Table of Contents:
  • Postmodern myth and post-European history : thematics and theory in the New World
  • Making myths, playing God : the narrator in Jacques Godbout's Les Tetes à Papineau and Rudy Wiebe's The Scorched-wood people
  • Reshaping religions, challenging cosmogonies : Jovette Marchessault's Comme une enfant de la terre and Joy Kogawa's Obasan
  • Magic realism and postcolonial challenges to history : George Bowering's Burning water and François Barcelo's La Tribu
  • Imagining myth in the New World : George Bowering's Burning Water and François Barcelo's La Tribu.