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Ornithologies of desire
Ornithologies of Desire develops ecocritical reading strategies that engage scientific texts, field guides, and observation. Focusing on poetry about birds and birdwatching, this book argues that attending to specific details about the physical world when reading environmentally conscious poetry ...
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Parables of war
What makes the Book of Revelation so hard to understand? How does the Book of Revelation fit into Judaism and the beginning of Christianity? John W. Marshall proposes a radical reinterpretation of the Book of Revelation of John, viewing it as a document of the Jewish diaspora during the Jud...
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Canadian women shaping diasporic religious identities
This collection of essays explores how women from a variety of religious and cultural communities have contributed to the richly textured, pluralistic society of Canada. Focusing on women’s religiosity, it examines the ways in which they have carried and conserved, and brought forward and transfo...
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The parent track
Provides an in-depth understanding of diverse parenting experiences at different phases of the academic career in Canada. The anthology not only captures a comprehensive understanding of parenthood and academia; it also reveals the shifting ideologies surrounding the challenges in negotiating a w...
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From the iron house
In From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing, Deena Rymhs identifies continuities between the residential school and the prison, offering ways of reading “the carceral”—that is, the different ways that incarceration is constituted and articulated in contemporary Aboriginal litera...
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The homing place
The Homing Place calls for a vital process of listening to the stories that Indigenous peoples have been telling about this continent since before the arrival of European Settlers centuries ago. Moreover, the text performs this process, creating a model for listening and incorporating Indigenous ...
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Cold war comforts
Examines Canadian women's efforts to protect children's health and safety between the dropping of the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945 and the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Shows how women employed maternalism, nationalism, and internationalism in their work, and looks at shifting constru...
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Political thought in japanese historical writing
It was only at the onset of the Tokugawa period (1602-1868) that formal political thought emerged in Japan. Prior to that time Japanese scholars had concentrated, rather, on questions of legitimacy and authority in historical writing., producing a stream of works. Brownlee’s illuminating study d...
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On comics and grief
Fragmented and hybrid in style, On Comics and Grief examines a year in comic book publishing and the authors grief surrounding his mothers death. This book connects grief, memory, nostalgia, personal history, theory, and multiple lines of comics studies inquiry in relation to the comic books of...
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Erasing frankenstein
Who gets to write poetry? Whose voices are made public? Whose voices are heeded? These are the questions at the heart of Erasing Frankenstein. This book tells the story of a public humanities project involving federally incarcerated women and university students in which participants collaborativ...
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Bearing witness
Bearing Witness is a collection of stories from women who went through the diagnosis of ovarian cancer, and treatment for it, only to find that the cancer recurred and any hope of recovery was gone. These women represent a spectrum of ages, ethnic backgrounds, marital circumstances, and professio...
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Nfb kids
Imagine a society that exists solely in cinema — this book explores exactly that. Using a half-century of films from the archival collection of the National Film Board, NFB Kids: Portrayals of Children by the National Film Board of Canada, 1939-1989 overcomes a long-standing impasse about what ...
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Secret museums
Secret Museums is a study in the life and work of Canadian filmmaker Arthur Lipsett, whose struggles with illness overshadowed his vital and innovative work. It explores the spiritual themes and formal challenges posed by his films and their relation to the absurdist, comic, beatnik attitudes tha...
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Performing female blackness
Examines race, gender and nation in Black life using critical race, feminist and performance studies methodologies. Written in poetry, prose and journal-form and drawing from the author’s own life and artistic works, this book examines what performances of female blackness reveal about race, gend...
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Girls, texts, cultures
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, fields that have traditionally worked separately, to showcase the breadth and complexity of girl-...
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Music in range
Music in Range sheds light on a radio sector that is an integral component of Canada’s musical and cultural fabric and positions campus radio as a site of attention at a time when connectivity and sharing between musicians, music fans, and cultural intermediaries are increasingly shaping our expe...
