Literature: history and criticism

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'Membering Austin Clarke

’Membering Austin Clarke reflects on the life and writing of Austin Clarke, whose depictions of Black life in Canada enlarged our understanding of what Canadian literature looks like. Despite being ...

Tiff

“Once before I die, I hope to know I’ve been heard. That’s all. ” —Timothy Findley. Tiff: A Life of Timothy Findley is the first full biography of one of Canada’s foremost writers (The Wars, ...

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, ...

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, ...

Le défi de la fragilité

Le défi de la fragilité se veut un hommage et un témoignage à l’œuvre critique de François Paré, qui a influencé plusieurs générations de chercheurs impliqués dans les études des minorités ...

La distance habitée

Les collectivités marginalisées ressentent avec une acuité particulière le besoin de négocier les conditions de la mémoire culturelle dont elles sont porteuses et qu’elles donnent à entendre ...

Le théâtre contemporain au Québec, 1945-2015

Cet ouvrage, le premier dans sa catégorie, propose un panorama détaillé des pratiques dramaturgiques et scéniques québécoises sous l’angle de leur développement institutionnel et de leurs orientations ...

Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being

By (author) Amy Fung
Categories: Literature: history and criticism
Series: Essais Series

Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being takes a closer look at Canada’s mythologies of multiculturalism, settler colonialism, and identity through the lens of a national art critic. Following the ...

A World of Songs

 

Celebrated as a novelist and made famous by her novel Anne of Green Gables and its sequels, L. M. Montgomery (1874–1942) is far less known for also writing and publishing hundreds of poems over a period ...

Dysnostie

Thème fondateur de la littérature occidentale, le retour au pays natal ne s’est manifesté que récemment dans la littérature canadienne francophone. Le retour force ses acteurs à redéfinir tant ...