Centre and Periphery, Roots and Exile

Edited by Friedemann Sallis, Kenneth DeLong, and Robin Elliott
Subjects: Music, Biography & Autobiography, History, Cultural Studies

This book examines the impact place and displacement can have on the composition and interpretation of Western art music, using as its primary objects of study the work of István Anhalt (1919–2012), ...

Gender, Health, and Popular Culture

Edited by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Women’s Studies

Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This gendered concept was transmitted through visual representations of the ideal ...

Ecologies of Affect

Edited by Ondine Park, Rob Shields, and Tonya K. Davidson
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Ethnography, Social Science, Urban Studies
Series: Environmental Humanities

Ecologies of Affect offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the character of places. The contributors capture the significance of affects including desire, nostalgia, memory, ...

Imagining Resistance

Edited by J. Keri Cronin & Kirsty Robertson
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Art
Series: Cultural Studies

Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada offers two separate but interconnected strategies for reading alternative culture in Canada from the 1940s through to the present: first, a history ...

Burdens of Proof

By Susanna Egan
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, Cultural Studies
Series: Life Writing

Autobiographical impostures, once they come to light, appear to us as outrageous, scandalous. They confuse lived and textual identity (the person in the world and the character in the text) and call into ...

Feeling Canadian

By Marusya Bociurkiw
Subjects: Political Science, Film & Media, Cultural Studies
Series: Film and Media Studies

“My name is Joe, and I AM Canadian!” How did a beer ad featuring an unassuming guy in a plaid shirt become a national anthem? This book about Canadian TV examines how affect and consumption work together, ...

Writing in Dust

By Jenny Kerber
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies, Canadian Literature, Philosophy, Ethics
Series: Environmental Humanities

Writing in Dust is the first sustained study of prairie Canadian literature from an ecocritical perspective. Drawing on recent scholarship in environmental theory and criticism, Jenny Kerber considers ...

Digital Diversity

Edited by E. Dianne Looker & Ted D. Naylor
Subjects: Education, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Sociology, Cultural Studies

Digital Diversity: Youth, Equity, and Information Technology is about youth, schools, and the use of technology. Youth are instrumental in finding novel ways to access and use technology. They are directly ...

Covering Niagara

Edited by Barry Keith Grant & Joan Nicks
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Law, Travel, Sports & Recreation
Series: Cultural Studies

Covering Niagara: Studies in Local Popular Culture closely examines some of the myriad forms of popular culture in the Niagara region of Canada. Essays consider common assumptions and definitions of what ...

Latin American Identities After 1980

Edited by Amy Huras & Gordana Yovanovich
Subjects: Cultural Studies

Latin American Identities After 1980 takes an interdisciplinary approach to Latin American social and cultural identities. With broad regional coverage, and an emphasis on Canadian perspectives, it focuses ...