Bibliography of Works about Kristjana Gunnars
by Monique Tschofen
Books and Articles
Adam, Ian. "Illywhacker and The Prowler: Settler Society Response to Ideas of History." Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada 12 (1994): 1-10.
Althof, Rolf. "Kristjana Gunnars’s Alternative Realities: The Page as Stage for Narrative Paradoxes." Interplays: Works and Words of Writers and Critics. Ed. R.Althof, R. von Antropoff and K.P Muller. St. John’s Newfoundland: Breakwater, 1994. 220-230.
Arnason, David. "Icelandic Canadian Literature." Identifications: Ethnicity and the Writer in Canada. Ed. Jars Balan. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukranian Studies, U of Alberta P, 1982. 52-66.
Baldvinsson, Gardar. "Ord og Ferdatöskur." Jon a Baegisa. Ed. Sigurdur A. Magnusson. No. 1, 1997. 29-46.
Brydon, Diana. "The White Inuit Speaks: Contamination as Literary Strategy." Past the Last Post: Theorizing Post-Colonialism and Post-Modernism. Ed. Ian Adam and Helen Tiffin. Calgary: U of Calgary P, 1990. 191-203.
Buss, Helen. Mapping Our Selves: Canadian Women’s Autobiography in English. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s UP, 1993. 197-99.
Coleman, Daniel. "Gender, Narrative, and Desire in The Prowler." Textual Studies in Canada / Etudes Textuelles au Canada 4 (1994): 16-27.
Cook, Méira. "Love and Other Unofficial Stories: Reading Kristjana Gunnars." Open Letter 10.2 (1998): 19-30.
Darias Beautell, Eva. "Memory, Experience and Difference in the Works of Some Contemporary Canadian Women Writers." The Guises of Canadian Diversity: New European Perspectives - Les Masques de la diversité: nouvelles perspectives européennes. Ed. Serge Jaumain and Marc Maufort. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995. 143-150.
Fairbanks, Carol. Prairie Women: Images in American and Canadian Fiction. New Haven: Yale UP, 1986.
Gheorghe, Christina. "Intertextual Notes in a Metafictional Autobiography: The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars." Scandinavian Canadian Studies Etudes Scandinaves au Canada 4 (1991): 43-49.
Gross, Konrad. "The Burden of Memory: Ethnic Literature in Germany and Canada." Multiculturalism in North America and Europe. Ed. Hans Braun and Wolfgang Klooss. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1995. 115-131.
Gudunsteinsdottir, Gudrun. "Wakepick Weavers: Laura G. Salverson and Kristjana Gunnars." Canada and the Nordic Countries. Ed. Jørn Carlsen. Denmark: U of Aarhus, 1995.
Hjartarson, Paul. "Transformation of the ‘I’: Self and Community in the Poetry of Kristjana Gunnars." Canada and the Nordic Countries. Ed. Jørn Carlsen and Bengt Streijffert. Vol. 2 of The Nordic Association for Canadian Studies Text Series. Lund: Lund UP, Chartwell Bratt, 1988. 123-37.
Keahey, Deborah. Making it Home: Place in Canadian Prairie Literature. U Manitoba P, 1998.
Keefer, Janice Kulyk. "The Prowler." Brick: A Literary Journal 51 (1995): 52-57.
Lane, Travis M. "Troll Turning: Poetic Voice in the Poetry of Kristjana Gunnars." Canadian Literature 105 (1985): 59-68.
Lent, John. "Staring into Snow: Subjectivity and Design in Kristjana Gunnars’ The Prowler." Recherches Anglaises et Nord Americaines 24 (1991): 103-15.
Lonnecke, Annette. Anglo-kanadische Autobiographien der Postmoderne: Radikale Formen der Selbstportratierung von John Glassco bis Kristjana Gunnars. Frankfurt am Main and New York: Peter Lang, 1999.
McVey, Moray. "The Emergence of a Canadian Voice in the Settlement Poems of Kristjana Gunnars." Lögberg-Heimskringla 19 Sept. 1986: 8-10.
Neijmann, Daisy L. "‘Cracking the Boundaries’: Icelandic-Canadian Challenges to Canadian Literature." ‘The Third Solitude’: Canadian Minority Writing. Proceedings of ‘The Third Solitude’ Conference on Canadian Minority Writing. Guernica Editions [forthcoming in Spring 2002].
____. "Community and Identity in Icelandic-Canadian Literature." Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 10 (1997): 53-75.
