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Listening up, writing down, and looking beyond
Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond is an interdisciplinary collection that gathers the work of scholars and performance practitioners who together explore questions about the oral, written, and visual. The book includes the voices of oral performance practitioners, while the scholarsh...
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Crosstalk
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 narrato...
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Detachable penis
Through an examination of author Sam Elkins legal casework and law reform efforts, accompanied by the story of his journey from lesbian to transgender lawyerDetachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga is a politically sharp narrative that offers a kaleidoscopic view of LGBTQIA+ communities living on th...
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Ecologies in practice
A collection exploring the ways the arts participate in emerging environmentally focused interdisciplinary fields, such as the Environmental Humanities. Essays examine what creative practice and visual language lend to these vital conversations, and how the arts and artistic practitioners share e...
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Reclamation and resurgence
Selected works from Marilyn Dumont, a Cree/Métis poet who has written about Métis kinscapes and Métis presence from her first book in 1997 to now.
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Children's literature and imaginative geography
Where do children travel when they read a story? Every story has a "where." Scholars and writers explore how geography is imagined in children's literature from Canada, the US, the U.K. and Ireland, from the early 19th century to the present.
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Foundations of modern harmony
First English translation of Karel Janec̆ek's Foundations of Modern Harmony, First published in 1965, it stands out among music theoretical publications with its balanced approach that combines systematics and empirical studies.
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Hunger
Hunger focuses on the role of food, or the lack of it, in the First World War. Diary quotes, historical accounts, and the author's own re-enactments combine for a gripping, at times harrowing read.
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Rough and plenty
Compares the displacement of Nova Scotia fishers in the 1990s with that experienced by Scottish crofters in the 19th century. Using first-hand accounts, Rogers shows how both groups experienced marginalization and displacement as capitalism decimated their worlds. The book gives voice to people o...
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Limelight
Examines the celebrity autobiography and how it has changed in form, function, and content over the last 115 years. Focusing on the autobiographies of famous Canadian women, it charts a history of fame in English Canada and examines the influence of gender and nation in the experience and represe...
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The theology of the united church of canada
The United Church of Canada has a rich and complex history of theological development. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of that development, together with an analysis of this unique denomination’s core statements of faith and its contemporary theological landscape.
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Tiff
In this first full biography of award-winning author Timothy Findley, Sherrill Grace uses his diaries and letters, interviews, and archival materials, and examines his award-winning novels, plays, stories, and non-fiction to draw points of departure and development from Findley’s life and work.
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Social poesis
Social Poesis introduces readers to the work of one of Canada's most challenging and exciting poets. The selection of poems is framed by an introduction by Heather Milne and an afterword by poet Rachel Zolf that situate Zolf's poetry in relation to the philosophical and ethical concepts that info...
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Indianthusiasm
Indianthusiasm brings together interviews with twelve Indigenous authors, artists and scholars who comment on the German fascination with North American Indigenous Peoples.
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Feminist praxis revisited
Contributors reflect on the social-justice-oriented approaches to community-based learning in Women and Gender Studies, long viewed as foundational to the field, and ask how feminist praxis is being impacted by the mainstreaming of university–community engagement and by an increasingly depolitici...
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The challenge of children's rights for canada, 2nd edition
In ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1991, Canada promised to recognize and respect the rights of children outlined within it. The second edition of The Challenge of Children’s Rights for Canada, assesses the extent to which Canada has fulfilled this promise.
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Catastrophe
On December 6, 1917, the Canadian city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was shattered when a volatile cargo exploded in the bustling wartime harbour. Over 1,600 people were killed and 9,000 injured. At the time, it was the worst man-made disaster in history. This book weaves together the compelling stori...
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Sôhkêyihta
Sôhkêyihta includes poems written across the expanse of Louise Bernice Halfe’s career, from 1990 to the present, illustrating the breadth of her engagement with key issues confronted by Indigenous peoples living in Canada, including residential schools, church and state apologies, the fur trade, ...
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Beauty in a box
Beauty in a Box explores the history of black beauty culture in Canada (its inventors, distribution networks, media, and retail end-points), and its similarities to, and departures from, African American beauty culture. It also traces media constructions of race that have circulated transnational...
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Deportment
A selection of poems by Alice Burdick in which she examines the dangers of dogma, women’s rights, and environmental degradation in biting satires, moving elegies, and anti-sentimental lyrics filled with mischievous wordplay. The selection includes rare work from the beginning of her career as wel...
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Debating rights inflation in canada
An argument that framing any and all grievances as human rights violations undermines attempts to address systemic social problems. Includes commentator response from leading human rights scholars and practitioners bridging the divide between academia, public policy, and practice.
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1930
1930 can be seen as the dawn of a period of darkness, the beginning of what Auden would call “a low, dishonest decade.” Europe questioned itself and its viability. Major writers and artists sought to grapple with issues still central to our lives, including mass culture and its dangers and the ri...
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Tours inside the snow globe
Through a series of tours of the monuments of Ottawa, this book argues that rather than instructing people on what to know about history, monuments generate feelings about the past in the present. As ambivalent sites, monuments allow for the generation of competing feelings: nostalgia, dissent, i...
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A possible trust
A Possible Trust is a selection of Ronna Bloom's poetry by poet and editor Phil Hall. The book includes an introduction by Hall, and an afterword by Bloom that traces the relevance of photography, psychotherapy, and meditation in her work.
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Quiet rebels
Quiet Rebels tells the stories of 187 women who were called to the Ontario bar between 1897 and 1957, identifying gendered patterns of exclusion. It also explores women lawyers’ experiences in later decades, when many more women entered the legal profession, assessing the extent of “changes” or “...
