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Walking a Tightrope

Edited by David T. McNab & Ute Lischke
Subjects: Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

“The most we can hope for is that we are paraphrased correctly.” In this statement, Lenore Keeshig-Tobias underscores one of the main issues in the representation of Aboriginal peoples by non-Aboriginals. ...

Watermelon Syrup

By Annie Jacobsen, Di Brandt, and Jane Finlay-Young
Subjects: Fiction, Waterloo Region
Series: Life Writing

Lexi, a young Mennonite woman from Saskatchewan, comes to work as housekeeper and nanny for a doctor’s family in Waterloo, Ontario, during the Great Depression.
Dr. Gerald Oliver is a handsome philanderer ...

Writing in Our Time

By Pauline Butling & Susan Rudy
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Process poetics is about radical poetry — poetry that challenges dominant world views, values, and aesthetic practices with its use of unconventional punctuation, interrupted syntax, variable subject ...

Woldemar Neufeld’s Canada

By Hildi Froese Tiessen, Paul Gerard Tiessen
Edited by Laurence Neufeld, and Monika McKillen
Subjects: Art

Woldemar Neufeld (1909–2002) emigrated with his Mennonite parents from Ukraine to Canada in 1924. By the late 1920s, he had begun his lifelong project as documentarist, responding especially to the ...

Wider Boundaries of Daring

Edited by Barbara Godard & Di Brandt
Subjects: Poetry, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry announces a bold revision of the genealogy of Canadian literary modernism by foregrounding the originary and exemplary contribution ...

Will Gorlitz

By Bruce W. Ferguson, David Urban, Jeffrey Spalding, and Peggy Gale
Subjects: Art

Will Gorlitz: nowhere if not here examines the art, background, and theoretical concerns of contemporary Canadian artist Will Gorlitz. Appreciated especially for his painting and drawing, Gorlitz produces ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Without fear and with a manly heart"

Edited by K. Bruce Newbold, L. Iris Newbold
With Evelyn A. Walters, and Mark G. Walters
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Military History, Biography & Autobiography

Private James Herbert (Herb) Gibson was 26 years old when he volunteered for service in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War. Born near Perth, Ontario and descended from Scottish settlers, ...

Weinzweig

Edited by Brian Cherney & John Beckwith
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Music, Biography & Autobiography

First comprehensive study of John Weinzweig (1913–2006), the pre-eminent Canadian composer of his generation, with essays by composers, theorists, and musicologists. Includes a CD of extracts.
Influenced ...