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Trying to get it back
Trying to Get It Back: Indigenous Women, Education and Culture examines aspects of the lives of six women from three generations of two indigenous families. Their combined memories, experiences and aspirations cover the entire twentieth century. The first family, Pearl McKenzie, Pauline Coultha...
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The global food crisis
The global food crisis is a stark reminder of the fragility of the global food system. The Global Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunities captures the debate about how to go forward and examines the implications of the crisis for food security in the world’s poorest countries, both f...
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The challenge of children’s rights for canada
Canada signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child over a decade ago, yet there is still a lack of awareness about and provision for children’s rights. What are Canada’s obligations to children? How has Canada fallen short? Why is it so important to the future of Canadian s...
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The water lily pond
This evocative narrative draws us into the inner life of a young Chinese peasant girl, May-ping, and her first glimmerings of youthful love and idealism under the Maoist regime in China. As she grows into a mature woman, she becomes increasingly aware of the strife around her. An intelligent gi...
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Rough and plenty
Compares the displacement of Nova Scotia fishers in the 1990s with that experienced by Scottish crofters in the 19th century. Using first-hand accounts, Rogers shows how both groups experienced marginalization and displacement as capitalism decimated their worlds. The book gives voice to people o...
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Stranger at the door
At the beginning of a new writing project—whether it’s the first page of a new novel or a less ambitious project, writers often experience exhilaration, fear, or dread. For Kristjana Gunnars, the call of a new project is “like someone you don’t know knocking on your door—you either choose to let ...
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Florence nightingale’s theology: essays, letters and journal notes
This third volume in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale reports her controversial theological essays (only two of which have been previously published) and a great array of correspondence, from such Roman Catholics as Cardinal Manning and the Reverend Mother of the Sisters of Mercy of Be...
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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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Open wide a wilderness
The first anthology to focus on the rich tradition of Canadian nature poetry in English, Open Wide a Wilderness is a survey of Canada’s regions, poetries, histories, and peoples as these relate to the natural world. The poetic responses included here range from the heights of the sublime to detai...
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My basilian priesthood
A memoir of Michael Quealey’s six years in the Basilian order in the 1960s. During his priesthood, Quealey was director of the Newman Centre at the University of Toronto and engaged in Church reform. This is a story that blends Toronto history with Catholic Church history and an inside look at 19...
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Words of the huron
Words of the Huron is an investigation into seventeenth-century Huron culture through a kind of linguistic archaeology of a language that died midway through the twentieth century. John L. Steckley explores a range of topics, including: the construction of longhouses and wooden armour; the use o...
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Growing up in armyville
Growing Up in Armyville provides a compelling portrait of youth from Canadian Forces families, based on surveys and interviews, as they coped with the stresses of Canada’s deployments to Afghanistan.
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Minds of our own
This book of personal essays by over forty women and men who founded women’s studies in Canada and Québec explores feminist activism on campus in the pivotal decade of 1966-76. The essays document the emergence of women’s studies as a new way of understanding women, men, and society, and they ch...
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Children's literature and imaginative geography
Where do children travel when they read a story? Every story has a "where." Scholars and writers explore how geography is imagined in children's literature from Canada, the US, the U.K. and Ireland, from the early 19th century to the present.
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A brief history of women in quebec
A Brief History of Women in Quebec examines the historical experience of women of different social classes and origins (geographic, ethnic, and racial) from the period of contact between Europeans and Aboriginals to the twenty-first century to give a nuanced and complex account of the main transf...
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Ecologies of the moving image
This book presents an ecophilosophy of cinema: an account of the moving image in relation to the lived ecologies – material, social, and perceptual relations – within which movies are produced, consumed, and incorporated into cultural life.
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Lord, giver of life
George Lindbeck once characterized postliberalism, which received its initial structure from his book The Nature of Doctrine, as an attempt to recover pre-modern scriptural interpretation in contemporary form. In Lord, Giver of Life: Toward a Pneumatological Complement to George Lindbeck’s Theory...
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Verse and worse
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. The volume focuses on selections from McCaffery’s major texts, including The Black Debt, Theo...
