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Spring/Summer 2014Wilfrid Laurier University Press

ImprintLaurier Digital

The Laurier Digital imprint publishes groundbreak-ing scholarly work, crafted expressly for digital media and to the same standards as WLU Press print publications. All titles undergo rigorous peer review and are exquisitely designed and judi-ciously edited. The imprint is open to works from all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, though it aims to publish projects that showcase the power inherent in digital media and that seek to revolutionize the reading experience, pedagogy, and scholarly communication in general.

SeriesCanadian Commentaries

Published in conjunction with the Literary Review of Canada, Canadian Commentaries features promi-nent writers exploring key issues affecting Cana-dians and the world. A lead essay commissioned by the LRC becomes the ground for responses by others, opening a place for a spectrum of views and debate.

Series editor: Janice Gross Stein

Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale com-prises all the surviving writing of Florence Night-ingale, featuring original material from over 150 archives and private collections worldwide. Details for the sixteen volumes and information about purchasing the complete set at a discounted price can be found on page 30.

Series editor: Lynn McDonald

Cultural Studies

Cultural Studies is the multi- and interdisciplinary study of culture, defined anthropologically as a “way of life,” performatively as symbolic practice, and ideologically as the collective product of varied media and cultural industries. Wilfrid Laurier University Press invites submissions of manuscripts concerned with critical discussions on power relations concerning gender, class, sexual preference, ethnicity, and other macro and micro sites of political struggle.

Early Canadian Literature

The Early Canadian Literature Series returns to print rare texts deserving restoration to the canon of Canadian texts in English. Including novels, periodical pieces, memoirs, and creative non-fiction, the series showcases texts by Indigenous peoples and immigrants from a range of ancestral, language, and religious origins. Each volume includes an afterword by a prominent scholar providing new interpretations for all readers.

Series Editor: Benjamin LefebvreSeries Advisory Board:Andrea Cabajsky, Département d’anglais, Univer-

sité de MonctonCynthia Sugars, Department of English,

University of OttawaCarole Gerson, Department of English, Simon

Fraser University

Environmental Humanities

Features research that adopts and adapts the methods of the humanities to clarify the cultural meanings associated with environmental debate. It addresses the way film, literature, television, web-based media, visual arts, and physical landscapes reflect how ecological relationships and identities are lived and imagined.

Series editor: Cheryl Lousley

Film and Media Studies

Critically explores cinematic and new-media texts, their associated industries, and their audiences. The series also examines the intersections of effects, nature, and representation in film and new media.

Series editors: Philippa Gates, Russell Kilbourn, and Ute Lischke

Indigenous Studies

The Indigenous Studies series seeks to be respon-sive and responsible to the concerns of the Indig-enous community at large and to prioritize the mentorship of emerging Indigenous scholarship.

Series editor: Deanna Reder

Laurier Poetry

Laurier Poetry brings the excitement of contem-porary Canadian poetry to an audience that might not otherwise have access to it. Selected and intro-duced by a prominent critic, each volume presents a range of poems from across the poet’s career and an afterword by the poet. Economically priced.

Series editor: Neil Besner

Life Writing

This series includes autobiographical accounts, diaries, letters, and testimonials by (or told by) individuals whose philosophical or political beliefs have driven their lives. Life Writing also includes theoretical investigations in the field.

Series editor: Marlene Kadar

New Memory and Testimony Studies

As a catalyst for interdisciplinary research and a space of confluence for scholars, artists, and com-munity agencies working in the field of memory representation, this series undertakes comparative explorations in the often contested interpretations of remembering and forgetting in relation to trau-matic history.

Series editor: Marta Marín-Dòmine and Colman Hogan

SickKids Community and Mental Health

Informs policy and evidence-based practice to improve outcomes for children and youth. By incorporating collaborative community research, this series uses systemic approaches to changing front-line practice and encourages further discus-sion and collaboration among researchers, policy-makers, practitioners, students, and interested stakeholders on such topics as early intervention in psychosis, eating- and weight-related disorders, aggressive-behaviour problems, and marginalized youth in educational contexts. The series originates from the Community Health Systems Resource Group at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Topics included in this interdisciplinary series are theoretical investigations of gender, race, sexuality, geography, language, and culture within the experience of childhood and family.

Series editor: Cynthia Comacchio

TransCanada

The study of Canadian literature can no longer take place in isolation. Pressures of multiculturalism put emphasis upon discourses of citizenship and secu-rity, while market-driven factors increasingly shape the publication, dissemination, and reception of Canadian writing. The goal of the TransCanada series is to publish forward-thinking critical inter-ventions that investigate these paradigm shifts in interdisciplinary ways.

Series editor: Smaro Kamboureli

WCGS German Studies

In partnership with the Waterloo Centre for German Studies (WCGS), this series publishes work in the field of German studies, including applied linguistics, cultural studies, the history of German-speaking countries and peoples, literature and film studies, intellectual history, and theory.

Series editor: John H. Smith, Diefenbaker Chair of German Literary Studies, University of Waterloo

Series published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion

Comparative EthicsEditions SRStudies in Christianity and JudaismStudies in Women and Religion

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Same authorThe Queen of Peace RoomMagie Dominic2002128 pages6 x 9Life Writing series978-0-88920-417-1 paper $29.95978-1-55458-669-1 epub $14.95

Magie Dominic, Newfoundland writer and artist, has long been active in the peace movement. Her essays and poetry have been published in over fi fty anthologies and journals in Canada, the United States, Italy, and India. Her artwork has been exhibited in Toronto and New York, including a presentation at the United Nations.

Magie Dominic’s fi rst memoir, The Queen of Peace Room, was shortlisted for the Canadian Women’s Studies Award, ForeWord magazine’s Book of the Year Award, and the Judy Grahn Award. Told over an eight-day period, the book captured a lifetime of turbulent memories, document-ing with skill Dominic’s experiences of violence, incest, and rape. But her story wasn’t fi nished.

Street Angel opens to the voice of an eleven-year-old Dominic. She’s growing up in Newfoundland. Her mother suff ers from terrifying night-time hallucinations. Her father’s business is about to collapse. She layers the world she hears on radio and television onto her family, speaking in paratactic prose with a point-blank delivery. She fi nds relief only in the glamour of Hollywood fi lms and the majesty of Newfoundland’s wilderness.

Revealing her life through fl ashbacks, humour, and her signature self-confi dence, Dominic takes readers from 1950s Newfoundland to 1960s Pittsburgh, 1970s New York, and the end of the millennium in Toronto. Capturing the long days of childhood, this book questions how important those days are in shaping who we become as we age and time seems to speed up. With quick brush-stroke chapters Dominic chronicles sixty years of a complex, secretive family in this story about violence, adolescence, families, and forgiveness.

Street AngelMagie Dominic

Memoir

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Joaquim Amat-Piniella (1913–1974) was born in Manresa, Catalonia. In 1936, he enrolled as a volunteer in the Republican Army to fi ght against the fascists. In 1939 he went into exile in France. After being captured by the Germans he was sent to Mauthausen on January 27, 1941. He returned to Catalonia in 1948.

Robert Finley is the author of The Accidental Indies, a book of lyrical essays, and, with Patrick Friesen, Aislinn Hunter, Anne Simpson, and Jan Zwicky, of A Ragged Pen: Essays on Poetry and Memory. He reads and writes in Nova Scotia and in St. John’s, Newfoundland, where he teaches literature and creative writing at Memorial University.

Marta Marín-Dòmine is an associate professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures and Director of the Centre for Memory and Testimony Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her research is on the Spanish literature of concentration camps and on the fi eld of memory representation of past violent events. She is presently working on a collaborative project to elaborate a Dictionary of Memory in Europe and Latin America.

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Available in English for the fi rst time, Joaquim Amat-Piniella’s searing Catalan novel, K.L. Reich, is a central work of testimonial literature of the Nazi concentration camps. Begun immediately after Amat-Piniella’s liberation in 1945, the book is based on his own four-year internment at Mauthausen.

