ou ‘théâtre gai’
actuellement
au Québec, critique de quelques pièces, dont le spectacle
‘Dépluggai’
(création collective), ‘C’est pas toujours rose,’ et ‘Les
anciennes odeurs’ de Michel Tremblay” – from Repère
résumé.
Bérubé, Allan.
“Intellectual
Desire.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian
and Gay Studies [
3(1) (1996): 139-157.
Issues
of lesbian and gay theory and criticism, male homosexual identity,
relationship
to French Canadian identity.
Blumberg, Marcia.
“Queer(y)ing the
Canadian Stage: Brad Fraser’s Poor Super
Theatre Research in
Bolster, Stephanie, et
al.
Sexual
Disorientation: Sexual Identity and Gender Expression in the Writing Life,
1997, with Texts.
1998.
(64 p.; ISBN 1896216080)
Brant, Beth.
“From the Inside,
Looking at You.” Canadian Woman
Studies 14 (Fall 1993):
16-17.
Brinks, Ellen.
“Registering Lesbian Desire: Figuration, Identification, Style.” Canadian
Review of Comparative Literature 27(3)(2002): 498 (12 pages).
Review article.
“Brion Gysin.” In Writing At Risk: Interviews in
pp.
57-84. Edited by Jason Weiss.
Ref.:
Seminal, p. 343.
Brophy, Sarah.
“In Sotto Howl:
Sexuality and Politics in the Poetry of
R.M. Vaughan.”
Essays on Canadian
Writing 63 (Spring 1998): 172-196.
Brophy, Sarah.
Witnessing AIDS: Writing, Testimony and the Work of Mourning.
(271 p.; ISBNs 0802085679 and 0802087736)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 28403731.
Discusses AIDS testimonial literature, in focussing on four texts.
Brown, Anne E.
“Sappho’s Daughters:
Lesbian Identities in Novels by Quebecois Women (1960-
1990).” In International
Women’s Writing: New Landscapes of Identity,
pp. 29-43. Edited by Anne E. Brown and Marjanne
E. Gooze.
Brownworth, Victoria
A.
“Gagging
Ourselves.” Lambda Book Report: A
Review of Contemporary Gay and
Lesbian Literature
4 (Sept.-Oct. 1994): 11-12.
Censorship;
Canadian literature by gay writers.
Bruhm, Steven.
“Queer
Today, Gone Tomorrow.” English
Studies in
(March 2003): 25-32.
Ref.: MLA International Bibliography.
Bruhm, Steven.
Reflecting Narcissus:
A Queer Aesthetic.
(ISBN 0816635501;
081663551X)
Author
at
Budde, Robert.
“Todd Bruce: The Word Inert, Expectant.” In In Muddy Water: Conversations
with
11 Poets, pp. 86-102. Edited by
Robert Budde.
Shillingford Publishing, 2003.
Ref.: Seminal, p. 334.
Burgoyne,
Lynda.
“Théâtre et
homosexualité feminine: un continent invisible.” Jeu 54 (1990):
114-118.
Article
from special issue of Jeu devoted to homosexuality and
theatre.
Butler, Tanya.
“Dorothy Livesay’s Poetic Re/Vision: Reading Binaries, Lesbian Love, and
Androgyny in The Self-Completing Tree.” Canadian Poetry 50
(Spring/Summer
2002): 32-50.
SEE “Théâtre et
homosexualité,” in this section.
Campbell, Kathryn.
“‘Deviance, Inversions
and Unnatural Love’: Lesbians in Canadian Media,
1950-1970.” Atlantis:
A Women’s Studies Journal 23 (Fall 1998): 128-136.
Campbell, Patrick.
“Attic Shapes and Empty Attics: Patrick Anderson, A Memoir.”
Canadian Literature 121 (1989): 86-99.
Ref.: Seminal, p. 329.
Carr, Brenda.
“Collaboration in the
Feminine: Daphne Marlatt/Betsy Warland’s ‘Re-Versed
Writing’ in Double
Negative.” Tessera [
111-122.
Lesbian-feminist
writers; poetry; role of literary collaboration.
Caucci,
Frank.
“La poésie d’André Roy:
anatomie du désir homoérotique.”
Cavell, Richard.
“Felix Paul Greve, the
Eulenburg Scandal, and Frederick Philip Grove.”
Essays on Canadian
Writing 62 (Fall 1997): 12-45.
“The
sexuality of…Greve, one of the several pseudonyms of
Philip Grove, has been normalized so Grove can be treated as a Canadian
author. The attempt in 1906 to expose Philipp Friedrich
Karl Eulenburg
as a homosexual motivated Grove to leave
of fictional identities. Grove’s fiction is best interpreted in [this]
light….”
– from abstract in Expanded Academic ASAP index.
Cavell, Richard, and
Dickinson, Peter.
“Bucke, Whitman, and the
Cross-Border Homosocial.” American
Review of
Canadian Studies
26(3) (Autumn 1997): 425-448.
Richard
Maurice Bucke and Walt Whitman.
Chabot,
Marc, et Chaput, Sylvie.
“Les orientations
sexuelles, les pratiques et la littérature.”
Nuit blanche 72
(automne 1998): 51-53.
“Survol de quelques ouvrages en littérature
gaie et féministe”
– Repère résumé.
Chambers, Jennifer.
“ ‘You Woman-hearted, Poet-brained Wonder Worker!’ : The Poetic Dialogue
of Love between Ethelwyn Wetherald and Helena Coleman.” Canadian Poetry,
issue 57 (Fall/Winter 2005): 65-85.
Chambers, Ross.
“Poaching and Pastiche:
Reproducing the Gay Subculture.” Canadian
Review of
Comparative
Literature 21 (March-June 1994): 162-192.
Included
because journal is Canadian and subject not country-specific.
Chambers, Ross, and
Herrmann, Anne, eds.
“Reading the
Signs.” Canadian Review of
Comparative Literature 21
(March-June 1994).
Issue
focussing on various aspects of gay literature, history, and criticism.
Fifteen articles of broad subject range, including issues of writing gay
history in
introduction by the editors. The articles by Steven Maynard on writing
gay/lesbian history in English Canada and Terri Ginsberg on Jovette
Marchessault’s work are entered individually elsewhere because they
discuss Canadian subjects. Articles by Dianne Chisholm, Richard
Dellamora, Fadi Abou-Rihan, and Jeannelle Laillou Savona receive
individual entries elsewhere because authors are associated with Canadian
institutions. The Allen, Rosello, Herrmann, Worton, and Chambers are
included because journal is Canadian and subjects are general in nature.
The remaining articles have not been individually listed.
Chan, Céline.
“Lesbian Self-Naming in Daphne
Marlatt’s Ana Historic.” Canadian
Poetry:
Studies, Documents, Reviews 31 (Fall-Winter 1992): 68-74.
Chin, Timothy S.
“ ‘Bullers’ and ‘Battymen’: Contesting Homophobia in Black Popular Culture
and
Contemporary
Ref.: Seminal, pp. 354-355, at entry for H. Nigel Thomas.
“ClitLit: What Is It?” Herizons 15(2) (Fall 2001): 39-40.
Interview
with Roewan Crowe, founder in 1998 of ClitLit, a
“theme-based free literary event…[providing] a dynamic and supportive
venue for emerging and established queer women writers” – CBCA
electronic index.
Clarke, George Elliott.
“Must All Blackness Be American?: Locating Canada in Borden’s ‘Tightrope
Time’
or Nationalizing Gilroy’s The Black
Mapping African-Canadian Literature, by George Elliott Clarke, pp. 71-86.
Ref.: Seminal, p. 334, concerning Walter Borden.
Clarke, George Elliott.
“Walter Borden’s Tightrope Time or Voicing the Polyphonous Consciousness.”
Foreword
to Tightrope Time: Ain’t Nuthin’ More Than Some Itty Bitty
Madness between
Twilight & Dawn by Walter Borden.
Ref.: Seminal, p. 334.
Cooke, Nathalie.
“Energy, Emotion and
Perspective: An Interview with Nicole Brossard.”
ARC 32 (Spring 1994):
55-61.
Cover, Robert.
“Queer with Class: Absence of
and a Rearticulation of Materialist Queer
Theory.” ARIEL: A Review of
International English Literature 30(2) (April 1999): 29-48.
Cowan, T. L.
“Punk
Rock Clit Lit:
Contemporary Queer Tales.” Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents,
Reviews 57 (October 2005): 103-121.
Ref.: MLA International Bibliography
Cowan, Theresa L.
“Subverting
Wendy A. Lewis’s You Never Know.” Canadian Children’s Literature, no. 108
(Winter 2002): 27-38.
Ref.: CBCA index.
CCL site abstract notes the following: “The quintessential fairy tale
ending of the prince and the princess living ‘happily ever after’ is a
powerfully naturalized myth that effectively excludes other versions of
happiness and success….These anti-fairy tale conclusions offer
alternatives,…allowing readers to imagine different forms of love as
normal and natural.”
Craig, Ailsa.
“Creating a Visible History:
Lesbian and Gay Biographies Speak for Much More
than One Person’s Life.” Quill & Quire 63(7) (July 1997):
40 (1299 words).
Includes
brief reviews of five biographies, including Elspeth Cameron’s
No
Previous Experience.
Cramer, Timothy R.
“Questioning Sexuality in
Sinclair Ross’s As For Me and My House.”
ARIEL: A Review of
International English Literature 30(2) (April 1999):
49-60.
“Discusses
the possibility that significant characters in [this work by Ross]
are closeted
gays….” – abstract from Expanded Academic ASAP index.
Cumming, Peter E.
“Life after Man: ‘New’ Men in
Canadian Fiction.” MA thesis, University
of
(294 p.)
Curran, Beverley.
“Critical Journals: Theory and the Diary in Nicole Brossard and Daphne
Marlatt.”
A/B: Auto/Biography Studies 15(1) (Summer 2000): 123-140.
Curran, Beverley.
“In Her Element: Daphne Marlatt, the Lesbian Body, and the Environment.”
In Ecopoetry: A Critical Introduction, pp. 195-206. Edited by
J.
Scott Bryson.
Ref.
: MLA Bibliography online.
Curran, Beverley.
“Swimming with the Words:
Narrative Drift in Daphne Marlatt’s Taken.”
Canadian Literature 159 (Winter 1998): 56-71.
Danis,
Mariette.
“L’impossible
réelle: lecture partielle de l’oeuvre de Nicole Brossard.”
Thèse
(M.A), Université du Québec à Montréal, 1985.
(ca.
124 p.)
David,
Gilbert.
“Ce
qui est resté dans le placard….” Jeu 54 (1990): 119-122.
Article
from special issue of Jeu devoted to homosexuality and
theatre.
Dellamora, Richard.
