This inherited life: Alistair MacLeod and the ends of history

Journal of Commonwealth Literature

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 51-70

  Hiscock, Andrew ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 60950472068     PISSN: 00219894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002198940003500205     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Alistair MacLeod cited in Colin Nicholson, "Signatures of Times: Alistair MacLeod and His Short Stories", Canadian Literature, 107 (1985), 94
2. "Existential Maritimer: Alistair MacLeod's The Lost Salt Gift of Blood", Studies in Canadian Literature, 16, 1 (1991), 115
3. "The Tuning of Perfection", As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1992 p. 93. Subsequent references are to this edition
4. "The Lost Salt Gift of Blood", The Lost Salt Gift of Blood, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1989 p. 69. Subsequent references are to this edition
5. The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story, Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1963, p. 21
6. "Alistair MacLeod", Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 21, 1 (1986), 197
7. Exploring the larger implications of the diasporic experience, MacLeod affirms that "I think the world is full of exiles - you meet them all over the place -people who would really rather be back in Greece, back in the former Yugoslavia or wherever . .. but who are unable to be where their hearts might lie." See Laurie Kruk, "Alistair MacLeod: The World is Full of Exiles", Studies in Canadian Literature, 20, 1 (1995), 157
8. See Nicholson, "Signatures of Time", 91
9. "As Birds Bring Forth the Sun: The Elusive Art of Alistair MacLeod", Canadian Literature, 119 (1988), 41
10. The Lonely Voice, pp. 20-21
11. Cited in Charles E. May, ed., The New Short Story Theories, Athens: Ohio UP, 1994, p. xx
12. "The Tuning of Perfection, As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories, p. 92
13. See, for example, Rabelais and His World, trans. Helen Iswolsky, Bloomington: Indiana UP 1984, pp. 19-26
14. Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986, p. 139
15. The Canadian Short Story, Toronto: OUR 1988, p. 106
16. See, for example, the reproduction of Maritime speech structures in "The Lost Salt Gift of Blood", The Lost Salt Gift of Blood, p. 66
17. When asked whether he would consider himself a realist writer, MacLeod answered, "Yes, I think so. What I think of, in terms of realistic writing, is: telling the truth as I happen to see it". See Kruk, "Alistair MacLeod: The World is Full of Exiles", 159
18. Cited in Nicholson, "Signatures of Time", 92
19. Under Eastern Eyes: A Critical Reading of Maritime Fiction, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987, p. 183
20. "Postscript to The Name of the Rose, Postmodernism, Irony, the Enjoyable", anthologized in Jencks, C., ed., The Post-Modern Reader, London: Academy, 1992, p. 73
21. "Theorising the Postmodern: Towards a Poetics", ibid. p. 77
22. Reluctantly, Keefer concedes that "occasionally, [MacLeod] slides into sentimentality; most often, he achieves that haunting and powerful resonance characteristic of the Gaelic music which is his characters' best means to self-expression and communication", Under Eastern Eyes, p. 182
23. Cited in Nicholson, "Alistair MacLeod", 196
24. "The Tuning of Memory", Recherches Anglaises et Nord-Americaines, 20 (1987), 92
25. See John Ditsky, "'Such Meticulous Brightness': The Fiction of Alistair MacLeod", The Hollins Critic, 25, 1 (1998), 9
26. See "Afterword", The Lost Salt Gift of Blood, p. 159
27. See respectively: "As Birds Bring Forth the Sun", As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories, p. 118
28. Canadian Voices from the Region: W.O. Mitchell, Buckler, MacLeod, and Vanderhaeghe, Ph.D. thesis, 1994, University of Alberta, p. 182
29. "Existential Maritimer", 114-16
30. Le Mythe de Sisyphe: Essai sur l'Absurde, Paris: Gallimard 1942, p. 168
31. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, New York: Columbia UP, 1982, pp. 1, 4
32. The Postmodern Condition, p. xxiv