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TransCanada eBook Series

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  • Critical Collaborations

    Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies

    Edited by Smaro Kamboureli, Christl Verduyn ...
    Series series TransCanada
    Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies is the third volume of essays produced as part of the TransCanada conferences project. The essays gathered in Critical Collaborations constitute a call for collaboration and kinship across disciplinary, political, institutional, and community borders. They are tied together through a simultaneous call for ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Scandalous Bodies

    Diasporic Literature in English Canada

    by Smaro Kamboureli ...
    Series series TransCanada
    Scandalous Bodies is an impassioned scholarly study both of literature by diasporic writers and of the contexts within which it is produced. It explores topics ranging from the Canadian government’s multiculturalism policy to media representations of so-called minority groups, from the relationship between realist fiction and history to postmodern constructions of ethnicity, from the multicultural ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Land/Relations

    Possibilities of Justice in Canadian Literatures

    by Smaro Kamboureli, Larissa Lai ...
    Series Book 12 - TransCanada
    Essential reading for those interested in questions of justice and cultural representation, Land/Relations speaks to and moves beyond the critical junctures in the study of Canadian literatures today.In the aftermath of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and following Canada’s sesquicentennial, Land/Relations presents a collaborative effort at what Smaro Kamboureli and Larissa Lai call ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies

    Edited by Smaro Kamboureli, Robert Zacharias ...
    Series Book 5 - TransCanada
    Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine the various contexts—political, social, and cultural—that have shaped the study of Canadian literature and the role it plays in our understanding of the Canadian nation-state. The essays are tied together as instances of critical practices that reveal the relations and exchanges that take ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature

    Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature

    by Smaro Kamboureli, Roy Miki ...
    Series series TransCanada
    The study of Canadian literature—CanLit—has undergone dramatic changes since it became an area of specialization in the 1960s and ’70s. As new global forces in the 1990s undermined its nation-based critical assumptions, its theoretical focus and research methods lost their immediacy. The contributors to Trans.Can.Lit address cultural policy, citizenship, white civility, and the celebrated status ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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  • Alice Munro

    'Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage', 'Runaway', 'Dear Life'

    by Professor Robert Thacker ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction
    The awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Canadian writer Alice Munro in 2013 confirmed her position as a master of the short story form. This book explores Munro's work from a full range of critical perspectives, focussing on three of her most popular and important published collections: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001), Runaway (2004), and her final ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada

    Edited by Christine Kim, Sophie McCall, Melina Baum Singer ...
    Series series TransCanada
    Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada considers how the terms of critical debate in literary and cultural studies in Canada have shifted with respect to race, nation, and difference. In asking how Indigenous and diasporic interventions have remapped these debates, the contributors argue that a new “cultural grammar” is at work and attempt to sketch out some of the ways ... Read more

    $41.09 USD

  • The Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope

    by Joel Faflak, Jason Haslam ...
    The Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope brings together a number of winners of the Polanyi Prize in Literature – a group whose research constitutes a diversity of methodological approaches to the study of culture – to examine the rich but often troubled association between the concepts of the public, the intellectual (both the person and the condition), culture, and hope. The contributors ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Monuments Men

    Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

    by Robert M. Edsel ...
    The heroic, #1 New York Times bestselling tale of the men who saved the world's greatest art from the Nazis, and the basis for the acclaimed motion picture starring George Clooney.At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuhrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Must Write

    Edna Staebler’s Diaries

    by Christl Verduyn, Edna Staebler ...
    Series series Life Writing
    Long before she became the renowned author of the best-selling Schmecks cookbooks, an award-winning journalist for magazines such as Macleans, and a creative non-fiction mentor, Edna Staebler was a writer of a different sort. Staebler began serious diary writing at the age of sixteen and continued to write for over eighty years. Must Write: Edna Staebler’s Diaries draws from these diaries ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Unknown American Revolution

    The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America

    by Gary B. Nash ...
    In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing readers to a coalition of patriots from all classes and races of American society. From millennialist preachers to enslaved Africans, disgruntled women to aggrieved Indians, the people so vividly portrayed in this ... Read more

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  • At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination

    A Reappraisal of Marshall McLuhan

    Edited by John Moss, Linda M. Morra ...
    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination collects a dozen re-evaluative essays on Marshall McLuhan and his critical and theoretical legacy; from intellectual adventurer creating a complex architecture of ideas to cultural icon standing in line in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. Given McLuhan’s prominent status in many academic disciplines, the contributors reflect a multi-disciplinary background ... Read more

    $9.89 USD