“Becoming-Homosexual/Becoming-Canadian: Ironic
Voice and the Politics
of Location in Timothy
Findley’s Famous Last Words.”
In Double Talking:
Essays on Verbal and Visual Ironies in Canadian
Contemporary Art and
Literature. Edited by Linda
Hutcheon.
Dellamora, Richard.
“Queering Modernism: A
Canadian in
(Winter 1996): 256-273.
“Canadian
author John Glassco’s Memoirs of Montparnasse is useful for
examining
role of truth in autobiography and its place in male heterosexual
modernism. Though Glassco left out specific references
to his
homosexuality in much of his work he left behind notebooks and drafts
which were more revealing of the reality of his life than [was] his
published memoir….” – abstract from Expanded Academic ASAP index.
Dellamora, Richard.
“Responsibilities:
Deconstruction, Feminism, and Lesbian Erotics.”
Canadian Review of
Comparative Literature 21 (March-June 1994): 221-242.
Denance, Michel.
“La
dimension homosexuelle dans la fiction dramatique et romanesque au
Québec,
de 1944 à 1986: autour de l’oeuvre de Michel Tremblay.”
Thèse
de doctorat (3e cycle), Université de Paris VIII, 1987.
(306
p.)
Ref.:
Archives gaies du Québec online bibliography.
Denisoff, Dennis.
“Homosocial Desire and the
Artificial Man in Michael Ondaatje’s The Collected
Works of Billy the Kid.” Essays on Canadian Writing 53 (Summer
1994):
51-70.
Devaux, Peggy.
“‘Ecriture feminine’ and
‘Terri-Stories’: The Intricate Links between Space and
Women’s Writing in the Works
of Nicole Brossard and Daphne Marlatt.”
MA thesis,
(175 p.)
“Their
provocative writing…questions, from their lesbian vantage points,
the
patriarchal society we live in…” – from Canadian Research Index
abstract.
Dickinson, Peter.
“Derek McCormack: In Context and Out.” Essays on Canadian Writing 73
(Spring 2001): 51-71 (7852 words).
“This paper seeks to locate Derek McCormack’s writing within a
continuum of queer literary and cultural production from the 1920s to
the present” – from
paper as given in CBCA electronic index.
Dickinson, Peter.
“‘Go-Go Dancing on the Brink
of the Apocalypse’: Representing AIDS: An Essay
in Seven Epigraphs.” In Postmodern Apocalypse: Theory and
Cultural Practice
at the End, pp.
219-240. Edited by Richard
Dellamora.
Dickinson, Peter.
“Here is Queer: Nationalisms
and Sexualities in Contemporary Canadian
Literatures.” Ph.D.
dissertation,
(389 p.)
“Appl[ies]
recent studies in postcolonial and queer theory to a number
of
works by gay and lesbian authors written across a broad spectrum of
years….” Authors discussed
include Timothy Findley, Patrick Anderson,
Scott Symons, Michel Tremblay, René-Daniel Dubois, Michel Marc
Bouchard, Nicole Brossard, Daphne Marlatt, and Dionne Brand – ref.:
Canadian Research Index
abstract.
Dickinson, Peter.
Here is Queer:
Nationalisms, Sexualities, and the Literatures of
(262 p.; ISBN 0802044034;
0802082106)
Dickinson, Peter.
“ ‘Running Wilde’: National
Ambivalence and Sexual Dissidence in Not Wanted on
the Voyage.” Essays on Canadian Writing 64 (Summer
1998): 125-146.
About
Timothy Findley title.
“Does Lesbianism
Underlie Anne of Green Gables?” Globe and Mail [Metro ed.],
May 31, 2000, pp. A1, A5.
Reference
to Laura Robinson and Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne books.
Dubois,
René-Daniel.
“Vivre
de sa plume au Québec: entrevue avec René-Daniel Dubois.”
Lettres
québécoises 43 (automne 1986): 10-13.
Duder,
Karen.
“Public Acts and Private Languages: Bisexuality
and the Multiple Discourses of
Constance
Grey Swartz.” BC Studies: The British
Columbian Quarterly,
no. 136 (Winter 2002/2003):
3-24.
“This
article focuses on the journals and correspondence of Constance
Grey
Swartz, a middle-class BC woman whose personal papers reveal a
complex
sexual subjectivity with a bisexual orientation” – article, p. 6.
Dufault, Roseanna L.
“Louise Maheux-Forcier’s Amadou:
Reflections on Some Critical Blindspots.”
Quebec Studies 11
(1990-1991): 103-110.
Lesbian/feminist
approach.
Duguay, Sylvain.
“Le dialogue homosexuel dans Les
feluettes de Michel Marc Bouchard.”
MA thesis, McGill University, 1999.
(97 leaves)
Dupont,
Eric.
“Lost
in Space: quelques concepts clés de la théorie queer.” Surfaces 3(21) (1993):
1-18 (electronic journal, ISSN
1188-2492, viewed Dec. 21, 2000 at
www.pum.umontreal.ca/revues/surfaces/
).
“Review
of ‘Queer Sites: Bodies at Work, Bodies at Play,’ a lesbian and
gay
cultural studies conference held in Toronto in May 1993. The author
discusses
the notions of space and of discursive positioning as used or
thematized
by a number of participants. He then points to literature as a
possible site for the working out of a truly queer space” – from online
abstract.
Durr, Susanne.
“Liebes-
und Schreibakte: Erotik und Poetik in Nicole Brossards Sous la langue,
Under
Tongue.” In Sehen, Lesen,
Begehren: Homosexualität in französischer
Literatur
und Kultur, pp.199-218.
Herausgegeben von Dirk Naguschewski und
Sabine Schrader.
Berlin: Tranvia-Frey, 2001.
Ecrire
gai. Sous la direction de Pierre Salducci. Montréal: Stanké, 1999.
(198 p.; ISBN
2760406601)
“Salducci
invite neuf auteurs d’origines diverses à témoigner de leur
vécu
respectif d’écrivain homosexuel, dont Alain Bernard Marchand
et
Paul-François Sylvestre, auteurs primé de l’Ontario français” –
Louis Bélanger, Liaison 103 (21 sept.
1999): 43, to which user is directed
for
fuller discussion.
Edwards, Justin D.
“Engendering Modern
Canadian Poetry: Preview, First Statement, and the
Disclosure of Patrick
Anderson’s Homosexuality.” Essays on
Canadian
Writing 62 (Fall
1997): 65-84.
“Small
literary magazines…helped construct the canon for modern
Canadian poetry because they were funded without advertising revenue and
could express opinions freely.
John Sutherland, editor of First Statement,
openly questioned the masculinity of poets published in Preview…[and
his
accusations] created the public opinion that Anderson was dishonest
about
his sexuality, and this perception led to exclusion of Anderson’s work
from the canon” – abstract from Expanded Academic ASAP index.
Ehnenn, Jill.
“Desperately Seeking
Susan among the Trash: Reinscription, Subversion and
Visibility in the
Lesbian Romance Novel.” Atlantis: A
Women’s Studies
Journal 23 (Fall
1998): 120-127.
Engelbrecht, Penelope
J.
“Bodily Mut(il)ation:
Enscribing Lesbian Desire.” Postmodern
Culture: An
Electronic Journal of
Interdisciplinary Criticism [Charlottesville, VA] 7(2)
(January 1997): 27
paragraphs.
Discusses
American and French-Canadian literature by women writers, etc.
Esposito,
Tony.
“Présence de l’absence:
l’homosexualité dans le roman jeunesse québécois.”
Lurelu [Montréal]
18(3) (hiver 1996): 53-54.
L’auteur
écrit: “Nous n’avons pu trouver que dix livres où un ou plusieurs
personnages
homosexuels évidents participaient plus ou moins à
l’histoire.” Division des livres
en quatres catégories: Les méchants, les
clichés, les victimes, et représentations positives. Conclusion de l’auteur:
“…la littérature jeunesse québécoise
a encore un gros problème quant à la
représentation de l’homosexualité.”
Chacun de ces dix oeuvres est inclus
dans la section “Literature: Novels/Romans” avec l’annotation “Roman
jeunesse.” Each
of the ten works discussed in this article has been listed in
the “Literature: Novels/Romans” section of this bibliography and has
been
given
a “Young adult novel” notation.
Voir les oeuvres de/See titles by: Chantal
Cadieux, Claire Daignault, Jean
Gervais, Jean-Yves Lord, Mélanie La Barre, Jean
Lemieux, Charles
Montpetit, Raymond Plante (2), et/and Diana
Wieler.
Failler,
Angela Dawn.
“ ‘Which One of You Is the Man?’: Accommodation
and Resistance in Lesbian
Texts.” MA thesis, Dalhousie University, 1997.
(89 p.)
Patricia
Rozema, Jeanette Winterson, Kiss & Tell, photography.
Fetherling, Douglas.
“A
Different Kind of Life.” Books in
Canada 22(4) (May 1993): 57 (736
words)
Canadian
literature; Elsa Gidlow.
Fox, Chris.
“Murder
at the Red Arrow Motel: Nicole Brossard’s Mauve Desert as Dystopic
Mystery.” Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal 23
(Fall 1998): 112-119.
Fraser, Keath.
As
For Me and My Body: A Memoir of Sinclair Ross. Toronto: ECW Press, 1997.
(96 p.;
ISBN 1550223100)
“Fraser
offers a queer reading of the Saskatchewan fiction classic,
As
For Me and My House (1941), and other writings by the homosexual
novelist,
Sinclair Ross” – University of Saskatchewan Library Web site,
“Saskatchewan
Resources for Sexual Diversity,” accessed July 8, 2004.
Fréchette,
Carole, et Vaïs, Michel.
“Questions
sur un malaise.” Jeu 54 (1990):
9-14.
In special issue of Jeu devoted to homosexuality
and Quebec theatre.
Gabriel, Barbara.
“Performing
the Bent Text: Fascism and the Regulation of Sexualities in Timothy
Findley’s
The Butterfly Plague.” English
Studies in Canada 21 (1995):
227-250.
Gagné, Yvan, 1950-
“Le
sauna: une histoire de fifs: texte dramatique; suivi de La description d’un
processus
de création s’articulant autour de la problématique gaie.”
Thèse
de maîtrise, Université du Québec à Montréal, 1998.
Garceau, François, 1972-
“La
problématique de la filiation dans le théâtre homosexuel québécois
contemporain,
1980-1990.” Thèse de maîtrise, Université de Montréal, 1998.
Garebian, Keith.
“Coming
Out Too Far:
Theatre
Writings, 1978-1988, pp. 136-142. By
Keith Garebian.
Mosaic Press, 1991.
(ISBN 0889624607)
Note following essay: “Unpublished commissioned article for
The Canadian Forum, 1988”
Article discusses or mentions quite a number of plays. Rather strong
expression of personal
opinion in this piece.
