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
Contributor Biographies