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Before the First Word

By Lorna Crozier
Edited by Catherine Hunter
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Lorna Crozier’s radical imagination, and the finely tuned emotional intelligence that is revealed in the clarity of her poetry, have made her one of Canada’s most popular poets. Before the First Word: ...

Is Canada Postcolonial?

Edited by Laura Moss
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

How can postcolonialism be applied to Canadian literature?

In all that has been written about postcolonialism, surprisingly little has specifically addressed the position of Canada, Canadian literature, ...

Reading In

By JoAnn McCaig
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Archival Studies

What can we learn about authorship through a reading of a writer’s archive?

Collections of authors’ manuscripts and correspondence have traditionally been used in ways that further illuminate the ...

Unsettled Remains

Edited by Cynthia Sugars & Gerry Turcotte
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic examines how Canadian writers have combined a postcolonial awareness with gothic metaphors of monstrosity and haunting in their response ...

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 ...

'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 ...

Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts

Edited by Eva Darias-Beautell
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies, Canadian Literature

This collection of essays studies the cultural and literary contexts of narrative texts produced in English Canada over the last forty years. It takes as its starting point the nationalist movement of ...

Violence Against Indigenous Women

By Allison Hargreaves
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Violence against Indigenous women in Canada is an ongoing crisis, with roots deep in the nation’s colonial history. Despite numerous policies and programs developed to address the issue, Indigenous ...

Writing between the Lines

Edited by Agnes Whitfield
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines, Translation, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

The essays in Writing between the Lines explore the lives of twelve of Canada’s most eminent anglophone literary translators, and delve into how these individuals have contributed to the valuable process ...

Verse and Worse

By Steve McCaffery
Edited by Darren Wershler
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Verse and Worse: Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989–2009 presents texts from the last two decades of work by Steve McCaffery, one of the most influential and innovative of contemporary poets. ...