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Indigiqueerness A Conversation about Storytelling
Evolving from a conversation between Joshua Whitehead and Angie Abdou, Indigiqueerness is part dialogue, part collage, and part memoir. Beginning with memories of his childhood poetry and prose and travelling through the library of his life, Whitehead contemplates the role of theory, Indigenous language, queerness, and fantastical worlds in all his artistic pursuits. This volume is imbued with …
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- 5.5 x 7, 96 pages
Hot Thespian Action! Ten Premiere Plays from Walterdale Playhouse
In Hot Thespian Action! Robin Whittaker argues that new plays can thrive in amateur theatres, which have freedoms unavailable to professionalized companies. And he proves it with ten relevant, engaging playscripts originally produced by one of Canada’s longest-running theatres, Edmonton’s acclaimed Walterdale Theatre Associates. This collection challenges notions that amateur theatre is sol…
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- 9781897425268.01
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- Canadian Plays
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- 584 pages
Grieving for Pigeons Twelve Stories of Lahore
These stories evoke the complex realities of post-colonial Pakistani Punjab. The contradictions of this region’s history reverberate through the stories, evident in the characters, their circumstances, and sometimes their erasure. Skillfully translated from Punjabi by Anne Murphy, this collection is an essential contribution to the wider recognition of the Punjabi language and its literature.
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- 9781771992817.01
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- Mingling Voices
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From Turtle Island to Gaza
With a sure voice, Groulx, an Anishnaabe writer, artistically weaves together the experiences of Indigenous peoples in settler Canada with those of the people of Palestine, revealing a shared understanding of colonial pasts and presents.
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- 9781771992619.01
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- Mingling Voices
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- 5 x 7.5, 68 pages
Dustship Glory
In this new edition of a prairie classic, Andreas Schroeder fictionalizes the true story of Tom Sukanen’s wild scheme to build an ocean-going ship in the middle of a wheat field in Saskatchewan. Set during the hardships of the “Dirty Thirties,” Dustship Glory presents us with Sukanen’s mythic effort to escape both the drought and pestilence of his time, as well as his own personal strug…
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- 9781926836225.01
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- 276 pages
The dust of just beginning
Don Kerr knows prairie culture better than most, he knows it from the inside out. He has made us aware of ourselves through his numerous volumes of poetry, his fiction, his many plays, his histories, and his interest in heritage. In this mature, accomplished collection, we can once again admire his unique prairie voice: minimalist, self-effacing, direct yet subtle and nuanced, immersed in his l…
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- 9781897425923.01
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Dreamwork
Dreamwork is a poetic exploration of the then and there, here and now, of landscapes and inscapes over time. It is part of a poetry series on dream and its relation to actuality. The poems explore past, present, and future in different places from Canada through New Jersey, New York and New England to England and Europe, part of the speaker’s journey. A typology of home and displacement, of n…
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- 125 pages
Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siecle
Drawing on an ambitious range of interdisciplinary material, including literature, musical treatises and theoretical texts, Music and the Queer Body explores the central place music held for emergent queer identities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Canonical writers such as Walter Pater, E. M. Forster and Virginia
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- 9781108989541
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Unforgetting Private Charles Smith
Private Charles Smith had been dead for close to a century when Jonathan Hart discovered the soldier’s small diary in the Baldwin Collection at the Toronto Public Library. The diary’s first entry was marked 28 June 1915. After some research, Hart discovered that Charles Smith was an Anglo-Canadian, born in Kent, and that this diary was almost all that remained of this forgotten man, who lik…
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- 9781771992534.01
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- 4.5 x 6.5, 80 pages
Creating the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition
This book explores the history of rhetorical thought and examines the gradual association of different aspects of rhetorical theory with two outstanding fourth-century bce writers: Lysias and Isocrates.
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