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Explores how cities are changing. Of interest to readers of urban design and urban planning, the book illustrates what is valued, what is destroyed/discarded, and includes photographs of commonplace settings rather than celebratory or conventionally beautiful images.

Essay collection on Leonard Cohen's work organized by the concept of 'the contemporary', which helps to explain Cohen's staying power and existential depth. The chapters offer related but diverse perspectives - historical, artistic, spiritual - on his songs, poems, novels, and drawings, and examine how Cohen's different types of art fit together.

A timely and crucial collection of essays and conversations focused on Indigenous-settler cultural politics and the ethics of Indigenous representation in Canada's media arts that explores issues of narrative sovereignty, cultural identity, cultural resistance and decolonizing creative practices.

How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? Moving between memoir and theory, these essays consider the collective practices of feminist meaning-making in activities as varied as reading, critique, podcasting, and even mourning.

Violence in families and intimate relationships affects a significant proportion of the population - from very young children to the elderly. Cruel but Not Unusual draws on the expertise of scholars and practitioners to present readers with the latest research and thinking about the history, conditions, and impact of violence in these contexts.

Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition critiques ways of approaching Indigenous texts that are informed by the Western academic tradition and offers instead a new way of theorizing Indigenous literature based on the Indigenous practice of life writing. Since the 1970s non-Indigenous scholars have perpetrated the notion that Indigenous people were disinclined to talk about their lives and underscored the assumption that autobiography is a European invention. Deanna Reder challenges such long held assumptions by calling attention to longstanding autobiographical practices that are engrained in Cree and M tis, or n hiyawak, culture and examining a series of examples of Indigenous life writing. Blended with family stories and drawing on original historical research, Reder examines censored and suppressed writing by n hiyawak intellectuals such as Maria Campbell, Edward Ahenakew, and James Brady. Grounded in n hiyawak ontologies and epistemologies that consider life stories to be an intergenerational conduit to pass on knowledge about a shared world, this study encourages a widespread re-evaluation of past and present engagement with Indigenous storytelling forms across scholarly disciplines

Scratching River braids the voices of mother, brother, sister, ancestor, and river to create a story about environmental, personal, and collective healing. This memoir revolves around a search for home for the author s older brother, who is both autistic and schizophrenic, and an unexpected emotional journey that led to acceptance, understanding and, ultimately, reconciliation. Michelle Porter brings together the oral history of a M tis ancestor, studies of river morphology, and news clippings about abuse her older brother endured at a rural Alberta group home to tell a tale about love, survival, and hope. This book is a voice in your ear, urging you to explore your own braided histories and relationships.

In 1932, Isay Rottenberg, a Jewish paper merchant, bought a cigar factory in Germany: Deutsche Zigarren-Werke. When his competitors, supported by Nazi authorities, tried to shut it down, the headstrong entrepreneur refused to give up the fight.

The poems in this selection are drawn from Otiono's two pulished collections, Voices in the Rainbow, and Love in a Time of Nightmares, and includes previously unpublished new poems. Peter Midgley's introduction contextualizes Otiono's work within the frame of diaspora and newer critical frames like Afropolitanism.

Explores the different literary, historical and cultural legacies of Canada's sesquicentennial celebrations. The book asks vital questions about the ways that histories and stories have been suppressed and invites consideration about what happens once a commemorative moment has passed.

The first full-length study of prison life writing, this book shows how the autobiographical literature of incarcerated people is consistently based on a conversion narrative, the same narrative that underpins prison rehabilitation.

Considers relationships between animals and humans in the iconic spaces of postcolonial India: the wild, the body, the home, and the city. Using a range of texts, including fiction, journalism, life writing, film, and visual art, this book argues that a uniquely Indian way of being modern is born in these spaces of disorderly multispecies living.

