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How can postcolonialism be applied to Canadian literature?

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Where do Canadians encounter religious meaning? Not where they used to!

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From stories about Los Angeles freeways to slave narratives to science fiction, environmental literature encompasses more than nature writing. The study of environmental narrative has flourished since the MLA published Teaching Environmental Literature in 1985. Today, writers evince a self-consciousness about writing in the genre, teachers have incorporated field study into courses, technology has opened up classroom possibilities, and institutions have developed to support study of this vital body of writing. The challenge for instructors is to identify core texts while maintaining the field s dynamic, open qualities.
The essays in this volume focus on North American environmental writing, presenting teachers with background on environmental justice issues, ecocriticism, and ecofeminism. Contributors consider the various disciplines that have shaped the field, including African American, American Indian, Canadian, and Chicana/o literature. The interdisciplinary approaches recommended treat the theme of predators in literature, ecology and ethics, conservation, and film. A focus on place-based literature explores how students can physically engage with the environment as they study literature. The volume closes with an annotated resource guide organized by subject matter. ... Read more

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Elegant tomboys, academic femmes, and small-town kisses; encounters on the road and in the bar; questions arising from an in-between culture; cane stalks, sake, fresh-cut flowers, home insemination and hotel-room orgasms - crossing race, culture, and gender constraints, "No Margins" leads the reader through the lushness of lesbian life and the vastness of the Canadian experience. This is a stellar short-fiction collection featuring fifteen of Canada's finest contemporary writers - all of whom include lesbian identity as one piece of their selves and their work. These highly acclaimed authors were selected to convey the places Canadian lesbians currently inhabit and the future we are forging. The contributors have included artist's statements to accompany their work, sharing the creative process and speaking on the politics of lesbian writing. This is an unprecedented anthology, reflecting an esteemed gathering of lesbian writers who are currently shaping Canadian literature.Contributors are: Anne Fleming; Ann-Marie MacDonald; Daphne Marlatt; Dionne Brand; Elizabeth Ruth; Emma Donoghue; Jane Eaton Hamilton; Karen X Tulchinsky; Larissa Lai; Luanne Armstrong; Lydia Kwa; Marion Douglas; Marnie Woodrow; Nicole Brossard; and Shani Mootoo. ... Read more

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Midwest Book Review:December 2006 Issue
At long last, we finally have an anthology of stories and excerpts from fifteen of Canada's very best lesbian writers. From the gutsy feel of Dionne Brand's heroine to the beauty of language in Lydia Kwa's work to the subtle humor Marnie Woodrow employs, each of these short pieces is a wonderful read. Skillfully selected and introduced by editors Catherine Lake and Nairne Holtz, each piece includes notes from the writer to acquaint us with the attitudes and ideas of each woman and ends with a brief bio for that author.

US readers may be familiar with the work of Ann-Marie MacDonald, Karen X. Tulchinsky, Nicole Brossard, and Emma Donoghue, but the other fantastic lesbian authors here are also writing remarkable fiction. Anne Fleming, Larissa Lai, Elizabeth Ruth, Marion Douglas, Jane Eaton Hamilton, Shani Mootoo, Luanne Armstrong, and Daphne Marlatt should not be missed.

Editor Catherine Lake, in the Editor's Note, writes: "We are not only a readership but also a community that thrives on the words, images, and creativity of our writers." This collection is chock-full of marvelous words and images by some wonderfully creative writers who are writing outside the margin, and I highly recommend it. ~Lori L. Lake, Midwest Book Review
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This book examines the nature and scope of the work of Mavis Gallant, the noted Canadian short story writer and novelist, who delights readers with the elegance and authority of her prose while disconcerting them with the sharp edge of her vision.Examining her fiction, journalism, and work in the theatre, Keefer explores her preoccupation with "the prison of childhood," and the constricted world of women, as well as her continual concern with the function of memory. Keefer also focuses closely on both the rewards and the problems that readers encounter in any sustained engagement with Gallant's work, raising important questions about the nature of contemporary fiction and Gallant's unique Canadian perspective. ... Read more

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The most comprehensive anthology in its field, the second edition of Making a Difference builds on the solid literary foundation established in the original landmark volume.Featuring a blend of Canadian poetry and short fiction, this anthology examines on cultural differences through thework of 70 writers representing a diverse range of Native and ethnic backgrounds.The result is a rich survey that celebrates the unique cultural heritage of Canadian literature and the multiplicity of this country's cultural spectrum.For this second edition, Making a Difference editor Smaro Kamboureli thoroughly reconsidered the table of contents and introduced over thirty-five authors, many of them seldom anthologized elsewhere, to the already extensive collection of established writers.These additions bring the collection upto date. By combining established classics with writings that seldom appear in similar anthologies, this unique collection stands as the most engaging and comprehensive in the market. ... Read more

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Based on the critically acclaimed Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, this second concise edition has been fully updated by editor William Toye. The revised entries include books published up to 2010, in addition to 42 new entries that discuss such notable figures as Joseph Boyden, Yann Martel, Miriam Toews, Michael Crummey, and Lisa Moore.

With over 900 entries, this indispensible reference book covers major writers, significant works, awards, genre surveys, and other aspects of the Canadian literary scene, past and present. Toye discusses recent publications from a critical perspective, offering insight and meaning to the literary works that shape our national literature.

Toye's Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature (1997), upon which the concise edition is based, was lauded as a landmark publication, was a Globe and Mail bestseller, and selected as a Quill & Quire book of the year. The first concise version retained all significant entries (in addition to 60 new entries), omitting entries on regional and genre surveys, as well as francophone writers not published in English.

The second edition of The Concise Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature remains an indispensible supplement to its distinguished predecessors. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Kola, published by Black Writers' Guild on September 22, 2008. The length of the article is 7269 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Self-discovery and the quest for an aesthetic, the emergence of black Canadian literature: 1975 towards the millennium.
Author: Anthony Joyette
Publication: Kola (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2008
Publisher: Black Writers' Guild
Volume: 20Issue: 2Page: 32(17)

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At no time in history has there been such a massive movement across geographical, political, and cultural barriers as the one we are witnessing in our own time. The South Asian presence in Canada and the West is a result of this movement. It originates predominately from the countries of South Asia--India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka--and those of the Caribbean and East and South Africa.

The essays and articles in this volume comprise a concerted and many-sided look at the literature of this group. Several of them are also informative surveys of the important branches of this literature. Altogether they provide the contexts for appreciating it, and understanding it as an esthetic, social, and cultural phenomenon. At the same time they address several fundamental issues, regarding the relationship of this literature both to traditional (South Asian and Third World) and to mainstream (Canada and North America) languages, literatures, and themes. They probe the past, appraise the present, and throw a glance at the future. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more