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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 ...

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 ...

Bruno Jasienski

By Nina Kolesnikoff
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Social Science, Sociology, Biography & Autobiography

Bruno Jasieński was a bilingual Polish-Russian writer who died in exile in Siberia in 1939. This volume traces his literary evolution. The introductory biographical sketch is followed by a discussion ...

Deportment

By Alice Burdick
Edited by Alessandro Porco
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Laurier Poetry

Deportment is a selection of poems – surreal, cerebral, and defiant – by Alice Burdick. Burdick examines the dangers of dogma, women’s rights, and environmental degradation in biting satires, moving ...

Myth and Reality in Irish Literature

By Joseph Ronsley
Subjects: Social Science, Sociology, Literary Criticism

Myth and Reality in Irish Literature offers a rich collection of essays covering a wide spectrum of Irish literature from the early medieval saints and scholars to twentieth century writers such as Joyce ...

Scandalous Bodies

By Smaro Kamboureli
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Social Science, Multiculturalism
Series: TransCanada

Scandalous Bodies is an impassioned scholarly study both of literature by diasporic writers and of the contexts within which it is produced. It explores topics ranging from the Canadian government’s ...

Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada

Edited by Christine Kim, Melina Baum Singer, and Sophie McCall
Subjects: Political Science, Globalization, Literary Criticism, Social Science, Multiculturalism, Canadian Literature
Series: TransCanada

Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada considers how the terms of critical debate in literary and cultural studies in Canada have shifted with respect to race, nation, and difference. ...

EcCentric Visions

By Gaile McGregor
Subjects: Social Science, Anthropology, Ethnography, Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies

What this book represents is, quite literally, a “slice” of (white) Australian life. By noting the patterns and parallels that emerge in a random sampling of social phenomena of widely varying types, ...

Girls, Texts, Cultures

Edited by Clare Bradford & Mavis Reimer
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism, Children’s Literature
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

This book focuses on girls and girlhoods, texts for and about girls, and the cultural contexts that shape girls’ experience. It brings together scholars from girls’ studies and children’s literature, ...