“That’s My Boy”: Challenging the Myth of Literary Mentorship as In Loco Patris

Literary mentors have long been mythologized as serving in loco patris: i.e., in the place of their mentees’ fathers. Focusing on depictions of such mentorship in Tom Grimes’s Mentor (2010), the anthology A Manner of Being (2015), and Debra Weinstein\u27s Apprentice to the Flower Poet Z. (2004), we observe that these depictions repeatedly cast mentorship as dyadic, hierarchical, and homosocial. We argue that such depictions rehearse patriarchal norms with respect to literature, gender, and parenthood while fostering fraught psychological dynamics. Consequently, we identify a need for greater self-reflexivity about mentoring relations and a greater focus on alternative forms that mentorship can take

Counterclockwise. Special issue edited by Larissa Lai, Neil Surkan, and Joshua Whitehead

This special issue of Canada and Beyond addresses Canadian/Turtle Island cultural production and seeks non-linear temporalities, modes of kinship building, productive ways of witnessing, and anti-taxonomic frames for discussion and knowledge-building. It provides a critical view of a shifting field, with emphasis on discursive modes that build relationships while acknowledging difference and incommensurabilities at local and global scalesEste número especial de la revista Canada and Beyond trata sobre la producción cultural de la isla canadiense, o la Isla La Tortuga, y busca temporalidades no lineares, modos de construcción del parentesco, maneras productivas de testimonio, y marcos anti-taxonómicos para el debate y la construcción del conocimiento. Aporta una visión crítica sobre un ámbito cambiante, que se enfoca en los modos discursivos que forja relaciones, mientras reconoce diferencias e incomensurabilidades a escalas locales y globales