Geiger, John.
Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin.
Ref.: Seminal, p. 343.
Gilbert, Sky.
“Closet
Plays: An Exclusive Dramaturgy at Work.”
Canadian Theatre Review 59
(Summer
1989): 55-58.
Included
because of prominence of author among gay writers in Canada,
although
subject not Canadian (Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf).
Ginsberg, Terri.
“Tryptique
lesbien: Allegory as Auto-da-fe.” Canadian
Review of Comparative
Literature
21 (March-June 1994): 103-115.
Treatment
of lesbianism and relationship to political resistance in the
Jovette
Marchessault work.
Givner, Joan.
Mazo de la Roche: The
Hidden Life. Toronto: Oxford
University Press, 1989.
(273 p.; ISBN
0195407059)
“The
centre of her [de la Roche’s] life was her overwhelming love
for
her cousin, Caroline Clement, whom she adopted as a sister and
who
was her life-long companion, soul-mate, and muse. The core
of
their existence was a secret unwritten play….” – quoted from
dust
jacket.
Godard, Barbara.
“Pedagogical
Fictions.” Resources for Feminist
Research 21 (3/4) (Winter 1992):
39-48.
Includes
discussions of Jane Rule, Jovette Marchessault, and Nicole
Brossard.
Godard, Barbara.
“Producing
Visibility for Lesbians: Nicole Brossard’s Quantum Poetics.”
English
Studies in Canada 21 (June 1995): 125-137.
Goldie, Terry.
“The
Canadian Homosexual.” Journal of
Canadian Studies 33(4) (Winter 1998/99):
132-142.
Sexuality
of character Ross of Timothy Findley’s The Wars considered
through
the “filter” of his later novel, Headhunter….[A] quite complex
portrait of homosexuality – abstract from Expanded Academic ASAP
index.
Goldie, Terry.
Pink Snow:
Homotextual Possibilities in Canadian Fiction. Peterborough, ON:
Broadview Press,
2003 (264 p.; ISBN 1551113732)
Goldie, Terry, and
Gray, Robert, eds.
“Postcolonial
and Queer Theory and Praxis.” ARIEL:
A Review of International
English
Literature 30 (April 1999).
Canadian
and American literature; relationship to lesbian and gay theory
and
criticism.
Graefe, Sara.
“Reviving
and Revising the Past: The Search for Present Meaning: Michel Marc
Bouchard’s
Lilies, or, The Revival of a Romantic Drama.”
Theatre
Research in Canada 14 (Fall 1993): 165-177.
Gray, Robert W.
“The Archive of the Younger Man in Novels by Oscar Wilde, Stan Persky, and
Stephen
Gray.” M.A. thesis,
(111 leaves)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record nos. 21716549 and 19351252.
The second record, for the microfiche version, also provides a
hyperlink to the text of the thesis, at:
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq23322.pdf (viewed on
User will find works by Stan Persky elsewhere in the Gay Canada
bibliography.
Gray, Robert William, 1969-
“Melancholic Poetics: The Vagaries and Vicissitudes of Identity in Three
Canadian Poetic Novels and Various Psychoanalytical Works.”
Ph.D. thesis,
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 29895526.
Seems broader than scope of this bibliography, but included
because one of novels is Anne Carson’s, Autobiography of Red,
listed elsewhere in this bibliography. AMICUS note provides the
following: “….For these three novelists, a melancholic perspective is a site
of affirmation and resistance against dominant discourses that constrain
and repress the subject’s gender, sexuality, ethnicity and history….”
Gray, R. W.
“My Own Private Alberta: Towards Identity in John Barton’s Designs from the
Interior and Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho.” Open Letter, Tenth Series,
No. 3 (1998): 84-96.
Ref.: Seminal, p. 330.
Green, Keith, and
LeBihan, Jill.
“The
Speaking Object: Daphne Marlatt’s Pronouns and Lesbian Poetics.”
Style
[DeKalb, Illinois] 28 (Fall 1994): 432-444.
Discusses
Marlatt’s novel, Ana Historic.
Greenhill, Pauline.
“Lesbian
Mess(ages): Decoding Shawna Dempsey’s “Cake Squish” at the Festival
du
Voyeur.” Atlantis: A Women’s Studies
Journal 23 (Fall 1998): 91-99.
Greenhill, Pauline.
“‘Neither
a Man nor a Maid’: Sexualities and Gendered Meanings in Cross-
Dressing
Ballads.” Journal of American
Folklore 108, no. 428 (Spring 1995):
156-177.
Considerable
amount of Canadian content.
Gribowski, Lisa Anne.
“Writing
Identity: An Interpretation of Lesbian Coming-Out Stories.” MA thesis,
University
of Toronto, 1995.
(60 p.)
“Examines
how lesbians frame ‘coming-out’ in written narratives….
[The
author is] especially interested in how white middle-class lesbians
position
themselves relative to systems of race and class privilege.” Also
presents
differences between white lesbians and lesbians of colour in
discussions of erotic feelings of women– abstract from Canadian
Research
Index.
Gross, Robert F.
“Offstage
Sounds: The Permeable Playhouse of Charles Charles.”
Theatre
Research in Canada 18(1) (Spring 1997): 3-17.
About
Normand Chaurette’s Provincetown Playhouse…
Grubisic, Brett Josef.
“Black Gay and Angry.” Xtra! West,
Ref.:
Seminal, p. 337, concerning poet Orville Lloyd Douglas.
Guy-Bray, Stephen.
“Daryl
Hine at the Beach.” Canadian
Literature 159 (Winter 1998): 74-88.
Poetry
of Daryl Hine.
Hall, Carol Lynda.
“Daphne
Marlatt’s Musings with Mothertongue: Writing the Erotic Lesbian
Body.” MA thesis, University of Calgary, 1993.
(142
p.)
“Explores…Touch
to My Tongue, Double Negative, and Ana Historic
from the perspective of…[Marlatt’s] lesbian-feminist poetics and
politics”
–abstract from Canadian Research Index.
Hall, Lynda.
“Re-membering
the Lesbian Body: Representation in/as Performance.”
Ph.D.
dissertation, University of Calgary, 1998.
(306
p.)
“My
dissertation foregrounds the act of creation by lesbian artists….”
Literary
works by Audre Lorde, Daphne Marlatt, Chrystos; scripts/
performances
by various performers; and the films “Forbidden Love” and
“Last
Call at Maud’s” are among the works considered – from ProQuest
Digital Dissertations.
Harding-Russell, Gillian.
“Points in Time and Place: Perspective and Paradox in Four Poets.”
Event 34(2) (2005): 109-113.
Ref.: Seminal, p. 339, in section concerning Keith Garebian.
Hart, Ellen.
“Lesbian
Detectives.” Mystery Scene 1996,
54, 29, 66-67.
Citation
presented in this way in MLA Bibliography. Compiler
unable
to check further. Concerns American and
Canadian literature;
treatment
of lesbian detectives in mystery/detective novels by women
writers.
Hartlen, Neil.
“ ‘Chorégraphie
affriolante’: Sexuality and Urban Space in Jean-Paul Daoust’s
111,
Wooster Street.” Quebec Studies
[Burlington, VT]
26
(Fall 1998/Winter 1999): 62-78.
Hastings, Thomas
William.
“Into the Fire: Masculinities
and Militarism in Timothy Findley’s The Wars.”
Ph.D. dissertation, York
University, 1997.
(460 p.)
Hatchette, Virginia C.
“Gender and Sexual Orientation
Differences in Conversations in Best Selling
Fiction.” MA thesis, York
University, 1993.
(114 p.)
“It
was found that conversations between gay male characters were more
intimate
than conversations between heterosexual male characters” – from
Canadian
Research Index/UMI abstract.
Hebert, Danielle.
“J’écris
avec tout ce que je suis.” Lesbia Magazine 194 (June 2000): 20-22 and
195 (July-August 2000): 28.
Subject terms assigned by MLA Bibliography: Beaulieu, Germaine;
poetry and fiction,
by lesbian writers; interview.
Heller, Dana.
“Anxieties of Affluence:
Movements, Market Sectors, and Lesbian Feminist
Generation(s): Roundtable
3.” Surfaces 7(111) (1997): 1-13
(electronic journal, ISSN
1188-2492, accessed Dec. 21, 2000 at
www.pum.umontreal.ca/revues/surfaces/
).
Helwig, David.
“Robert and Edward: An Uncommon Obituary.” Canadian Notes & Queries 50
(1996): 4-6.
Ref.: Seminal, p. 338, (“Robert Finch”) and p. 345 (“Edward
A. Lacey”)
Hepburn, Allan.
“Gay Memoirs and Memoirs as
Such.” Literary Review of Canada
8(2)
(March 2000): 14-19.
Broader
than scope of this bibliography. Hepburn
discusses the memoir
genre
and some recent works, including Canadian and American gay titles.
“Canadian
queer memoirs,” he says, “remain very discreet by comparison
with
those of American men”. He writes about
Gregory Scofield’s
Thunder
through My Veins, Joseph Plaskett’s A Speaking Likeness, which
he
says is “the soul of tact…tiptoe[ing] around the issue of
homosexuality,” and Wayson Choy’s Paper Shadows, which “might
qualify as a ‘queer memoir,’ if only because Choy is gay, [but] its
subject
is really ghosts” (all quotes from p. 17).
Herrmann, Anne.
SEE ALSO Chambers, Ross.
Herrmann, Anne.
“Between Inclusion and
Visibility: A (Lesbian) Diary.” Canadian
Review of
Comparative Literature
21 (March-June 1994): 243-254.
Author
works elsewhere; included because journal is Canadian and subject
not
country-specific.
Hou, Yu-Ming Daniel.
“Voices of Anxiety: An
Examination of the Treatment of Sexuality in the Fox Tales
of ‘Liao-Chai Chih-I’.” MA thesis, University of Alberta, 1996.
(119 p.)
Although not directly relevant to this bibliography according to the
inclusion criteria, this is provided for interest because of a possible
(but
unknown) subject matter similarity to that of Larissa Lai’s novel, When
Fox Is a Thousand,
listed elsewhere. The interested reader
can pursue.
The thesis is “an examination of the function of the fox fairy in
Chinese
literary culture” –abstract from Canadian Research Index.
Huffer, Lynne.
“From Lesbos to Montreal:
Nicole Brossard’s Urban Fictions.” Yale
French Studies
90 (1996): 95-114.
Huffman, Shawn.
“Draguer l’identité: le camp dans 26bis,
Impasse du Colonel Foisy and
Ne
blâmez jamais les Bédouins de René-Daniel Dubois.” Voix et images:
littérature
québécoise 24 (printemps 1999): 558-572.
Irr, Caren.
“Queer Borders: Figures from
the 1930s for U.S.-Canadian Relations.”