“When the war is over, remember all this. Remember me,” implores one of the book’s characters on his deathbed, and it is this call to bear witness that Amat-Piniella takes up in his account of the Spanish Republican fi ghters who were exiled in France at the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 and soon swept up into the German concentration camp system. As an already organized anti-fascist army, they played an important role as a nucleus of resistance within the camps, and their story is little known to English-language readers.

Because of the length of his internment, his decision to write his book as fi ction, and his staggering powers of observation and recollection, Amat-Piniella’s portrayal of life in the camps is unmatched in scope and detail. It is also a compelling study of three powerful ideological movements at work at the time: anarchism, communism, and fascism, all within the desperate and brutal world of the camps.

“My book does not seek to deepen wounds or diff erences, but to unite people before cruelty,” said Amat-Piniella. This is an essential text as we ponder the twentieth century and its meaning to us today. This edition includes a new introduction, annotations, and a translators’ note.

K.L. ReichJoaquim Amat-PiniellaRobert Finley and Marta Marín-Dòmine, translators

Fiction in Translation

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History

Jonathan F. Vance teaches history at Western University. He is the author of many works, including Maple Leaf Empire: Canada, Britain and Two World Wars (2011).

Kellen Kurschinski is a Ph.D. Candidate in history at McMaster University and Editor of www.canadianmilitaryhistory.ca. His research examines the medical and sociocultural impact of the Great War.

Matt Symes is a Ph.D. Candidate in history at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is the co-author of fi ve battlefi eld guides, including 1812: A Guide to the War and Its Legacy (2013) and Canadian Battlefi elds 1915-18: A Visitor’s Guide (2011).

Steve Marti is a doctoral candidate at Western University. His dissertation examines the relationship between identity and voluntary contributions to the war eff ort in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

Alicia Robinet is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English at Western University.

Table of Contents

Section 1

1. Canon Fodder | Zachary Abram

2. Too Close to History | Thomas Hodd

3. State Great War Histories | Kimberly J. Lamay

4. The Great War in Popular Detective Fiction | Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz

5. From “Backstabbing Arabs” to “Shirking Kurds” | Veysel Simsek

6. Men of Suvla | Jane McGaughey

7. History Trumps Memory | William Stewart

Section 2

8. “Kitchener’s Tourists” | Carol Acton

9. “Loyal until Death” | Dan Bullard

10. Remembered Soldiers and Forgotten Enemies | Mary Chaktsiris

11. The Forgotten Few | Geoff Keelan

12. The Names of the Dead | Bette London

13. “Loyal and Civilized” | Brian MacDowall

Section 3

14. The Battles of the Coronel and Falkland Islands (1927) and the Struggle for the Cinematic Image of the Great War | Mark Connelly

15. “Can one grow used to death? It is unsafe to think of this…” | Alice Kelly

16. Kitsch, Commemoration, and Mourning in the Aftermath of the Great War | Mark A. R. Facknitz

17. “Ask Him if He’ll Drink a Toast to the Dead” | Robert Morley

18. Otto Dix and the Great War | Michelle Wijegoonaratna

19. (Re)Shaping the Picture of the “East” | Wolfram Dornik

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The Great War: From Memory to History off ers a new look at the multiple ways the Great War has been remembered and commemorated through the twentieth century and into the twenty-fi rst. Drawing on contribu-tions from history, cultural studies, fi lm, and literary studies this collection off ers fresh perspectives on the Great War and its legacy at the local, national, and international levels. More importantly, it showcases exciting new research on the experiences and memories of “forgotten” partici-pants who have often been ignored in dominant narratives or national histories.

Contributors to this international study highlight the transnational character of memory-making in the Great War’s aftermath. No single memory of the war has prevailed, but many symbols, rituals, and expressions of memory connect seemingly disparate communities and wartime experiences. With groundbreaking new research on the role of Aboriginal peoples, ethnic minorities, women, artists, historians, and writers in shaping these expressions of memory, this book will be of great interest to readers from a variety of national and academic backgrounds.

The Great WarFrom Memory to HistoryJonathan F. Vance, Kellen Kurschinski, Matt Symes, Steve Marti, and Alicia Robinet, editors


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S. Frances Harrison (1859–1935) was a Toronto-based author and musician. She was the author of a book of poems, a book of sketches, and two novels, including The Forest of Bourg-Marie (1898).

Cynthia Sugars is a professor of English at the University of Ottawa, where she teaches Canadian lit-erature. She is the author of Canadian Gothic: Literature, History, and the Spectre of Self-Invention (2014) and is the editor of numerous essay collections, including The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature (forthcom-ing 2015); Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory (with Eleanor Ty, 2014); Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic (with Gerry Turcotte; WLU Press, 2009); and the historical anthol-ogy Canadian Literature in English: Texts and Contexts (with Laura Moss, 2009). With Herb Wyile, she is cur-rently the co-editor of Studies in Canadian Literature.

In The Forest of Bourg-Marie, originally published in 1898, Toronto author and musician S. Frances Harrison draws together a highly mythologized image of Quebec society and the forms of Gothic literature that were already familiar to her English-speaking audience. It tells the story of a fourteen-year-old French Canadian who is lured to the United States by the promise of fi nancial reward, only to be rejected by his grandfather upon his return. In doing so, the novel off ers a powerful critique of the personal and cultural consequences of emigration out of Canada.

In her afterword, Cynthia Sugars considers how The Forest of Bourg-Marie reimagines the Gothic tradition from a settler Canadian perspective, turning to a French-Canadian setting with distinctly New-World over-tones. Harrison’s twist on the traditional Gothic plotline off ers an inver-sion of such Gothic motifs as the decadent aristocrat and ancestral curse by playing on questions of illegitimacy and cultural preservation.

The Forest of Bourg-MarieS. Frances HarrisonAfterword by Cynthia Sugars

Fiction

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Gilbert Parker (1862–1932) was born in Camden East, Canada West (Ontario). After his move to England in 1890, he began the two careers for which he is best known today: the British director of American propaganda during the Great War and the author of thirty popular novels, most of them historical romances, including The Seats of the Mighty (1896).

Andrea Cabajsky is an associate professor of comparative literature and English at the Université de Moncton in New Brunswick. She is the editor of the Broadview edition of Rosanna Mullins Leprohon’s The Manor House of de Villerai (forthcoming) and the co-editor, with Brett Josef Grubisic, of National Plots: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada (WLU Press, 2010). Her recent publications have appeared in Canadian Literature, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, and the Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel.

From the pen of Gilbert Parker comes one of the most popular Canadian novels of the late nineteenth century. First published simultaneously in Canada and the United States in 1896, The Seats of the Mighty is set in Quebec City in 1759, against the backdrop of the confl ict between the English and the French over the future of New France. Written and published after Parker’s move to England, the novel attempts to romanticize French Canada without alienating his English and American readership. The novel’s enduring popularity led to a stage version in 1897 and a silent fi lm in 1914.

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The Seats of the MightyGilbert ParkerAfterword by Andrea Cabajsky

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Painted FiresNellie McClung

Painted Fires, fi rst published in 1925, narrates the trials and tribulations of Helmi Milander, a Finnish immigrant, during the years approach-ing the First World War. The novel serves as a vehicle for McClung’s social activism, especially in terms of temperance, woman suff rage, and immigration policies that favour cultural assimilation. In her afterword, Cecily Devereux situates Painted Fires in the context of McClung’s feminist fi ction and her interest in contemporary questions of immigration and “naturalization.” She also considers how McClung’s representation of Helmi Milander’s story draws on popular culture narratives.

Nellie L. McClung (1873–1951) was the author of four novels and several volumes of short stories and non-fi ction. McClung was one of fi ve women responsible for the 1929 Persons Case that established women as “persons” according to Canadian law.

Cecily Devereux is a professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Her publications include Growing a Race: Nellie L. McClung and the Fiction of Eugenic Feminism (2005).

