The Arbutus/Madrone Files: Reading the Pacific NorthwestThe first book-length commentary on twentieth-century Pacific Northwest writing, The Arbutus / Madrone Files explores the dynamics of the Pacific Northwest. Laurie Ricou’s meditations are dropped into thirteen files—such as, the "Island File," the "Salmon File," and inevitably, the "Rain File." Resonant quotations, poetry, song lyrics, and art from the region enhance Ricou’s own readings, which move from an academic perspective on the narratives of bio-region toward more personal reflections on home and the local. |
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... Keeble's fondness for trick fictional geographies : In Crab Canon ... the opening description of the farm in Saskatchewan is geometrically rendered . A close examination of that description would reveal that the farm is impossibly laid ...
... Keeble's fondness for trick fictional geographies : In Crab Canon ... the opening description of the farm in Saskatchewan is geometrically rendered . A close examination of that description would reveal that the farm is impossibly laid ...
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... Keeble's title claims , fish is a central trope in his novel : " His employer ... had told him [ Erks ] that the business was called ' yellow- fish ' after a trash fish of Chinese waters eaten by the poor . Those who so entered the ...
... Keeble's title claims , fish is a central trope in his novel : " His employer ... had told him [ Erks ] that the business was called ' yellow- fish ' after a trash fish of Chinese waters eaten by the poor . Those who so entered the ...
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... ( Keeble gives his protagonist a name , Wes Erks ; " W. Erks " on his rural mail box , which puns on work . ) Sensitivity to eco- nomic patterns , which extends to their poten- tial to shape literary form , shadows nostalgia and gives it ...
... ( Keeble gives his protagonist a name , Wes Erks ; " W. Erks " on his rural mail box , which puns on work . ) Sensitivity to eco- nomic patterns , which extends to their poten- tial to shape literary form , shadows nostalgia and gives it ...
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Afterfile Anthology arbutus Arbutus/Madrone BC Studies berries blue heron border boundary Bringhurst British Columbia Canada Cascadia cedar colour cross-border culture David David James Duncan David Wagoner ecological edge Emily Carr Erks Essays Excerpt fiction File fish forest Grainger green Guin Hodgins Hodgins's imagine Indian intertidal Jack Jack Hodgins Japanese Keeble Keeble's Ken Kesey Kesey Collection Kesey's Kim Stafford Kogawa land landscape language literary living loggers madrone maps Marlatt metaphor migration mother mountain narrative Nations Native No-No Boy North Northwest writing novel Obasan ocean Okada oral Oregon Pacific Northwest permission place names Plate poem poet political prairie rain Raven reader region reminder Richard Hugo River Robert Robert Bringhurst salal salmon Sasquatch Seattle sense silence song Steveston story talk tell tion Tom Robbins Toronto translation tree Trower Washington West Coast Winter woodswords words Yellowfish