American Quarterly
49(3) (1997): 504-530.
“Analyzes
the portrayal of homosexuality in the [D]epression-era works
of
John Steinbeck and Irene Baird as a paradigm for describing the special
dimensions
of US and Canadian relations after World War II. Adopted by
both free trade proponents and opponents, the description of Canada as
the
weaker, submissive partner and the United States as the domineering
agressor allowed economists to foster the male-male ideology of nations
developed in Steinbeck’s characters, George and Lenny…and Baird’s
Matt and Eddy…” –from America: History and Life abstract.
Jamieson, Sara.
“ ‘Âyahkwêw’ Songs: AIDS and Mourning in Gregory Scofield’s ‘Urban Rez’
Poems.” Canadian Poetry, issue 57 (Fall/Winter 2005): 52-64.
Jarraway, David R.
“‘O Canada!’: The Spectral
Lesbian Poetics of Elizabeth Bishop.”
PMLA: Publications of the
Modern Language Association of America 113
(March 1998): 243-257.
“The
poem…‘O Canada!’ implies contextual connotation regarding lesbian
sexuality which reflects [Bishop’s]
own sexuality. Although there was an
increased
awareness o[f] Bishop’s lesbian sexuality,…many critics have
respected
her preferred sexuality…” –abstract from Expanded Academic
ASAP index.
Jeu [Montréal] 54 (mars 1990).
Special issue devoted to homosexuality and
Québec theatre. Some of
the
articles of the issue are listed separately in this bibliography.
See
fuller information at entry “Théâtre et homosexualité,” the issue title,
below
in this section.
Kaminsky, David Alan.
“Polite Fictions: AIDS and
Rhetorics of Identity, Authority, and History.”
MA thesis, University of
Alberta, 1998.
(116 p.)
Peter
McGehee included in analysis.
Kellett-Betsos,
Kathleen L.
“Lesbian Love and the Great
Goddess in Louise Maheux-Forcier’s Amadou.”
Atlantis: A Women’s Studies
Journal [Halifax, NS] 18 (1-2) (1992-Fall 1993):
82-92.
Treatment
of lesbian lover as Great Goddess.
Kellett-Betsos,
Kathleen L.
“Maddening Doubles in the
Novels of Louise Maheux-Forcier.” Quebec
Studies
[Portland, OR] 21-22 (1996):
114-126.
Kerr, Rosalind.
“Once Were Lesbians…:
Re/Negotiating Re/Presentations in ‘The Catherine Wheel’
and ‘Difference of
Latitude’.” Modern Drama
[Toronto] 39 (Spring 1996):
177-189.
Treatment of lesbian protagonist in Ingrid MacDonald’s ‘The Catherine
Wheel,’and comparison to Lisa Walther’s ‘Difference of Latitude’. These
two Canadian plays are about women who conceal their lesbianism in
earlier times by using male disguises. Plays listed in LITERATURE:
DRAMA section.
Kerr, Rosalind, 1941-
Queer
Theatre in
(281 p.; ISBN 9780887548048)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 33358888.
Killian, Kevin.
“Blaser Talk.” West Coast Line 29(2) (1995): 126-131.
Ref.: Seminal, p. 333, concerning poet Robin Blaser
Kizuk, Alex.
“One Man’s Access to Prophecy: The Sonnet Series of Frank Oliver Call.”
Canadian Poetry 21 (1987): 31-41.
Ref.: Seminal, p. 335.
Knutson, Susan.
“Contested Knowing:
Narratological Readings of Daphne Marlatt’s How Hug a
Stone and Nicole
Brossard’s Picture Theory.” Ph.D.
dissertation, University of
British Columbia, 1989.
Knutson, Susan.
“Not for Lesbians Only: Reading beyond Patriarchal Gender.” In Weaving
Alliances: Selected
Papers Presented for the Canadian Women’s Studies
Association at the
1991 and 1992 Learned Societies Conferences = Tisser
les liens…, pp. 243-255.
Edited by/préparé par Debra Martens.
Ottawa, Ont.:
Canadian
Women’s Studies Association, c1993.
Kuri, José Férez,
ed.
Brion Gysin: Tuning in to the Multimedia Age.
2003.
(240 p.; ISBN 0500284385)
Ref.: Seminal, p. 343.
Lafky, Sue A., and
Brennen, Bonnie.
“For Better or for Worse: Coming
Out in the Funny Pages.”
Studies in Popular Culture
[Louisville, KY] 18 (October 1995): 24-47.
Canadian
and American comic strips including discussion of
homosexuality.
Lai, Larissa.
“Political Animals and the
Body of History.” Canadian Literature
163 (Winter
1999): 145-154.
Chinese-Canadian
lesbian writers.
Lai
writes here primarily about her own work, particularly When Fox Is a
Thousand.
Laniel, Carole Andrée.
“André Béland: premier poète de l’érotisme
au Québec.” Thèse de maîtrise,
Université
du Québec à Montréal, 1992.
(86
p.)
Ref.:
Archives gaies du Québec online bibliography.
Lawson, Robert.
“The Lost Boy: Homosexuality
in ‘B-Movie’.” Canadian Theatre
Review 59
(Summer 1989): 52-54.
Lengthy
review of Toronto production of Tom Woods’s comedy,
“B-Movie,
the Play.”
Lazaridès, Alexandre.
“Vision carnavalesque et théâtre gai.” Jeu 54 (1990): 82-90.
In special issue of Jeu
devoted to homosexuality and Québec theatre.
Leahy, David.
“Patrick Anderson and John
Sutherland’s Heterorealism: ‘Some Sexual Experience
of a Kind Not Normal’.” Essays on Canadian Writing 62 (Fall
1997): 132-149.
Lee Lockhart, Melanie
Anne.
“‘Taking Them to the Moon in a
Station Wagon’: The Inclusive Discourses of
Ann-Marie MacDonald.” MA thesis, Carleton University, 1999.
(119 p.)
“This
thesis demonstrates how Ann-Marie MacDonald’s texts include
the
voices of groups who have been marginalized….It shows how her work
normalizes
social realities…like homosexuality and racial and social
difference….Explor[es]…strategic uses of
language, intertext, and humour
in Fall on Your Knees, Good Night
Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet),
and The Arab’s Mouth…” –from ProQuest
Digital Dissertations abstract.
Lefebvre, Benjamin.
“Walter’s Closet.” Canadian Children’s Literature 94
(Summer 1999): 7-20.
About
Lucy Maud Montgomery and Rilla of Ingleside.
Lesk, Andrew.
“Camp,
Kitsch, Queer: Carole Pope and Toller
In
Auto/Biography in
Julie
Rak.
Ref.: MLA International Bibliography.
Lesk, Andrew.
“Having
a Gay Old Time in
In In a Queer Country, pp. 175-187.
Edited by Terry Goldie.
Arsenal Pulp Press, 2001.
Lesk, Andrew.
“Leonard Cohen’s Traffic in
Alterity in Beautiful Losers.” Studies
in Canadian
Literature 22(2)
(1997): 56-65.
Treatment
in the novel of otherness, women, homosexuals.
Lesk, Andrew.
“On Sinclair Ross’s
Straight(ened) House.” English
Studies in Canada 28(1)
(March 2002): 65-90.
Ref.: MLA
Bibliography online.
Lesk, Andrew.
“The Play of Desire: Sinclair Ross’s
Gay Fiction.” Ph.D. dissertation,
Université
de Montréal, 2001.
(253 p.)
Lesk, Andrew.
“Something Queer Going On
Here: Desire in the Short Fiction of Sinclair Ross.”
Essays on Canadian Writing
61 (Spring 1997): 129-141.
Discusses
three short stories, “A Day with Pegasus,” “Cornet at Night,”
and
“One’s a Heifer,” which “used emerging gay sexuality as a subtext.”
Because
written in 1930s and 1940s, “their sexual nature had to be encoded
as friendship or rivalry between male
adolescents, defining gay sexuality as
otherness”
– abstract from Expanded Academic ASAP index.
Levy, Joseph J., and
Nouss, Alexis.
“Death and Its Rituals in
Novels on AIDS.” Omega 27(1)
(1993): 51-66.
“Reviews
novels dealing with…AIDS….Discusses theme of potential
extinction
of homosexual community” –NISC Gay & Lesbian Abstracts.
Not
seen. Degree of relevance unknown, but
“Canada” applied as
descriptor by NISC indexer.
“[Liaison:
15 mai 1997]: ‘Dire homosexuel en Ontario français,’ [par] Paul-François
Sylvestre
[pp. 12-13]; ‘J’écris surtout pour les marginalisés,’ [par] Nathalie
Stephens
[pp. 14-15]; ‘Concerto pour quatre voix: pourquoi la littérature
homosexuelle
échapperait-elle à la nature des choses,’ [par] Robbert Fortin et
al. [pp. 16-17]; ‘Critique: enclave de
tolérance (la fiction homosexuelle),’
[par] Louis Belanger [pp. 18-20].” Liaison 92 (15 mai 1997): 12-20.
Compiler-supplied title proper. Set of four relatively short articles
appear
in an unbroken range of pages and have been grouped together
here
for convenience. CPI.Q index
information accepted as correct; not
seen.
Lillian, Donna L.
“Canadian
Neo-Conservative Discourse: A Critical Discourse Analysis (William
D. Gairdner).” Ph.D. dissertation, York University
[Toronto], 2001.
(245 p.)
Ref.:
Proquest Digital Dissertations, which states that the
dissertation
“employs critical linguistics and critical discourse
analysis
to analyze three aspects of Gairdner’s neo-conservative
discourse,
namely sexism, homophobia, and racism.”
Lillian, Donna L.
“Transitivity as an
Ideological Tool: The Discourse of William J. Gairdner.”
In Papers from the 21st
Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic
Association, Mount Saint
Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 7-8
November 1997, pp.
122-131. Edited by Marie Lucie
Tarpent. [S.l.]: Atlantic
Provinces Linguistic
Association, 1998.
Discussion
of Gairdner’s The War against the Family and treatment
of
homosexuality; discourse analysis.
Lindberg, Tracey, and Brundage, David, eds.
Daniel David Moses: Written and Spoken Exploration of His Works.
Ref.: Seminal, p. 347.
Lundberg, Norma.
“The Life of Our Making: McInnis, Taylor and Poile.” Arc 43 (1999): 66-70.
Ref.: Seminal, p. 349, in section on poet, playwright, and producer,
Craig Poile.
Lynch, Michael.
“Walt Whitman in
Ontario.” In The Continuing Presence
of Walt Whitman:
The Life after the Life,
pp. 141-151. Edited by Robert K. Martin.
Iowa City, IA: University of
Iowa Press, 1992.
Lynch
was a professor of English at the University of Toronto.
MacDonald, Eleanor.