The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation (1850) was one of the fi rst books of Indigenous history written by an Indigenous author. The book blends nature writing and narrative to describe the language, religious beliefs, stories, land, work, and play of the Ojibway people. Shelley Hulan’s afterword considers Copway’s rhetorical strategies in framing a narrative—she considers it a form of “history, interrupted”—for a non-Indigenous readership.

Born in Trenton, Ontario, in 1818, George Copway (Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh) wrote extensively on Aboriginal peoples and, as an ordained Methodist minister, worked as a missionary among several tribes. He is the author of several books, including The Life, History and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (1847).

Shelley Hulan is an associate professor at the University of Waterloo, where she teaches early Canadian literature. She is a co-editor of Literature, Rhetoric, and Values: Selected Proceedings (2011) and a contributor to National Plots: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada (WLU Press, 2010).

The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway NationGeorge Copway

The Foreigner (1909) tells the story of Kalman Kalmar, a young Ukrainian immigrant working in rural Saskatchewan. It addresses the themes of male maturation, cultural assimilation, and a form of “muscular Christianity” recurring in Connor’s popular Western tales. Daniel Cole-man’s afterword considers the text’s departure from Connor’s established fi ction formulas and provides a unique framework for understand-ing its depiction of diff erence.

Charles W. Gordon (1860–1937) was educated at the University of Toronto and ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1890. Under the pseudonym Ralph Connor, he published over thirty novels that made him an internationally best-selling author, including The Man from Glengarry (1901) and Glengarry School Days (1902).

Daniel Coleman teaches in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. His research covers Canadian Literature, cultural produc-tion of categories of privilege, literatures of immigration and diaspora, and the politics of reading. His publica-tions include White Civility (2006) and In Bed with the Word (2009) as well as co-edited scholarly volumes.

The ForeignerA Tale of SaskatchewanRalph Connor

Early Canadian Literature Series

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Larissa Lai is the author of two novels, When Fox Is a Thousand and Salt Fish Girl. A recipient of the Astraea Foundation Emerging Writers’ Award, she has been shortlisted for the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Tiptree Award, and the Dorothy Livesay Prize. She is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia.

The 1980s and 1990s are a historically crucial period in the development of Asian Canadian literature. Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s contextualizes and reanimates the urgency of that period, illustrates its historical specifi cities, and shows how the concerns of that moment—from cultural appropriation to race essentialism to shifting models of the state—continue to resonate for contemporary discussions of race and literature in Canada. Larissa Lai takes up the term “Asian Canadian” as a term of emergence, in the sense that it is constantly produced diff erently, and always in relation to other terms—often “whiteness” but also Indigeneity, queerness, feminism, African Canadian, and Asian American. In the 1980s and 1990s, “Asian Canadian” erupted in conjunction with the post-structural recognition of the instability of the subject. But paradoxically it also came into being through activist work, and so depended on an imagined stability that never fully materialized. Slanting I, Imagining We interrogates this fraught tension and the relational nature of the term through a range of texts and events, including the Gold Mountain Blues scandal, the conference Writing Thru Race, and the self-writings of Evelyn Lau and Wayson Choy.

Slanting I, Imagining WeAsian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990sLarissa Lai

Literary Criticism


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What do literary dystopias refl ect about the times? In Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase, contributors address this amorphous but pervasive genre, using diverse critical methodologies to examine how North America is conveyed or portrayed in a perceived age of crisis, accelerated uncertainty, and political volatility.

Drawing from contemporary novels such as Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, and the work of Margaret Atwood and William Gibson (to name a few), this book examines dystopian literature produced by North American authors between the signing of NAFTA (1994) and the tenth anniversary of 9/11 (2011). As the texts illustrate, awareness of and deep concern about perceived vulnerabili-ties—ends of water, oil, food, capitalism, empires, stable climates, ways of life, non-human species, and entire human civilizations—have become central to public discourse over the same period.

By asking questions such as “What are the distinctive qualities of post-NAFTA North American dystopian literature?” and “What does this literature refl ect about the tensions and contradictions of the inchoate continental community of North America?” Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase serves to resituate dystopian writing within a particular geo-social setting and introduce a productive means to understand both North American dystopian writing and its relevant engagements with a restricted, mapped reality.

Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, EraseContemporary North American Dystopian LiteratureBrett Josef Grubisic, Gisèle M. Baxter, and Tara Lee, editors

Literary Criticism

Brett Josef Grubisic teaches contemporary literature at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Understanding Beryl Bainbridge as well as the novel The Age of Cities. He is the co-author (with David L. Chapman) of American Hunks: The Muscular Male Body in Popular Culture, 1860–1970 and co-editor (with Andrea Cabajsky) of National Plots: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada (WLU Press, 2010).

Gisèle M. Baxter has taught in the English Department at the University of British Columbia since 1997. Her research interests include near-future dystopias, the Gothic inheritance, children’s/YA litera-ture, and British modernism. Her publications, talks, and media work address topics such as Spanish Civil War narratives, vampires, zombies, Internet culture, women in music, and Peter Pan. She is writing a novel.

Tara Lee teaches in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia. Her teaching and research interests include media and technology, science fi ction, critical race theory, and contemporary minority Canadian literature. She also works as a freelance writer and broadcaster for a variety of local and national publications.

Table of Contents:Introduction | Brett Josef Grubisic, Gisèle M. Baxter,

and Tara Lee I Altered StatesThe Man in the Klein Blue Suit | Janine TobeckThe Cultural Logic of Post-Capitalism | Carl MillerLogical Gaps and Capitalism’s Seduction in Larissa

Lai’s Salt Fish Girl | Sharlee Reimer“The Dystopia of the Obsolete” | Paul StephensPost-Frontier and Re-Defi nition of Space in Tropic

of Orange | Hande TekdemirOur Posthuman Adolescence | Richard GoodingII Plastic SubjectivitiesWoman Gave Names to All the Animals |

Annette LapointeThe End of Life as We Knew It | Alexa Weik von Mossner“The Treatment for Stirrings”| Joseph CampbellImagining Black Bodies in the Future | Gregory HamptonBrown Girl in the Ring as Urban Policy | Sharon DeGrawIII Spectral HistoriesArchive Failure? | Zac ZimmerLove, War, and Mal de Amores | Marie-Odette CanivellCulture of Control/Control of Culture |

Lee Skallerup BessetteThe Sublime Simulacrum | Robert McGillNeoliberalism and Dystopia in U.S./Mexico

Borderlands Fiction | Lysa RiveraAmerica and Books are “Never Going to Die”|

Marleen S. BarrIn Pursuit of an Outside | Thomas Stubblefi eldHomero Aridjis and Mexico’s Eco-Critical Dystopia |

Adam SpiresIV Emancipating GenresLost in Grand Central | Robert TallyWhich Way Is Hope? | Luis RomeroDystopia Now | Kit DobsonThe Romance of the Blazing World | Owen Percy “It’s not power, it’s sex” | Helene StaveleyAnother Novel Is Possible | Lee Konstantinou



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Public Poetics is a collection of essays and poems that address some of the most pressing issues of the discipline in the twenty-fi rst century. The collection brings together fi fteen original essays addressing “publics,” “poetry,” and “poetics” from the situated space of Canada while simulta-neously troubling the notion of the nation as a stable term. It asks hard questions about who and what count as “publics” in Canada. Critical essays stand alongside poetry as visual and editorial reminders of the cross-pollination required in thinking through both poetry and poetics.

Public Poetics is divided into three thematic sections. The fi rst contains essays surveying poetics in the present moment through the lens of the public/private divide, systematic racism in Canada, the counterpublic, feminist poetics, and Canadian innovations on postmodern poetics. The second section contains author-specifi c studies of public poets. The fi nal section contains essays that use innovative renderings of “poetics” as a means of articulating alternative communities and practices. Each section is paired with a collection of original poetry by ten contemporary Canadian poets.

This collection attends to the changing landscape of critical discourse around poetry and poetics in Canada, and will be of use to teachers and students of poetry and poetics.

