Performing Female Blackness

By Naila Keleta-Mae
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies, Performing Arts

Performing Female Blackness examines race, gender, and nation in Black life using critical race, feminist and performance studies methodologies.

This book examines what private and public performances ...

Unpacking the Personal Library

Edited by Jason Camlot & J.A. Weingarten
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Archival Studies

Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books is an edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and significance of private book collections in relation to public ...

Holding Ground

Edited by Janine Marchessault & Julie Nagam
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Art

Holding Ground: Nuit Blanche and Other Ruptures investigates international methodologies in curatorial practice from Canada, France, England, Aotearoa New Zealand, the United States, and many more countries. ...

Boom Kids

By James A. Onusko
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Cultural Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

The baby boomers and postwar suburbia remain a touchstone. For many, there is a belief that it has never been as good for youngsters and their families, as it was in the postwar years. Boom Kids explores ...

On the Other Side(s) of 150

Edited by Linda M. Morra & Sarah Henzi
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Indigenous Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

On the Other Side(s) of 150 explores the different literary, historical and cultural legacies of Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations. It asks vital questions about the ways that histories and stories ...

Moving Together

Edited by Allana C. Lindgren, Batia Boe Stolar, and Clara Sacchetti
Subjects: Performing Arts, Ethnography, Cultural Studies

Moving Together: Dance and Pluralism in Canada explores how dance intersects with the shifting concerns of pluralism in a variety of racial and ethnic communities across Canada.

Focusing on the twentieth ...

Cinema of Pain

Edited by Liz Czach & André Loiselle
Subjects: Film & Media, Cultural Studies

Since the defeat of the pro-sovereigntists in the 1995 Quebec referendum, the loss of a cohesive nationalistic vision in the province has led many Québécois to use their ancestral origins to inject ...

Limelight

By Katja Lee
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Cultural Studies, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Life Writing
Series: Life Writing

At the heart of fame is the tricky business of image management. Over the last 115 years, the celebrity autobiography has emerged as a popular and useful tool for that project. In Limelight, Katja Lee ...

The Black Prairie Archives

Edited by Karina Vernon
Subjects: Social Science, Multiculturalism, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Archival Studies, Cultural Studies

The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology recovers a new regional archive of “black prairie” literature, and includes writing that ranges from work by nineteenth-century black fur traders and pioneers, ...

Gorgeous War

By Tim Blackmore
Subjects: History, Military History, Film & Media, Cultural Studies

Gorgeous War argues that the Nazis used the swastika as part of a visually sophisticated propaganda program that was not only modernist but also the forerunner of contemporary brand identity. When the ...