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Continuity and change among canadian mennonite brethren
More than 450 years after their birth in the Anabaptist movement, 125 years after their secession from Russian Mennonitism, and 60 years after their immigration to Canada, the Mennonite Brethren exhibit specific and measurable signs of sectarian viability and religious vitality. To explain the pe...
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The anglo-saxons
The popular notion that sees the Anglo-Saxon era as “The Dark Ages” perhaps has tended to obscure for many people the creations and strengths of that time. This collection, in examining many aspects of pre-Norman Britain, helps to illuminate how Anglo-Saxon society contributed to the continuity o...
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The fence and the bridge
This book suggests that the Canada-US border relationship has been both highly reflexive and hegemonic over time, and that such realities are embodied in the metaphorical images and texts that describe the Canada-US border over its history.
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Street angel
Capturing the long days of childhood, this book questions how important those days are in shaping who we become. With quick, brush stroke chapters Dominic chronicles sixty years of a complex, secretive family in this story about violence, adolescence, families and forgiveness.
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Earth, water, air and fire
The contributors use a holistic approach comprising the four elements — earth, water, air, and fire — to address the diverse themes and variations in First Nations communities across Canada.
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A propensity to protect
For Canada the last century was one of great social and economic change: an increasingly urban population witnessed shifts from an agricultural to a mixed economy and from moderate to greater wealth. Heick chronicles how changing attitudes toward butter and margarine reflected the nature of that...
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The satellite sex
Have the Canadian media given feminism a bad name or have they been among the movement’s strongest supporters? Is journalistic objectivity a myth when it comes to women’s voices, or doesn’t it matter? In this provocative new book — the first one to examine print and broadcast news coverage of...
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Fields in motion
Looking at methods, autoethnography, pedagogies and creative processes, and choreographies as cultural and spiritual representations, contributors discuss the deeper meanings and resonances of artistic dance, giving voice to dancers, creators, programmers, spectators, students, and scholars.
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Joey jacobson's war
The story of a Jewish Canadian navigator in Bomber Command at the beginning of its offensive against Germany in 1941, as told through his own letters and diaries. Joey Jacobson was a privileged Montrealer whose wartime experience transformed him into a hopeful idealist and a seasoned airman befor...
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Law, freedom and story
Rarely has an author illuminated in one book an aspect of religious study with attention to so many disciplines. John Hoffman skilfully interrelates the fields of psychology, mythology, anthropology, literature, and New Testament studies to show their common use of narration techniques. Hoffman e...
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Earthly pages
With The Cape Breton Book of the Dead, Don Domanski emerged as a remarkable new voice in Canadian poetry, combining formal conciseness with broad cosmic allusions, constant surprise with brooding atmospherics, and innovative syntax with delicate phrasings. In subsequent collections, Domanski’s po...
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Seven eggs today
Offers an intriguing glimpse into the daily life of an average Toronto woman in the mid-nineteenth century. Mary Armstrong’s diaries are a window into the daily life of a middle-class woman in a new and changing land, and a revealing account of life in early Toronto just before and after confed...
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China interrupted
China Interrupted is the story of the richly interwoven lives of Canadian missionaries and their China-born children (mishkids), whose lives and mission were irreversibly altered by their internment as “enemy aliens” of Japan from 1941 to 1945. Over three hundred Canadians were among the 13,000...
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Critical collaborations
The third volume of essays produced as part of the TransCanada conferences project. The essays gathered in Critical Collaborations constitute a call for collaboration and kinship across disciplinary, political, institutional, and community borders.
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The end(s) of community
This book stems from an examination of how Western philosophy has accounted for the foundations of law. In this tradition, the character of the “sovereign” or “lawgiver” has provided the solution to this problem. But how does the sovereign acquire the right to found law? As soon as we ask this qu...
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Florence nightingale on health in india
Volume 9: Florence Nightingale on Health in India is the first of two volumes reporting Nightingale’s forty years of work to improve public health in India. It begins with her work to establish the Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army in India, for which she drafted questionnaires, ...
