Wilfrid Laurier University Press imprint: 403 books
Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts
Narratives of English Canada
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
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Jane Rule and the Memory of Canada
Richard Cavell
This chapter deals with the question of cultural memory and with identity-formations outside traditional nationalist models, with special attention to the work of Jane Rule.
by Christine van der Mark, Carole Gerson, Janice Dowson
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
First published in 1947, In Due Season broke new ground with its fictional representation of women and of Indigenous people. Set during the dustbowl 1930s, this tersely narrated prize-winning novel follows Lina Ashley, a determined solo female homesteader who takes her family from drought-ridden southern...
Thanks for Listening
Stories and Short Fictions by Ernest Buckler
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
A treasure chest of exceptional stories by one of Canadas classic authorsall now available in one volume.
Ernest Buckler, best known as the author of the Canadian classic, The Mountain and the Valley, never achieved the lasting fame he deserved. His first story was published in Esquire, a significant...
by
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
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German Fascination for Jews in Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Ein ganz gewöhnlicher Jude
Myriam Léger
This chapter discusses Oliver Hirschbiegel’s film as the site both of an imagined contemporary struggle for German-Jewish identity and the construction of the spectator’s problematic...
by
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
2019 correspondence marks 100th anniversary of the last of letters from the Great War; hardcover first published in 2007. This is first publication of paperback
Leslie Frost was premier of Ontario from May 1949 to November 1961; his government was first to pass laws providing penalties for...
Beyond Bylines
Media Workers and Women’s Rights in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Beyond Bylines: Media Workers and Women’s Rights in Canada explores the ways in which several of Canada’s women journalists, broadcasters, and other media workers reached well beyond the glory of their personal bylines to advocate for the most controversial women’s rights of their eras. To do...
Must Write
Edna Staebler’s Diaries
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Long before she became the renowned author of the best-selling Schmecks cookbooks, an award-winning journalist for magazines such as Macleans, and a creative non-fiction mentor, Edna Staebler was a writer of a different sort. Staebler began serious diary writing at the age of sixteen and continued...
New Brunswick at the Crossroads
Literary Ferment and Social Change in the East
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
What is the relationship between literature and the society in which it incubates? Are there common political, social, and economic factors that predominate during periods of heightened literary activity? New Brunswick at the Crossroads: Literary Ferment and Social Change in the East considers these...
Detecting Canada
Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
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North of Quality?: Quality Television and the Suburban Crimeworld of Durham County
Lindsay Steenberg and Yvonne Tasker
Lindsay Steenberg and Yvonne Tasker undertake an analysis of the recent, very violent, critically acclaimed popular Canadian television series Durham County. Arguing that it was...
Troubling Tricksters
Revisioning Critical Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Troubling Tricksters is a collection of theoretical essays, creative pieces, and critical ruminations that provides a re-visioning of trickster criticism in light of recent backlash against it. The complaints of some Indigenous writers, the critique from Indigenous nationalist critics, and the changing...
Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts
Motherhood in Contemporary Women’s Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts focuses on mothers as subjects and as writers who produce auto/biography, fiction, and poetry about maternity. International contributors examine the mother without child, with child, and in her multiple identities as grandmother, mother, and daughter.
The collection...
Slanting I, Imagining We
Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
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The Cameras of the World: Race, Subjectivity and the Multitude in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and Dionne Brand's What We All Long For
Larissa Lai
Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and Dionne Brand's What We All Long For present characters who are both deeply abject...
Dancing Fear and Desire
Race, Sexuality, and Imperial Politics in Middle Eastern Dance
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Throughout centuries of European colonial domination, the bodies of Middle Eastern dancers, male and female, move sumptuously and seductively across the pages of Western travel journals, evoking desire and derision, admiration and disdain, allure and revulsion. This profound ambivalence forms the...
The Memory Effect
The Remediation of Memory in Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
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Developments in Memory Studies and Twentieth- and Twenty-first-Century Literature and Film
Russell Kilbourn and Eleanor Ty
Kilbourn and Ty provide a survey of the major developments in theories of memory in modernity, including Proust’s notion of involuntary memory, Bergson’s distinction between...