Engendering Genre

By Reingard M. Nischik

Winner of the 2010 Margaret Atwood Society Best Book Prize.

In Engendering Genre, renowned Margaret Atwood scholar Reingard M. Nischik analyzes the relationship between gender and genre in Atwood’s works. ...

DanceHall

By Sonjah Stanley Niaah

Series: African and Diasporic Cultural Studies

DanceHall combines cultural geography, performance studies and cultural studies to examine performance culture across the Black Atlantic. Taking Jamaican dancehall music as its prime example, DanceHall ...

Gender and Modernity in Central Europe

Edited by Agatha Schwartz

At the end of the nineteenth century, Austro-Hungarian society was undergoing a significant re-evaluation of gender roles and identities. Debates on these issues revealed deep anxieties within the multi-ethnic ...

Amériques transculturelles - Transcultural Americas

Edited by Afef Benessaieh

Series: Cultural Transfers

Transculturality is a new way of viewing culture that sees cultures not as separate islands that are easily differentiated from one another, but as connected and interacting webs of meaning and practice. ...

The Wrong World

By Bertram Brooker
Edited by Gregory Betts

Series: Canadian Literature Collection

Bertram Brooker won the country's first Governor General's Award for literature in 1936 for his novel Think of the Earth, and his explosive, experimental paintings hang in every major gallery in the ...

The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

Edited by Christopher Adam, Tibor Egervari, Leslie Laczko, and Judy Young

Series: International Canadian Studies Series

In October 1956, a spontaneous uprising took Hungarian Communist authorities by surprise, prompting Soviet authorities to invade the country. After a few days of violent fighting, the revolt was crushed. ...

JOURNAL OF PRISONERS ON PRISONS V19 #2

By CHRISTINE GERVAIS

For 25 years, the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) has been a prisoner written, academically oriented and peer reviewed, non-profit journal, based on the tradition of the penal press. It brings the ...

Revolution or Renaissance

By D. Paul Schafer

Series: Governance Series

In Revolution or Renaissance, D. Paul Schafer subjects two of the most powerful forces in the world – economics and culture – to a detailed and historically sensitive analysis. He argues that the ...

Translating Canada

Edited by Luise von Flotow & Reingard M. Nischik

Series: Perspectives on Translation

In the last thirty years of the twentieth century, Canadian federal governments offered varying degrees of support for literary and other artistic endeavour. A corollary of this patronage of culture at ...

Promoting Resilience in Child Welfare

Edited by Robert J. Flynn, Peter M. Dudding, and James G. Barber

Series: Actexpress

Almost twenty years ago, conceptual work began in the United Kingdom on what was to become the international Looking After Children initiative. Looking After Children has had a profound influence on child ...