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Silence and Seizure
Stewart-Nuñez recounts chasing a diagnosis for her son’s seizure disorder and learning to be his advocate while confronting her my own lack of knowledge about disability. With the wisdom of disabled writers threaded throughout, this book captures how she developed tactics for living a more comple...
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Brought to Light
A sociological lens on the freemasons, one of the oldest, most mysterious, and least understood groups in society. Rather than present historical meanings, the author asked contemporary freemasons directly, "What does it mean to you today?"
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The Taking of Vimy Ridge
Explores images by William Ivor Castle, a Canadian official photographer known for staging and manipulating his photographs. It tracks the relationship between Castle and the Canadian War Records Office and exposes several of Castle's manipulated works as he attempted to illustrate the Battle of ...
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A Disgrace to This Province
Crowded dormitories, locked doors, neglect, physical beatings, and sexual abuse were common to childhood inside the Huronia Regional Centre, a sprawling institution in Orillia, Ontario. Operating for over a century, the “Orillia Asylum for Idiots,” as it was first named, was home to thousands of ...
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Unfurling
The funniest poet in Canada reveals again and again that language is hilarious, but the fun and games of Unfurling roll out with weighty purpose. This collection includes selections from several of Susan Holbrook’s poetry books, all replete with her signature humour, innovation, sleeve of hearts,...
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We Have Seasonal Bodies
Toronto based-writer Gerry Shikatani has worked across the textual, visual, and aural domains since 1970. We Have Seasonal Bodies: The Poetry of Gerry Shikatani selected and introduced by poet and scholar Eric Schmaltz, brings together poetry and visual texts from across Shikatani’s multifaceted ...
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On the Other Side(s) of 150
On the Other Side(s) of 150 explores the different literary, historical and cultural legacies of Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations. It asks vital questions about the ways that histories and stories have been suppressed and invites consideration about what happens once a commemorative moment ...
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Multispecies Modernity
Multispecies Modernity: Disorderly Life in Postcolonial Literature considers relationships between animals and humans in the iconic spaces of postcolonial India: the wild, the body, the home, and the city. Navigating fiction, journalism, life writing, film, and visual art, this book argues that a...
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Processing
This volume is a collection of essays in which digital methodologies can engage directly with intersectional feminist scholarship. The sheer volume of data available online (primary and secondary source material, social, political, environmental, personal, etc) offers the opportunity to investiga...
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Eagle Minds
Eagle Minds—a selection from the correspondence between the Canadian composer and scholar Istvan Anhalt and his American counterpart George Rochberg—is a splendid chronicle and a penetrating analysis of the swerving socio-cultural movements of a volatile half-century as observed by two highly gi...
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In Search of Right Relations
How do we care for life stories and the people who live/d them? This collection explores the relational challenges of telling, stewarding, and receiving true stories of lived experience, inviting readers to engage with life stories through ethics of care, refusal, and repair. In Search of Right R...
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Limelight
At the heart of fame is the tricky business of image management. Over the last 115 years, the celebrity autobiography has emerged as a popular and useful tool for that project.In Limelight, Katja Lee examines the memoirs of famous Canadian women like L. M. Montgomery, Nellie McClung, the Dionne Q...
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Still Invisible
Still Invisible: Young Black Working-Class Men in Canada challenges the widespread tendency to treat impoverished Black male youth as a single, uniform group. While anti-Black racism shapes all Black lives, this book shows how race, class, and gender intersect to produce distinct and uneven barri...
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Indigenous X
Indigenous X examines Native Twitter as a defining moment in Indigenous digital life and a lens on broader Indigenous movements and cultural production. Through essays, conversations, and online texts, it shows how Indigenous peoples engage social media as a space of politics and relation that co...
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Fifty Years of Religious Studies in Canada
Almost every university in North America now has a religious studies department that offers courses on Western and Eastern religions and religion in general. Harold Coward addresses this and other shifts in this memoir of his forty-five-year career in the development of religious studies as a new...
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Literatures, Communities, and Learning
Literatures, Communities, and Learning contextualizes Indigenous literatures through pedagogical and social justice perspectives. Gathering conversations with nine Indigenous writers, the book explores the writers’ relationship to storytelling, Indigenous peoples’ well-being, and community-based ...