Public PoeticsCritical Issues in Canadian Poetry and PoeticsBart Vautour, Erin Wunker, Travis V. Mason, and Christl Verduyn, editors

Literary Criticism

Bart Vautour is an adjunct professor at Mount Allison University’s Centre for Canadian Studies. He co-directs, with Emily Robins Sharpe, the Canada and the Spanish Civil War project.

Erin Wunker is an assistant professor (limited term) in the Department of English at Mount Allison University. She is the co-founder of the feminist academic blog Hook and Eye, and a member of the Board of Canadian Women in the Literary Arts.

Travis V. Mason teaches ecocriticism and postcolonial and Canadian literatures. He is the author of Ornithologies of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay (WLU Press, 2013).

Christl Verduyn holds the Davidson Chair in Canadian Studies and is Director of the Centre for Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University. Recent books include Canadian Studies: Past, Present, Praxis (with J. Koustas, 2012) and Critical Collaborations: Indigenity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies (co-editor with Smaro Kamboureli, forthcoming 2014).

Table of Contents

Introduction | Erin Wunker and Travis V. Mason

Public Poet, Private Life | Sina Queyras

The Threat of Black Art, or, On Being Unoffi cially Banned in Canada | El Jones

The Counter/Public in Pain | Tanis MacDonald

Writing the Body Politic | Heather Milne

Rewriting and Postmodern Poetics in Canada | John Stout

The Ingeminate Eye | Amanda Jernigan

Reading for a Civic Public Poetic | Will Smith

To the Bone | Geordie Miller

Rearticulate, Renovate, Rebuild | Emily Ballantyne

“We jimmied the radio” | Kevin McNeilly

Formal Protest | Andrea Hasenbank

Radio Poetics | Katherine McLeod

The Public Reading | Erín Moure and Karis Shearer

We Are the Amp | Michael Nardone

Canadian Public Poetics | Diana Brydon

Nota Bene; or, Notes toward a Poetics of Work ... | Bart Vautour and Christl Verduyn


Print September 2014330 pages 30 b/w illus.6 x 9Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada series978-1-77112-020-3 paper $48.99

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This book focuses on girls and girlhoods, texts for and about girls, and the cultural contexts that shape girls’ experience. It brings together scholars from girls’ studies and children’s literature, fi elds that have traditionally conducted their research separately, and the collaboration showcases the breadth and complexity of girl-related studies.

Contributors from disciplines such as sociology, literature, education, and gender studies combine these disciplinary approaches in novel ways with insights from international studies, postcolonial studies, game studies, and other fi elds. Several of the authors engage in activist and policy-development work around girls who experience poverty and marginalization. Each essay is concerned in one way or another with the politics of girlhood as they manifest in national and cultural contexts, in the everyday practices of girls, and in textual ideologies and agendas.

In contemporary Western societies girls and girlhood function to some degree as markers of cultural reproduction and change. The essays in this book proceed from the assumption that girls are active participants in the production of texts and cultural forms; they off er accounts of the diversity of girls’ experience and complex signifi cances of texts by, for, and about girls.

Clare Bradford is a professor of literary studies at Deakin University, Melbourne. She has published over seventy essays on children’s literature. Her books include Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children’s Literature (WLU Press, 2007) and New World Orders in Contemporary Children’s Literature: Utopian Transformations (2009). In 2009 she was awarded the fi rst International Trudeau Fellowship.

Mavis Reimer is a Canada Research Chair in Young People’s Texts and Cultures and a professor of English at the University of Winnipeg, where she also directs the Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures (CRYTC). She is lead editor of the scholarly journal Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures and co-author, with Perry Nodelman, of The Pleasures of Children’s Literature (3rd ed., 2003).

Table of Contents

1. From Girlhood, Girls, to Girls Studies: The Power of the Text | Dawn H. Currie

2. On Secrets, Lies, and Fiction: Girls Learning the Art of Survival | Kerry Mallan

3. Disgusting Subjects: Consumer-Class Distinction and the Aff ective Regulation of Girl Desire | Elizabeth Bullen

4. Still Centre Stage? Reframing Girls’ Culture in New-Generation Fictions of Performance | Pamela Knights

5. Warrior Girl and the Searching Tribe: Indigenous Girls’ Everyday Negotiations of Racialization under Neocolonialism | Sandrina de Finney and Johanne Saraceno

6. Girls’ Texts, Visual Culture, and Shifting the Boundaries of Knowledge in Social Justice Research: The Politics of Making the Invisible Visible | Claudia Mitchell

7. “Doing their bit”: The Great War and Transnationalism in Girls’ Fiction | Kristine Moruzi

8. Bollywood as a Role Model: Dating and Negotiating Romance | Kabita Chakraborty

9. Movable Morals: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Flap Books and Paper Dolls Books for Girls as Interactive “Conduct Books” | Jacqueline Reid-Walsh

10. Wild Australian Girls? The Mythology of Colonial Femininity in British Print Culture, 1885–1926 | Michelle J. Smith

11. Dynamic (Con)Texts: Close Readings of Girls’ Video Game Play | Stephanie Fisher, Jennifer Jenson, and Suzanne de Castell

12. Reading Smart Girls: Post-Nerds in Post-Feminist Popular Culture | Shauna Pomerantz and Rebecca Raby

Sociology / Textual Studies / Gender S tudies

Girls, Texts, CulturesClare Bradford and Mavis Reimer, editors


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Thomas Allen is an associate professor of English at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America (2008). His research concerns the cultural history of time, especially in relation to material culture.

A specialist in Canadian literature, Jennifer Blair teaches in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on early Canadian literature, with a special interest in architecture and the circulation of information in colonial Canada. She has published essays in Studies in Canadian Literature, English Studies in Canada, and Feminist Media Studies.

Table of Contents

The Work of the Beaver | Jody Berland

Night in a Box: Anne Carson’s Nox and the Materiality of Elegy | Tanis MacDonald

Maxims and Contraries: Notes from a Project in Process | Alison Calder

The Geranium in the Window: One Plant’s Literary Hardiness in the Canadian Imagination | Shelley Boyd

Is It Still a Cinch? The Transformational Properties of Objects in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s The Last Crossing | Susan Birkwood

Obama’s Playlist: Materializing Transnational Desire at the CBC | Mark Simpson

Grinning Things: Object Lessons in Violent Labour | Michael Epp

Moses Cotsworth and the Authenticity of Time | Thomas Allen

Materializing Climate Change: Images of Exposure, States of Exception | Nicole Shukin

Waters as Potential Paths to Peace | Rita Wong

The Biotopographies of Seth’s George Sprott (1894–1975) | Candida Rifkind

Woodrow: Memory and Nostalgia at Play | Jessa Alston-O’Connor

Plaques and Persons: Commemorating Canada’s Authors | Carole Gerson

Archaeological Detritus and the Bulging Archive: The Staging of He Named Her Amber at the Art Gallery of Ontario | May Chew

Poetry and Globalized Cities: A Material Poetics of Canadian Urban Space | Jeff Derksen

Material Cultures in Canada presents the vibrant and diverse fi eld of material culture studies in Canadian literary, artistic, and political contexts today. The fi rst of its kind, this collection features sixteen essays by leading scholars in Canada, each of whom examines a diff erent object of study, including the beaver, geraniums, comics, water, a musical playlist, and the human body.

The book’s three sections focus, in turn, on objects that are persistently material, on things whose materiality blends into the immaterial, and on the materials of spaces. Contributors highlight some of the most exciting new developments in the fi eld, such as the emergence of “new materialism,” aff ect theory, globalization studies, and environmental criticism. Although the book has a Canadian centre, the majority of its contributors consider objects that cross borders or otherwise resist national affi liation.

This collection will be valuable to readers within and outside of Canada who are interested in material culture studies and, in addition, will appeal to anyone interested in the central debates taking place in Canadian political and cultural life today, such as climate change, citizenship, shifts in urban and small-town life, and the persistence of imperialism.

