Fiddlehead Moment

Tony Tremblay is professor of English at St Thomas University.

"The Fiddlehead Movement offers an incisive analysis and fresh perspective not only on an alternative Canadian Modernism but also gives the reader an important and quite salutary take on the idea of national narrative and how it is constructed." Mary B. McGillivray, St. Francis Xavier University"An excellent study that addresses a significant gap in our understanding of the history of Canadian literature." Peter Thompson, Carleton University "The Fiddlehead, founded in 1945, remains a Canadian literary institution 75 years later, and Tremblay's study of it has no counter text. His painstaking research provides a strong foundation for future studies in Atlantic Canada's modernisms." American Review of Canadian Studies"For years now, I have anticipated new scholarship by Tony Tremblay with the excitement usually reserved for the first few days of spring. Tremblay always offers a comprehensive overview not only of a literary movement, but also of the environment from which it sprang. His latest, The Fiddlehead Moment, is no exception. In addition to archive-supported literary, political, and social histories, there is also a vast postcolonial theoretical engagement woven throughout. [...] Tremblay demonstrates deep, unyielding commitment to telling a story that has not yet been accepted – the story of a powerful, productive, and culturally rich New Brunswick." Canadian Literature "Given that Tremblay's analysis of modernism in New Brunswick constitutes a significant contribution to the assessment of Canadian modernism as a whole, The Fiddlehead Moment demonstrates that "the local does indeed matter in larger social formations and ... local producers, even in hinterlands like New Brunswick, influence the arc of movements in the country as a whole."" Journal of New Brunswick Studies