Prison Life Writing

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

Prison Life Writing is the first full-length study of one of the most controversial genres in American literature. By exploring the complicated relationship between life writing and institutional power, ...

The Queer Evangelist

By Cheri DiNovo & CM
Foreword by Kathleen Wynne
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Urban Studies, Biography & Autobiography

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: Social Science, Multiculturalism, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

'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, Social Science, Gender Studies, Biography & Autobiography

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 Katherine Covell & R. Brian Howe
Subjects: Social Science, Child Studies, Social Work, 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: Biography & Autobiography, Cultural Studies, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Life Writing
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 ...

The Black Prairie Archives

Edited by Karina Vernon
Subjects: Social Science, Multiculturalism, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Archival Studies, Cultural Studies

The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology recovers a new regional archive of “black prairie” literature, and includes writing that ranges from work by nineteenth-century black fur traders and pioneers, ...

The Next Instalment

By Wendy Roy
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Language Arts & Disciplines, Publishing, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

What happens next?
That was the question asked of early-twentieth-century authors Nellie L. McClung, L. M. Montgomery, and Mazo de la Roche, whose stories and novels appeared serially and kept readers ...

Social Poesis

By Rachel Zolf
Edited by Heather Milne
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Women’s Studies, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Social Poesis introduces readers to the work of one of Canada’s most exciting and challenging poets. Through selections from across Rachel Zolf's poetic oeuvre, this book foregrounds the philosophical, ...

Beauty in a Box

By Cheryl Thompson
Subjects: Film & Media, Cultural Studies, Social Science, Multiculturalism, Women’s Studies

One of the first transnational, feminist studies of Canada’s black beauty culture and the role that media, retail, and consumers have played in its development, Beauty in a Box widens our understanding ...