University Of Alberta Press: 115 books
This Wild Spirit
Women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
In 1912, Mary Vaux, a botanist, glaciologist, painter, and photographer, wrote about her mountain adventures: “A day on the trail, or a scramble over the glacier, or even with a quiet day in camp to get things in order for the morrow's conquests? Some how when once this wild spirit enters the blood…I...
Gendered Militarism in Canada
Learning Conformity and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
“Despite Canada’s claim to be a gender equitable nation, militarism continues to function in ways that protect inequality.” —from the Introduction Little has been done to examine, critique, and challenge the ways ingrained societal ideas of militarism and gender influence lifelong learning...
by Tomoko Mitani
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Geishas and samurai, manga and animé come to mind when Japan enters the conversation. While these traditional and modern images about the island nation have been widely disseminated in North America, most of us cannot imagine what everyday life is like in Japan. Tomoko Mitani's work addresses this...
Beyond "Understanding Canada"
Transnational Perspectives on Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The dismantling of “Understanding Canada”—an international program eliminated by Canada’s Conservative government in 2012—posed a tremendous potential setback for Canadianists. Yet Canadian writers continue to be celebrated globally by popular and academic audiences alike. Twenty scholars...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Dance has become increasingly visible within contemporary culture: just think of reality TV shows featuring this art form. This shift brings the ballet body into renewed focus. Historically both celebrated and critiqued for its thin, flexible, and highly feminized aesthetic, the ballet body now takes...
Apostrophes VIII
Nothing Is But You and I
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
The late sun falls slowly into the afternoon of your eyes, and there it pauses as one might pause to take a breath —from “Lost” Nothing Is But You and I, the breathtaking final volume in the Apostrophes series, reveals poet E.D. Blodgett at his most accomplished. Lyrical grace meets exquisite...
by E.D. Blodgett
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
In a series of poems inspired by Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, E.D. Blodgett searches for meaning amidst grief. In the contemplative gentleness of his words, he finds the special light children possess in their state of unknowing as they encounter the world. These sparse poems move through acceptance...
The Dragon Run
Two Canadians, Ten Bhutanese, One Stray Dog
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Tony Robinson-Smith, his wife Nadya, and ten Bhutanese college students set out to run 578 kilometres (360 miles) across the Kingdom of Bhutan in the Himalayas. Joined by a stray dog, they slogged over five mountain passes, bathed in ice-clogged streams, ate over log fires, and stopped at every store,...
Rising Abruptly
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Gisèle Villeneuve’s short stories test the elastic pull between passion and terror. For inspiration, Villeneuve turned to her personal history to examine what lures urban dwellers outdoors, to test themselves against peaks and valleys. Using the overarching metaphor of mountain climbing, she plays...
by Alice Major
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In this ambitious long poem, Alice Major exemplifies the redemptive force of story. Through the light-hearted interplay of such literary touchstones as Chaucer, The Thousand and One Nights, and Greek myth, readers meet receptionist Aphrodite, Sheherazad in PR, and Pandora, expectant grandmother from...
Entryways to Criminal Justice
Accusation and Criminalization in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
How do societies decide whom to criminalize? What does it mean to accuse someone of being an offender? Entryways to Criminal Justice analyzes the thresholds that distinguish law-abiding individuals from those who may be criminalized. Contributors to the volume adopt social, historical, cultural, and...
Countering Displacements
The Creativity and Resilience of Indigenous and Refugee-ed Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
The essays in this collection explore the activities of two populations of displaced peoples that are seldom discussed together: Indigenous peoples and refugees or diasporic peoples around the world. Rather than focusing on victimhood, the authors focus on the creativity and agency of displaced peoples,...
Flora Annie Steel
A Critical Study of an Unconventional Memsahib
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Flora Annie Steel (1847–1929) was a contemporary of Rudyard Kipling and rivaled his popularity as a writer during her lifetime, but her legacy faded due to gender-biased politics. She spent 22 years in India, mainly in the Punjab. This collection is the first to focus entirely on this “unconventional...
Nuala
A Fable
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
“Shh, my Nuala. I am with you. Today I shall teach you the newness of you.” As the Engine breathes life into Nuala, her gaze falls on Teacher-Servant, the chosen one. He alone will be able to hear her thoughts and interpret her emotions. But soon Teacher-Servant starts to worry that Nuala will...