This book charts the evolution of gender and sexuality, as they have been represented and performed in the literatures of Canada for more than three centuries.
This book charts the evolution of gender and sexuality, as they have been represented and performed in the literatures of Canada for more than three centuries.
In April 2020, the Quebec Writers Federation started a new community writing project, with open submissions, called Chronicling the Days. Over 100 writers from across the province had responded by the time submissions closed on Thursday, April 30. Each piece of writing detailed a typical day in the life of the author during this difficult period of COVID-19. This anthology represents a collection of these pieces in the order in which they were...
On the Other Side(s) of 150 explores the different literary, historical and cultural legacies of Canada's sesquicentennial celebrations. It asks vital questions about the ways that histories and stories have been suppressed and invites consideration about what happens once a commemorative moment has passed.
Like a Cubist painting, this modality offers a critical strategy by which also to approach the volume as dismantling, reassembling, and r...
Women's letters and memoirs were until recently considered to have little historical significance. Many of these materials have disappeared or remain unarchived, often dismissed as ephemera. This collection showcases the range of critical debates that animate thinking about women's archives in Canada.
A collection of essays that considers a series of central questions: What are the challenges that affect archival work about women in Canada today? What are some of the ethical dilemmas that arise over the course of archival research? How do researchers read and make sense of the materials available to them? And, more.
Calling upon the archives of Canadian writers E. Pauline Johnson (1861–1913), Emily Carr (1871–1945), Sheila Watson (1909–1998), Jane Rule (1931–2007), and M. NourbeSe Philip (1947– ), Linda M. Morra explores the ways in which women’s archives have been uniquely conceptualized in scholarly discourses and shaped by socio-political forces. She also provides a framework for understanding the creative interventions these women staged to protect th...
Using five case studies, Linda M. Morra explores the ways in which women's archives have been uniquely approached and shaped by socio-political forces.
