PREFACE: The Struggle for an Alberta Literature /Donna Coates and George Melnyk
INTRODUCTION: Wrestling Impossibilities: Wild Wordsin Alberta / Aritha van Herk
PART ONE: Poetry
1. The "Wild Body" of Alberta Poetry / DouglasBarbour
2. "To Canada": Michael Gowda's Unique Contribution tothe Literary History of Alberta / Jars Balan
3. Pastoral Elegy, Memorial, Writing: Robert Kroetsch's"Stone Hammer" Poem / Christian Riegel
PART TWO: Drama
4. No Cowpersons on This Range: The Cultural Complexity of AlbertaTheatre / Anne Nothof
5. Playing Alberta with Sharon Pollock / Sherrill Grace
PART THREE: Fiction
6. "No Woman is Natural": The (Re)production of Race,Gender, and Sexuality in Suzette Mayr's Moon Honey /Helen Hoy
7. Wandering Home in Rudy Wiebe's Sweeter Than All theWorld and Of This Earth / Malin Sigvardson
8. Richard Wagamese – An Ojibway in Alberta / Frances W.Kaye
PART FOUR: Nonfiction
9. From Grizzly Country to Grizzly Heart: The Grammar ofBear-Human Interactions in the Work of Andy Russell and CharlieRussell / Pamela Banting
10. The Doomed Genre: Myrna Kostash and the Limits of Non-fiction /Lisa Grekul
AFTERWORD: Writing in Alberta – Up, Down, orSideways? / Fred Stenson
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