____. "Icelandic-Canadian Literature and Anglophone Minority Writing in Canada." World Literature Today: A Literary Quarterly of the University of Oklahoma 73.2 (1999): 245-55.
____. The Icelandic Voice in Canadian Letters: The Contribution of Icelandic-Canadian Writers to Canadian Literature. Ottawa: Carleton, 1997.
Owens, Judith. "‘Drawing / In’: Wholeness and Dislocation in the Work of Kristjana Gunnars." Contemporary Manitoba Writers: New Critical Studies. Ed. Kenneth James Hughes. Winnipeg: Turnstone, 1990. 64-78.
Padolsky, Enoch. "‘Olga in Wonderland’: Canadian Ethnic Minority Writing and Post-colonial Theory." Canadian Ethnic Studies 28.3 (1996): 16 -29.
Porter, J.S. "Kristjana Gunnars & the Book of Small." Antigonish Review 113 (1998): 77-84. Rpt. in Spirit Book Word: An Inquiry into Literature and Spirituality by J.S. Porter. Toronto: Novalis, 2002.
Rosica, Karen. "How to Read Kristjana Gunnars." Bloomsbury Review 20.5 (2000): 3-4.
Verduyn, Christl. "Memory Work / Migrant Writing Mediating Me / Moi: Van Herk, Gunnars, Ltaif, Bosco." Intersexions: Issues of Race and Gender in Canadian Women’s Writing. Ed. Coomi S. Vevaina and Barbara Godard. New Delhi: Creative, 1996. 244-53.
Woods, Gurli A. "The Space in the Margins: Suzanne Brogger’s No Man’s Land: Kristjana Gunnars’ The Substance of Forgetting and Aritha Van Herk’s Places Far from Ellesmere." Transcultural Trends: Essays in Canadian Literature and Society. Ed. Mari Peepre-Bordessa. Vol. 11 of the Nordic Association for Canadian Studies Text Series. Lund: Lund University Press, 1994. 111-125.
Zimmermann, Jutta. Metafiktion im anglokanadischen Roman der Gegenwart. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1996.
Interviews of Kristjana Gunnars
Casey, Jane. "An Interview with Kristjana Gunnars." Contemporary Verse Two 8.3 (1984): 36-39.
Demchuk, David. "‘Holding Two Ropes’: Interview with Kristjana Gunnars." Writers News Manitoba / Prairie Fire 5.2-3 (1984): 32-37.
Eagle, Jennifer. "Myriads of Stars: an Interview with Kristjana Gunnars." Prairie Fire 15.1 (1994): 22-26.
Gheorghe, Cristina. "Interview with Kristjana Gunnars about The Prowler." Scandinavian Canadian Studies Etudes Scandinaves au Canada 4 (1991): 51-59.
Magnusson, Sigurdur A. "Islensk skaldkona i Kanada." Tjodlif [Reykjavik] 6.4 (Apr. 1990): 28-32.
Murphy, Paul. "Kristjana Gunnars: Voicing the Silence." Gateway (University of Alberta). 2 Nov. 1989: 8-9.
Líndal, Tryggvi V. "Gagnrýnendur - eins og tómt skothylki." Interview with Kristjana Gunnars (in Icelandic). Morgunbla x i x [Reykjavík, Iceland] 16 Aug. 1981: 20.
Valgardson, W.D. "Interview with Kristjana Gunnars." Lögberg-Heimskringla 16 Jan. 1981: 5, 8.
Williamson, Janice. "In That Gap Where One Searches, the Muse Hangs Around...." Breaking the Silence: Conversations with Seventeen Canadian Women Writers. Ed. Janice Williamson. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1992. 95-109.
Selected Reviews of Gunnars’s Poetry
Brandt, Di. "The Unspeakableness of Love." Rev. of Exiles Among You, by Kristjana Gunnars, Clay Birds, by Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen and Beyond My Keeping, by Elizabeth Philips. Canadian Literature 155 (1997): 184-87.
Brown, Russel. "New Poets and Old Stories." Rev. of One-Eyed Moon Maps and Settlement Poems 1 by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Forum 61.715 (Feb. 1982): 37-8.
Conway, Rosalind Eve. "History Made to Scan." Rev. of Settlement Poems by Kristjana Gunnars. Books in Canada 9 (1980): 13-14.
Dales, Janice. "Creating Mythologies." Rev. of Settlement Poems 2 by Kristjana Gunnars. Writers’ News Manitoba / Prairie Fire 3.3 (1981): n.p.
