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Alice Munro Everlasting

This volume begins with a major new essay by renowned short story critic and theorist Charles E. May, followed by a major new essay by one of Munro’s most long-standing and most perceptive readers, ...

Hiding in Plain Sight

Based on interviews with service providers from the immigration, criminal justice and family justice systems in four different communities in British Columbia, Hiding in Plain Sight examines the barriers ...

Resilience Is Futile

Resilience is Futile is a page-turning true story of being stalked by an ex-partner. Award-winning feminist advocate Julie Lalonde, “Mixes humour and horror, irony and moments of acute, brutally honest ...

The Black Prairie Archives

Edited by Karina Vernon
Categories: Ethnic studies

The Black Prairie Archives recovers a new regional archive of “Black prairie” literature, and includes writing that ranges from work by 19th century Black fur traders and pioneers, all of it published ...

Until We Are Free

The killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012 by a white assailant inspired the Black Lives Matter movement, which quickly spread outside the borders of the United States. The movement’s message found fertile ...

Pourin' Down Rain

By (author) Cheryl Foggo
Categories: Biography: general

The 30th anniversary edition of Cheryl Foggo’s landmark work about growing up Black on the Canadian prairies.

Cheryl Foggo came of age during the 1960s in Calgary and struggled against the many ways ...

An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading

Internationally acclaimed poet and novelist Dionne Brand reflects on her early reading of colonial literature and how it makes Black being inanimate. She explores her encounters with colonial, imperialist, ...

Sex, Drugs, and Fashion in 1970s Madrid

During the last decade of Franco’s repressive rule, the Spanish outlook on sex, drugs, and fashion shifted dramatically, creating a favourable cultural environment for the return of democracy. The book ...

La liste de Winslow expliquée

Que nous apprend de nouveau cette lecture de la fameuse liste que le lieutenant-colonel John Winslow a transcrite dans son Journal à l’automne de 1755 ? Paul Delaney démontre clairement dans cet essai ...

Libertés malmenées

Le 16 octobre 2020, trente-quatre professeurs de l’Université d’Ottawa publiaient une lettre ouverte défendant le principe de la liberté universitaire en appui à la professeure Verushka Lieutenant-Duval, ...