The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • Violent Colonial Histories and the Limits of Reconciliation: Katherine Govier’s Between Men

    Katherine Govier’s Between Men Canadian literature has a fair number of internationally-acclaimed women writers, including in crime fiction. I’m puzzled that Katherine Govier’s work is not more famous, and I think she should be counted in the company of Atwood, Laurence, Gallant, and Munro, although she’s about a decade younger than Atwood. While her first…

  • Agatha Christie in Canada

    I didn’t recall that Agatha Christie had visited Canada, including Victoria, in 1922. She was travelling in the company of her faithless first husband, Archie. The second spouse, Max Mallowan, sounds much nicer though his archaeological expeditions were expensive to finance. At the time of her Canadian tour, Christie had produced only two novels: The…

  • Canadian Patriotism and Crime Fiction

    Twenty years ago, I was teaching Canadian Studies at the University of Toronto. I would screen Molson’s “I Am Canadian” during a class early in the term when we were talking about Canadian cultural nationalism. The goal was to contrast the muted expression of Canadian patriotism with a more jingoistic American approach, and then link…