“Critical Identities:
Rethinking Feminism through Transgender Politics.”
Atlantis: A Women’s Studies
Journal 23 (Fall 1998): 3-12.
Descriptors
applied concern sexual identity and relationship to
transsexuals.
Mailloux, Louise.
“Analyse
critique des discours actuels sur l’homosexualité.” Thèse de maîtrise,
Université
de Montréal, 1981.
(ca. 126 leaves)
Major, Rachel Blanche.
“L’écriture féminine au Québec: une étude de
deux auteurs contemporains.”
Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oregon, 1986.
(176 p.)
Part
of this dissertation discusses Marie-Claire Blais’s Les nuits de
l’Underground and its lesbian issues.
Malek, E.
“Running Away with the Concubine: Lesbianism and Larissa Lai’s ‘When Fox
Is a Thousand’.” M.A. thesis, University of Guelph, 2001.
(108 p.)
Malus,
Aaron, et al.
“Frank Oliver Call, Eastern Townships Poetry, and the Modernist Movement.”
Canadian Literature 107 (1985): 60-69.
Ref.: Seminal, p. 335.
Manguel, Alberto.
“Sex and the Single
Vision.” Saturday Night, June
1992, pp. 26-27, 30+.
Marsh-Lockett, Carol P.
“The
H.
Nigel Thomas’ Spirits in the Dark.”
18-31.
Ref.:
Seminal, p. 355, at entry for H. Nigel Thomas
Martell, Cecilia.
“Unpacking the Baggage: ‘Camp’
Humour in Timothy Findley’s Not Wanted
on the Voyage.” Canadian Literature 148 (1996):
96-111.
Martin, Robert K.
“Communists and Dandies: Canadian Poetry and the Cold War.”
In
Love, Hate, and Fear in
Richard
Cavell.
Ref.: Seminal, p. 330, at the “Patrick Anderson” note.
Martin, Robert K.
“Gay
Literature.” In The
p.
453. Eugene Benson and William Toye,
general editors.
University Press, 1997.
Ref.: John Barton, “Introduction [to Seminal],” p. 12, footnote 17.
Martin, Robert K.
“Sex and Politics in Wartime
Canada: The Attack on Patrick Anderson.”
Essays on Canadian Writing
44 (1991): 110-125.
Martin, Robert K., ed.
“Lesbian and Gay Studies,
II.” English Studies in Canada
21(2) (June 1995).
Special
issue on literary and lesbian/gay theory and criticism.
The
first special issue, “Lesbian and Gay Studies, I” [English Studies in
Canada
20(2) (June 1994)] concerns British and Irish literature. It has
therefore not been
included as a primary entry.
Martindale, Kathleen.
Un/popular Culture: Lesbian
Writing after the Sex Wars. Albany,
N.Y.: State
University of New York Press,
c1997.
(224 p.; ISBN 0791432890)
Mauguière,
Benedicte.
“L’homo/textualité
dans les écritures de femmes au Québec.”
French Review:
Journal of the American
Association of Teachers of French 71 (May 1998):
1036-1047.
This
article is useful in directing the reader to earlier works of French-
Canadian
women writers, which tend to be less direct with respect to
sexuality
and which predate the period of this bibliography.
May, Robert G.
“ ‘Moving from Place to Face’: Landscape and Longing in the Poetry of John
Barton.” Studies in Canadian Literature 30(1) (2005): 245-269.
McCluskey, Sue.
“Cultural Worker: A Random Review of Alternative Culture.” This Magazine
36(1) (July-August 2002): 42. (627 words)
Ref.: CPI.Q index.
Brief article on Mariko Tamaki and her work. Her latest work:
True Lies: The Book of Bad Advice. Notes that “…while Tamaki
says she doesn’t mind being categorized as a gay writer, her work really
isn’t about being gay; she says, ‘A lot of the stories in the book, there’s
lesbo context all over the place, but the stories are not necessarily just
for a lesbian audience’.”
(Note that This Magazine sometimes referred to simply as This)
McKend, Heather Lynne.
“A Vision of Central Value:
The Fiction of Jane Rule.” Ph.D.
dissertation,
Queen’s University, 1996.
(277 p.)
Meigs, Mary.
“On Aging.” Canadian Woman Studies 5 (Spring
1984): 67-69.
Broader
than scope of this bibliography.
Relationship to lesbianism
mentioned in indexing terminology; Canadian, American, and English
literature by women writers.
Michaud, James
William.
“Deconstructing the
Representation of AIDS in Poetry.”
MA thesis, Memorial University
of Newfoundland, 1998.
(104 p.)
Millin, Sarah.
“Pink Ink since 1963: Best
Gay/Lesbian Writing in Review.”
Canadian Dimension
22(8) (Nov./Dec. 1988): 22-23.
Milne, Heather.
“The
Elliptical Subject: Citation and Reciprocity in Critical
‘Ana Historic’. Canadian Poetry, issue 57 (Fall/Winter 2005): 86-102.
Moore, Robert.
“Truths
Told Slant.” Books in
Ref.: Seminal, p. 352, in section on Norm Sacuta.
Moorhead, Andrea.
“Preface.” In Do Not Disclose This Word, by Jean Chapdelaine Gagnon.
Peterborough, UK: Spectacular
Diseases, 1997.
Ref.: Seminal, p. 339, concerning Québec
poet, Jean Chapdelaine Gagnon.
Moses, Daniel David, 1952-
Pursued by a Bear : Talks,
Monologues and Tales.
(175 p.; ISBN 1550966464)
See, as two examples, “Flaming Nativity,” pp. 101+ and “Queer for a
Day,” pp. 112+.
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 32108642, which assigns descriptors
Canadian drama – Indian authors – History and criticism;
Indigenous
peoples in literature; and Theater –
Moss, Jane.
“Dramatizing Sexual
Difference: Gay and Lesbian Theater in Quebec.”
American Review of Canadian
Studies 22(4) (Winter 1992): 489-498.
“Reflects
on the state of gay and lesbian theater in Quebec, 1970s-91….
Based
on the works of playwrights Pol Pelletier, Jovette Marchessault, and
Michel
Tremblay, and director André Brassard” –from America: History
and Life index entry.
Moss, Jane.
“Sexual Games:
Hypertheatricality and Homosexuality in Recent Quebec Plays.”
American Review of Canadian
Studies 17(3) (Autumn 1987): 287-296.
Author
discusses works by Michel Marc Bouchard, Normand Chaurette,
and René-Daniel Dubois.
Moyes,
Lianne.
“Composing in the Scent of Wood and Roses:
Nicole Brossard’s Intertextual
Encounters with Djuna Barnes
and Gertrude Stein.” English Studies
in Canada
21 (June 1995): 206-225.
Application
of lesbian and gay studies.
Moyes, Lianne.
“Nothing Sacred: Nicole Brossard’s Baroque at Dawn at the Limits of
Lesbian Feminist Discourses of Sexuality.” Essays on Canadian
Writing 70 (Spring 2000): 28-63.
Moyes’s French-titled article, “Rien de sacré,” is listed immediately below.
Moyes, Lianne.
“Rien
de sacré: Baroque d’aube de Nicole Brossard aux limites des discours
lesbiens-féministes
sur la sexualité.” International
Journal of Canadian
Studies = Revue internationale
d’études canadiennes 21 (Spring 2000): 35-63.
Moyes, Lianne.
“Writing Subjects: Gertrude
Stein, Djuna Barnes, Nicole Brossard, and Lola Lemire
Tostevin.” Ph.D. dissertation,
York University, 1994.
(352 p.)
Murray, Stephen O.
“Representations of Desires in Some Recent Gay Asian-American Writings.”
Journal of Homosexuality 45(1) (2003): 111-142.
Ref.: PsycINFO index, which provides abstract and notes “representations,
which are not assumed to be autobiographical” are from eight men, two of
whom are mentioned in the abstract as “South Asian émigrés to Canada
(Badruddin Khan and Shyam Selvadurai)….”
Muus, Elaine J.
“Articulate Bodies, or Encore,
en corps: Sense-ing the Body as (Re)presentation
of Women’s Subjectivities.” MA thesis, Carleton University, 1997.
(135 p.)
Discusses
works of Daphne Marlatt, Betsy Warland, Louky Bersianik,
Marlene Nourbese Philip, Lillian Allen –
abstract from Canadian Research
Index.
Nichols, Miriam.
Even
on Sunday: Essays,
Poetics
of Robin Blaser.
Ref.: Seminal, p. 333.
Noble, Jean Bobby.
Masculinities without Men? : Female Masculinity in Twentieth-century Fictions.
(180 p.; ISBNs 0774809965 and 0774809973)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 28475064, in which two of the
descriptors applied are Gender identity in literature and Lesbianism in
literature.
Noble, J. Bobby.
“Strange Sisters and Boy Kings: Post-queer Tranz-gendered Bodies in
Performance.” Canadian Woman Studies 24(2-3) (Winter-Spring 2005):
164+ (7 pages)
According to
author’s website, this work republished in Queer Theatre in
Canada (pp. 160-169), edited by Rosalind Kerr (
Canada Press, 2007).
Noble is Assistant Professor of Sexuality and Gender Studies,
page at that institution). Interested user might check there for additional
works by the author. The compiler did not attempt to list all in this
bibliography. (Name on web page is Bobby Noble).
Nodelman, Perry.
“Bad Boys and Binaries: Mary
Harker on Diana Wieler’s Bad Boy.”
Canadian Children’s
Literature 80 (1995): 34-40.
Bad
Boy is a Governor-General’s Award-winning young adult novel
with
gay content.
Nurse, Donna Bailey.
“Not
Quite the
p. H2.
Ref.: Seminal, p. 355, at entry for H. Nigel Thomas.
Oikawa, Mona.
“My Life Is Not Imagined:
Notes on Writing as a Sansei Lesbian Feminist.”
Open Letter 8(4)
(Summer 1992): 100-104.
Japanese-Canadian
lesbian writer.
Oikawa, Mona.
“Writing the Body, Healing the
Spirit.” In By, For & About: Feminist
Cultural
Politics, pp.
127-131. Edited by Wendy Waring. Toronto: Women’s Press,
1994.
Literature
by Asian-Canadian lesbian writers.
Parker, Alice.
Liminal Visions of Nicole
Brossard. New York, N.Y.: Peter
Lang, 1998.
(287 p.; ISBN 082043065X)
Parker, Alice.
“Nicole Brossard: A
Differential Equation of Lesbian Love.”
In Lesbian Texts and
Contexts: Radical Revisions,
pp. 304-329. Edited by Karla Jay, Joanne
Glasgow, Catharine R.
Stimpson. New York: New York University
Press, 1990.
Treatment of lesbianism in novel L’Amer.
Parker-Snedker,
Jacqueline Anne.
