This research was first presented as a work-in-progress paper to the international conference ‘Memory, Memorial, Memorializing’ hosted by LCMND (Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota), The University of North Dakota, Fargo, N.D., USA, in September 2007. It was then revised for a presentation entitled ‘Cultural Memory, Gender, Knowledge: Pierre Nepveu’s Des Mondes peu habites/Still Lives,’ presented to the Canadian Comparative Literature Association, International Congress, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, May 2008.