Wilfrid Laurier University Press: 402 books
The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand
The Poetry of M. Travis Lane
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand: The Poetry of M. Travis Lane is a collection of thirty-five of her best poems, selected with an introduction by Jeanette Lynes. An environmentalist, feminist, and peace activist, M. Travis Lane is known for witty and meticulously crafted poems that explore the elusive...
Shattering the Illusion
Child Sexual Abuse and Canadian Religious Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
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Islam in Canada
Tracy J. Trothen
Chapter 6 examines Islam in Canada and their approach to child sexual abuse, from 1960 to 2009.
by Ronald Haycock
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1974
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1974
The intention of this paper is to take a look at a representation of what Canadians were reading about their Indians over seventy years of this century. The purpose is to determine what view of the Canadian Indian writers were extending in the popular national magazines, and to suggest attitudes and...
Argimou
A Legend of the Micmac
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Both an adventure-laced captivity tale and an impassioned denunciation of the marginalization of Indigenous culture in the face of European colonial expansion, Douglass Smith Huyghue’s Argimou (1847) is the first Canadian novel to describe the fall of eighteenth-century Fort Beauséjour and the...
National Plots: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada
Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Fiction that reconsiders, challenges, reshapes, and/or upholds national narratives of history has long been an integral aspect of Canadian literature. Works by writers of historical fiction (from early practitioners such as John Richardson to contemporary figures such as Alice Munro and George Elliott...
Love and War in London: A Woman’s Diary 1939-1942
A Woman’s Diary 1939-1942
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Olivia Cockett was twenty-six years old in the summer of 1939 when she responded to an invitation from Mass Observation to “ordinary” individuals to keep a diary of their everyday lives, attitudes, feelings, and social relations. This book is an annotated, unabridged edition of her candid and...
downstream
reimagining water
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
downstream: reimagining water brings together artists, writers, scientists, scholars, environmentalists, and activists who understand that our shared human need for clean water is crucial to building peace and good relationships with one another and the planet. This book explores the key roles that...
Writing in Dust
Reading the Prairie Environmentally
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
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...
by Daniel Heath Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples today. In considering the connections...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Indigenous Poetics in Canada broadens the way in which Indigenous poetry is examined, studied, and discussed in Canada. Breaking from the parameters of traditional English literature studies, this volume embraces a wider sense of poetics, including Indigenous oralities, languages, and understandings...
Killing Women
The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
The essays in Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence find important connections in the ways that women are portrayed in relation to violence, whether they are murder victims or killers. The book’s extensive cultural contexts acknowledge and engage with contemporary theories and...
Reading In
Alice Munro’s Archives
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
What can we learn about authorship through a reading of a writer’s archive?
Collections of authors’ manuscripts and correspondence have traditionally been used in ways that further illuminate the published text. JoAnn McCaig sets out to show how archival materials can also provide fascinating...
From Sugar to Revolution
Women’s Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Sovereignty. Sugar. Revolution. These are the three axes this book uses to link the works of contemporary women artists from Haiti—a country excluded in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literary studies—the Dominican Republic, and Cuba. In From Sugar to Revolution: Women’s Visions of...
The Celestial Tradition
A Study of Ezra Pound’s The Cantos
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Despite the painstaking work of Pound scholars, the mythos of The Cantos has yet to be properly understood — primarily because until now its occult sources have not been examined sufficiently. Drawing upon archival as well as recently published material, this study traces Pound’s intimate engagement...