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Practicing the Social
Practicing the Social: Entanglements of Art and Social Justice brings together artists, activists, and scholars who use creative practice to reimagine how we live and build more just worlds. The collection centers disability, Deaf, Mad, neurodivergent, Indigenous, Black, Brown, queer, fat, and ...
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The Contemporary Leonard Cohen
NEW in Paperback. The Contemporary Leonard Cohen is an exciting study that offers an original explanation of Leonard Cohen’s staying power and his various positions in music, literature, and art. The death of Leonard Cohen received media attention across the globe, and this international star rem...
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This Is Not a Hoax
This Is Not a Hoax shows how the work of some contemporary artists and writers intentionally disrupts the curatorial and authorial practices of the country’s most respected cultural institutions: art galleries, museums, and book publishers. This first-ever study of contemporary Canadian hoaxes in...
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Drawing from History
Drawing from History brings to life the remarkable story of Toronto’s Central Technical School Art Department, a vibrant hub that inspired generations of Canadian artists.Weaving together personal insights, first-hand accounts from students and teachers, and rare archival treasures, this book tra...
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Chronicles
Dionne Brand explores and chronicles how history shapes human existence, in particular the lives of those ruptured and scattered by New World slaveries and modern crises. This republication of three early volumes presents her poetic journey and is a testament to a historical moment in which chang...
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Freedom to Play
“When we were children we made our own fun” is a frequent comment from those who were children in pre-television times. But what games, activities and amusements did children enjoy prior to the mid-1950s? Recollections of older Canadians, selections from writings by Canadian authors and letters...
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Painted Fires
First published in 1925, this book narrates the trials and tribulations of Helmi Milander, a Finnish immigrant, during the years approaching the First World War. The novel serves as a vehicle for McClung’s social activism, especially in terms of temperance, woman suffrage, and immigration policie...
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Difficult Games
Examining Calvino's literary experiments as a young artist in search of his narrative voice, Ricci explores the psychological and existential motivations intrinsically linked to the writer's need for textual and systemic patterning. I racconti contains some of Calvino's least-read works, yet thes...
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(Re)Generation
(Re)Generation contains selected poetry by Anishinaabe writer Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm that deals with violence against Indigenous women and lands, Indigenous erotica and the joyous intimate encounters between bodies. Not interested in simplistic representations, Akiwenzie-Damm's poetry grapples wit...
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Plotting the Reading Experience
Essays from international contributors on the experiences of reading: what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read, under what kinds of conditions, what drives people to read, and conversely, what gets individual and groups of readers stopped in their pursuit of the rewards ...
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Where I Come From
“Where do you come from?” When Vijay Agnew first immigrated to Canada people would often ask her “Where do you come from?” She thought it a simple, straightforward question, and would answer in the same simple, straightforward manner, by telling them where she had been born and where she grew u...
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Germany’s Western Front: 1915
The first English-language translation of Der Weltkrieg, the German official history of the First World War. Originally produced between 1925 and 1944 using classified archival records that were destroyed in the aftermath of the Second World War, Der Weltkrieg is the untold story of Germanys exp...
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Dissonant Worlds
How did a Belgian Oblate missionary who came to Canada to convert the aboriginals come to be buried as a Cree chief? In Dissonant Worlds Earle Waugh traces the remarkable career of Roger Vandersteene: his life as an Oblate missionary among the Cree, his intensive study of the Cree language and fo...
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Making Feminist Media
Making Feminist Media provides new ways of thinking about the media and craft cultures generated by Riot Grrrl and feminism’s third wave. It focuses on a cluster of feminist publications that began as zines in the 1990s and by tracking their successes and failures, provides insight into the polit...
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The Newfoundland Diaspora
Engaging with the literature of Newfoundland out-migration through the lens of diaspora theory this book argues that the concept of a Newfoundland diaspora has much to contribute both to Canadian literary studies and to current interdisciplinary definitions and theorizations of diaspora.
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Boom!
From James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces to memoirs about bartending, Iran, the liberation of Dachau, hacking, and the impact of 9/11, this book argues that the memoir boom is more than a publishing trend. It is becoming the way readers try to understand major events in terms of individual exper...
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Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity
Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity discusses the diverse cultural destinies of early Christianity, early Judaism, and other ancient religious groups as a question of social rivalry. The book is divided into three main sections. The first section debates t...