Daurio, Beverley. Rev. of Carnival Of Longing by Kristjana Gunnars. Poetry Canada Review 11.3 (1990): 24-25.
Fahner, Kim. Rev. of Exiles Among You by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Book Review Annual 25 (1999): 227.
Faulkner, Paul. Rev. of The Night Workers of Ragnarök by Kristjana Gunnars. Quarry 36.2 (1987): 116-117.
Harry, Margaret. "Empty and Unnamed: Settlement Poems from Western Canada." Rev. of Settlement Poems 1 and Wake-Pick Poems by Kristjana Gunnars. The Fiddlehead 135 (1983): 115-118.
Hatch, Ronald B. Rev of Carnival Of Longing by Kristjana Gunnars. University of Toronto Quarterly 60.1 (1990): 31.
Hjartarson, Paul. Rev. of The Night Workers of Ragnarök by Kristjana Gunnars. Journal of Canadian Poetry 2 (1987): 40-46.
Johnston, George. "Icelandic Rhythms." Rev. of One-Eyed Moon Maps and Settlements Poems 1 & 2 by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Literature 92 (1982): 73-5.
Kolybaba, Kathie. Rev. of Settlement Poems I and II and Wake-Pick Poems by Kristjana Gunnars. Arts Manitoba 2.2 (1983): 57.
Kostjuk, Dwight. Rev. of Settlement Poems by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Ethnic Studies 14.2 (1983): 156-58.
Krisjansson, Gustaf. Rev. of Settlement Poems by Kristjana Gunnars. The Icelandic Canadian 39.2 (1980): 40-41.
Lane, M. Travis. Rev. of Instar, Poems and Stories by Anne Szumigalski and The Night Workers of Ragnarök by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Literature 111 (1986): 180-182.
____. "Priming the Pump: How do you Start a Poem?" Rev. of Exiles Among You by Kristjana Gunnars. The Fiddlehead (1999): 170-74.
Lemay, Shawna. "Reconnecting with Home." Rev. of Silence of the Country by Kristjana Gunnars. Edmonton Journal 30 June 2002: D12.
Lynch, Deidre. Rev. of Carnival Of Longing by Kristjana Gunnars. Journal of Canadian Poetry 6 (1991): 63-68.
McGrath, Wendy. "Cosmic Grief a Joy." Rev. of Exiles Among You by Kristjana Gunnars. The Edmonton Journal 11 Aug. 1996: C6.
Matthiasson, John S. Rev. of Settlement Poems 2 by Kristjana Gunnars. The Icelandic Canadian (Summer 1981): 43-4.
Mireau, Maurice. "Bold Poets Keep Surprising Readers." Rev. of Carnival of Longing by Kristjana Gunnars. Lögberg Heimskringla 2 Feb. 1990: 2.
Nodelman, Perry. "Bugs, Guts and Poetry." Rev. of One-Eyed Moon Maps and Settlement Poems 1 by Kristjana Gunnars. Winnipeg Free Press 29 Nov. 1980: 2.
Scobie, Stephen. "Kristjana Gunnars." Review of The Night Workers of Ragnarök by Kristjana Gunnars. Malahat Review 73 (1986): 125.
Seiferling, Mary. "Piecemeal Birth." Rev. of Settlement Poems 1 by Kristjana Gunnars. Writers’ News. Manitoba / Prairie Fire 3.2 (1981): n.p.
Suknasky, Andrew. Review of One-Eyed Moon-Maps and Settlement Poems 1 and 2 by Kristjana Gunnars. Brick (1982): 5-56.
Thorpe, Michael. Rev. of Carnival of Longing by Kristjana Gunnars. University of Toronto Quarterly 60.1 (1990): 31.
Tihanyi, Eva. "Theme and / or Non-Theme." Rev. of The Nightworkers of Ragnarok by Kristjana Gunnars. Waves 14.4 (1986) 84-86.
Valgardson, W. Rev. of Settlement Poems 1 and One-Eyed Moon Maps by Kristjana Gunnars. Iceland Review Apr. 1980: 11-12.
Ware, Martin. "Absence and Presence." Rev. of Creating the Country by Rhona McAdam, Carnival of Longing by Kristjana Gunnars, and The Look-Out Tower by Geoffrey Ursell. Canadian Literature 130 (1991): 173-175.
