Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

By Daniel Heath Justice
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Indigenous Studies
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? ...

Argimou

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

Violence Against Indigenous Women

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

Read, Listen, Tell

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

Space Between Her Lips

By Margaret Christakos
Edited by Gregory Betts
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Laurier Poetry

Space Between Her Lips presents the first selected works of one of Canada's most important poets of the last few decades. Margaret Christakos writes vibrant, exciting, and intellectually challenging poetry. ...

Certain Details

By Nelson Ball
Edited by Stuart Ross
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Nelson Ball has had a significant impact on contemporary Canadian poetry not only as a poet but as an editor, with his Weed/Flower Press in the 1960s and 70s. Certain Details provides a major overview ...

From the Iron House

By Deena Rymhs
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Indigenous Studies

In From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing, Deena Rymhs identifies continuities between the residential school and the prison, offering ways of reading “the carceral”—that is, ...

Learn, Teach, Challenge

Edited by Deanna Reder and Linda M. Morra
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Literary Criticism
Series: Indigenous Studies

This is a collection of classic and newly commissioned essays about the study of Indigenous literatures in North America. The contributing scholars include some of the most venerable Indigenous theorists, ...