PREFACE: The Struggle for an Alberta Literature / Donna Coates and George Melnyk

INTRODUCTION: Wrestling Impossibilities: Wild Words in Alberta / Aritha van Herk

PART ONE: Poetry

1. The "Wild Body" of Alberta Poetry / Douglas Barbour

2. "To Canada": Michael Gowda's Unique Contribution to the 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 Alberta Theatre / 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 the World 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 of Bear-Human Interactions  in the Work of Andy Russell and Charlie Russell / Pamela Banting

10. The Doomed Genre: Myrna Kostash and the Limits of Non-fiction / Lisa Grekul

AFTERWORD: Writing in Alberta – Up, Down, or Sideways? / Fred Stenson

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