Cultural Studies

Material Cultures in CanadaThomas Allen and Jennifer Blair, editors



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Diane Conrad is an associate professor of drama/theatre education at the University of Alberta. Her participatory, arts-based research involves work with high-risk and incarcerated youth. She is the director of the Arts-based Research Studio at University of Alberta. Her recent publications include Athabasca’s Going Unmanned: An Ethnodrama about Incarcerated Youth (2012).

Anita Sinner is an assistant professor of art education at Concordia University in Montreal. Her research interests include pre-service and in-service teacher education, community-based art education, life and light writing, and digital media. She brings interdisciplinary perspectives to research involving qualitative approaches and many forms of arts research in relation to curriculum studies and social and cultural issues in education.

Creating Together explores an emerging approach to research that combines arts practices and scholarship in participatory, community-based, and collaborative contexts in Canada across multiple disciplines. Looking at a variety of art forms, from photography and mural painting to performance art and poetry, the contributors explore how the process of creating together generates and disseminates collective knowledge.

The artistic processes and works in an arts-based approach to scholar-ship make use of aesthetic, experiential, embodied, and emotional ways of knowing and creating knowledge in addition to traditional intellectual ways. The anthology also addresses the growing trend in arts-based research that takes a participatory, community-based, or collaborative focus, and encourages scholars to work together, with other profession-als, and with community groups to explore questions, create knowledge, and express shared understandings. The collection highlights three forms of research: participatory arts-based research that engages partici-pants in all stages of the inquiry and aims to produce practical knowing to benefit the community; community-based arts research that has community/public space at the heart of practice; and collaborative arts approaches involving multi-levelled, multi-layered, and interdisciplinary collaboration from diverse perspectives.

To illustrate how such innovative work is being accomplished in Canada, the collection includes examples from British Columbia to Newfound-land and across disciplines, including the fine arts, education, the health sciences, and social work.

Creating TogetherParticipatory, Community-Based, and Collaborative Arts Practices and Scholarship across CanadaDiane Conrad and Anita Sinner, editors

Cultural Studies


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Alexa Weik von Mossner is an assistant professor of American studies at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria. She has published widely on cosmopolitanism and various ecocritical issues in literature and fi lm. Her monograph Engaging the Other: American Literature, Emotion, and the Cosmopolitan Imagination is forthcoming in 2014.

Table of Contents

SECTION I: General and Theoretical Considerations

1. Emotion and Aff ect in Eco-fi lms: Cognitive and Phenomenological Approaches | David Ingram, Brunel University, London

2. Emotions of Consequence? Viewing Eco-documentaries from a Cognitivist Perspective | Alexa Weik von Mossner, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

3. Irony and Contemporary Ecocinema: Theorizing a New Aff ective Paradigm | Nicole Seymour, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

SECTION II: Anthropomorphism and the Non-Human in Documentary Film

4. On the “Inexplicable Magic of Cinema”: Critical Anthropomorphism, Emotion, and the Wildness of Wildlife Films | Bart H. Welling, University of North Florida, Jacksonville

5. Emotion and Political Environmental Documentary: Darwin’s Nightmare and The Cove | Belinda Smail, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

6. Flipper? We Are Eating Flipper? Documenting Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics at Sea | Robin Murray and Joseph Heumann, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston

Section III: The Eff ects and Aff ects of Animation

7. Animation, Realism, and the “Genre of Nature” | David Whitley, University of Cambridge, UK

8. What Can a Film Do? Analyzing Avatar’s Global Aff ects | Adrian Ivakhiv, University of Vermont, Burlington

9. Animated Eco-cinema and Aff ect: A Case Study of Pixar’s Up | Pat Brereton, Dublin City University

SECTION IV: The Aff ect of Place and Time

10. Moving Home: Documentary Film and Other Remediations of Post-Katrina New Orleans | Janet Walker, University of California, Santa Barbara

11. (Re)presenting the Ecological Indian and Eco-Activism in Contemporary Native American Film | Salma Monani, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania

12. Aff ect and Environment in Two Artists’ Films and a Video | Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths, University of London

In Moving Environments: Aff ect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, international scholars investigate how fi lms portray human emotional relationships with the more-than-human world and how such fi lms act upon their viewers’ emotions. Emotion and aff ect are the basic mechanisms that connect us to our environment, shape our knowledge, and motivate our actions. Contributors explore how fi lm represents and shapes human emotion in relation to diff erent environments and what role time, place, and genre play in these aff ective processes. Individual essays resituate well-researched environmental fi lms such as An Inconvenient Truth and March of the Penguins by paying close attention to their emotionalizing strategies, and bring to our attention the aff ective qualities of fi lms that have so far received little attention from ecocritics, such as Kelly Reich-hardt’s Wendy and Lucy and Stan Brakhage’s Dog Star Man.

The collection opens a new discursive space at the disciplinary intersec-tion of fi lm studies, aff ect studies, and a growing body of ecocritical scholarship. It will be of interest not only to scholars and students work-ing in the fi eld of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities, but for everyone with an interest in our emotional responses to fi lm.

Media S tudies

Moving EnvironmentsAff ect, Emotion, Ecology, and FilmAlexa Weik von Mossner, editor

Laurier Poetry Series


The Order in Which We Do ThingsThe Poetry of Tom WaymanSelected with an introduction by Owen Percy

Before the First WordThe Poetry of Lorna CrozierSelected with an introduction by Catherine Hunter

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Daphne Marlatt, poet, novelist, essayist, oral historian, and Noh dramatist, has been writing and publishing for four decades. Her many titles include Vancouver Poems, Steveston, and most recently, Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now, as well as the novels Zócalo, Ana Historic, and Taken. Her novelistic long poem The Given received the 2009 Dorothy Livesay Award. She was awarded the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award for her work in 2012.

Susan Knutson was born in Vancouver but moved in 1988 to the francophone Acadian community of Clare, Nova Scotia, to teach at Université Sainte-Anne. She has authored numerous articles and one book, Narrative in the Feminine: Daphne Marlatt and Nicole Brossard (WLU Press, 2000), and has edited Canadian Shakespeare (2010) and the interdisciplinary review Port Acadie.

Opening doors, dreaming awake, tracing networks of music and meaning, Marlatt’s poetry stands out as an essential engagement with what matters to anyone writing with a social-environmental conscience. Rivering includes poems inspired by the village of Steveston where, before the war, a Japanese-Canadian community lived within the rhythms of salmon on the Fraser River delta. Also gathered into Rivering: lesbian love poetry from Touch to my Tongue; a transformance of Nicole Brossard’s Mauve; passages from The Given, winner of the 2009 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize; a traditional “Kuri” song from the Noh drama, The Gull; and an unpublished excerpt from the chamber opera “Shadow Catch.”

Diffi cult, beautiful, heart-breaking realities of the twenty-fi rst century are urgently immediate in selections from Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now. All of the poems speak to Marlatt’s poetics of place and of language as passage between distant or disparate human beings, and between human beings and the more-than-human world. The selections are framed by Susan Knutson’s deeply attentive critical introduction and by Marlatt’s “immediacies of writing,” a new lyrical essay investigating the act of writing. Closing with a walking meditation situated by her Buddhist practice, Rivering is both a “pocket Marlatt” and an introduction to one of the best poets of our time.

RiveringThe Poetry of Daphne MarlattSelected with an introduction by Susan Knutson

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Heather N. Nicol is a political geographer whose work explores the structure and operation of the Canada–US border, with special emphasis on the impacts of security and sovereignty. Among her publications are Beyond Walls: Reinventing the Canada–US Borderlands and Holding the Line: Border in a Global World. She is also interested in the circumpolar North as a geopolitical space, and the relationship between the interests of nation-states and indigenous peoples in the North.

The Fence and the Bridge is about the development of the Canada–US border-security relationship as an outgrowth of the much lengthier Canada–US relationship. It suggests that this relationship has been both highly refl exive and hegemonic over time, and that such realities are embodied in the metaphorical images and texts that describe the Canada–US border over its history.

Nicol argues that prominent security motifs, such as themes of free trade, illegal immigration, cross-border crime, terrorism, and territorial sovereignty are not new, nor are they limited to the post-9/11 era. They have developed and evolved at diff erent times and become part of a larger quilt, whose patches are stitched together to create a new fabric and design.