“Drawing in the Margins:
Rhetorical Adaptations to Englishness in Nineteenth
Century Women’s Diaries.” MA thesis, Simon Fraser University, 1994.
(107 p.)
Includes
discussion of Ann Lister’s coded diaries that had “an enormous
impact
on theories on nineteenth-century lesbians” – abstract from
Canadian Research Index.
Paul, Catherine.
“La commutation de codes dans Picture Theory
de Nicole Brossard et ( ) de Michele
Causse.” Ph.D. dissertation, Queen’s University, 1993.
(278 p.)
Paul, Catherine.
“Weaving with Two Codes: Nicole Brossard’s Picture Theory.”
In Weaving Alliances: Selected Papers Presented for the Canadian Women’s
Studies Association
at the 1991 and 1992 Learned Societies Conferences =
Tisser les liens…, pp. 257-265.
Edited by/préparé par Debra Martens.
Ottawa, Ont.: Canadian Women’s Studies Association, c1993.
Pavlovic, Diane.
“Le déploiement d’un cri: sur deux oeuvres de
René-Daniel Dubois.”
Jeu
32 (1984): 87-97.
Les
deux oeuvres sont 26bis, Impasse du Colonel Foisy et
Ne
blâmez jamais les Bédouins.
Pearson, Wendy.
“Interrogating the Epistemology of the Bedroom: Same-sex Marriage and
Sexual
Citizenship in
in Media and Culture 26(3) (October 2004): 136-165.
Ref.: MLA International Bibliography.
Pearson, Wendy.
“Vanishing Acts II: Queer
Reading(s) of Timothy Findley’s Headhunter and
Not Wanted on the Voyage.” Journal of Canadian Studies 33(4)
(Winter 1998/99): 114-131.
Pelland,
Ginette, 1949-
Hosanna
et les duchesses: étiologie de l’homosexualité masculine: de Freud à
Tremblay. Lachine, Québec: Pleine lune, 1994.
(209 p.; ISBN 2890240894)
Review:
Canadian Literature 161/162 (Summer/Fall 1999): 233-235.
Pelletier,
Francine.
“Un
théâtre de nouveaux gais.” La Vie en
rose 15 (janv.-févr. 1984): 60.
“Commentaire sur deux pièces de théâtre
québécoises traitant de
l’homosexualité masculine: Macho Man de
Jean-Pierre Bergeron et
La contre-nature de Chrysippe
Tanguay, écologiste
de Michel Marc
Bouchard [both listed in Homosexuality in
Canada, 2nd ed., 1984].”
from Repère résumé.
Pew, Jeff, and Roxborough, Stephen.
radiant
danse uv being: A Poetic Portrait of bill bissett.
Nightwood Editions, 2006.
Ref.: Seminal, p. 332.
Phi,
Ylang-Nguyen.
“Lysistrata
d’après Aristophane, texte de Michel Tremblay: étude comparée de
l’adaptation
et de l’original.” Voix et images:
littérature québécoise 22
(automne 1996): 95-103.
Pigeon, Elaine.
“Michel Tremblay’s Hosanna
and the Queering of National Identity.”
XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics
[Minneapolis, MN] 5 (1999): 23-40.
Pitt, Peter
V.
“Le
comportement marginal dans Les chroniques du Plateau Mont-Royal.”
MA thesis, McGill University, 1991.
(103 p.)
Concerns
the novel series of Michel Tremblay.
Popp, Wolfgang,
et al.
“Gay Reading, Gay Writing: Ein
Gesprach mit Robert K. Martin űber Sexualität
und Literatur in Kanada und den
USA.” Forum Homosexualität und
Literatur [Siegen,
Germany] 4 (1988): 97-110.
Interview with Martin concerning Canadian and
American literature and
treatment
of homosexuality.
Potvin, Claudine.
“Jovette Marchessault.” Voix et images 16(2) (hiver 1991):
213-280.
“Pratiques:
Chaurette et Dubois écrivent [par Paul Lefebvre]; Réponse informulée à
quelques
questions informelles [par René-Daniel Dubois]; La chinoise [par
Normand Chaurette]; Le déploiement d’un cri,
sur deux oeuvres de René-
Daniel Dubois [par Diane Pavlovic].” Jeu: cahiers de théâtre [Montréal] 32
(1984): 75-97.
Precosky, Don.
“Self selected/selected Self: bill bissett’s Beyond Even Faithful Legends.”
Canadian Poetry 34 (1984): 57-78.
Ref.: Seminal, p. 332.
Quan, Andy.
“Years of the Quiet Son: The
Continuing Legacy of Ian Young.”
ARC [Ottawa] 32 (Spring
1994): 19-25.
Interview.
Quigley, Ellen, 1955-
“Desiring Intersubjects: Lesbian Poststructuralism in Writing by Nicole Brossard,
Daphne Marlatt, and Dionne Brand.” Ph.D. dissertation,
University of Alberta, 2000.
Quigley, M. Ellen.
“Lo(o)sing the Floodgates of
Language, Form, and the Symbolic: Daphne Marlatt’s
Feminist Poetic.” MA thesis, Queen’s University, 1993.
(145 p.)
Ramsey, Tamara Ann.
“Discursive Departures: A
Reading Paradigm Affiliated with Feminist, Lesbian,
Aesthetic and Queer Practices
(with Reference to Woolf, Stein and H.D.).”
MA thesis, Wilfrid Laurier
University, 1998.
(95 p.)
Rao, R. Raj.
“Because Most People Marry
Their Own Kind: A Reading of Shyam Selvadurai’s
Funny Boy.” ARIEL: A Review of International English
Literature 28
(January 1997): 117-128.
Raoul, Valerie.
“Straight or Bent:
Textual/Sexual T(ri)angles in As For Me and My House.”
Canadian Literature 156
(Spring 1998): 13-28.
Novel
by Sinclair Ross.
Raphael, Mitchel.
“Drag Queens, Sissy Boys and a
Virus Called HIV. Gay Male Icons before and after
AIDS: A Study/Creation of Gay
Male Works.” MA thesis, York University,
1996.
(195 p.)
This
thesis comprises both analysis and creative writing.
Rayter, Scott, 1970-
Queer
CanLit: Canadian Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT)
Literature in English: An Exhibition. Curated by Scott Rayter, Donald W.
McLeod
and Maureen FitzGerald.
2008.
(62 p.; ISBN 9780772760654)
Catalogue to accompany an exhibition held at the Thomas Fisher Rare
Book
Library,
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue no. 33881582.
Reichard, William.
“Who Am I…This Time?” Lambda Book Report 8 (Feb. 2000): 6+.
Comments
about and interview of Timothy Findley, published in a major
American
lesbian/gay book reviewing journal.
Reynolds, Michelle.
“(Un)authorized Disclosures: Performing in Lesbian: Theory and Lesbian:
Writing.” MA thesis, University of Western Ontario, 1994.
Spine title: “(Un)authorized Disclosures: Lesbian: Theory.”
Rhodes, Shane.
“Buggering with History:
Sexual Warfare and Historical Reconstruction in Timothy
Findley’s The Wars.” Canadian Literature 159 (Winter 1998):
38-53.
Richard,
Hélène.
“Le
théâtre gai québécois: conjoncture sociale et sentiment de filiation.”
Jeu 54 (1990): 15-23.
Article
in special issue of Jeu devoted to homosexuality and Québec
theatre.
Ricouart, Janine.
“France Daigle’s Postmodern Acadian Voice in the Context of Franco-Canadian
Lesbian Voices.” In Doing Gender: Franco-Canadian Women Writers of the
1990s, pp.248-266. Edited by Paula Gilbert and Roseanna L. Dufault.
Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London, Eng.:
Associated University Presses, 2001.
Ricouart, Janine.
“Jovette Marchessault’s
Matriarchy in Her Autobiographical Triptych.”
In Women
by Women: The Treatment of
Female Characters by Women Writers of Fiction
in Quebec since 1980,
pp. 230-240. Edited by Roseanna Lewis Dufault.
Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP,
1997.
Ricouart, Janine.
“The Question of Lesbian
Identity in Marie-Claire Blais’s Work.”
In Redefining Autobiography
in Twentieth-Century Women’s Fiction: An
Essay Collection, pp.
169-190. Edited by Janice Morgan,
Colette T. Hall,
Carol L. Snyder. New York: Garland, 1991.
Riendeau,
Pascal.
“Le
champ existentiel ou les avatars d’une construction identitaire: sur La vie
des
trousses
d’André Brochu.” Voix et images:
littérature québécoise 20
(printemps 1995): 571-586.
Treatment
of male identity and relationship to homosexuality.
Robichon,
Suzanne, and Garreta, Anne F.
“Select Bibliography of Works in French Related to Lesbian Issues and
Problematics.” Yale French
Studies 90 (1996): 242-252.
Lists
French-Canadian and French lesbian authors’ works. “The criterion
for
inclusion is a certain degree of explicitness in the depiction of
relationships
between women” (p. 242). Three sections:
primary texts,
including
fiction, autobiography, and poetry, from France and Quebec;
secondary
texts, including essays, documents and biographies, from
France
and Quebec and a list of archives, periodicals, and resources
(France
only). Only a “representative selection”
for certain well-known
authors.
Rocheleau,
Alain-Michel.
“Gay Theater in Quebec: The
Search for an Identity.”
Yale French Studies 90
(1996): 115-136.
French-Canadian
drama by gay playwrights. Points out
that between
1980
and 1990 twenty-seven plays with male homosexual themes
were
published in Quebec (although these are not listed in the paper),
that
images are highly stereotyped, and that Michel Marc Bouchard,
Normand Chaurette, René-Daniel
Dubois, and Michel Tremblay have
attained “dazzling success” (p. 115, including
footnote). This paper
looks at Tremblay’s Hosanna and Bouchard’s Les feluettes (Lilies,
in
English translation) in particular.
Rogers, Linda, ed.
bill
bissett: Essays on His Works. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2002.
Ref.:
Seminal, p. 332.
Ronfard,
Jean-Pierre.
“En
contrepoint.” Jeu 54 (1990): 123-125.
Article
in special issue of Jeu devoted to homosexuality and Quebec
theatre.
Rosello, Mireille.
“‘Get Out of Here!’: Modern
Queer Languages in the 1990s.”
Canadian Review of
Comparative Literature 21 (March-June 1994): 149-168.
Included
because journal Canadian and subject not country-specific.
Rosello, Mireille.
“The National Sexual: From the
Fear of Ghettos to the Banalization of Queer
Practices.” In Articulations of Difference: Gender
Studies and Writing in
French, pp.246-271.
Edited by Dominique Fisher and Lawrence R. Schehr.
Stanford, CA: Stanford
University Press, 1997.
Discusses
Michel Tremblay’s Le coeur éclaté; treatment of male
homosexuality,
relationship to national identity, comparison with
Daniel
Sernine’s Chronoreg.
