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The Canadian Conversation

A Polish journalist’s perspective on residential schools

This Story Is Mine

Why I’m finally telling it

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This season’s roster of hockey books

Jason Camlot

Jason Camlot’s books include Language Acts: Anglo-Quebec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century (co-edited with Todd Swift, Vehicule, 2007) and The Debaucher[poems] (Insomniac, 2008). He is chair of the English Department at Concordia University.

Articles by
Jason Camlot

Recapturing Past Glory

The recent revival of Anglo-Quebec fiction June 2011
W riting in the Time of Nationalism: From Two Solitudes to Blue Metropolis provides an important personalized historical account of the politics and institutions that have informed the production and dissemination of Montreal English-language fiction from the mid 1960s to the present. Linda Leith’s teleological history begins even earlier, though, with a brief account of the “glory days” or “golden age” of English Quebec fiction in the 1950s—when Hugh…