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Religion and Ethnicity
The essays in this volume deal with the relationship between living religious traditions in Canada and the fabric of Canadian society. Canada is a pluralistic society, ethnically and religiously. How are these two pluralisms related? Their connection is intimate, but never simple. For many years ...
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Creating Together
This book explores an emerging approach to research that combines arts practices and scholarship in participatory, community-based, and collaborative contexts in Canada across disciplines. Looking at a variety of art forms, the contributors explore how the process of creating together generates a...
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We All Giggled
We All Giggled tells the stories of two families that came together when the author’s parents met and married in 1945. The Hüglins had lost most of their fortune in the course of two world wars, and the Wachendorff s had survived the Nazi years despite their Jewish ancestry. The families’ roots ...
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Repossessing the World
Why does it seem as if everyone is writing memoirs, and particularly women? The current popularity of memoir verifies the common belief that we each have a story to tell. And we do...especially women. Memoirs are not only representations of women’s personal lives but also of their desire to rep...
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Troubling Tricksters
Troubling Tricksters is a collection of theoretical essays, creative pieces, and critical ruminations that provides a re-visioning of trickster criticism in light of recent backlash against it. The complaints of some Indigenous writers, the critique from Indigenous nationalist critics, and the ch...
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Producing Canadian Literature
Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace brings to light the relationship between writers in Canada and the marketplace within which their work circulates. Through a series of conversations with both established and younger writers from across the country, Kit Dobs...
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Kinds of Winter
After a 15-year racing career, musher Dave Olesen set out to fulfill a lifelong dream, carrying out four solo journeys by dog team, pointing in turn to the south, east, north, and west, and home again to Hoarfrost River in the Canadian north. A unique blend of armchair adventure, personal memoir,...
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Bridging Two Peoples
Story of Dr. Peter E. Jones, who was one of the first status Indians to obtain a medical doctor degree from a Canadian university. As secretary to the Grand Indian Council of Ontario he conveyed the chiefs’ concerns to Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald, most importantly during consultations on...
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I Have a Story to Tell You
I Have a Story to Tell You is about Eastern European Jewish immigrants living in Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg in the early twentieth century. The stories encompass their travels and travails on leaving home and their struggles in the sweatshops and factories of the garment industry in Canada. ...
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Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies
Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine the various contexts—political, social, and cultural—that have shaped the study of Canadian literature and the role it plays in our understanding of the Canadian nation-state. The essays are ...
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Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory
Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory is a collection of essays written in honour of Barbara Godard, one of the most original and wide-ranging literary critics, theorists, teachers, translators, and public intellectuals Canada has ever produced. The contributors, both established and emerging...
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Writing in Dust
Writing in Dust is the first sustained study of prairie Canadian literature from an ecocritical perspective. Drawing on recent scholarship in environmental theory and criticism, Jenny Kerber considers the ways in which prairie writers have negotiated processes of ecological and cultural change in...
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K.L. Reich
Available in English for the first time, Joaquim Amat-Piniella’s portrayal of life in the camps is unmatched in scope and detail. It’s also a compelling study of three powerful ideological movements at work at the time: anarchism, communism, and fascism, all within the desperate and brutal world ...
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The Agent in the Margin
The Agent in the Margin: Nayantara Sahgal’s Gandhian Fiction is a comprehensive study of the literary works of Nayantara Sahgal, daughter of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit—the first woman president of the United Nations General Assembly—and niece of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister. Clara A....
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Breaking Anonymity
Across North America a growing body of “chilly climate” research documents the role played by environmental factors in reproducing gender inequality: practices that stereotype, exclude and devalue women are persistently powerful forces in creating “glass ceilings” and maintaining “pink ghettos.” ...
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Silence, the Word and the Sacred
The result of a dialogue between poets and scholars on the meaning and making of the sacred, this book endeavours to determine how the sacred emerges in sacred script as well as in poetic discourse. It ranges through scholarship in areas as apparently disparate as postmodernism and Buddhism. The ...
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The Ethics of the New Economy
Is restructuring an underhanded way to make the rich richer and the poor poorer? Or is it necessary, although bitter, medicine for an ailing economy? In The Ethics of the New Economy: Restructuring and Beyond, professionals from the fields of philosophy, ethics, management, as well as those rep...