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Aid and ebb tide
Aid and Ebb Tide: A History of CIDA and Canadian Development Assistance examines Canada’s mixed record since 1950 in transferring over $50 billion in capital and expertise to developing countries through ODA. It focuses in particular on the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the o...
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Incorrigible
On a May morning in 1939, eighteen-year-old Velma Demerson and her lover were having breakfast when two police officers arrived to take her away. Her crime was loving a Chinese man, a “crime” that was compounded by her pregnancy and subsequent mixed-race child. Sentenced to a home for wayward gi...
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The black prairie archives
A selection of writing from black prairie authors, ranging from never-before published work by nineteenth-century black fur traders and pioneers, to contemporary writing of the twenty-first century. It establishes a new black prairie literary tradition while transforming inherited understandings ...
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Romantic hospitality and the resistance to accommodation
What does hospitality have to do with Romanticism? What are the conditions of a Romantic welcome? Romantic Hospitality and the Resistance to Accommodation traces the curious passage of strangers through representative texts of English Romanticism, while also considering some European philosophica...
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Why indigenous literatures matter
Asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples. Challenges readers to critically consider & rethink assumptions about Indigenous literature, history, and politics, never forgetting the emotional connections of o...
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Preventing eating-related and weight-related disorders
This book presents a collection of writings by expert researchers from Canada, the United States, and Australia who are committed to finding common cause and common ground in the prevention of eating disorders and obesity. The ten chapters in this book seek to create a new public health approach ...
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The forest of bourg-marie
Harrison’s twist on the traditional Gothic plotline offers an inversion of such Gothic motifs as the decadent aristocrat and ancestral curse by playing on questions of illegitimacy and cultural preservation.
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Two bicycles
Examination of the work that Jean-Luc Godard did with Anne-Marie Miéville, spanning films, television series, and videos. Special attention is paid to the ways they used video equipment to explore a "workshop" idea for their production company, and the ways Swiss culture influenced their collecti...
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Eat local, taste global
Determines the demand for ethnocultural vegetables in Canada's largest city and identifies contradictions between the corporate food regime and the local food movement affecting ethnic groups’ access to their preferred vegetables. Policy changes are recommended to enhance healthy eating and multi...
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Faku
From roughly 1818 to 1867, Faku was ruler of the Mpondo Kingdom located in what is now the north-east section of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Because of Faku’s legacy, the Mpondo Kingdom became the last African state in Southern Africa to fall under colonial rule. When his father died, Faku...
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Spiritual care and therapy
The current interest in spirituality has intensified the quest to incorporate spirituality in non-sectarian therapy. Spiritual Care and Therapy is a hands-on, up-to-date clinical guide that addresses this concern. Peter VanKatwyk explores spiritual care, from pastoral traditions to essential ps...
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Brothers beyond the sea
During the years 1933 to 1939, a pro-Nazi movement developed in Canada. With the support of the German National Socialist Party, Canadian pro-Nazi institutions were formed: clubs, rallies, schools, and newspapers. The movement ended in failure. The author analyzes the reasons for the formation a...
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Leadership and purpose
Leadership and Purpose: A History of Wilfrid Laurier University tells the story of the creation and growth of one of Canada’s leading universities. On October 30, 1911, a jubilant crowd of nearly 1,500 people gathered in their Sunday finest on the lawn of a large home on the rural outskirts of ...
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The false laws of narrative
The False Laws of Narrative is a selection of Fred Wah’s poems covering the poets entire poetic trajectory to date. A founding editor of Tish magazine, Wah was influenced by leading progressive and innovative poets of the 1960s and was at the forefront of the exploration of racial hybridity, mult...
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Blues and bliss
Blues singer, preacher, cultural critic, exile, Africadian, high modernist, spoken word artist, Canadian poet—these are but some of the voices of George Elliott Clarke. In a selection of Clarke’s best work from his early poetry to his most recent, Blues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott Cla...
