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ALIF: Journal of Comparative Poetics, 1998. Reproduced by permission.—America, v. cxxiv, January 9, 1971; v. cxxx, January 26, 1974; v. cxliii, October 4, 1980. © 1971, 1974, 1980. All rights reserved. All reproduced with permission of America Press, Inc.,106 West 56th Street, New York, NY 10019.—American Anthropologist, v. lxxxiii, June 1981. Reproduced by permission of the American Folklore Society from Journal of American Folklore.—American Archivist, v. xxxv, January 1972. Reproduced by permission.—American Review of Canadian Studies, v. 15, Winter, 1985. Reproduced by permission.—American Spectator, v. xv, June 1981; v. xxxiii, May 2000. Copyright © The American Spectator 1981, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, v. xxix, July 1998, for “Cracking the Nation: Gender, Minorities, and Agency in Bapsi Sidhwa’s ‘Cracking India,’” by Jill Didur. Copyright © 1998 The Board of Governors, The University of Calgary. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Atlantic Monthly, v. ccxxvi, August 1970, for a review of “Future Shock, by Alvin Toffler,” by Edward Weeks. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Belles Lettres, v. vii, Fall 1991. Reproduced by permission.—Canadian Forum, v. 68, March 1989, for “The Absence at the Centre,” by Di Brand. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Canadian Literature, v. 76, Spring 1978, for “Daphne Marlatt’s Poetry,” by Robert Lecker; v. 122-123, Autumn-Winter 1989, for “Hystory,” by Patrick Imbert; v. 126, Autumn 1990, for “Double Discourse,” by Margery Fee. Both reproduced by permission of the authors./v. 159, Winter 1998. Reproduced by permission.—Christian Science Monitor, August 6, 1970; April 3, 1974; February 12, 1982; January 4, 1994. © 1970, 1974, 1982, 1994, The Christian Science Publishing Society. All rights reserved. All reproduced by permission from The Christian Science Monitor.—Colby Quarterly, v. 35, March 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Commentary, v. lii, October 1971, for “Apocalyptic Thinking,” by Samuel McCracken. Copyright © 1971by the American Jewish Committee. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Comparative Strategy, v. xiv, July-September 1995. Reproduced by permission.—Contemporary Literature, v. 41, Summer 2000. Copyright © 2000 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Critique, v. 38, Winter 1997. Reproduced by permission.—Current, no. 439, January 2002. Copyright © 2002 Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Reproduced with permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802.— Encounter, v. XXXVI, January 1971, for “The Doomsday Men,” by John Maddox. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Entrepreneur, v. xxvii, March 1999. Reproduced by permission.—Essays on Canadian Writing, v. 50, Fall 1993;

v. 58, Spring 1996. © 1993, 1996 Essays on Canadian Writing Ltd. Reproduced by permission.—Futurist, July-August 1994. Reproduced by permission.—International Affairs, v. lxx, July 1994. Reproduced by permission—Literary Criterion, v. xxvii, 1992. Reproduced by permission.—Los Angeles Times, January 14, 1994. Copyright, 1994, Los Angeles Times. Reproduced by permission.—Los Angeles Times Book Review, June 28, 1983; October 28, 1990. All reproduced by permission.—Massachusetts Review, v. xxxi, Winter 1990. © 1990. Reproduced from The Massachusetts Review, The Massachusetts Review, Inc. by permission.—Midwest Quarterly, v. xxxiv, Spring 1993. Copyright © 1993 by The Midwest Quarterly, Pittsburgh State University. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Fiction Studies, v. 32, Spring 1986; v. xlvi, Summer 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN 47907. All rights reserved. Both reproduced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University.—New Leader, v. liii, October 19, 1970. © 1970 by The American Labor Conference on International Affairs, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—New Republic, v. cxcviii, April 4, 1988; v. ccxiii, October 9, 1995. © 1988, 1995. The New Republic, Inc. All reproduced by permission of The New Republic.—New Statesman, v. lxxx, October 2, 1970; v. c, September 19, 1980; v. cxv, February 26, 1988. © 2002 Statesman & Nation Publishing Company Limited. All reproduced by permission.—NPQ: New Perspectives Quarterly, v. xii, Summer, 1995. Reproduced by permission.—Research in African Literatures, v. 26, Winter 1995. Reproduced by permission.—Science Fiction Studies, v. 9, July 1982. Copyright © 1982 by SFS Publications. Reproduced by permission.—The South Atlantic Quarterly, v. 90, Spring 1991. Copyright, 1991, Duke University Press. All rights reserved.

