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 ...

Wait Time

By Kenneth Sherman
Subjects: Medical, Public Health, Biography & Autobiography, Life Writing
Series: Life Writing

When poet and essayist Kenneth Sherman was diagnosed with cancer, he began keeping a notebook of observations that blossomed into this powerful memoir. With incisive and evocative language, Sherman presents ...

With Children and Youth

Edited by Kiaras Gharabaghi, Hans A. Skott-Myhre, and Mark Krueger
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Social Science, Child Studies, Political Science, Social Services, Social Policy
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

With Children and Youth provides a snapshot of emerging theories and perspectives in the field of child and youth care across North America. Well-known scholars and researchers present new and innovative ...

When Technocultures Collide

By Gary Genosko
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Technology & Engineering
Series: Cultural Studies

Examines computer hackers, phone phreaks, urban explorers, calculator and computer collectors, “CrackBerry” users, whistle-blowers, Yippies, zinsters, roulette cheats, and chess geeks. The dangers ...

Working Memory

Edited by Marlene Kadar & Jeanne Perreault
Subjects: History, Military History, Canadian History, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Biography & Autobiography, Archival Studies
Series: Life Writing

Working Memory: Women and Work in World War II speaks to the work women did during the war: the labour of survival, resistance, and collaboration, and the labour of recording, representing, and memorializing ...

Wittgenstein's Ethics and Modern Warfare

By Nil Santiáñez
Subjects: Fine Arts, Treatments & Subjects, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Ethics

This original and insightful book establishes a reciprocal relationship between Ludwig Wittgenstein’s notion of ethics and the experience of war. It puts forth an interpretation of Wittgenstein’s ...

Writing Surfaces

Edited by derek beaulieu & Lori Emerson
By John Riddell
Subjects: Fiction, Poetry

In Writing Surfaces, derek beaulieu and Lori Emerson present a collection of John Riddell’s work. Riddell’s poems and short stories are a remarkable mix of largely typewriter-based concrete poetry ...

W.B. Yeats

By Heather C. Martin
Subjects: Literary Criticism

W. B. Yeats spent a great deal of his life immersing himself in magical, mystical, and philosophic studies in order, as he claimed, to devise a personal system of thought “that would leave [his] . .. ...

William Wilfred Campbell

Edited by Laurel Boone
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry

This is a representative collection of the writings of a neglected Canadian author, William Wilfred Campbell (1858-1918).

Among the 112 poems in William Wilfred Campbell: Selected Poetry and Essays are ...

Women, Reading, Kroetsch

By Susan Rudy
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Women, Reading, Kroetsch: Telling the Difference is a book of both practical and theoretical criticism. Some chapters are feminist deconstructive readings of a broad range of the writings of contemporary ...