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While Canadian First Nations writers have long argued that non-Native authors should stop appropriating Native voices, many non-Native writers have held that such a request constitutes censorship. "Listening to Old Woman Speak" provides the historical context missing from this debate. Laura Groening examines issues of gender and genre, historical fiction and historical metafiction, and postcolonial theory to provide compelling evidence that it is virtually impossible to escape one's own cultural conditioning. She concludes by "listening" to what First Nations writers have to say about cultural identity and the need to establish a healing aesthetic. ... Read more

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From a Speaking Place brings together 63 essays, notes, and interviews from 50 years of contributions to Canadian Literature, CanadaÂ’s foremost journal on the countryÂ’s writers and writing. YouÂ’ll find here such stylish writers as Margaret Atwood, Grard Bessette, George Bowering, George Elliott Clarke, Wayde Compton, Basil Johnston, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Thomas King, Margaret Laurence, George Ryga, Andreas Schroeder, Audrey Thomas, Tom Wayman, Rudy Wiebe, and George Woodcock. From a Speaking Place invites you into a conversation about what it means to be a reader and a writer in Canada. This Canada speaks: of Inuit voices and Al PurdyÂ’s rock gothic, of Bombay and Trinidad, of great traditions, urban findings, laughter, Acadia, nation, translation, theatre, exploration, life stories and more, from official languages and le monologue qubcois to Marshall McLuhan and Hollywood Not. Illustrated by George KuthanÂ’s woodcuts, the book celebrates Canadian LiteratureÂ’s 50th anniversary in 2009.

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This is the first annotated anthology of Canadian poetry and prose, from the eighteenth century to the present. Volume II contains extensive selections of works by some fifty writers, ranging from Sheila Watson (b. 1909) to bp Nichol (b. 1944). Besides a generous complement of poetry and short fiction, there are eight essays of literary criticism and one full-length play. As in Volume I. there are many cross-connections - in related subject matter, in the criticism that reflects on other selections - so that the anthology offers a firm context for the study not only of individual writers, but of the vital literary culture of contemporary English Canada. With introductions to the writers and their works, annotations, and a supplementary section:
Poets for Further Reading.

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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"Canadian Literature at the Crossroads of Language and Culture" is the first book to gather together essays by Barbara Godard, one of the leading and most prolific figures in the field of Canadian studies. Godard has long been one of the most influential readers of Canadian literature. Much of the force of her work comes from her meticulous and relentless attention to the networks that produce both the texts and events we study and the methods through which we read them. Whether she writes about feminist theory, orality and Native women writers, or the exigencies of the cultural field, she has been instrumental in interrogating, time and time again, the normative ways in which we think about Canadian culture.From the function of literature to the materiality of institutions and periodicals, from the theory and practice of translation to the interrelations between English and French Canadian literatures, her critical interventions have drastically reconceptualised our inherited understandings of Canadian culture. ... Read more

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Canadian literature was born in New York City. It began not in the backwoods of Ontario or the salt flats of New Brunswick, but in the cafés, publishing offices, and boarding houses of late nineteenth-century New York, where writing developed as a profession and where the groundwork for the Canadian canon was laid. So argues Nick Mount in When Canadian Literature Moved to New York.

The last decades of the nineteenth century saw an extraordinary exodus from English Canada, draining the country of half its writers and all but a few of its contemporary and future literary celebrities. Motivated by powerful obstacles to a domestic literature, most of these migrants landed in New York - by the 1890s the centre of the continental literary market - and found for the first time a large, receptive literary market and recognition from non-Canadian publishers and reviewers.

While the expatriates of the 1880s and 1890s - including Bliss Carman, Ernest Thompson Seton, and Palmer Cox - were recognized for their achievements in Canada, the domestic literature they themselves spurred into existence rekindled a nationalist imperative to distinguish Canadian writing from other literatures, especially American, and this slowly eliminated most of their work from the emerging English Canadian canon. When Canadian Literature Moved to New York is the story of these expatriate writers: who they were, why they left, what they achieved, and how they changed Canadian literary history.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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First published by Oxford University Press in 1993, Exploration Literature is a groundbreaking collection of early writing inspired by the opening of a continent.With maps, notes, and thumbnail biographies of these early writers, Exploration Literature is an entry point for both the casual reader and the student of Canadian literature into the beginnings of a literate response to the awe and wonder inspired by an unfolding geography and the literary fundamentals of new nationhood.

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In BAD NEWS OF THE HEART, a seeing-eye dog leads a blindman into a frozen river, a southern Baptist loses his memory and findstrue love in Bel Air, an obese dot.com executive has"anorgasmic" latex sex with her CEO, and a homeless man in NewYork creates an intellectual universe based on Stick ’em notes stuckto the inside of his cardboard box shelter.

Douglas Glover’s stories are wildly inventive, deadpan comedies of ouruniversal human catastrophe. They are sly, demanding andwise—stories about language, desire and love (in a very darkplace). The humor veers from the wry and sardonic to salacious,mordant and playful. And always there are moments of such starkemotional intimacy that the reader slides, almost without noticing,from laughter to lament. ... Read more

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achingly hypnotic stories
This is an author with incisive eye for the convoluted entanglements of human relationships and a rare compassion for the downtrodden. His stories create worlds that reverberate with a painful tenderness, humor and an engulfing sense of longing, expressed in exquisite prose.
It was a great surprise to finally discover one of his books on US bookshelves-I hope this brings more of Glover's work to the US. ... Read more