Wilfrid Laurier University Press imprint: 403 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Latin American Identities After 1980 takes an interdisciplinary approach to Latin American social and cultural identities. With broad regional coverage, and an emphasis on Canadian perspectives, it focuses on Latin American contact with other cultures and nations. Its sound scholarship combines evidence-based...
The Daughter’s Way
Canadian Women’s Paternal Elegies
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Introduction
Introduction: Who Could Not Sing: Elegy and its (Female) Discontents
Tanis MacDonald
A daughter’s duty to care for her dying father and properly mourn his death is a commonly assumed cultural and familial obligation. If, as W. David Shaw suggests, we “want elegies...
Unsettled Remains
Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic examines how Canadian writers have combined a postcolonial awareness with gothic metaphors of monstrosity and haunting in their response to Canadian history. The essays gathered here range from treatments of early postcolonial gothic...
Wider Boundaries of Daring
The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry announces a bold revision of the genealogy of Canadian literary modernism by foregrounding the originary and exemplary contribution of women poets, critics, cultural activists, and experimental prose writers Dorothy Livesay,...
Violence Against Indigenous Women
Literature, Activism, Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Violence against Indigenous women in Canada is an ongoing crisis, with roots deep in the nation’s colonial history. Despite numerous policies and programs developed to address the issue, Indigenous women continue to be targeted for violence at disproportionate rates. What insights can literature...
by Martin Puhvel
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
The author traces and evaluates the possible influences of Celtic tradition on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. He discusses theories of the origins of the poem, draws parallels between elements in Beowulf and in Celtic literary tradition, and suggests that the central plot of the poem, the conflict...
Sonosyntactics
Selected and New Poetry of Paul Dutton
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2015
Sonosyntactics introduces the reader to over forty-five years of Paul Dutton’s diverse and inventive poetry, ranging from lyrics, prose poems, and visual work to performance texts and scores. Perhaps best known for his acclaimed solo sound performances and his contributions to the iconic sound poetry...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
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“Grammars of Exchange”: The “Oriental Woman” in the Global Market
Belén Martín-Lucas
Belén Martín-Lucas, addressing the contemporary politics of the international book market, analyses the “Orientalist marketing tactics” that package the work of “ethnic”...
Learn, Teach, Challenge
Approaching Indigenous Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This is a collection of classic and newly commissioned essays about the study of Indigenous literatures in North America. The contributing scholars include some of the most venerable Indigenous theorists, among them Gerald Vizenor (Anishinaabe), Jeannette Armstrong (Okanagan), Craig Womack (Creek),...
Critical Collaborations
Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
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Jazz, Diaspora, and the History and Writing of Black Anglophone Montreal
Winfried Siemerling
Through a combination of cultural geography, Jazz Age history, and literary analysis, Siemerling argues for a renewed focus on Montreal’s black diasporas and their cultures as part of the city’s social and cultural architecture.
The Castles of the Rhine
Recreating the Middle Ages in Modern Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Far from being mere antiquarian or sentimental curiosities, the rebuilt or reused fortresses of the Rhine reflect major changes in Germany and Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taylor begins The Castles of the Rhine with a synopsis of the major political, social and intellectual...
He Was Some Kind of a Man
Masculinities in the B Western
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western explores the construction and representation of masculinity in low-budget western movies made from the 1930s to the early 1950s. These films contained some of the mid-twentieth-century’s most familiar names, especially for youngsters: cowboys...
Making Feminist Media
Third-Wave Magazines on the Cusp of the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Making Feminist Media provides new ways of thinking about the vibrant media and craft cultures generated by Riot Grrrl and feminism’s third wave. It focuses on a cluster of feminist publications—including BUST, Bitch, HUES, Venus Zine, and Rockrgrl—that began as zines in the 1990s. By tracking...
The Widowed Self
The Older Woman’s Journey through Widowhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
How do older women come to terms with widowhood? Are they vulnerable or courageous, predictable or creative in dealing with this life challenge?
Most books about widows usually focus on younger women; this book interweaves the voices of older widows their experiences and insights to show how...