Rosenfeld, Marthe.
“The Development of a Lesbian
Sensibility in the Work of Jovette Marchessault and
Nicole Brossard.” In Traditionalism, Nationalism, and
Feminism: Women
Writers of Quebec, pp.
227-239. Edited by Paula Gilbert
Lewis. Westport, CT:
Greenwood, 1985.
Rosenfeld, Marthe.
“Modernity and Lesbian
Identity in the Later Works of Nicole Brossard.”
In Sexual Practice, Textual
Theory: Lesbian Cultural Criticism, pp. 199-207.
Edited by Susan J. Wolfe. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1993.
Rothbauer, Paulette.
“Reading Mainstream
Possibilities: Canadian Young Adult Fiction with Lesbian
and Gay Characters.” Canadian
Children’s Literature 108 (Winter 2002): 10-26.
Essay
analyzing fifteen Canadian young adult fiction works with
lesbian/gay characters.
Rozon,
Brigitte Lise.
“Se
mettre à mort, se mettre au monde: le meurtre dans trois pièces de la
dramaturgie
gaie québécoise.” MA thesis, Queen’s
University, 1997.
(109 p.)
The
three plays are René-Daniel Dubois’s Being At Home with Claude,
Normand Chaurette’s Provincetown
Playhouse, juillet 1919, j’avais 19 ans,
and
Michel Marc Bouchard’s Les feluettes, ou, La répétition d’un
drame romantique. “It
took centuries worth of battles for
non-heterosexuals to create their own identity
and their own voice. Taking
that fact into consideration, we found it
strange that homosexual
playwrights created homosexual characters who
then brutally murder each
other.
This study, however, demonstrates that the murders act as trigger
elements towards discursive and social
assertion” –abstract from Canadian
Research Index/UMI.
Rule, Jane.
“Lesbian Literature Needs
Readers.” Index on Censorship
[London, Eng.] 19
(Oct. 1990): 10.
Saint-Martin,
Lori.
“Une
histoire d’amour.” Spirale 58
(févr. 1986): 7.
“Commentaire
sur La lettre aérienne, un recueil de textes de Nicole
Brossard”
– Repère résumé.
Salducci,
Pierre.
SEE entry at Ecrire gai, in this
section.
Sanderson, Heather.
“Love, War and Fascism:
Troubled Genders in Timothy Findley’s Fiction.”
Ph.D. dissertation, Queen’s
University, 1995.
(408 p.)
Sanderson, Heather.
“Robert and Taffler:
Homosexuality and the Discourse of Gender in Timothy
Findley’s The Wars.” Textual Studies in Canada 8 (1996):
82-95.
Saunders, Sean.
“Crossing Out: Transgender (In)visibility in Twentieth-century Culture.”
Ph.D.
thesis,
“Span[s] the period from the early years of the Cold War to the
early twenty-first century….” Concerns “medical theories of gender
variance” and “literary representations of transgendered subjects.”
“By reading these two discursive systems against each other, the
dissertation demonstrates the ability of literary discourse to accommodate
multifaceted subject positions which medical discourse is unable to
articulate….”
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 33808081.
Savona,
Jeannelle Laillou.
“Lesbians on the French Stage: From
Homosexuality to Monique Wittig’s
Lesbianization of the
Theatre.” Modern Drama 39(1)
(1996): 132-155.
Included, exceptionally, because journal is Canadian and author was
Canadian academic.
Savona,
Jeannelle Laillou.
“Le
‘Phénomène queer’: essai de lecture féministe.”
Canadian Review of
Comparative Literature
21 (March-June 1994): 265-276.
Savoy, Eric.
“Restraining
Order.” English Studies in
77-84.
Queer theory and formalism; also personal information about an
exceptional
student of his and about his move to
Ref.: CBCA index..
Savoy, Eric.
“You Can’t Go Homo Again:
Queer Theory and the Foreclosure of Gay Studies.”
English Studies in Canada
20 (June 1994): 129-152.
Schuster, Marilyn R.
“Inscribing a Lesbian Reader,
Projecting a Lesbian Subject: A Jane Rule Diptych.”
Journal of Homosexuality
34 (3-4) (1998): 87-111.
Schuster, Marilyn R.
Passionate Communities:
Reading Lesbian Resistance in Jane Rule’s Fiction.
New York: New York University
Press, c1999.
(269 p.; ISBN 0814781306;
0814781330)
Schwartzwald, Robert.
“Fear of Federasty: Quebec’s
Inverted Fictions.” In Comparative
American
Identities: Race, Sex and
Nationality in the Modern Text, pp. 175-195. Edited
by Hortense J. Spiller. New York: Routledge, 1991.
Schwartzwald, Robert.
“La fédérastophobie, ou les lectures agitées
d’une révolution tranquille.”
Sociologie
et sociétés 29(1) (printemps 1997): 129-143.
“Etude
de l’homophobie dans le discours anticolonial et dans la
littérature
au Québec” – Repère résumé.
Schwartzwald, Robert.
“From Authenticity to
Ambivalence: Michel Tremblay’s Hosanna.”
American Review of Canadian
Studies 22(4) (Winter 1992): 499-510.
Schwartzwald,
Robert.
“(Homo)sexualité
et problématique identitaire.” In Fictions
de l’identitaire au
Québec,
pp. 115-150. Sous la direction de Sherry Simon et al. Montréal:
XYZ éditeur, 1991.
Schwartzwald,
Robert.
“Of Bohemians, Inverts,
and Hypocrites: Berthelot Brunet’s Montreal.”
Quebec Studies [Portland, OR] 15 (Fall 1992-Winter 1993):
87-98.
Brunet’s novel Les hypocrites
(Montréal: Editions de l’Arbre, c1945).
Scott, Gail.
Spaces Like Stairs. Toronto: Women’s Press, c1989.
Ref.: Douglas Chambers (“Canadian Literature in English,” in
online glbtq encyclopedia at www.glbtq.com , accessed 3/13/03):
in these essays is “an intelligent treatment” of relationships between
lesbian and feminist writings and of lesbian identification.
Seaton, Dorothy.
“Balancing Discourse and
Silence: An Approach to First Nations Women’s
Writing.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of British
Columbia, 1993.
(212 p.)
“Considers
the critical implications of a cross-cultural reading of First
Nations women’s writing in the time of sensitivity to the issues of
appropriation and power inequities between dominant and minority
cultures….It is written from a deliberately split perspective reading as
both
a white academic…and as a lesbian alienated from [the dominant culture]”
– abstract from Canadian Research Index.
Inclusion here is exceptional, based on the author’s self-acknowledged
lesbianism and
not on basis of known homosexual content.
Not examined.
Séguin,
Carlos, 1974-
“Le
dispositif du corps souffrant dans les pratiques culturelles contemporaines.”
Ph.D. thesis, Université de
Montréal, 2003.
(219 f.)
Ref. : AMICUS catalogue record no. 28952102, where the following
descriptors are among those applied:
Littérature du corps; Etudes gaies;
Sida.
Sexual
Disorientation.
SEE entry at Bolster, Stephanie, et al., in
this section.
Sheridan, Susan.
“Jane Rule’s Sexual
Politics.” Canadian Literature
159 (Winter 1998): 14-35.
Shiller, Romy Sara.
“A Critical Exploration of
Cross-Dressing and Drag in Gender Performance and
Camp in Contemporary North
American Drama and Film.” Ph.D.
dissertation,
University of Toronto, 1999.
(222 p.)
Shogan, Debra.
“Polyvocal Ethics.” Resources for Feminist Research 25
(3/4) (Winter 1997):
60-63.
Author
presents evolution of Kathleen Martindale’s scholarship from
feminist
ethics towards lesbian ethics and literary theory.
Smart,
Patricia.
“Tout
dépend de l’angle de la vision: par Nicole Brossard – La lettre aérienne.”
Voix
et images 11(2) (hiver 1986): 330-333.
Smith, Jane
Orion.
“Feminist Lesbian Aesthetics.” Canadian Theatre Review 70 (Spring
1992): 23-26.
Canadian theatre; role of feminism/lesbianism
in scenography.
Smith, Jenna.
“Spectacular Lesbians: Visual Histories in Winterson, Waters, and Humphreys.”
M.A.
thesis,
(125 leaves)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 34380126, which notes one subject
as Helen Humphreys’s Leaving Earth.
Smyth, Heather.
“Sexual Citizenship and
Caribbean-Canadian Fiction: Dionne Brand’s In Another
Place, Not Here and
Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night.”
ARIEL: A Review of
International English Literature 30(2) (April 1999):
141-160.
“This
article argues that [these two works] offer a critique of homophobia
in
Caribbean culture” – abstract from Expanded Academic ASAP index.
Spraggs, Gillian.
“Hell and the Mirror: A
Reading of Desert of the Heart.”
In New Lesbian Criticism:
Literary and Cultural
Readings, pp. 115-131. Edited by
Sally Munt.
New York: Columbia University
Press, 1992.
Jane
Rule’s novel; lesbianism.
Sterry, Emma.
“Homotextual Possibilities in Canadian Fiction.” British Journal of Canadian
Studies
[
Strobel, Christina.
“Reconsidering Conventions:
Fictions of the Lesbian.” International
Journal of
Canadian Studies 11 (Spring
1995): 277-288.
Strobel,
Christina.
“Weibliche Homosexualität im Werk
von Jane Rule.” In Erkenntniswunsch
und
Diskretion: Erotik in
biographischer und autobiographischer Literatur,
pp. 179-190. Herausgegeben von Gerhard Harle, Maria
Kalveram, Wolfgang
Popp. Berlin: Rosa Winkel, 1992.
Sutherland,
Fraser.
“Documents: Edward Lacey.” Canadian Poetry, issue 57 (Fall/Winter 2005):
122-137.
Sutherland, Fraser.
“Introduction.” In The Collected Poems and Translations of Edward A. Lacey.
Edited by Fraser
Sutherland.
Provides a considerable amount of biographical and literary information
and criticism (in the equivalent of eight printed pages). Sutherland notes
(second paragraph of Introduction) that “[a]mong critics, scholars, and the
reading public, it is…largely unacknowledged that he [Lacey] is one of the
few Canadian poets, and the only gay one, who has a reputation outside the
country.” He also states that “Ian Young considered The Forms of Loss
[Lacey’s collection published in 1965] to be the first openly gay book of
poetry, probably the first openly gay book of any sort, ever published in
Print edition of book not seen. Introduction viewed electronically on
http://www.poetics.ca/poetics07/07Sutherlandprint.html . The full heading
of the electronic version is: “Introduction to The Collected Poems and
Translations of Edward A. Lacey”.
Tagore, Proma.
