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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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

The Feminine Gaze

By Anne Innis Dagg
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Many Canadian women fiction writers have become justifiably famous. But what about women who have written non-fiction?
When Anne Innis Dagg set out on a personal quest to make such non-fiction authors ...

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, ...

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 ...

Transnational Canadas

By Kit Dobson
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Political Science, Globalization, Canadian Literature, Social Science, Multiculturalism
Series: TransCanada

Transnational Canadas marks the first sustained inquiry into the relationship between globalization and Canadian literature written in English. Tracking developments in the literature and its study from ...