Sacred sound

This innovative book explores religion through music, the only art form named after a divinity and one of the most universally recognized forms of human experience.Music has been documented from prehistory to the present age in virtually all known cultures. For many, it is a vehicle for spiritual...

Human/animal

Human/Animal is a book that spins outward from the years Amie Souza Reilly was trapped in the escalating violence of two brothers who lived next door. Reilly's book wrestles with human/animal relationships and American colonialism, horror films, and gender studies in an attempt to understand her ...

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...

Subversive action

The essays in this volume, by authors from around the world, raise questions about the boundaries of social work and the use of extralegal action in the pursuit of human rights and social justice.

Canada and the blackface atlantic

This book traces the rise of Canadian blackface, including the country’s first stages. It outlines the minstrels troupes, jubilee choirs and concert singers who performed to audiences on the same stages, and ultimately argues that the theatre helped to create racial and gender stereotypes while a...

Rivers in rock

Both a visitor’s guide to the Elora Gorge on the Upper Grand River in southwestern Ontario and a thorough yet accessible introduction to its history, from the origins of its bedrock some 430 million years ago in prehistoric tropical seas, to contemporary natural and human processes affecting this...

Podcast studies

Offers an array of scholars' self-reflective journeys into podcasting, illustrating how the academic world is shaped by the adoption of this audio medium. It delves into the transformative effects on pedagogy, research dissemination, and the fabric of academic communication as podcasting evolves ...

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...

Ring around the maple

A sociocultural history of children and childhood in Canada from the early 19th century to the late 20th century. It approaches these subjects both thematically and chronologically, with attention to the ways in which world historic events—the Great War, the Depression, the Second World War, the ...

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 ...

After prison

This collection explores the relationship between offending, reentry, and employment, and barriers encountered in securing a rewarding job after prison. Interviews, statistics, and literature highlight how employment assumes considerable meaning for former prisoners that can foster successful rei...

Beyond the altar

Sheds light on how Ontario-based Canadian women religious overcome sexist subjugation by side-stepping the patriarchal power of the Roman Catholic Church and engendering women-led spiritual, governance and activist practices in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

A question of commitment

In this essay collection, scholars assess the extent to which children’s rights have been incorporated into Canadian policy and law, drawing conclusions about the status of children in Canada. Overall, many challenges remain on the pathway to full recognition of children as subjects and bearers o...

Cinema of pain

Original essays argue that the loss of a cohesive nationalist vision in Quebec, triggered by the loss of the 1995 referendum on sovereignty, has resulted in a pervasive nostalgia that permeates all aspects of Québécois culture. In Québécois cinema, this nostalgia is evoked as the element of pain ...

Current, climate

Selected poetry of environmental and social justice activist Rita Wong. In her intertwining of poetry and political activism, she explores the meeting places of land, life, and language. Nicholas Bradley’s introduction highlights the role of the author in a time of crisis and places Wong’s poetry...

Prison life writing

Prison Life Writing is the first full-length study of one of the most controversial genres in American literature. By exploring the complicated relationship between life writing and institutional power, this book reveals the overlooked aesthetic innovations of incarcerated people and the surprisi...

Gorgeous war

Gorgeous War examines ways in which modernist design ideals influenced German and American heraldry, and argues that the two visual worlds form the foundations of contemporary corporate brand programs.

Moving together

Moving Together: Pluralism and Dance in Canada uses dance to rethink the shifting concerns of pluralism in a variety of racial and ethnic communities across Canada.

'membering austin clarke

A collection of reflections, anecdotes, essays, and interviews on Austin Clarke's life and writing that gives long overdue attention to the importance of Clarke’s contributions to the development of Canada’s literary canon.

Displace

A selection of poetry from Otiono's previous collections that engage with multiple poetic traidtions and engage with Afripolitan life in the diaspora.

Literatures, communities, and learning

Literatures, Communities, and Learning contextualizes Indigenous literatures through pedagogical and social justice perspectives. Gathering conversations with nine Indigenous writers, the book explores the writers’ relationship to storytelling, Indigenous peoples’ well-being, and community-based ...

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...

Religion and public discourse in an age of transition

The essays in this volume advance new lines of inquiry in a growing conversation on the role of religion in public discourse by engaging ideas and experiences from the Bahá’í Faith. A central theme of the book is the need to discover modes of public discourse that can help humanity transition tow...

Homeless youth and the search for stability

Youth are one of the fastest growing segments of the homeless population. Through qualitative and quantitative research and a comic book narrative , this book explores the often asked question: What happens when these young people leave the streets?

