Literature: history and criticism

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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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Avant Canada

Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements from the past 50 years. From the works of Leonard Cohen and bpNichol ...

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 ...

A Name for Herself

 

Years before she published her internationally celebrated first novel, Anne of Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery (1874–1942) started contributing short works to periodicals across North America. While ...

Activating the Heart

Activating the Heart explores how storytelling engages and builds new interconnections between people and their histories, environments, and cultural geographies. It focuses on the significance of storytelling ...