Margaret Atwood compares the Canadian literary landscape of the 1960s to the Burgess Shale, a geological formation that contains the fossils of many strange prehistoric life forms. The Burgess Shale is ...

These essays begin an examination of some of the most exciting new writing to emerge in Canada in the last four decades, following the postcolonial wave of immigration of the 1960s and ’70s. Employing ...

Réunies par Cécilia W. Francis et Robert Viau, ces études démontrent surtout que le retentissement des littératures acadienne, québécoise et francocanadienne est largement redevable aux discours ...

Rudy Wiebe was born in 1934 near Fairholme, SK. He has published 25 books, including the Governor General’s Award-winning The Temptations of Big Bear and A Discovery of Strangers. His latest novel is ...

Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives presents critical essays on contemporary Canadian cartoonists working in graphic life narrative, from confession to memoir to biography. The contributors draw ...

This book of essays examines the fictional work of Nino Ricci from a variety of critical perspectives. These perspectives include ideas about literature, culture, identity, politics, and society in terms ...

This volume represents the first full-scale appreciation of Clark Blaise’s writing in more than 25 years—and the first comprehensive study of his now more than 20 books. Included are previously published ...

Bitumen extraction is the lifeblood of Alberta, and there are many stories about the boom-and-bust economy. But what does literature have to say about the “progress” of petroculture? Jon Gordon maps ...

L’ouvrage collectif intitulé Littérature acadienne du 21e siècle propose des travaux de recherche inédits, basés sur la situation de la littérature acadienne contemporaine et s’inscrit dans ...

Les « littératures de l’exiguïté » liées aux diverses communautés francophones du Canada ont souvent été étudiées, dans la suite de François Paré, comme des lieux en quête de légitimité ...