The essays in "Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography" explore ways in which Asian Canadian authors have gone beyond what Francoise Lionnet calls autoethnography, or ethnographic autobiography. They demonstrate how representations of race and ethnicity in recent works became less traditional, more playful, aesthetically and ideologically ...
The poems in Christl Verduyn's first collection reveal telling moments in lives that move between places, times, and identities. They look beyond the everyday to glimpse extraordinary instances of human experience and emotion.
Aritha van Herk's publications include five novels, two collections of (ficto)-criticism, five edited anthologies and numerous short stories, essays and reviews. This volume presents five essays on her work, complemented by a short biography and an interview with the author.
This collection of essays by scholars from Canada, England, France, India and Israel explores the intersections of identity, community and nation within Canadian culture. Multiple waves of immigration and the intermingling of histories, memories and cultures have engaged Canadians in cross-cultural exchanges that have rendered definitions of ...
A student at McGill in the mid-1950s, Marian Engel wrote her M.A. thesis under the direction of Hugh MacLennan. Their work together became the basis of a correspondence, the MacLennan half of which survives and is detailed here. Both personal and professional in nature, MacLennan's letters to Engel provide fascinating insights into his life's ...
Despite an impressive output and various literary honours, the writings of Marian Engel have not received the critical attention they deserve. A comprehensive study of Engel's body of work from a feminist literary perspective, this book aims to fill the gap in Canadian literary criticism. Prior to her death in 1985 at the age of 51, Engel had ...
Long before she became the renowned author of the best-selling Schmecks cookbooks, an award-winning journalist for magazines such as Maclean's, 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 to write for over eighty years. Must Write: Edna ...
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