Selected Reviews of Kristjana Gunnars’s Prose
Anthony, Elizabeth. Rev. of Zero Hour by Kristjana Gunnars. Books In Canada 20.6 (1991): 36. Arnason, David. "Dislocations." Rev. of The Axes’s Edge. Prairie Fire 5.2 (1984): 109-10.
Attridge, Robert. Rev. of Zero Hour by Kristjana Gunnars. NeWest Review 17.6 (1992): 37-38.
Baldvinsson, Gardar. "Cold War." Rev. of The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Literature 185 (1992): 157-58.
Clarke, Margaret. "Reading Autobiographically." Rev. of Zero Hour by Kristjana Gunnars and Journey with my Selves by Dorothy Livesay. Prairie Fire 14 (1993): 138-142.
Cox, Catherine. Rev. of Zero Hour by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Materials 19.6 (1991): 360.
Craig, T.L. Rev. of Zero Hour by Kristjana Gunnars. University of Toronto Quarterly 62.1 (1992): 25-26.
Daurio, Beverly. Rev. of The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars. Cross Canada Writers’ Quarterly 12.1 (1990): 27.
Fitzgerald, Judith. "Short but Sweet." Rev. of The Axe’s Edge by Kristjana Gunnars. Globe and Mail 31 Mar. 1984: E21.
Garebian, Keith. Rev. of Zero Hour by Kristjana Gunnars. Quill & Quire 57.4 (1991): 33.
Gillese, T. Virginia. "Isolation as Existence." Rev. of Guest House & Other Stories by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Literature 145 (1995): 131-3.
Givner, Joan. "Strangers in a Strange Land." Rev. of The Axe’s Edge by Kristjana Gunnars. Books in Canada Mar. 1984: 16-17.
Goede, William. "Little Movies and Ground Zero Writing." Rev. of The Memory Garden of Miguel Carranza by Marwan Hassan and Zero Hour by Kristjana Gunnars. Event 21.1 (1992): 109-112.
Gugeler, Joy. "Innovative Sacrifices of Art for Artifice." Rev. of The Rose Garden: Reading Marcel Proust by Kristjana Gunnars and Word of Mouth by M.A.C. Farrant. Vancouver Sun 22 Mar. 1997: G7.
Haag, Stefan. "Melancholy Memories." Rev. of The Rose Garden: Reading Marcel Proust by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Literature 156 (1998): 138-9.
Heble, Ajay. Rev. of The Rose Garden: Reading Marcel Proust by Kristjana Gunnars. University of Toronto Quarterly 67.1 (1997-98): 9.
Hildebradt, Gloria. Rev. of Crossing the River: Essays in Honour of Margaret Laurence by Kristjana Gunnars and Margaret Laurence: An Appreciation by Christl Verduyn. Prairie Fire 10.3 (1989): 74-77.
Hjartarson, Paul. Rev. of The Axe’s Edge by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Ethnic Studies 17.3 (1985): 159-60.
Jones, Daniel. Rev. The Guest House and Other Stories by Kristjana Gunnars. Books In Canada 22.1 (1993): 45.
____. "Filling in the Details." Rev. of The Substance of Forgetting by Kristjana Gunnars. Books in Canada 22.1 (1993): 45.
Kenyon, Michael. Rev. of The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars. Malahat Review 91 (1990): 100.
Lemay, Shawna. Rev. of The Rose Garden: Reading Marcel Proust by Kristjana Gunnars. Folio [ Edmonton ] 21 Mar. 1991: 9
McIlroy, Randal. Rev. of Night Train to Nykøbing by Kristjana Gunnars. Prairie Fire 20.1 (1999): 144-45.
McMaster, Geoff. "Gunnars’ Night Train a Mournful Journey Towards Self-determination." Folio [Edmonton] 10 Dec. 1998.
MacKinley-Hay, Linda. Rev. of The Axe’s Edge by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Book Review Annual 10 (1984): 268.
Maclean, Kathryn. Rev. of The Substance of Forgetting by Kristjana Gunnars. Prairie Fire 15.1 (1994): 152-153.
Marchand, Philip. "Winter Tales are Sparse and True." Rev. of The Guest House and Other Stories by Kristjana Gunnars. The Toronto Star 9 Jan. 1993: F13.
Matyas, Cathy. "Invoking the Dead." Rev. of The Axe’s Edge by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Forum 64.740 (Jun/ Jul 1984): 35-6.
Morton, Colin. Rev. of The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars. Quarry 40.3 (1991): 112-114.
