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Unhomely States

Unhomely States is the first collection of foundational essays of Canadian postcolonial theory. The essays span the period from 1965 to the present day and approach broad issues of Canadian culture and ...

Free Will

Harold Rhenisch’s first artistic love was the theatre. Twenty-eight years after first playing Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, he brings Shakespeare alive for us in this sparkling and inventive ...

Samuel de Champlain

A navigator and cartographer, Samuel de Champlains passion was for America, which he struggled to explore and have recognized. He still dreamed of reaching India, with its spices and its many riches, ...

Roch Carrier

By (author) Gilles Dorion
Categories: Literary theory
Series: Oeuvres et auteurs

Roch Carrier a pratiqué plusieurs genres : poésie, conte, roman, théâtre, récit de voyage, littérature pour la jeunesse et biographie. Son oeuvre abondante, exubérante, protéiforme joue de tous ...

Vision/division

Canadienne, Parisienne, musicienne, écrivaine de rénommée internationale, Nancy Huston séduit aussi bien par ses essais provocateurs que par ses romans audacieux. Vivant entre deux langues et deux ...

Writers Talking

Eight interviews, eight stories, eight commentaries. Eight of Canada’s finest writers. Writers Talking gives readers a chance to listen in: Terry Griggs on where stories come from, Michael Winter on ...

The Truth About Stories

By (author) Thomas King
Categories: Ethnic studies
Series: The CBC Massey Lectures

Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award

"Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous. "

Beginning with a ...