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  • The Riel Problem

    Canada, the Métis, and a Resistant Hero

    by Albert Braz ...
    Tracing Louis Riel’s metamorphosis from traitor to hero, Braz argues that, through his writing, Riel resists his portrayal as both a Canadian patriot and a pan-Indigenous leader. After being hanged for high treason in 1885, the Métis politician, poet, and mystic has emerged as a quintessential Canadian champion. The Riel Problem maps this representational shift by examining a series of cultural ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • National Literature in Multinational States

    Edited by Albert Braz, Paul D. Morris ...
    If literature has often informed the creation of a national imaginary—a sense of common history and destiny—it has also complicated, even challenged, the unifying vision assumed in the formation of a national literature and sense of nation. National Literature in Multinational States questions the persistent association of literature and nation-states, contrasting this with the reality of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Comparative Literature in Canada

    Contemporary Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Publishing in Review

    by Karin Beeler, Stan Beeler, Albert Braz, Dan Browne, Amaryll Chanady, Lai-Tze Fan, Don Gamble, Doris Hambuch, Nataleah Hunter-Young, Eva-Lynn Jagoe, Heather Macfarlane, Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard, Keith O’Regan, Joseph Pivato, Nasrin Rahimieh, Joshua Synenko, Monique Tschofen, Jerry Varsava, Jerry White, Kevin Wilson, Jan Plug, Markus Reisenleitner ...
    This timely volume takes stock of the discipline of comparative literature and its theory and practice from a Canadian perspective. It engages with the most pressing critical issues at the intersection of comparative literature and other areas of inquiry in the context of scholarship, pedagogy and academic publishing: bilingualism and multilingualism, Indigeneity, multiple canons (literary and ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Apostate Englishman

    Grey Owl the Writer and the Myths

    by Albert Braz ...
    In the 1930s Grey Owl was considered the foremost conservationist and nature writer in the world. He owed his fame largely to his four internationally bestselling books, which he supported with a series of extremely popular illustrated lectures across North America and Great Britain. His reputation was transformed radically, however, after he died in April 1938, and it was revealed that he was not ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The One and the Many

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  • Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries

    by Gerard Bouchard, Les Editions du Boreal ...
    Translated by Howard Scott ...
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  • Metis in Canada

    History, Identity, Law and Politics

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