Moss, John. "Kristjana Gunnars’s The Prowler." Rev. of The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Forum 69.792 (Sept. 1990): 28
O’Flynn, Siobhan. "Going off the Rails." Rev. of Night Train to Nykøbing. Essays on Canadian Writing 67 (1999): 174-180.
Parr, John. "Icelandic-born poet turns to short stories." Rev. of The Axe’s Edge by Kristjana Gunnars. Toronto Star 4 Dec. 1983: G8.
Schermbrucker, Bill. "Precision Words, Precision Works." Rev. of Night Train to Nykøbing by Kristjana Gunnars. Event 28.3 (1999-2000): 146-50.
Scobie, Stephen. "Away From Zero." Rev. of Zero Hour by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Literature 135 (1992): 194-196.
Sigurdson, Norman. "Short Stories Chronicle the Immigrant Experience." Rev. of The Axe’s Edge by Kristjana Gunnars. Winnipeg Free Press 11 Feb. 1984: 49.
Szabados, Bela. Rev. of The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars. Prairie Fire 10.4 (1989-1990): 51-54.
Szabados, Bela and Joan Givner. "Two Readers Reading: The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars." Wascana Review 24.1 (1989): 80-87.
Tenove, Chris. "Cutting Connections: A Destination with No Emotional Debts to Pay." Rev. of Night Train to Nykøbing. NeWest Review 24.4 (1998-1999 ): 25-6.
Thorpe, Micheal. Rev. of The Prowler and Unexpected Fictions: New Icelandic Canadian Writing by Kristjana Gunnars. University of Toronto Quarterly 60.1 (1990): 5-6.
Van Luven, Lynne. "Contemporary Voices Strong in Polished Collages." Rev. of The Rose Garden: Reading Marcel Proust by Kristjana Gunnars and Taken by Daphne Marlatt. The Edmonton Journal 9 Feb. 1997: C4.
Wolf, Kirsten. "Icelandic-Canadian Literature: Problems in Generic Classification." Rev. Article of Stephan G. Stephansson: Selected Prose & Poetry, Trans. Kristjana Gunnars, and Unexpected Fictions. Ed. Kristjana Gunnars. Scandinavian Studies 64.3 (1992): 439-53.
Theses and Dissertations
Bamber, Candace Marie. Voices in my Head: A Reader’s Reflections on Works by Gunnars, Penelope and Rich. M.A. Thesis. U of Alberta, 1993.
Bricker, Margaret S. Feminism, Postmodernism, and Contemporary Canadian Writing by Women (Daphne Marlatt, Aritha van Herk, Kristjana Gunnars). M.A. Thesis. Carleton U, 1996.
Budd, Adam Russell. Playing Within the Discipline: Dynamics of Authorship in Three Canadian Autobiographies. M.A. Thesis. University of Victoria, 1995.
Cook, Meira. Speaking in Tongues: Contemporary Canadian Love Poetry by Women. Ph.D. Dissertation. U of Manitoba, 1998.
Libin, Mark Ira. Commencement Exercises: Toward Beginnings in English-Canadian Literature. Ph.D. Dissertation. U of Manitoba, 1999.
Malena, Anne. "The Prowler" de Kristjana Gunnars: Traduction et Commentaire. M.A. Thesis. McMaster U, 1991.
Neijmann, Daisy. Icelandic Canadian Literature. Ph.D. Dissertation. Free U of Amsterdam, Holland, 1994.
Pálsdóttir, Anna Hei x a. In the Trail of Ghosts: Kristjana Gunnars’ Improvisations on History in Settlement Poems 1 and 2 and The Axe’s Edge. B.A. Thesis. U of Iceland. 1995.
Awards
1996: Alberta Writers’ Guild Best Poetry Award (Stephan G. Stephannson Award for Poetry) for Exiles Among You
1996: Alberta Writers’ Guild Best Fiction Award (George Bugnet Award for Fiction) for The Rose Garden
1995: Anne Malena’s translation, La maraude, of The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars is nominated for Governor General’s Award for Translation (English into French)
1991: Nominated for Governor General’s Award for Nonfiction for Zero Hour
1989: The McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year for The Prowler
1988: Runner-up, CBC Literary Prize for Poetry
Also: Ontario Arts Council Awards 1981, 1984; Manitoba Arts Council Awards 1983, 1985; Alberta Foundation for the Literary Arts 1986, 1987.
Note
Published in Kristjana Gunnars: Essays on Her Works. Ed. Monique Tschofen. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2004.
Updated February 12 2015 by Student & Academic Services