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 & 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, ...

Plotting the Reading Experience

Edited by Paulette M. Rothbauer, Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad, Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie, and Knut Oterholm
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines

This book is about the experience of reading–what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read and under what conditions, what drives people to read, and, conversely, what halts the ...

Editing as Cultural Practice in Canada

Edited by Dean Irvine & Smaro Kamboureli
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: TransCanada

This collection of essays focuses on the varied and complex roles that editors have played in the production of literary and scholarly texts in Canada. With contributions from a wide range of participants ...

In Due Season

By Christine van der Mark
Afterword by Carole Gerson & Janice Dowson
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Fiction
Series: Early Canadian Literature

First published in 1947, In Due Season broke new ground with its fictional representation of women and of Indigenous people. Set during the dustbowl 1930s, this tersely narrated prize-winning novel follows ...

Canadian Graphic

Edited by Candida Rifkind & Linda Warley
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Life Writing
Series: Life Writing

Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives presents critical essays on contemporary Canadian cartoonists working in graphic life narrative, from confession to memoir to biography. The contributors draw ...

Archetypes from Underground

By Lonny Harrison
Subjects: Literary Criticism

Archetypes from Underground: Notes on the Dostoevskian Self uncovers archetypal imagery in Dostoevsky’s stories and novels and argues that archetypes bring a new dimension to our understanding and appreciation ...