Each of the security motifs that now characterize Canada–US border perceptions and relations has a precedent in border-management strategies and border relations in earlier periods. In some cases, these have deep historical roots that date back not just years or decades but centuries. They are part of an evolving North American geopolitical logic that inscribes how borders are perceived, how they function, and what they mean.

The Fence and the BridgeGeopolitics and Identity along the Canada–US BorderHeather N. Nicol

Political Science


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Rose Ricciardelli is an assistant professor at Memorial University. She has published in academic journals such as Sex Roles, Criminal Justice Review, Qualitative Sociological Review, Journal of Crime and Justice, and Journal of Criminal Justice Education. Her research explores prisoner culture, wrongful conviction, desis-tance, and the coping strategies, gender identity, and risk perception of prisoners and correctional offi cers.

Is prison a humane form of punishment and an eff ective means of reha-bilitation? Are current prison policies, such as shifting resources away from rehabilitation toward housing more off enders, improving the safety and lives of incarcerated populations?

Considering that many Canadians have served time, are currently incar-cerated, or may one day be incarcerated—and will be released back into society—it is essential for the functioning and betterment of communi-ties that we understand the realities that shape the prison experience for adult male off enders. Surviving Incarceration reveals the unnecessary and omnipresent violence in prisons, the heterogeneity of the prisoner population, and the realities that diff erent prisoners navigate in order to survive.

Ricciardelli draws on interviews with almost sixty former federal prison-ers to show how their criminal convictions, masculinity, and sexuality determined their social status in prison and, in consequence, their potential for victimization. The book outlines the modern “inmate code” that governs prisoner behaviours, the formal controls put forth by the administration, the dynamics that shape sex-off ender experiences of incarceration, and the personal growth experiences of many prisoners as they cope with incarceration.

Surviving IncarcerationInside Canadian PrisonsRose Ricciardelli

Social Sciences


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Kiaras Gharabaghi is an associate professor in the School of Child and Youth Care at Ryerson University and co-editor of the journal Child & Youth Services. A practitioner for more than twenty years, he researches in the areas of residential care, children’s mental health, education and social pedagogy, policy and regulatory frameworks for youth services, and system collaboration and organizational change.

Hans A. Skott-Myhre is an associate professor in the Child and Youth Studies Department at Brock University. He spent twenty-fi ve years as a youth worker and family therapist working primarily with runaway and homeless youth before entering aca-demia. Research interests include radical and political approaches to youth–adult relations, subcultures, critical disability studies and anti-psychiatry, post-capitalist subjectivity, post-Marxist politics, undoing whiteness, and political readings of popular culture.

Mark Krueger is professor and founder of the Youth Work Learning Center, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where he teaches and studies youth work. He has written several articles and twelve books about the fi eld and has consulted and spoken at numerous conferences and agencies in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

With Children and Youth provides a snapshot of emerging theories and perspectives in the fi eld of child and youth care across North America. Well-known scholars and researchers present new and innovative critical perspectives, written in a provocative manner and refl ecting outside-the-box thinking.

The book examines from scholarly and practical viewpoints the purpose of child and youth care practice, relational practice, post-modern approaches to thinking about theory and practice, and new and innova-tive thinking about the professionalization and accreditation of the dis-cipline itself. Some chapters merge thinking about child and youth care with esoteric and literary prose; others use humour and satire as a way to represent both foundational and entirely new directions in the fi eld.

With Children and Youth provides no set conclusions or fi ndings about the fi eld; instead, it guides the reader to spaces of controversy, contention, and opportunities for innovation and change. Child and youth care practice and theory, it is argued, is based fundamentally on engagement across generations, cultures, and social positions, and this book exemplifi es precisely that.

With Children and YouthEmerging Theories and Practices in Child and Youth Care WorkKiaras Gharabaghi, Hans A. Skott-Myhre, and Mark Krueger, editors

Social Sciences


Canada and Africa in the New MillenniumThe Politics of Consistent InconsistencyDavid R. Black

David R. Black is Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. His research has focused on Canada’s role in sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa’s place within the continent , and sport in world politics. He is co-editor of A Decade of Human Security (2006) and The International Politics of Mass Atrocities: The Case of Darfur (2008).

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Canada’s engagement with post-independence Africa presents a puzzle. Although Canada is recognized for its activism where Africa is con-cerned, critics have long noted the contradictions that underlie Canadian involvement. Focusing on the period following 2000, and by juxtaposing Jean Chrétien’s G8 activism with the Harper government’s retreat from continental engagement, David R. Black’s Canada and Africa in the New Millennium illustrates a history of consistent inconsistency in Canada’s relationship with Africa.

Black combines three interpretive frames to account for this record: the tradition of “good international citizenship”; Canada’s role as a benign face of Western hegemonic interests in Africa; and Africa’s role as the basis for a longstanding narrative concerning Canada’s ethical mission in the world. To examine Africa’s place in Canada’s foreign policy—and Canada’s place in Africa—Black focuses on G8 diplomacy, foreign aid, security assistance through peace operations and training, and the increasingly controversial impact of Canadian extractive companies.

Off ering an integrated account of Canada’s role in sub-Saharan Africa, Black provides a way of understanding the nature and resilience of recent shifts in Canadian policy. He underscores how Africa—though marginal to Canadian interests as traditionally conceived—has served as an important marker of Canada’s international role.

Political Science


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This Awareness of Beauty considers the orchestral and wind band music of Canadian composer Healey Willan, who was known primarily for his choral work. A succinct biography accompanies historical, analytical, and critical investigations of Willan’s instrumental music, asserting Willan’s seminal place in Canadian music and the signifi cance of his orchestral and wind band music both nationally and internationally.

This Awareness of BeautyThe Orchestral and Wind Band Music of Healey WillanKeith W. Kinder

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Representing Sound complicates common conceptions of sound to include diff erent ontological states. This seemingly simple notion—that the acoustic phenomena we encounter in concert are, by nature, diff erent from those we encounter when we listen to records—should have profound consequences for the way everyone, from musicologists to rock stars, considers recording practice.

Representing SoundNotes on the Ontology of Recorded Musical CommunicationsJay Hodgson with Steve MacLeod

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Motherlode is a creative reinterpretation through short stories, poems, and essays of the experiences of the author’s mother and other individuals in Nazi-occupied Holland. The creative pieces explore onderduik (going into/being in hiding), life in an occupied country, the work of the Dutch Resistance, liberation, collective and individual cultural memory, and the way in which wartime childhoods shape adulthood.

MotherlodeA Mosaic of Dutch Wartime ExperienceCarolyne Van Der Meer

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Like Anne Frank, Israel Unger and his family hid for two years in an attic crawl space during the Second World War. Against all odds, they emerged alive. The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger is as much a Holocaust story as it is a story of a young immigrant making every possible use of the opportunities Canada had to off er.

The Unwritten Diary of Israel UngerCarolyn Gammon and Israel UngerRevised edition

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“Oiva Saarinen’s broad painting of the area’s history engages, stimulates, provokes and instructs…. The reader is taken on an epic journey that starts with an event that took place eons ago but has had a profound eff ect on the area to this day.... Saarinen’s book, vast in scope, based on exhaustive research, and well written does justice to [this] history.”

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From Meteorite Impact to Constellation CityA Historical Geography of Greater SudburyOiva W. Saarinen

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Map Worlds plots a journey of discovery through the largely unrecognized world of women map-makers. The author examines challenges faced by women in the profession, sets out the situation of women in technical fi elds and cartography-related organizations, and explores their common goals of social justice and making maps work for the betterment of humanity.

Map WorldsA History of Women in CartographyWill C. van den Hoonaard

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The Wyandot were born of two Wendat peoples encountered by the French in the fi rst half of the seventeenth century—the otherwise named Petun and Huron—and their history is fragmented by their dispersal between Quebec, Michigan, Kansas, and Oklahoma. This book weaves these fragmented histories together, with a focus on the mid-eighteenth century.