“ ‘The Asymmetrical Geography of My Heart’: Forms of Queer Diasporic Desire
in Anurima Banerji’s Night Artillery.” Canadian Poetry, issue 57
(Fall/Winter 2005): 7-34.
“Teleky, Richard.” In The Concise
pp.
471-472. Edited by William Toye.
Ref.: Seminal, p. 354.
“Théâtre et
homosexualité.” Jeu: cahiers de
théâtre [Montréal] 54 (1990).
Special issue on homosexuality and Québec
theatre. Responsables du
numéro:
Lorraine Camerlain et Patricia Belzil. Some articles in this issue
have
been entered separately elsewhere in this bibliography. The issue
also
includes transcripts of two group discussions (séminaires), pp. 43-81
and 91-113. Critique of the issue is made by Robert Schwartzwald
in Spirale 101 (nov. 1990): 15.
Théry,
Chantal.
“La
lettre aérienne de Nicole Brossard.”
Lettres québécoises 41 (printemps 1986):
74-76.
Thesen, Sharon.
“Chains of Grace: The Poetry of George Stanley.” Essays on Canadian Writing
32 (1986): 106-113.
Ref.: Seminal, p. 353.
Tietz, Lüder.
“Zwischen Erinnern,
Wiederentdecken und Neuerfinden: Die
Identitätskonstruktion
von Two-Spirited People als textuelle Aneignung
alternativer
Geschlechtskonstruktionen in ‘indianischen’ Kulturen
Nordamerikas.” Forum Homosexualität und Literatur
39(2001): 45-65.
Ref.: MLA Bibliography online. This record gives subject phrase
“treatment of homosexuality,” among others.
Trehearne, Brian.
“Finch’s Early Poetry and the Dandy Manner.” Canadian Poetry 18 (1986):
11-34.
Ref.: John Barton, “Introduction [to Seminal],” p. 16, footnote 29 and
p. 338.
Barton notes that this is “an in-depth discussion of how [Robert] Finch’s
poetry fits into the aesthetic tradition.”
Tremblay,
Victor L.
“L’art
de la fugue dans Le loup de Marie-Claire Blais.” French Review: Journal of
the Association of Teachers
of French 59 (May 1986): 911-920.
Sebastian
character; treatment of homosexuality.
Novel published in
English
as: The Wolf.
Tremblay,
Victor-Laurent.
“La Belle bête de Marie-Claire Blais.” Canadian Literature 169(Summer 2001):
13+ .
Ref.: Expanded Academic ASAP electronic index, as of
January 29, 2003. Abstract states that “the sister may represent
Blais, rejected by her own family when she came out as a lesbian.”
Critical essay.
Tremblay,
Victor-Laurent.
“L’intertexte
de l’homosexualité dans Orage sur mon corps d’André Béland.”
Canadian Literature 159 (Winter 1998): 141-160.
Trepanier, Tania.
“Valuing Narratives of
Hybridity and Multiplicity.” Atlantis:
A Women’s Studies
Journal 23 (Fall 1998): 20-29.
Literary,
feminist, and lesbian/gay theory and criticism.
Umoja, Nailah Folami.
“Thomas
Throws the Light Switch.” The Nation
[
Arts 11.
Ref.: Seminal, p. 354, at H. Nigel Thomas entry.
Van der Veen, Jace.
“Theatre Transcends Issues: David
for Queen by John Lazarus.”
Canadian Theatre Review
59 (Summer 1989): 42-46.
Homophobia;
treatment of homosexuality.
Van Heck, Robin.
“The People-Centered Vision of
Jane Rule.” The Dalhousie Review
68 (Fall 1988):
302-329.
Van Luven, Marlene A. D. Lynne, 1947-
“Daring
to Speak That Love’s Name: A Study of the Novels of Jane Rule.”
MA thesis, University of
Alberta, 1981.
(ca. 129 p.)
Van Nie, Miriam Elizabeth.
“Writing/Righting the Body Queerly Intelligible: Reading a Black Lesbian
Feminist Politics in Dionne Brand.” M.A. thesis, Queen’s University at
Kingston, 2001.
(88 p.)
Vaughan, R. M.
“Arguments in Motion: Fuelled
by Sex but Ultimately Structured by Desire, Sky
Gilbert’s Plays Provoke Gays
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23(3)
(April 1994): 16-19 (2855 words).
Vaughan, R. M.
“If Silence = Death, How Can
You Live without Me?” Border/Lines
32 (1994): 20.
Essay
on topic of making “out” art.
Verwaayen, Kimberly.
“Region/body: in? of? and? or?
(Alter/native) Separatism in the Politics of Nicole
Brossard.” Essays on Canadian Writing 61 (Spring
1997): 1-16.
“She
displaces Quebec’s patriarchal lineage with a separatist ideology
emphasizing
the international body of lesbians as a location for political
resistance”
– abstract in Expanded Academic ASAP index.
Vice, Sue.
“Addicted to Love.” In Romance Revisited, pp.
117-127. Edited by Jackie Stacey
and Lynne Pearce. New York: New York University Press, 1995.
Jane
Rule’s Desert of the Heart and its treatment of romantic love and
homosexuality;
compared with Mishima, Thomas Mann works.
Wallace,
Robert.
“Homo
création: pour une poétique du théâtre gai.”
Jeu 54 (1990): 24-42.
Article
translated from English and published in this special issue of
Jeu devoted to homosexuality and the Québec
theatre.
Wallace, Robert.
“Homo Creation: Towards a
Poetics of Gay Male Theatre.” Essays
on Canadian
Writing 54 (Winter 1994):
212-236 (10,263 words).
Wallace, Robert.
“Performance Anxiety:
‘Identity,’ ‘Community,’ and Tim Miller’s My Queer
Body.” Modern Drama 39(1) (1996): 97-116.
Author
at York University; journal Canadian.
Wallace, Robert.
Producing Marginality:
Theatre and Criticism in Canada.
Saskatoon, Sask.:
Fifth House, 1990.
(253 p.; ISBN 092007961X)
Wallace, Robert.
“Signifying
‘Lesbian’/Strategizing Error.” Resources
for Feminist
Research 25 (3/4) (Winter 1997): 82-91.
Discussion
of the term ‘lesbian’ in relation to discourse of desire.
Wallace, Robert.
“To Become: The Ideological
Function of Gay Theatre.”
Canadian Theatre Review 59
(Summer 1989): 5-10.
Watmough, David.
“On
Coming to
Canadian Literature 100 (1984): 339-345.
Ref.: Seminal, p. 355, at entry for David Watmough.
Watson-Laird, Naomi J.
“Contextualizing Canadian
Feminist Literary Collaboration.”
MA thesis, Carleton University,
1996.
(123 p.)
About
work of “Canadian lesbian feminists Erin Mouré, Daphne Marlatt,
and Betsy Warland” – abstract from Canadian
Research Index.
White, Gavin.
“Falling Out of the Haystack: L.M. Montgomery and Lesbian Desire.”
Canadian Children’s Literature, Summer 2001, pp. 43-59.
Ref.: MLA Bibliography, which assigns subject phrases
“treatment of female-female relations” and “relationship to
lesbianism.”
Wiegman, Robyn.
“On Sex and Discipline.” Surfaces 5(102) (1995): 1-12
(electronic journal, ISSN
1188-2492, accessed Dec. 21, 2000
at www.pum.umontreal.ca/revues/surfaces/
).
Included
because journal Canadian and subject not country-specific.
Wiens, Jason.
“Que(e)rying Here.” Essays on Canadian Writing 72 (Winter 2000): 158-164.
Essay/review concerning Dickinson’s Here Is Queer, listed elsewhere.
Williamson, Janice.
“It Gives Me a Great Deal of
Pleasure to Say Yes: Writing/Reading Lesbian in
Daphne Marlatt’s Touch to My
Tongue.” In Beyond Tish, pp.
171-193.
Edited by Douglas Barbour. Edmonton: NeWest, 1991.
This and
the reference immediately following appear to be to the same
article. Not seen.
Williamson, Janice.
“Writing/Reading in Daphne
Marlatt’s Touch to My Tongue.”
West Coast Line 25(1)
(Spring 1991): 171-193 (Beyond Tish)
This and
the reference immediately preceding appear to be to the same
article.
Not seen.
Wilson, Ann.
“Laughter in the Theatre of Mourning:
The Politics of Ken Garnhum’s
Beuys
Buoys Boys.” Canadian Theatre
Review 77 (Winter 1993): 13-20.
Winzell, Cherie A.
“Performance of a Lifetime: An
Exploration of Notions of ‘Performance’ in Lesbian
and Gay Activist and Academic
Rhetoric.” MA thesis, McGill University,
1995.
(126 p.)
Wolf, Doris Karen.
“Cultural Politics and the
English-Canadian Small Press Movement: Three Case
Studies.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Alberta,
1999.
(129 p.)
The
thesis studies “the histories of three small presses tied to three
different
literary movements” of the past several decades in Canada.
Besides Coach House Press and NeWest Press, the author discusses,
as Chapter Three, Gynergy Books, a lesbian-feminist press in
Charlottetown – from ProQuest Digital Dissertations.
Woodland, Malcolm.
“Refraining from Desire: Trish Salah’s ‘Gahazals in Fugue’.”
Canadian
Poetry, issue 57 (Fall/Winter 2005): 35-51.
Worton, Michael.
“(Re)writing Gay Identity:
Fiction as Theory.” Canadian Review of
Comparative
Literature 21 (March-June
1994): 9-26.
Author
is a university lecturer in Britain.
Article included because
journal
Canadian and article not country-specific.
Wray, Brenda Jean.
“Imagining Citizenship: Nationalism & Sexuality in English Canadian Lesbian
Texts.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Calgary, 2000.
(ca. 257 leaves)
Wray, Brenda Jean.
“Jane Rule: Traversing
(Re)courses.” MA thesis,
(123 p.)
“Lesbianizing Authorship: Flesh
and Paper.” Essays on Canadian
Writing 54
(Winter 1994): 153-167 (5497
words).
Zeifman, Hersh, ed.
“Lesbian/Gay/Queer Drama.” Modern
Drama [
Special
issue of the journal. Includes articles
by Reid Gilbert,
Rosalind Kerr, Jeannelle Laillou
Savona, Robert Wallace (all
associated with
Canadian academic institutions), and articles by others.
The “Canadian” articles are listed separately elsewhere.
Zwicker, Heather.
“Daphne Marlatt’s Ana
Historic : Queering the Postcolonial Nation.”
ARIEL: A Review of International English
Literature 30 (April 1999):
161-175.
Zwicker, Heather.
“New National Narratives for a
Fiction from
(222 p.)
“Chapter
1 [of four chapters] looks at the
of the
lesbian coming-out narrative in Daphne Marlatt’s Ana Historic” –
ProQuest Digital Dissertations abstract.