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Randy Boyagoda. Governor of the Northern Province.

Publication: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
Publication Date: 22-SEP-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Randy Boyagoda. Governor of the Northern Province. Toronto: Viking Canada, 2006. 208 pp. $32.00 sc.

Randy Boyagoda's comic novel, which appeared on the 2006 Giller Prize long-list, is an intelligent and timely satire. It is highly literary, filled with allusions and jokes about Faulkner, T. S. Eliot, L. E Hartley, Joseph Conrad, Robertson Davies, and John Buchan (in his capacity as Governor-General). It is also caustic and unsparing about both politics in the abstract and specific political conditions in Canada today. For instance, the Liberal Party is described as "the PRI of the north" (131); this jab comparing the Grits to the once-hegemonic Mexican colossus is sharp, ),et not totally wide of the mark.

Boyagoda brings together a duo of unlikely connivers. One is Jennifer Ursula Thickson, a middle-class girl from rural Ontario who yearns for political "possibilities" (53) as an antidote to the mediocrity and awkwardness her social milieu ascribes to...

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