The New Race

By William H.H. Johnson
Afterword by Jade Ferguson
Subjects: Archival Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Social Science, Emigration & Immigration
Series: Early Canadian Literature

William H. H. Johnson’s The Life of Wm. H. H. Johnson, from 1839 to 1900, and the New Race (1904) is the only classical slave narrative in the black North American tradition published by a British Columbian. ...

Performing Female Blackness

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

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 ...

(Re)Generation

By Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Edited by Dallas Hunt
Subjects: Poetry, Indigenous Studies, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Laurier Poetry

(Re)Generation contains selected poetry by Anishinaabe writer Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm that deals with a range of issues: from violence against Indigenous women and lands to Indigenous erotica and the joyous ...

Prison Life Writing

By Simon Rolston
Subjects: Social Science, Sociology, Life Writing
Series: Life Writing

The first full-length study of prison life writing, this book shows how the autobiographical literature of incarcerated people is consistently based on a conversion narrative, the same narrative that ...

Make the World New

By Lillian Allen
Edited by Ronald Cummings
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Lillian Allen is one of the leading creative Black feminist voices in Canada. Her work has been foundational to the dub poetry movement, which swept across the Black diaspora in the 1980s, taking roots/routes ...

The Queer Evangelist

By Cheri DiNovo
Foreword by Kathleen Wynne
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, History, Canadian History, Biography&autobiography, Urban Studies

A queer minister, politician and staunch activist for LGBTQ rights, Cheri DiNovo went from living on the streets as a teenager to performing the first legalized same-sex marriage registered in Canada ...

'Membering Austin Clarke

Edited by Paul Barrett
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Social Science, Multiculturalism

'Membering Austin Clarke reflects on the life and writing of Austin Clarke, whose depictions of Black life in Canada enlarged our understanding of what Canadian literature looks like.

Despite being one ...

Tiff

By Sherrill Grace
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Gender Studies

Timothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada’s foremost writers—an award-winning novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who began his career as an actor in London, England. Findley was instrumental ...

A Question of Commitment

Edited by Thomas Waldock
Foreword by R. Brian Howe & Katherine Covell
Subjects: Social Science, Child Studies, Law, Child Advocacy
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

With the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), commentators began to situate the evolution of the status of children within the context of the “property to persons” ...

Limelight

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