Canadian literature
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- Auteur:Tremblay, TonySommaire:
For many Canadians, the small province of New Brunswick on Canada's scenic east coast is "a nice place to visit but no place to live," plagued for generations by outmigration and economic stagnation. In The Fiddlehead...
- Auteur:Twigg, AlanSommaire:
From Franz Boas to Alice Munro: welcome to an unprecedented panorama of the most significant authors and books of British Columbia culled from Alan Twigg's unrivalled knowledge of more than two centuries of B.C. literary history. The...
- Auteur:Neuhaus, MareikeSommaire:
In The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures, Mareike Neuhaus uncovers residues of ancestral languages found in Indigenous uses of English. She shows how these remainders ground a reading strategy that enables us to...
- Auteur:Atwood, Margaret, Carrière, MarieSommaire:
“The outburst of cultural energy that took place in the 1960s was in part a product of the two decades that came before. It’s always difficult for young people to see their own time in perspective: when you’re in your teens, a decade...
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"It's an anthology of writings by black authors from the prairie -- from 19th-century fur traders to avant-garde writers of the 21st."--
- Auteur:Guy, RaySommaire:
That Far Greater Bay is the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal winning collection (1977) of Ray Guy’s best and most vitriolic articles that have appeared in newspapers and magazines countrywide. Aunt Cissy Roach, Sylvester Codpiece...
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Surrey Stories connect is a time-capsule: a snapshot of Surrey in the fall of 2016. The stories here were written and created on three separate afternoons at three different locations: Cloverdale, Strawberry Hill, and Historic Stewart...
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Stories of the road allowance people are old men's stories, translated by Maria Campbell and given to you in the dialect and rhythm of her village and her father's generation. In the M¿Æis oral tradition, these stories must be...
- Auteur:L'Abbé, SonnetSommaire:
"In 'Sonnet's Shakespeare,' one young, half-dougla (mixed South Asian and Black) poet tries to use 'the master's tools' on the Bard's 'house,' attempting to dismantle his monumental place in her psyche and in the poetic canon. In a...
- Auteur:Orca Book PublishersSommaire:
In early June, 1964, the Benevolent Home for Necessitous Girls burns to the ground and its vulnerable residents are thrust out into the world. The orphans, who know no other home, find their lives changed in an instant. Arrangements are...
- Auteur:Atwood, MargaretSommaire:
The fifty essays in Second Words span the period from 1962 to 1980 and reveal Margaret Atwood's views on feminism, Canadian literature, the creative process, nationalism, sexism, as well as critical commentary on such writers as Erica...
- Auteur:Davis, Brian JosephSommaire:
A copy editor suffers brain damage from West Nile virus and is suddenly filled with cannibalistic violence and award-winning minimalist poetry. (It’s a little like Awakenings, but directed by David Cronenberg.)
Mayor...
- Auteur:Rosenbaum, RichardSommaire:
In Revenge of the Grand Narrative, the oldest man in the world, an activist with a suspiciously persuasive singing voice, and the author of the most anticipated debut novel ever set out to investigate a mysteriously synchronistic...
- Auteur:Wunker, Erin, McGregor, Hannah, Rak, JulieSommaire:
CanLit-the commonly used short form for English Canadian Literature as a cultural formation and industry-has been at the heart of several recent public controversies. Why? Because CanLit is breaking open to reveal the accepted...
- Auteur:Hugelschaffer, DaveSommaire:
When a small fire starts to creep through the underbrush deep within a Montana forest valley, Porter Cassel is brought in to organize the firefighters charged with containing it. The fire moves quickly from bad to worse, rapidly scaling...
- Auteur:Comeau, JoeySommaire:
Jackie has a map of the city on the wall of her bedroom, with a green pin for each of her trees. She has a first-kiss tree and a broken-arm tree. She has a car-accident tree. There is a tree at the hospital where Jackie’s mother passed...
- Auteur:Scheier, JacobSommaire:
Both chronicle and confrontation, the poems of Jacob Scheier’s debut work out and through notions of loss. As the death of a young man’s mother instigates and informs these investigations, the realities of romantic failures become...
- Auteur:Poitras, Marie-HélèneSommaire:
Après Soudain le Minotaure (Prix Anne-Hébert 2003), Marie Hélène Poitras livre douze histoires mettant en scène des personnages au bord de la désillusion, tous à la recherche d’une sorte de grâce, que seuls les plus chanceux atteignent...
- Auteur:Richards, David Adams, Steenhout, IvanSommaire:
L’histoire se déroule dans une région forestière du Nouveau-Brunswick entre1960 et 2000 et s’inspire, en fond de toile, des empires à la Irving et autres grandes papetières. C’est un monde sauvage qui sent la pulpe et l’épinette, peuplé...
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