The Eighteenth-Century WyandotA Clan-Based StudyJohn L. Steckley

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Indigenous Poetics in Canada broadens the way in which Indigenous poetry is examined, studied, and discussed in Canada. Breaking from the parameters of traditional English literature studies, this volume embraces a wider sense of poetics, including Indigenous oralities, languages, and understandings of place. The book features not only work by academics in the fi eld but also active Indigenous poets.

Indigenous Poetics in CanadaNeal McLeod, editor

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This book off ers a fresh perspective on the evolving concept of European identity. Expanding on existing literature, this interdisciplinary volume considers the political tensions and social implications of the development of European identity from the viewpoints of both insider and other, as well as its literary, artistic, and cultural manifestations.

Europe in Its Own Eyes, Europe in the Eyes of the OtherDavid B. MacDonald and Mary-Michelle DeCoste, editors

Print 2013354 pages6 colour; 1 bw/ illus.6 x 9Cultural Studies series978-1-55458-984-5 paper $48.99

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The essays collected in Parallel Encounters off er analysis of an array of cultural representations of the Canada–US border, in both site-specifi city and in the ways in which they reveal and conceal cultural similarities and diff erences. Contributors examine a variety of expressive forms, including poetry, fi ction, drama, visual art, television, and cinema produced on both sides of the 49th parallel.

Parallel EncountersCulture at the Canada–US BorderGillian Roberts and David Stirrup, editors

Print March 2014184 pages2 tables6 x 9978-1-55458-929-6 paper $29.99

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Strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPP) involves lawsuits brought by individuals, corporations, groups, or politicians to curtail political activism. This book examines the dangers SLAPPs pose to political expression and to the quality and integrity of our democratic political institutions, exploring the need to regulate SLAPPs in Canada and assessing various regulatory proposals.

Blocking Public ParticipationThe Use of Strategic Litigation to Silence Political ExpressionByron Sheldrick

Print 2013222 pages5.25 x 8Cultural Studies series978-1-55458-897-8 paper $29.99

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“Gary Genosko has written a book that is conceptually dense and exceptionally timely. When Technocultures Collide deals with the most up-to-date subjects concerning technology, communication, and politics. Whoever wants to talk about these subjects must read it.”

Franco Bifo Berardi, author of After the Future (2011) and The Uprising (2012)

When Technocultures CollideInnovation from Below and the Struggle for AutonomyGary Genosko



Print 2013 378 pages1 b/w illus.6 x 9Environmental Humanities series978-1-55458-843-5 paper $38.99

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“The book’s contributors lead us on a compelling journey through a complex cultural ecology of religion, politics, fan forums, ethics, ecoto-pian promise, corporate violence, and troubling notions of the ‘native.’… Avatar and Nature Spirituality is just one of a new generation of books that are shifting the very way we conceive of religion.”

Sarah McFarland Taylor, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Environmental Policy and Culture, Northwestern University

Avatar and Nature SpiritualityBron Taylor, editor

Print 2013432 pages9 b/w illus., 1 fi gure6 x 9Environmental Humanities series978-1-55458-905-0 paper $48.99

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“Ivakhiv, a leading light in the emerging eco-critical fi lm studies, wraps two themes around each other, the cinema of and as ecology. His concern is with how cinema produces worlds, lives, and human subjects intricately implicated in the processes of Earth. Marrying Whitehead, Peirce, and Deleuze with eco-philosophy, Ivakhiv gives us a rich, elo-quent, wide-ranging, and moving account of movement: as world, as cinema, and as hope.”

Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths, University of London

Ecologies of the Moving ImageCinema, Aff ect, NatureAdrian J. Ivakhiv

Print August 2014365 pages28 colour illus.6 x 9Environmental Humanities series978-1-55458-923-4 paper $42.99

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Western Canada’s natural environment faces intensifying threats from industrialization in agriculture and resource development, social and cultural complicity in these destructive practices, and the negative local eff ects of global climate change. In this book, arts and humanities scholars and literary and visual artists tackle these pressing environmental issues in provocative and transformative ways.

Sustaining the WestCultural Responses to Western Environments, Past and PresentLiza Piper and Lisa Szabo-Jones, editors

Print August 2014398 pages19 b/w illus.6 x 9Environmental Humanities series978-1-55458-959-3 paper $42.99

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Found in Alberta is a collection of essays about the natural environment in a province rich in natural resources and aggressive in development goals. Since the actions of Alberta’s industries and government are currently at the heart of a global environmental debate, this collection is valuable to those wishing to understand the natural and commercial forces in play.

Found in AlbertaEnvironmental Themes for the AnthropoceneRobert Boschman and Mario Trono, editors



Print August 2014256 pages6 x 9Film and Media Studies series978-1-55458-335-5 paper $42.99

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From the dawn of cinema, representations of Indigenous peoples have been dominated by stereotypes. With the advent of digital technologies, many are working to redress the imbalance in numbers and counter the negativity. Chapters focus primarily on Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and include the use of digital technology, the healing eff ects of Native humour in First Nations documentaries, and the representation of the pre-colonial.

Reverse ShotsIndigenous Film and Media in an International ContextWendy Gay Pearson and Susan Knabe, editors

Print 2013214 pages6 x 9Film and Media Studies series978-1-55458-935-7 paper $39.99

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Examination of the work that Jean-Luc Godard did with Anne-Marie Miéville, spanning fi lms, television series, and videos. Special attention is paid to the ways they used video equipment to explore a “workshop” idea for their production company, and the ways Swiss culture infl uenced their collective project.

Two BicyclesThe Work of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie MiévilleJerry White

Print February 2014334 pagesb/w illus.6 x 9Film and Media Studies series978-1-55458-926-5 paper $39.99

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Thirteen essays on many of Canada’s most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt, Gail Bowen, Thomas King, Michael Slade, Margaret Atwood, and Anthony Bidulka. Also examines the esteemed 1960s’ television show Wojeck, as well as the more recent series Da Vinci’s Inquest, Da Vinci’s City Hall, Intelligence, and the controversial Durham County.

Detecting CanadaEssays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and FilmJeannette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose, editors


Print January 2014276 pages24 illus., 6 tables6 x 9Film and Media Studies series978-1-55458-920-3 paper $48.99

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Re-assesses the career of fi lmmaker and multimedia artist Jean-Luc Godard with a focus on the director’s infl uence over diff erent fi elds of knowledge and expression. Looking at the legacy of Godard in cinema and his fertile interactions with other arts, this book considers his contributions to major debates in philosophy, politics, and history.

The Legacies of Jean-Luc GodardDouglas Morrey, Christina Stojanova, and Nicole Côté, editors


Print 2013258 pages7 b/w illus.6 x 9Life Writing series978-1-55458-939-5 paper $29.99

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“Rak brilliantly sheds light on a misunderstood genre and its afi cionados in her recent book Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market.... A highly worthwhile read and a compelling analysis of memoir in the fi rst decade of the 21st century.”

Rebecca G. Aguilar, Book Kvetch

Boom!Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular MarketJulie Rak

Print September 2014281 pages45 b/w illus.6 x 9Cultural Studies series978-1-55458-983-8 paper $48.99

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Reclaiming Canadian Bodies explores the relationship between visual media, the construction of Canadian national identity, and notions of embodiment. It asks how particular representations of bodies are constructed and performed within the context of visual and discursive mediated content. The book emphasizes the ways individuals destabilize national mainstream visual tropes, which in turn have the potential to destabilize nationalist messages.

Reclaiming Canadian BodiesVisual Media and RepresentationLynda Mannik and Karen McGarry, editors

Print 2013364 pages5 b/w illus.6 x 9978-1-55458-914-2 hardcover $85.00

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Essays on the status of memory—individual and collective, cultural and transcultural—in contemporary literature, fi lm, and other visual media. Contributors look at memory’s representation, adaptation, translation, and appropriation, as well as its mediation and remediation. Memory’s irreducibly constructed nature is explored, even as its status is reaffi rmed as the basis of both individual and collective identity.