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The religious dreamworld of apuleius’ metamorphoses
Apuleius’ Metamorphoses is probably best known as the literary source for the myth of Eros and Psyche and as a primary source of information about mystery religions in the ancient world. There is another realm of the Metamorphoses which has, until now, received relatively little attention — nam...
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Unsettling narratives
Children’s books seek to assist children to understand themselves and their world. Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children’s Literature demonstrates how settler-society texts position child readers as citizens of postcolonial nations, how they represent the colonial past to moder...
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Taking responsibility for children
What do we as a society, and as parents in particular, owe to our children? Each chapter in Taking Responsibility for Children offers part of an answer to that question. Although they vary in the approaches they take and the conclusions they draw, each contributor explores some aspect of the mora...
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Terrier town
Debate still rages on about who invented baseball. But one thing is certain...it was alive and fractious in southwestern Ontario in the summer of 1949. Charlie Hodge, just finishing his last year of high school, has made the Galt Terriers’ roster and will be riding the bench with a star-studded ...
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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 cros...
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The memory of water
Adventurer, writer, and artist Allen Smutylo has experienced some of the wildest and most captivating waters imaginable in all corners of the globe. The stories in The Memory of Water—all of them accompanied by the author’s own stunning artwork—describe his adventures in the Arctic, South Pacifi...
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Chasing the comet
“Dour Scot” is the wrong description for David Caldow, who leads readers on a romp from the early twentieth century to the present, from an insular Scottish village to modern-day, multicultural British Columbia, from boyhood to old age. Throughout the tour he shares decades of laughter, tears, fe...
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Canadian methodist women, 1766-1925
Canadian Methodist women, like women of all religious traditions, have expressed their faith in accordance with their denominational heritage. Canadian Methodist Women, 1766-1925: Marys, Marthas, Mothers in Israel analyzes the spiritual life and the varied activities of women whose faith helped s...
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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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In the unlikeliest of places
With just a box of tapes, Annette Libeskind Berkovits tells more than her father's story: she builds an uncommon family saga and reimagines a turbulent past.
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Liberty is dead
In the spring and summer of 1938, Franklin Wellington Wegenast took an unforgettable road trip in Europe. His diaries and letters corroborate modern assessments of German thinking and add insightful commentary, providing an outsider/insider view on the brewing conflict.
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The h factor of personality
Psychologists have identified six basic dimensions of personality. The most recently discovered is the H factor, representing Honesty and Humility. The authors recount how they found this factor, how it influences various aspects of our lives, and why it matters for individuals and for society.
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Detecting canada
Essays on many of Canada’s most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt, Gail Bowen, Thomas King, Michael Slade, Margaret Atwood, and Anthony Bidulka. Television shows examined include Wojeck, Da Vinci’s Inquest, Da Vinci’s City Hall, Intelligence, and Durham County.
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It can't last forever
This book presents the first complete history of the 19th Battalion and its role in the Canadian Corps’ operations in the First World War. Based on extensive archival research and featuring vivid personal accounts, it analyzes the unit’s organization, internal dynamics, and evolution, from mobili...
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Avant canada
Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and supporting creative works on a representative array of Canadian, literary avant-garde movements from the past 50 years. Featuring 28 of the best writers and critics in the field, it offers an essential overview of the past, present, a...
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A township at war
This book recreates one corner of rural Canada, the southern Ontario township of East Flamborough, during the First World War. Drawing from rich narrative sources, this work uses the local to understand the national, revealing what rural people were like a century ago – how they saw the world, wh...
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Crosstalk
Explores the value of attending to narratorial, lyric, and theatrical conventions in dialogue with questions of epistemological and social justice. Demonstrates how literary and critical conventions and theories operate within and across cultures.
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Essentially canadian
Allan Sullivan wrote over forty works of popular fiction between 1890 and 1940; today it is difficult to find even one copy of many of these works. A well-known and widely read author in the first half of this century, Sullivan wrote thrillers, historical romance, children's stories, and novels s...
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The daughter’s way
The Daughter’s Way investigates negotiations of female subjectivity in twentieth-century Canadian women’s elegies with a special emphasis on the father’s death as a literary and political watershed. The book considers how elegies inquire into the rhetoric of mourning as it is complicated by fathe...
