Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

By turns joyous and adventurous, melancholy and nostalgic, Michelle Smith's debut collection of poems showcases a wide-ranging fascination with places, people, and story. Smith's limpid and humane handling of an array of themes, emotions, and styles-her Norwegian ancestry, her Canadian Prairie heritage, the significance of family, the fragility of memory, world travel, ekphrasis, myth, and more-exemplifies the lyric self on a poetic grand tour, or pilgrimage, to meet the world. Framed by imaginative travelogues addressed to Greek gods, dear Hermes. offers readers an escape and an entrance-out of time and into the poet's luminous experience. Readers who appreciate clear lyric and fleet voicing will relish Smith's poetry.

Canadian poetry. --- Canadian poetry (English) --- Canadian literature --- Canadian Literature. --- Poetry.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"Most long poems contain lyric occasions. Here is an amazingly sustained lyric that contains traces of other commodities." -Robert Kroetsch Sheila Murphy and Douglas Barbour extend their singular poetic vision of that elusive third I/eye in Continuations 2. The new lyric voice sustained (within) these labyrinthine verses does so by virtue of its authors' pitch-perfect collaborative process. For ten years they have kept their song alive via email, pulsing jazz-like variations and haunting repetitions back and forth from Arizona to Alberta, all the while adhering to that taut stanza of six lines. Readers who admire Barbour and Murphy's past innovations, or any poetry that gracefully exceeds its reach, will enjoy Continuations 2.

Canadian poetry --- Canadian poetry (English) --- Canadian literature --- Literature. --- Poetry.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

'Canadian literatures' in the plural reflects controversial debates about Canada's national identity and its qualification as postcolonial. The First Nations and Inuit most obviously qualify as post-colonial, as Native cultures today have been shaped by both Western and indigenous cultural traditions. Yet it is Native writers who object to the term post-colonial because they resist the implication that European colonization marks the beginnings of Canadian history. French Canadians also claim post-colonial status. Ever since the French defeat against Britain in 1763, Quebec has been struggling for cultural survival in a predominantly English-speaking North American environment. Quebec nationalism arises from the French Canadian claim to being one of the two 'founding nations'. Successive ethnic groups and visible minorities have similarly identified their relations to English Canada as internal colonialism. Such structural inequalities, however, exist at the same time as Canada as a nation grapples with its postcolonial status towards Great Britain as well as its neo-colonial relation towards the United States. This volume introduces the complexities of Canada's postcolonial situation and traces the historical sources of Canada's multicultural present.

Canadian literature --- Littérature canadienne de langue anglaise --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The first scholarly edition of the only play banned in Canada for political reasons.

Buck, Tim, --- Bak, Tim --- Buck, Timothy, --- Political plays. --- Canadian drama --- History. --- Buck, Tim --- Canadian drama (English) --- Canadian literature --- Political drama --- Politicians --- Politics, Practical --- Drama

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"The latest work from pioneering scholar George Elliott Clarke, Directions Home is the most comprehensive analysis of African-Canadian texts and writers to date. Building on the discoveries of his critically acclaimed Odysseys Home, Clarke passionately analyses the beautiful complexities and haunting conundrums of this important body of literature. Directions Home explores the trajectories and tendencies of African-Canadian literature within the Canadian canon and the socio-cultural traditions of the African Diaspora. Clarke showcases the importance of little-known texts, including church histories and slave narratives, and offers studies of autobiography, crime and punishment, jazz poetics, and musical composition. The collection also includes studies of significant contemporary writers such as George Boyd and Dionne Brand, and trailblazing African-Canadian intellectuals like A.B. Walker and Anna Minerva Henderson. With its national, bilingual, and historical perspectives, Directions Home is an essential guide to African-Canadian literature."--Publisher's description

Canadian literature --- Africans in literature. --- Blacks in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Negroes in literature --- Canadian literature (English) --- English literature --- Black authors --- History and criticism. --- Africans in literature --- Blacks in literature --- Race in literature --- 820 <71> --- 820 <71> Engelse literatuur--Canada --- Engelse literatuur--Canada --- Black authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Black people in literature.