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Community music at the boundaries

Community Music at the Boundaries examines how music enhances the lives of those living in what might be considered marginalized settings. Built on foundational principles of community music, it addresses music and accessibility, health, justice and the prison system, faith, and education, by int...

Stan brakhage in rolling stock, 1980-1990

Both a heavily annotated collection of the reports Stan Brakhage did on the Telluride Film Festival for the magazine Rolling Stock and an analysis of his work that attempts to place his singular corpus in the context of world cinema, that is to say, alongside those filmmakers he was encountering ...

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...

Scratching river

Finding Home. Scratching River is the author's older brother's story. This book is about the search for home for her brother, who has the dual diagnoses of autism and schizophrenia and the abuse he suffered in one of the homes he lived in. This story is linked to historical and contemporary Métis...

Bird-bent grass

When her mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer's, the author returns to letters they'd exchanged years before, to foster her mother's engagement with reading and thinking. Bird-bent Grass uses excerpts from their correspondence to explore memory, illness, friendship, conflict, cross-cultural communi...

On active grounds

In the context of the environmental humanities, this book focuses on agency and time, revealed in fourteen essays and a photo album that cover topics such as temporal literacy, graphic novels, ecocinema, eco-musicology, animal studies, Indigeneity, wolf reintroduction, environmental history, gree...

I am a damn savage; what have you done to my country? / eukuan nin matshi-manitu innushkueu; tanite nene etutamin nitassi?

An Antane Kapesh’s two books, which are translated here for the first time in English, alongside the revised Innu texts, are a testimony of the changes she witnessed during her lifetime due to land dispossession, assimilation, residential schools, intergenerational trauma, and environmental explo...

Music-making in u.s. prisons

Traces the history of music programs in U.S. prisons and engages in dialogue with current programs to hypothesize how music functions in carceral settings. The authors recommend principles to support personal and social growth for people experiencing incarceration and build social awareness of th...

Canadian graphic

Critical essays on contemporary Canadian cartoonists working in graphic life narrative, from confession to memoir to biography. Draws on literary theory, visual studies, and cultural history to ask why and how Canadian cartoonists have become so prominent in the international market for comic boo...

Sexual violence at canadian universities

This timely collection explores campus sexual violence and its causes, consequences, and strategies for its elimination at Canadian universities. Through empirical research and theoretical writings by new and established scholars and community and campus activists, it offers the first interdiscip...

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 ...

Wittgenstein's ethics and modern warfare

Explores Ludwig Wittgenstein’s notion of ethics and cultural representations of the Great War. The book suggests a reinterpretation of Wittgenstein’s moral philosophy by relating it to the philosopher’s own war experience, applying this revised concept of ethics to analyze the ethical dimension o...

(re)generation

(Re)Generation contains selected poetry by Anishinaabe writer Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm that deals with violence against Indigenous women and lands, Indigenous erotica and the joyous intimate encounters between bodies. Not interested in simplistic representations, Akiwenzie-Damm's poetry grapples wit...

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...

Mahikan ka onot

mahikan ka onot collects the finest work of accomplished Indigenous poet Duncan Mercredi, from his first book in 1991 to recent unpublished poems. These are poems of life on the land as well as life in the city, vibrant with the rhythms of traditional Cree and Métis storytelling but also with the...

Cubism and futurism

At its inception, the cinema was understood by many to be an electric art, akin to X-rays, coloured light, and sonic energy. This book examines the two movements’ engagement with the Faraday and Maxwell’s new science of energy, and shows energy came to be understood as a spiritual phenomenon and ...

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 ...

What the oceans remember

In this memoir that traverses five continents and spans two centuries, Sonja Boon explores archives, family stories, and her memories in a search for origins, belonging, and home. Her journey is interwoven with reflections on the meaning of music, love, legacy, freedom, memory, ruin, and the rele...

Essential song

Audio Files located on Soundcloud Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music, a study of subarctic Cree hunting songs, is the first detailed ethnomusicology of the northern Cree of Quebec and Manitoba. The result of more than two decades spent in the North learning from the Cree, Lynn W...

Unpacking the personal library

Unpacking the Personal Library is an edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and significance of private book collections in relation to public libraries. Collectively, the chapters articulate a poetics of the personal library within its extended social, aesthetic and cultur...

Unruly penelopes and the ghosts

Studies the cultural and literary contexts of narrative texts produced in English Canada since the1970s. These contributors suggest that the artistic and cultural flowering Canada is experiencing at the beginning of the twenty-first century is based on the dismantlement of images constructed to r...