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mahikan ka onot
mahikan ka onot collects the finest work of accomplished Indigenous poet Duncan Mercredi, from his first book in 1991 to recent unpublished poems. These are poems of life on the land as well as life in the city, vibrant with the rhythms of traditional Cree and Métis storytelling but also with the...
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The Practical Vision
The Practical Vision: Essays in English Literature in Honour of Flora Roy contains essays offered as a tribute on the occasion of Dr. Flora Roy’s retirement as a Canadian university teacher of English. These essays reflect the literary interests and administrative activities of Dr. Roy and demo...
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The Films of Stan Brakhage in the American Tradition of Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and Charles Olson
Since the late 1950s Stan Brakhage has been in the forefront of independent filmmaking. His body of work — some seventy hours — is one of the largest of any filmmaker in the history of cinema, and one of the most diverse. Probably the most widely quoted experimental filmmaker in history, his fil...
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Ink Against the Devil
This book will appeal to both lay and professional scholars of the Reformation and its major players with prose that is accessible and free of jargon. Loewen directly addresses the debates between Martin Luther and his many foes, including Humanists like Erasmus and the sectarian opponents found ...
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Hunger
Hunger focuses on the role of food, or the lack of it, in the First World War. Diary quotes, historical accounts, and the author's own re-enactments combine for a gripping, at times harrowing read.
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This Awareness of Beauty
This book considers the orchestral and wind band music of Canadian composer Healey Willan, who was known primarily for his choral work. A succinct biography accompanies historical, analytical, and critical investigations of Willan’s instrumental music, asserting Willan’s seminal place in Canadian...
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Imagining Resistance
Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada offers two separate but interconnected strategies for reading alternative culture in Canada from the 1940s through to the present: first, a history of radical artistic practice in Canada and, second, a collection of eleven essays that fo...
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Sam Hughes
This book is based on the public career of a highly controversial Canadian, Sam Hughes 1885–1916. He is one of the most colourful, even bizarre, figures in Canadian history. Though he died in 1921, his name can still conjure up controversy and not a little misunderstanding. His long career—in s...
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Beowulf and the Celtic Tradition
The author traces and evaluates the possible influences of Celtic tradition on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. He discusses theories of the origins of the poem, draws parallels between elements in Beowulf and in Celtic literary tradition, and suggests that the central plot of the poem, the con...
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Encyclopedia of Canadian Social Work
All of us, as Canadians, are touched throughout our lives by some aspect of social welfare, either as recipients, donors, or taxpayers. But despite the importance of the social network in our country, there has been no single source of information about this critical component of our society. Eve...
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With Children and Youth
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 critical perspectives, written in a provocative manner and reflecting outside-the-box thinking.
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Francisco Giner de los Rios
During the nineteenth century, traditional Catholic Spain and its "decadent intellectual climate" was chalenged by liberal Europeanizing influences. It had happened before, but this time the status quo was threatened by Krausism, an idealistic doctrine of universal harmony and rational freedom. I...
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The Last Effort of Dreams
When Pier Giorgio Di Cicco first appeared on the Canadian literary scene in the early 1980s, he was immediately recognized as one of the most compelling voices of his generation. The Last Effort of Dreams is the first critical collection on Pier Giorgio Di Cicco and traces the steps of his career...
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Panic Signs
Cristina Peri Rossi is one of the most acclaimed and personal voices in Hispanic letters. This volume of short stories, Panic Signs, first published in 1970 in Montevideo, Uruguay, presages the atrocities that would come with dictatorship in 1972.The premonitory dimension is one of the striking c...
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I Remember Laurier
I Remember Laurier is the story—actually, thirty-seven stories—of the little university that could, told by some of those who devoted themselves to transforming the school from its modest beginnings into a superb small liberal arts college, and in turn to the university whose growth, diversificat...
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Hindu Iconoclasts
Why, Salmond asks, would nineteenth-century Hindus who come from an iconic religious tradition voice a kind of invective one might expect from Hebrew prophets, Muslim iconoclasts, or Calvinists? Rammohun was a wealthy Bengali, intimately associated with the British Raj and familiar with Europea...