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On comics and grief
Fragmented and hybrid in style, On Comics and Grief examines a year in comic book publishing and the authors grief surrounding his mothers death. This book connects grief, memory, nostalgia, personal history, theory, and multiple lines of comics studies inquiry in relation to the comic books of...
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The frankfurt kabuff critical edition
An experimental and radical commentary on the publishing industry, the centrepiece of this book is an autoethnographic comic erotic thriller about the Frankfurt Book Fair, self-published under the pseudonym Blaire Squiscoll. The critical edition enriches the novella with essays, annotations, and ...
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Salomania and the representation of race and gender in modern erotic dance
A study of the performance and circulation of the figure of Salome as it shaped the modern business of skin-baring dance in imperial Europe and settler colonial North America at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.
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Sporting justice
A history of the Chatham Coloured All-Stars, the first Black team to win an Ontario amateur baseball title in 1934. Sporting Justice situates the team in a broader history of Black baseball in Chatham and southwestern Ontario, exploring themes including racism in sport, gender, class, and social ...
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A different species of breathing
This selected work of Sue Goyette's poetry brings together work from eight books of poetry to show that Sue Goyette has sustained a practice of witnessing and reinterpreting the world for her readers. Introduction by Bart Vautour. Interview with the poet by Erin Wunker.
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A sentimental education
How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? Hannah McGregor, the podcaster behind Witch, Please and Secret Feminist Agenda, explores what podcasting has taught her about doing feminist scholarship not as a methodology but as a ...
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The contemporary leonard cohen
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 h...
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Indigenous media arts in canada
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.
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Cruel but not unusual
Offering the latest research and thinking, this updated and expanded 3rd edition of Cruel but not Unusual: Violence in Families in Canada investigates abuse across the life course and in diverse families and communities, offering those working with children, youth, adults, couples, and families a...
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Autobiography as indigenous intellectual tradition
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 ...
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Land/relations
Land/Relations examines colonial, national, historical, and social relations that have given shape to a body of literature in Canada and the politics and possibilities of solidarity across geography and communities, bridging genres and critical methods to propose new directions for cultural accou...
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Dead woman pickney
Dead Woman Pickney chronicles Yvonne Shorter Brown’s life growing up in Jamaica between 1943 and 1965 and teaching in Canada from 1969. Told with stridency and humour, the stories include both personal experience and history. Taking up the haunting memories of childhood, along with persistent rac...
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Make the world new
Lillian Allen is one of the leading creative Black feminist voices in Canada. Her work has been foundational to the dub poetry movement, which swept across the Black diaspora in the 1980s, taking roots/routes in Kingston, Toronto, and London and offering exciting sounds of protest and a careful, ...
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Syria, press framing, and the responsibility to protect
The Syrian Civil War has created the worst humanitarian disaster since the end of WWII. Early calls for R2P inspired humanitarian intervention went unheeded. This book examines the role of influential media in the West in framing the conflict, including their role in promoting, or on the contrary...
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A history of antisemitism in canada
State-of-the-art account of the phenomenon builds on the foundation of numerous previous studies on antisemitism, and on antisemitism in Canada in particular. Attempts to understand the many ways in which antisemitism has impacted Canada as a whole, and examines most especially its influence on t...
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Governing cities through regions
Deepens our understanding of metropolitan governance through an innovative comparative project on the subject of regional governance in Canada and Europe. The book expands the comparative angle from economic competitiveness and social cohesion to housing and transportation and expands our perspec...
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Learn, teach, challenge
New and collected essays. A comprehensive view of critical approaches to and theories about Indigenous literatures today. Sections include Position, Imagining Beyond Images and Myths, Debating Indigenous Literary Approaches, Contemporary Concerns, and Classroom Considerations.
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Feminist pedagogy in higher education
In this new collection, contributors from a variety of disciplines provide a critical context for the relationship between feminist pedagogy and academic feminism by exploring the complex ways that critical perspectives can be brought into the classroom.
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Engendering transnational voices
This book examines the transnational practices and identities of immigrant women, youth, and children in an era of global migration and neoliberalism, addressing family relations, gender and work, schooling, remittances, cultural identities, caring for children and the elderly, inter- and multi-g...
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Space between her lips
This book presents some of the most vibrant, exciting, and intellectually challenging poetry in Canada. Christakos plays language games that bring a probing and disturbing humour to perfectly serious themes that range from childhood and children to women in contemporary techno-capitalist society ...
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Activating the heart
Explores how storytelling engages and builds new interconnections between people and their histories, environments, and cultural geographies. Focuses on the significance of storytelling in Indigenous knowledge frameworks and other ways of knowing, and how researchers have embraced narrative and s...
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Growing up in armyville
Growing Up in Armyville provides a compelling portrait of youth from Canadian Forces families, based on surveys and interviews, as they coped with the stresses of Canada’s deployments to Afghanistan.
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Violence against indigenous women
Violence against Indigenous women in Canada is an ongoing crisis. This book explores how Indigenous women writers and storytellers are addressing the problem. Analyzing the work of poets, playwrights, filmmakers, and fiction-writers, Hargreaves examines how contemporary literature illuminates new...
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Argimou
Valorizing his Mi'kmaq protagonist, Argimou, and using European/aboriginal conflicts of 1755 as a literary catalyst, Huyghue plunges his protagonists into a Maritime captivity tale-journey of natural & human dangers. The novel ends as it began with Huyghue/Argimou mourning the loss of aborigi...
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My basilian priesthood
A memoir of Michael Quealey’s six years in the Basilian order in the 1960s. During his priesthood, Quealey was director of the Newman Centre at the University of Toronto and engaged in Church reform. This is a story that blends Toronto history with Catholic Church history and an inside look at 19...
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