Unsettled Remains

Edited by Cynthia Sugars & Gerry Turcotte
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

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 ...

Scandalous Bodies

By Smaro Kamboureli
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Social Science, Multiculturalism
Series: TransCanada

Scandalous Bodies is an impassioned scholarly study both of literature by diasporic writers and of the contexts within which it is produced. It explores topics ranging from the Canadian government’s multiculturalism p ...

Open Wide a Wilderness

Edited by Nancy Holmes
By Don McKay
Subjects: Environmental Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Environmental Humanities

The first anthology to focus on the rich tradition of Canadian nature poetry in English, Open Wide a Wilderness is a survey of Canada’s regions, poetries, histories, and peoples as these relate to the n ...

Mobility of Light

By Nicole Brossard
Edited by Louise H. Forsyth
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

“On strands of light I am hanging poetry like garlands.”
These first words of poetry from Nicole Brossard anticipate the vast body of work she has published in the last four decades. The poems in Mobility ...

Fierce Departures

By Dionne Brand
Edited by Leslie C. Sanders
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

The selections in Fierce Departures, drawn from Dionne Brand’s work since 1997, delineate with searing eloquence how history marks and dislocates peoples of the African diaspora, how nations, concretely a ...

Blues and Bliss

By George Elliott Clarke
Edited by Jon Paul Fiorentino
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Blues singer, preacher, cultural critic, exile, Africadian, high modernist, spoken word artist, Canadian poet—these are but some of the voices of George Elliott Clarke. In a selection of Clarke’s best wor ...

The Agent in the Margin

By Clara A.B. Joseph
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

The Agent in the Margin: Nayantara Sahgal’s Gandhian Fiction is a comprehensive study of the literary works of Nayantara Sahgal, daughter of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit—the first woman president of the United N ...

Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography

Edited by Eleanor Ty
By Christl Verduyn
Subjects: Ethnography, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography explores some of the latest developments in the literary and cultural practices of Canadians of Asian heritage. While earlier work by ethnic, multicultural, ...

All These Roads

By Louis Dudek
Edited by Karis Shearer
Afterword by Frank Davey
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

A passionate believer in the power of art—and especially poetry—to influence and critique contemporary culture, Louis Dudek devoted much of his life to shaping the Canadian literary scene through his med ...

The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand

By M. Travis Lane
Edited by Jeanette Lynes
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand: The Poetry of M. Travis Lane is a collection of thirty-five of her best poems, selected with an introduction by Jeanette Lynes. An environmentalist, feminist, and peace ...