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From Civil to Political Religion
Prompted by the shattering of the bonds between religion and the political order brought about by the Enlightenment, Jean-Jacques Rousseau devised a “new” religion (civil religion) to be used by the state as a way of enforcing civic unity. Emile Durkheim, by contrast, conceived civil religion to ...
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Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Sardis and Smyrna
This volume, one in a series of books examining religious rivalries, focuses in detail on the religious dimension of life in two particular Roman cities: Sardis and Smyrna. The essays explore the relationships and rivalries among Jews, Christians, and various Greco-Roman religious groups from the...
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Luther and Late Medieval Thomism
A careful analysis of Luther’s thought in the context of his age, this volume examines Luther’s links with later medieval Thomism. The study is organized on the theme of theological anthropology—the state of humans within a theological system. In the course of the discussion, Janz studies parall...
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Feeling Canadian
“My name is Joe, and I AM Canadian!” How did a beer ad featuring an unassuming guy in a plaid shirt become a national anthem? This book about Canadian TV examines how affect and consumption work together, producing national practices framed by the television screen. Drawing on the new field of af...
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Youth, Education, and Marginality
Youth, Education, and Marginality: Local and Global Expressions is a close examination of the lives of marginalized young people in schools. Essays by scholars and educators are complemented by youth poetry, prose, and visual art. The book includes insights from Australia, United Kingdom, Poly...
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Anthologizing Canadian Literature
Study of English-Canadian literary anthologies investigates anthology formation in Canada and answers key questions about the role anthologies have played in the formation of Canadian literary taste, their influence on students, editors’ literary values and how that contributes to canon formation...
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Europe in Its Own Eyes, Europe in the Eyes of the Other
What is Europe? Who is European? What do Europe and European identity mean in the twenty-first century? This collection of sixteen essays seeks to answer these questions by focusing on Europe as it is seen through its own eyes and through the eyes of others across a variety of cultural texts, inc...
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The Seats of the Mighty
One of the most popular Canadian novels of the late nineteenth century, The Seats of the Mighty is set in Quebec City in 1759, against the backdrop of the conflict between the English and the French over the future of New France.
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Archaeology of the Rivas Region, Nicaragua
Central America before the Spanish Conquest has often been considered by North American archaeologists as a “backwater” of peripheral importance located between the advanced ancient civilizations of South America and Mesoamerica (Mexican–Maya country). Recent archaeological research has revealed ...
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Space Between Her Lips
This book presents some of the most vibrant, exciting, and intellectually challenging poetry in Canada. Christakos plays language games that bring a probing and disturbing humour to perfectly serious themes that range from childhood and children to women in contemporary techno-capitalist society ...
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Making It Like a Man
Making It Like a Man: Canadian Masculinities in Practice is a collection of essays on the practice of masculinities in Canadian arts and cultures, where to “make it like a man” is to participate in the cultural, sociological, and historical fluidity of ways of being a man in Canada, from the coun...
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The Costa Rican Catholic Church, Social Justice, and the Rights of Workers, 1979-1996
Provides a new understanding of the relationship between Church and State in 20th-century Costa Rica. Understanding the relationship between religion and social justice in Costa Rica involves piecing together the complex interrelationships between Church and State — between priests, popes, poli...
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Babies for the Nation
Described by some as a “necropolis for babies,” the province of Quebec in the early twentieth century recorded infant mortality rates, particularly among French-speaking Catholics, that were among the highest in the Western world. This “bleeding of the nation” gave birth to a vast movement for ch...
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Cinema of Pain
Original essays argue that the loss of a cohesive nationalist vision in Quebec, triggered by the loss of the 1995 referendum on sovereignty, has resulted in a pervasive nostalgia that permeates all aspects of Québécois culture. In Québécois cinema, this nostalgia is evoked as the element of pain ...
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Make the World New
Lillian Allen is one of the leading creative Black feminist voices in Canada. Her work has been foundational to the dub poetry movement, which swept across the Black diaspora in the 1980s, taking roots/routes in Kingston, Toronto, and London and offering exciting sounds of protest and a careful, ...
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Burke’s Politics
Edmund Burke claimed to be a practical politician, rather than a theorist. Nevertheless, says the author, Burke held consistent political principles which form a coherent political theory. By examining concepts such as natural laws, natural society, civil society, and history in Burke’s speeches ...
