A collection exploring the ways the arts participate in emerging environmentally focused interdisciplinary fields, such as the Environmental Humanities. Essays examine what creative practice and visual language lend to these vital conversations, and how the arts and artistic practitioners share environmental knowledge.
Ecologies in Practice
Edited by Elysia French & Amanda White
Contributions by Emma Morgan-Thorp
Erasing Frankenstein showcases a creative exchange between federally incarcerated women and members of the prison-education think tank Walls to Bridges Collective at the Grand Valley Institution for Women (GVI) in Kitchener, Ontario, and graduate and undergraduate students from the University of New Brunswick (UNB) in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Working collaboratively by long-distance mail, the artists and contributors made the first-ever poetic adaptation of Frankenstein, turning it into a book-length erasure poem. An erasure poem is an example of “found art,” a poem created by piggybacking on an existing text; the words that are not part of the poem are erased or blacked out, and what is left is the poem. This book presents the original erasure poem alongside reflections from participants on the experience.
Erasing Frankenstein
Edited by Elizabeth Effinger
Fragmented and hybrid in style, On Comics and Grief examines a year in comic book publishing and the author’s grief surrounding his mother’s death. This book connects grief, memory, nostalgia, personal history, theory, and multiple lines of comics studies inquiry in relation to the comic books of 1976.
On Comics and Grief
By Dale Jacobs
Quiet Rebels tells the stories of 187 women who were called to the Ontario bar between 1897 and 1957, identifying gendered patterns of exclusion. It also explores women lawyers’ experiences in later decades, when many more women entered the legal profession, assessing the extent of “changes” or “continuities” for some women lawyers.
Quiet Rebels
By Mary Jane Mossman
Selected works from Marilyn Dumont, a Cree/Métis poet who has written about Métis kinscapes and Métis presence from her first book in 1997 to now.
Reclamation and Resurgence
By Marilyn Dumont
Edited by Armand Garnet Ruffo
A sociocultural history of children and childhood in Canada from the early 19th century to the late 20th century. It approaches these subjects both thematically and chronologically, with attention to the ways in which world historic events—the Great War, the Depression, the Second World War, the Cold War—affected children's lives.
Ring Around the Maple
By Cynthia R. Comacchio & Neil Sutherland
Soundin' Canaan refers to the code name often used for Canada during the Black migration. The book focuses on intersections between music and poetry as border-crossing practices that expand how we think about citizenship. It demonstrates how music in Black Canadian poetry is a form of social, ethical, and political expression.