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The social origins of the welfare state
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> The Social Origins of the Welfare State traces the evolution of the first universal laws for Québec families, passed during the Second World War. In this translation of her award-winning Aux origines sociales de l´État-providence, Dominique Marshall ...
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Where no doctor has gone before
Tens of thousands of people around the world die each day from causes that could have been prevented with access to affordable health care resources. In an era of unprecedented global inequity, Cuba, a small, low-income country, is making a difference by providing affordable health care to millio...
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The public realm and the public self
From the time she set the intellectual world on fire with her reflections on Eichmann (1963), Hannah Arendt has been seen, essentially, as a literary commentator who had interesting things to say about political and cultural matters. In this critical study, Shiraz Dossa argues that Arendt is a po...
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Animal welfare and human values
As the most populous province in Canada, Ontario is a microcosm of the animal welfare issues which beset Western civilization. The authors of this book, chairman and vice-chairman, respectively, of the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, find themselves constantly being made...
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Religious studies in manitoba and saskatchewan
This fourth volume in a series of state-of-the-art reviews of religious studies programs in Canadian provinces traces the formative role of religion in the establishment of the universities in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Despite strong roots in denominational colleges, with their confessionally or...
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Social poesis
Social Poesis introduces readers to the work of one of Canada's most challenging and exciting poets. The selection of poems is framed by an introduction by Heather Milne and an afterword by poet Rachel Zolf that situate Zolf's poetry in relation to the philosophical and ethical concepts that info...
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Onward to the olympics
The Olympic Games have had two lives—the first lasted for a millennium with celebrations every four years at Olympia to honour the god Zeus. The second has blossomed over the past century, from a simple start in Athens in 1896 to a dazzling return to Greece in 2004. Onward to the Olympics provid...
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From desolation to reconstruction
Iraq’s streets are unsafe, its people tormented, and its identity as a state challenged from within and without. For some, Iraq is synonymous with internal hatred, bloodshed, and sectarianism. The contributors to this book, however, know another Iraq: a country that was once full of hope and achi...
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Quiet rebels
Quiet Rebels tells the stories of 187 women who were called to the Ontario bar between 1897 and 1957, identifying gendered patterns of exclusion. It also explores women lawyers’ experiences in later decades, when many more women entered the legal profession, assessing the extent of “changes” or “...
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The free church in victorian canada, 1844-1861
Drawing on a wide range of church records, pamphlets, private papers, and periodicals, Richard Vaudry has written an authoritative study of the formation and development of the Free Church in mid-Victorian Canada. He traces the institutional development of the denomination, its intellectual life,...
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Covering niagara
Covering Niagara: Studies in Local Popular Culture closely examines some of the myriad forms of popular culture in the Niagara region of Canada. Essays consider common assumptions and definitions of what popular culture is and seek to determine whether broad theories of popular culture can explai...
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The foreigner
The Foreigner (1909) tells the story of Kalman Kalmar, a young Ukrainian immigrant working in rural Saskatchewan. It addresses the themes of male maturation, cultural assimilation, and a form of “muscular Christianity” recurring in Connor’s popular Western tales.
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Through the hitler line
Laurence Wilmot’s Second World War memoir is a rare thing: a first-hand account of front-line battle by an army officer who is a resolute non-combatant. And it is paradoxes such as this that also make Wilmot’s book a unique and compelling document. Wilmot, as an Anglican chaplain, is a priest dre...
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Towards an ethics of community
How do we deal with difference personally, interpersonally, nationally? Can we weave a cohesive social fabric in a religiously plural society without suppressing differences? This collection of significant essays suggests that to truly honour differences in matters of faith and religion we must...
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Kundera, or, the memory of desire
This is more than a literary critique — it is a work of perception, of analysis that reveals a portrait of Kundera the novelist as one of the greatest demystifiers of our time. This significant work deals with all of Milan Kundera’s novels up to his most recent work, Slowness, which marks the beg...
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