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Canadian Cultural Exchange / Échanges culturels au Canada
The essays in Canadian Cultural Exchange / Échanges culturels au Canada provide a nuanced view of Canadian transcultural experience. Rather than considering Canada as a bicultural dichotomy of colonizer/colonized, this book examines a field of many cultures and the creative interactions among ...
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Chamber Music
Anthology of poems by Jan Zwicky, with an introduction by Darren Bifford and Warren Heiti that situates Zwicky’s poetry within her philosophical work. The afterword consists of an interview with the poet that expands on the themes of her poetry in a more personal way.
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Memoirs from Away
How does the imagination entwine the shreds of memory of family, place and culture to root a self in the fluid experience of the present? Daughter, wife, mother, teacher, writer and feminist academic, Helen M. Buss / Margaret Clarke has lived in many parts of Canada and writes from a life of mu...
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The Niagara Companion
What is it about Niagara Falls that fascinates people? What draws them to it? Is it love, obsession, or fear? In The Niagara Companion, Linda Revie searches for an answer to these questions by examining the paintings and writings about the Falls from the late seventeenth century, when the fir...
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Children's Literature and Imaginative Geography
Where do children travel when they read a story? In this collection, scholars and authors explore the imaginative geography of a wide range of places, from those of Indigenous myth to the fantasy worlds of Middle-earth, Earthsea, or Pacificus, from the semi-fantastic Wild Wood to real-world place...
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Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase
What do literary dystopias reflect about the times? In Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase, contributors address this amorphous but pervasive genre, using diverse critical methodologies to examine how North America is conveyed or portrayed in a perceived age of crisis, accelerated uncertainty, and p...
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Sporting Justice
A history of the Chatham Coloured All-Stars, the first Black team to win an Ontario amateur baseball title in 1934. Sporting Justice situates the team in a broader history of Black baseball in Chatham and southwestern Ontario, exploring themes including racism in sport, gender, class, and social ...
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Critical Mass
Public concern about inequitable economic globalization has revealed the demand for citizen participation in global decision making. Civil society organizations have taken up the challenge, holding governments and corporations accountable for their decisions and actions, and developing collaborat...
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Image and Territory
In a culture that often understands formal experimentation or theoretical argument to be antithetical to pleasure, Atom Egoyan has nevertheless consistently appealed to wide audiences around the world. If films like The Adjuster, Calendar, Exotica, and The Sweet Hereafter have ensured him interna...
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Transition to Common Work
For social workers, activists, bureaucrats, and engaged citizens in third-sector organizations (NGOs, charities, not-for-profits, co-operatives), this practical and inspiring book provides a method for moving beyond the doldrums of “poverty relief” into the exciting world of community building.
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Religious Studies in Ontario
Most Ontario universities were established by Christian denominations; a Christian ethos was assumed and pervasive, and students were required to take courses designed to teach and inculcate religion. This insightful and comprehensive study demonstrates how, as Ontario society became secularized ...
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Critical Perspectives in Canadian Music Education
As post-secondary faculties of music and programs are growing significantly, academic books and materials grounded in a Canadian perspective are scarce. This book attempts to fill that need by offering a collection of essays that look critically at various global issues in music education from a ...
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Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts
Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts is a tribute to the ethnomusicologist Beverley Diamond in recognition of her outstanding scholarly accomplishments. The volume includes essays by leading ethnomusicologists and music scholars as well as a biographical introduction. The book’s contributor...
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Leopoldo Zea
The author analyzes Mexican national identity in the context of the philosophy of Leopoldo Zea, contemporary Mexican thinker. He attempts to establish national character traits peculiar to Mexico, using sociological, psychological, historical, and philosophical approaches. He then shows how Zea d...
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Cross-Currents
Most activities in our lives involve electricity. Yet, how often do we recall that even the simple act of turning on a light is supported by a long history of debates over group vs. individual rights, environmental impact, political agendas and technological innovations? Using the image of cro...
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Abuse or Punishment?
Analyzes advice provided to parents and the different forms of child abuse within families.Two dates are given particular focus: 1920, with the trial of the parents of Aurore Gagnon and the phenomenon of "child martyrs" and 1940, with the appearance of the New Education, based on psychology rathe...
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