The diary of David Watson, who rose through the officer ranks to command one of the four divisions in the Great War, is an exceptional document that details with candid insight the responsibilities of senior command and shows the talent required to rise through the CEF to divisional command. The only published diary of a Canadian who held this rank in the last two (critical) years of the war, it focuses on the evolution of military leadership and associated challenges that Watson (and his peers) faced during the Great War. It recounts how he navigated not only the military battlefield in France and Belgium but also the political battlefield of the Canadian Expeditionary Force and larger British Expeditionary Force. The divisional commanders played a central role in the Corps transformation into a first-rate professional army, a transformation that coincided with Watson s tenure at the 4th Division. Major-General David Watson s personal accounts offer valuable insights into the innermost workings of the Canadian Corps at various stages during the war and in particular its emergence as an elite fighting force and the pride of a nation

Twenty literary critics engage a variety of genres - essay, life writing, testament, polemic, poetry - to explore the ways Canadian cultural production has been shaped by social and historical relations and can be given new and various forms to decolonize the institutions associated with the creation of this country's vision of Canadian literature.

The baby boomers and postwar suburbia remain a touchstone. For many, there is a belief that it has never been as good for youngsters and their families, as it was in the postwar years. Boom Kids explores the triumphs and challenges of childhood and adolescence in Calgary's postwar suburbs.

In Reliving the Trenches, three plays written by returned soldiers who served in the Great War with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium appear in print for the first time. With a critical introduction that references the authors' service files to establish the plays as memoirs, these plays are an important addition to Canadian literature of the Great War. Important but overlooked war memoirs that relive trench life and warfare as experienced by combat veterans, the three plays include The P.B.I., written and staged in 1920 by recently returned veterans at the University of Toronto. Parts of this play appeared in print in serial form in 1922. Glory Hole, written in 1929 by William Stabler Atkinson, and Dawn in Heaven, written and staged in Winnipeg in 1934 by Simon Jauvoish, have never been published. These plays impact Canadian literature and theatre history by revealing a body of previously unknown modernist writing, and they impact life writing studies by showing how memoirs can be concealed behind genre conventions. They offer fascinating details of the daily routines of the soldiers in the trenches by bringing them back to life in theatrical re-enactment.

Gathers nine conversations with Indigenous writers about the relationship between Indigenous literatures and learning, and how their writing relates to communities. Relevant, reflexive, and critical, these conversations explore the pressing topic of Indigenous writings and its importance to the well-being of Indigenous peoples.

Lillian Allen is one of the leading creative Black feminist voices in Canada. Her work has been foundational to the dub poetry movement. Make the World New brings together some of the highlights of Allen's work in a single volume, the first book of her poems to be published in over twenty years.

Examines race, gender, and nation in Black life using critical race, feminist and performance studies methodologies. The book examines what private and public performances of female blackness reveal about race, gender, and nation and considers how Canada shapes these performances.

Explores how dance intersects with the shifting concerns of pluralism in a variety of racial and ethnic communities across Canada. Focusing on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, contributors examine a broad range of dance styles used to promote diversity and intercultural collaborations.

Reflects on the life and writing of Austin Clarke, whose depictions of Black life in Canada enlarged our understanding of what Canadian literature looks like. This collection addresses Clarke's marginalization in by demonstrating that his writing on Black diasporic life and the immigrant experience is a foundational part of the story of CanLit.

How do Canadian writers represent mixed race? By looking closely at sample texts from autobiographies to fiction to drama, certain patterns emerge. This book offers analysis of the complex negotiations involved with living in a racially hybrid body and considers these narratives of mixedness in the context of contemporary Canadian society.

Based on the author's thesis, Yale, 1970.

Did the evangelist Mark write two versions of his gospel? According to a letter ascribed to Clement of Alexandria, he created a second, more spiritual edition of his gospel. Clement's letter contains two excerpts from this gospel. Scott Brown demonstrates that the gospel excerpts sound like Mark and employ Mark's distinctive literary techniques.

The essays presented here intend to open afresh the complexity of the question of Paul's dependence upon and continuity with Jesus. This collection demonstrates diversity in approach, stance, and conclusion. The essays often take issue with the results of current research.