The Daughter’s Way

By Tanis MacDonald
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

The Daughter’s Way investigates negotiations of female subjectivity in twentieth-century Canadian women’s elegies with a special emphasis on the father’s death as a literary and political watershed. ...

Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts

Edited by Eva Darias-Beautell
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Cultural Studies

This collection of essays studies the cultural and literary contexts of narrative texts produced in English Canada over the last forty years. It takes as its starting point the nationalist movement of ...

Battle Lines

By Joel Baetz
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry, History, Canadian History, Military History

For Canadians, the First World War was a dynamic period of literary activity. Almost every poet wrote about the war, critics made bold predictions about the legacy of the period’s poetry, and booksellers ...

Catching the Torch

By Neta Gordon
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Catching the Torch examines contemporary novels and plays written about Canada's participation in World War I. Exploring such works as Jane Urquhart's The Underpainter and The Stone Carvers, Jack Hodgins's ...

Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

By Daniel Heath Justice
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Literary Criticism
Series: Indigenous Studies

Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the ...

New Brunswick at the Crossroads

Edited by Tony Tremblay
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

What is the relationship between literature and the society in which it incubates? Are there common political, social, and economic factors that predominate during periods of heightened literary activity? ...

Violence Against Indigenous Women

By Allison Hargreaves
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Indigenous Studies, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Violence against Indigenous women in Canada is an ongoing crisis, with roots deep in the nation’s colonial history. Despite numerous policies and programs developed to address the issue, Indigenous ...

Argimou

By S. Douglass S. Huyghue
Afterword by Gwendolyn Davies
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Fiction, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Early Canadian Literature

Both an adventure-laced captivity tale and an impassioned denunciation of the marginalization of Indigenous culture in the face of European colonial expansion, Douglass Smith Huyghue’s Argimou (1847) ...

Read, Listen, Tell

Edited by Sophie McCall, Deanna Reder, David Gaertner and Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Indigenous Studies, Language Arts & Disciplines, Creative Writing
Series: Indigenous Studies

“Don’t say in the years to come that you would have lived your life differently if only you had heard this story. You’ve heard it now.” —Thomas King, in this volume

Read, Listen, Tell brings together ...

Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada

By Laura K. Davis
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada is the first book to examine how Laurence addresses decolonization and nation building in 1950s Somalia and Ghana, and 1960s and 1970s English Canada.

Focusing ...