Narrative has been central to human life for millennia, and the twentieth century has been preeminently the age of the story. Mass culture and mass leisure have enabled us to spend far more time absorbing ...

The memoir of a young woman who in 1951 at the age of 17 was arrested for her involvement with an underground organization demanding alternatives to Stalinist rule and as a result spent five years in ...

Walter Gordon and the Rise of Canadian Nationalism is an examination of the origins of Walter Gordon’s nationalist ideology and its impact on Canada. It traces his ideas from his family influences and ...

Climates is suffused with the single-minded desire to fully inhabit, and be inhabited by, a place: Acadie. The political push-and-pull of being Acadian is a constant, even when the mutability of personal ...

First issued by Tsunami Editions in 1993, XEclogue is an exploration of the pleasures of the pastoral poetry from a late-twentieth-century feminist perspective. Robertson, the Governor General's Award ...

Literary Pluralities is a collection of essays on the connections between literature and society in Canada, focusing on the topics of race, ethnicity, language, and cultures.

The essays explore a nexus ...