Reproduced by permission.—The Spectator, v. ccxlv, August 9, 1980; October 18, 1980. © 1980 by The Spectator. Reproduced by permission of The Spectator.—Style, v. 25, Summer 1991, for “Mind the Gap: Dystopia as Fiction,” by Calin Andrei Mihaiescu; v. 28, Fall 1994, for “The Speaking Object: Daphne Marlatt’s Pronouns and Lesbian Poetics,” by Keith Green and Jill LeBihan. Copyright © Style, 1991, 1994. All rights reserved. Both reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Times Literary Supplement, September 26, 1980; April 1, 1988. © The Times Supplements Limited 1988. All reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission.—University of Toronto Quarterly, v. 61, Winter 1991-92; v. 69, Winter 1999-2000. © University of Toronto Press 1991-92, 1999-2000. Both reproduced by permission of University of Toronto Press Incorporated.—Washington Post Book World, November 24, 1992; v. xxiii, December 12, 1993. © 1992, 1993 Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group. All reproduced by permission.—Women’s Studies, v. 14, 1987. © Gordon and Breach Science Publishers. Reproduced by permission.— World Literature Today, v. lviii, Autumn 1984; v. lxii, Autumn 1988; v. lxviii, Spring 1994. Copyright 1984, 1988, 1994 by the University of Oklahoma Press. All Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN CLC, VOLUME 168, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Banting, Pamela. From ReImagining Women: Representations of Women in Culture. Edited by Shirley Neuman and Glennis Stephenson. University of Toronto Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by University of Toronto Press Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Dragland, Stan. From The Bees of the Invisible: Essays in Contemporary English Canadian Writing. Coach House Press, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Stan Dragland. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Fitting, Peter. From Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative. Edited by Libby Falk Jones and Sarah Webster Goodwin. The University of Tennessee Press, 1990. Copyright © 1990 by The University of Tennessee Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Goldman, Marlene. From Paths of Desire: Images of Exploration and Mapping in Canadian Women’s Writing. University of Toronto Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by University of Toronto Press Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Harris, Jocelyn. From Transformations of Utopia: Changing Views of the Perfect Society. Edited by George Slusser, Paul Alkon, Roger Gaillard, and Daniele Chatelain (French). AMS Press, Inc., 1999. Copyright © 1999 by AMS Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Hashmi, Alamgir. From The Novels of Bapsi Sidhwa. Edited by R. K. Dhawan and Novy Kapadia. Prestige, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Prestige. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Hunter, Lynette. From Outsider Notes: Feminist Approaches to Nation State Ideology. Talonbooks, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Lynette Hunter. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Jones, Manina. From That Art of Difference: ‘Documentary-Collage’ and English-Canadian Writing. University of Toronto Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by University of Toronto Press Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— Kapadia, Novy. From The Novels of Bapsi Sidhwa. Edited by R. K. Dhawan and Novy Kapadia. Prestige, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Prestige. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Kertzer, Jonathan. From Worrying the Nation: Imagining a National Literature in English Canada. University of Toronto Press, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by University of Toronto Press Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Mahoney, Elizabeth. From Image and Power: Women in Fiction in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Sarah Sceats and Gail Cunningham. Longman, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Longman Group Limited. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Marlatt, Daphne with Janice Williamson. From Sounding Differences: Conversations with Seventeen Canadian Women Writers. University of Toronto Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by University of Toronto Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

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