Mqup imprint: 803 books
In Praise of Mixed Religion
The Syncretism Solution in a Multifaith World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
When asked "What religion do you follow?" the typical answer is to name a specific group, or to respond "None." An increasing number of people, however, are intentionally combining elements from various religious heritages, demonstrating that religions do not have firm boundaries, nor are they purely...
A Church with the Soul of a Nation
Making and Remaking the United Church of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
"As Canadian as the maple leaf" is how one observer summed up the United Church of Canada after its founding in 1925. But was this Canadian-made church flawed in its design, as critics have charged? A Church with the Soul of a Nation explores this question by weaving together the history of the United...
Timing Canada
The Shifting Politics of Time in Canadian Literary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
From punch clocks to prison sentences, from immigration waiting periods to controversial time-zone boundaries, from Indigenous grave markers that count time in centuries rather than years, to the fact that free time is shrinking faster for women than for men - time shapes the fabric of Canadian society...
by G.E. Bentley Jr
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Experience taught William Blake that "Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy." His brilliant achievements as a poet, painter, and engraver brought him public notice, but little income. William Blake in the Desolate Market records how Blake, the most original of all the major English...
Sandino's Nation
Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez Writing Nicaragua, 1940-2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez are two of the most influential Latin American intellectuals of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Addressing Nicaragua's struggle for self-definition from divergent ethnic, religious, generational, political, and class backgrounds, they constructed...
With the Witnesses
Poetry, Compassion, and Claimed Experience
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
While trauma theory has been adopted by contemporary literary and cultural studies as an ethical way to study depictions of suffering, there is a risk that its present use could cause more harm than good. By emphasizing inaccessible histories, unspeakable suffering, and unconscious witnessing, trauma...
by Marta Dvorak, Manina Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary begins with a previously unpublished article by Shields. In the essays that follow, international scholars employ a variety of theories and methodologies in their analyses of her work, including narrative theory, cultural criticism, feminist analysis, psychoanalytic...
In the Interval of the Wave
Prince Edward Island Women's Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Life Writing
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Taking its title from a poem by Prince Edward Island poet Anne Compton, In the Interval of the Wave is a close study of diaries written by Prince Edward Island women in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Women from both rural and urban regions of the Island recorded their lives in a genre...
by John Reibetanz
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
shell in the night sky / and whose anti-clockwise spiral / repeats the Milky Way’s unwinding / informed not with the lore of clocks or teachers / but of gods and children Where We Live explores how specific places and their features (street scenes, classrooms, furniture, creatures both real and mythical)...
Imagining Justice
The Politics of Postcolonial Forgiveness and Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Drawing on critical and theoretical material by thinkers as diverse as Jacques Derrida, Frantz Fanon, Mahatma Ghandi, and Julia Kristeva, Julie McGonegal supplements indigenous models and approaches with those produced within Euro American discourse. In the process, she develops an understanding of forgiveness...
Coyote and Raven Go Canoeing
Coming Home to the Village
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2006
In a gesture toward traditional First Nations orality, Peter Cole blends poetic and dramatic voices with storytelling. A conversation between two tricksters, Coyote and Raven, and the colonized and the colonizers, his narrative takes the form of a canoe journey. Cole draws on traditional Aboriginal...
by Benjamin Hertwig
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Benjamin Hertwig’s debut collection of poetry, Slow War, is at once an account of contemporary warfare and a personal journey of loss and the search for healing. It stands in the tradition of Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” and Kevin Powers’s “Letter Composed During a Lull in the...
by Kelly Norah Drukker
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
We come / to kneel at the doorway, / to peer into that kind of / dark. To think our way / backwards, listening. Tracing a series of journeys, real and imagined, Kelly Norah Drukker’s Small Fires opens with a section of poems set on Inis Mór, a remote, Irish-speaking island off the west coast of County...
by Seyhmus Dagtekin
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Seyhmus Dagtekin's To the Spring, by Night, is the magical evocation of a childhood spent in a small Kurdish mountain village in Turkey, with no electricity and little literacy, but with a rich tradition of tale-telling and legend that infuses every living thing, every rock, stream, and spring with...