Wilfrid Laurier University Press imprint: 403 books

The Radio Eye: Cinema in the North Atlantic, 1958–1988, examines the way in which media experiments in Quebec, Newfoundland, the Faroe Islands, and the Irish-Gaelic-speaking communities of Ireland use film, video, and television to advocate for marginalized communities and often for “smaller languages.” The...

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 contributors...

The image of the “land” is an ongoing trope in conceptions of Canada—from the national anthem and the flag to the symbols on coins—the land and nature remain linked to the Canadian sense of belonging and to the image of the nation abroad. Linguistic landscapes reflect the multi-faceted identities...

What are the fictions that shape Canadian engagements with the global? What frictions emerge from these encounters? In negotiating aesthetic and political approaches to Canadian cultural production within contexts of global circulation, this collection argues for the value of attending to narratorial,...

Speaks specifically to Truth and Reconciliation Commission Given the controversy surround cultural appropriation, Halfe provides a grounded, Cree-perspective into Canada's history of colonialism. first collection of Louise Bernice Halfe's work These poems explicitly address the violence of colonialism and the ongoing effects of residential schools on Indigenous peoples.

Chapter 3 Only Rearrange the Stones Repetition: Jon Woodward | Doug Russell | Andrew Joron Pattern: Scott King | Gerry Trilling | Nin Andrews Spacing: Gillian Conoley | Phillip Michael Hook | Alex Stein A rigid and narrow concept of time constricts experience and understanding....

8 Bylot Island: The Northwest Passage, 2000 Allen Smutylo The following year, the pair continues paddling Bylot Island’s dangerous north side – the entrance to the famed Northwest Passage. The discovery of ancient Dorset artifacts, being stalked by a rogue walrus while sea...

Arcing across thirty years and seven volumes, Jan Zwicky’s poetry has always been acutely musical (and sensitive to the silence out of which music comes). In the compositions in Chamber Music, the first anthology of Zwicky’s poems, one may perceive the attunement of her vocations: poet, philosopher,...

This is a representative collection of the writings of a neglected Canadian author, William Wilfred Campbell (1858-1918). Among the 112 poems in William Wilfred Campbell: Selected Poetry and Essays are the familiar “Indian Summer” and “How One Winter Came in the Lake Region,” along...

This collection brings together representative work from Sina Queyras’s poetic oeuvre. Queyras is at the forefront of contemporary discussions of genre, gender, and criticism of poetry. Her influential blog-turned-literary-magazine, Lemon Hound, published up-and-coming writers as well as work by...

A Township at War takes the reader from rural Canadian field and farm to the slopes of Vimy Ridge and the mud of Passchendaele, and shows how a tightly knit Ontario community was consumed and transformed by the trauma of war. In 1914, the southern Ontario township of East Flamborough was like...

2.2 "‘Loyal until Death’: African Veterans’ Memory of German War Service: 1919-1943" Dan Bullard In this chapter, Dan Bullard examines how veterans of the brutal war in Africa used their collective memory to gain power and a distinct voice in interwar Germany,...

Chapter 6 Adam Stewart Details participants’ encounters with divine healing, miracles, and other supernatural phenomena such as angels, demons, and the practice of exorcism.

Chapter Four "Other Canadians: The representation of alternate versions of the Canadian War in Vimy, Unity (1918), Three Day Road, and A Secret Between Us" Neta Gordon Gordon examines portrayals of the myth of the Canadian collective. Thiessen's Vimy (2007) depicts diversity...