The Memory Eff ectThe Remediation of Memory in Literature and FilmRussell J.A. Kilbourn and Eleanor Ty, editors

Print 2013776 pages6 x 9Film and Media Studies series978-1-55458-625-7 hardcover $85.00

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“ DADA, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Eff ect … convincingly demonstrates that for the early twentieth-century avant-garde movements, cinema was the model, the preeminent form that prompted a recasting of the other arts.… This is that rare book that casts the early twentieth-century avant-garde in a very new light.”

Rudolf Kuenzli


DADA, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Eff ectR. Bruce Elder


Print 2013220 pages6 x 9TransCanada series978-1-55458-355-3 paper $29.99

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Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace brings to light the relationship between writers in Canada and the marketplace within which their work circulates. Through a series of conversations with both established and younger writers from across the country, Kit Dobson and Smaro Kamboureli investigate how writers perceive their relationship to the cultural economy—and what that economy means for their creative processes.

Producing Canadian LiteratureAuthors Speak on the Literary MarketplaceKit Dobson and Smaro Kamboureli

Print 2013394 pages13 b/w illus.6 x 9TransCanada series978-1-55458-839-8 paper $42.99

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Essays written in honour of Barbara Godard, one of the most original and wide-ranging literary critics, theorists, teachers, translators, and public intellectuals Canada has ever produced. The contributors extend Godard’s work through engagements with her published texts in the spirit of creative interchange and intergenerational relay of ideas. The essays venture beyond generic and disciplinary borders, zeroing in on Godard’s infl uential transdisciplinary practice.

Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and MemoryEssays in Honour of Barbara GodardEva C. Karpinski, Jennifer Henderson, Ian Sowton, and Ray Ellenwood, editors

Print February 2014220 pages6 x 9978-1-55458-980-7 hardcover $65.00

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Through a close analysis of the way sacrifi ce, service, and the com-memoration of war are represented in literary works, Catching the Torch argues that iterations of a secure mythic notion of national identity work to counter current anxieties about the stability of the nation-state, in particular anxieties about the failure of the ideal of a national “character.”

Catching the TorchContemporary Canadian Literary Responses to World War INeta Gordon

Print May 2014350 pages6 x 9TransCanada series978-1-55458-911-1 paper $42.99

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This collection constitutes a call for collaboration across disciplinary, political, institutional, and community borders and a simultaneous call for resistance—to Eurocentrism, corporatization, and rationalism—and a call for critical collaborations. Together, these essays reveal how the critical methodologies brought to bear on literary studies can present new forms of strategic transdisciplinarity that expand the possibilities of Canadian literary studies .

Critical CollaborationsIndigenity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary StudiesSmaro Kamboureli and Christl Verduyn, editors



Print April 2014450 pages6 x 9978-1-55458-953-1 paper $44.99

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In acknowledging the possibility that as the world changes so too does racism, this book argues that racism is not disappearing. To the contrary, racisms persist by transforming into diff erent forms whose intent or eff ects remain the same: to deny and disallow and to exclude and exploit.

Racisms in a Multicultural CanadaParadoxes, Politics, and ResistanceAugie Fleras

Print March 2014210 pages22 b/w illus., 2 tables6 x 9978-1-55458-947-0 paper $29.99

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Considers the debates and regulation that have conditioned Canadians’ attitude towards vice, and demonstrates how moral regulation has changed over time—how it has shaped Canadians’ lives, why some debates have almost disappeared and others persist, and why some individuals and groups tackle collective social issues.

Canada the GoodA Short History of Vice since 1500Marcel Martel

Print March 2014220 pages6 x 9Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada series978-1-55458-900-5 paper $39.99

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Explores the preoccupation with boyhood during the immediate postwar period in Ontario, 1945–1960. During this period adults began to cast the fate of the postwar world onto children, particularly boys. Cultural commentators routinely produced public narratives that normalized boys who possessed a particular “ideal” masculinity. This “ideal” boyhood became a metaphor for the survival of the nation.

Ontario BoysMasculinity and the Idea of Boyhood in Postwar Ontario, 1945–1960Christopher J. Greig

Print June 2014210 pages5 x 7Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada series978-1-55458-950-0 paper $24.99

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A Brief History of Women in Quebec examines the historical experience of women of diff erent social classes and origins (geographic, ethnic, and racial) from the period of contact between Europeans and Aboriginals to the twenty-fi rst century to give a nuanced and complex account of the main transformations in their lives.

A Brief History of Women in QuebecDenyse BaillargeonW. Donald Wilson, translator




Print September 2014165 pages6 x 9978-1-55458-917-3 paper $24.99

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Living Recovery takes readers through the journey of ELAR (emergence, loss, adaptation, and recovery) of interviewed youth living with mental health problems. The book shows us that youth do in fact adapt, recover, and reintegrate over time.

Living RecoveryYouth Speak Out on “Owning” Mental IllnessJoAnn Elizabeth Leavey

Print April 2014176 pages6 x 9Life Writing series978-1-55458-624-0 paper $24.99

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A compilation of stories narrated by single mothers in their own way and about their own lives. Each story is unique, but the same issues appear again and again. Challenges related to abuse, parenting, mental health and addictions, childcare, immigration and status vulnerability, custody, and poverty—combined with a lack of support—contribute to their continued struggles. To address these issues we need to challenge the fl awed public policies and the negative discourse that continue to marginalize single mothers.

Not the Whole StoryChallenging the Single Mother NarrativeLea Caragata and Judit Alcalde, editors

Print 2013414 pages6 x 9WCGS German Studies series978-1-55458-431-4 hardcover $85.00

Digital978-1-55458-467-3 epub $42.99

In light of shifts in the linguistic and intercultural needs of today’s global citizens, and drawing on a range of contemporary theories, these Canadian and international scholars in German studies question the foundations and motivations of common curriculum goals, traditional program content, standard syllabus design, and long-standing classroom practice.

Traditions and TransitionsCurricula for German StudiesJohn L. Plews and Barbara Schmenk, editors

Print 2013304 pages6 x 9Canadian Commentaries series978-1-55458-832-9 paper $29.99

Digital978-1-55458-904-3 epub $20.00

“How much are we willing to pay to live in a good and prosperous coun-try? Do we have a tax system that is fair and effi cient? What public goods and services do we want our governments to provide? If democracies exist only by the virtue of the engagement of citizens, then we need to have the courage to have a new conversation about taxation. Read this book.… Tell your friends to read it. Then have a conversation with your member of parliament. The future of Canada will be better for it.”

Kevin Page, Canada’s fi rst parliamentary budget offi cer; Jean-Luc PepinResearch Chair, University of Ottawa

Tax Is Not a Four-Letter WordA Diff erent Take on Taxes in CanadaAlex Himelfarb and Jordan Himelfarb, editors



Print 2013378 pages16 maps, 41 tables/graphs, 65 b/w illus., 15 colour illus.6 x 9978-1-55458-360-7 paper $28.99

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The World of Niagara Wine explores the Niagara wine industry. The book reviews the history and regulation of wine production as well as its contemporary economic signifi cance, the entrepreneurship behind and the promotion and marketing of Niagara wines, the science behind the industry, and lastly, the social and cultural ramifi cations of Niagara’s increasing economic reliance on grapes and wine.

The World of Niagara WineMichael Ripmeester, Phillip Gordon Mackintosh, and Christopher Fullerton, editors

Print March 2014344 pages31 b/w illus., 2 tables6 x 9978-1-55458-963-0 paper $29.99

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No Accident examines problems related to road safety and makes recommendations for the way forward. Topics include types of drivers; human-related driving errors related to fatigue, speed, alcohol, and distraction and roads; pedestrians, cyclists, and public transit; road engineering; motor vehicle regulation; auto safety design; and collision-avoidance technologies. This multi-disciplinary study demystifi es the world of road safety.

No AccidentEliminating Injury and Death on Canadian RoadsNeil Arason

Print 2013372 pages25 b/w illus.6 x 9Indigenous Studies series978-1-55458-328-7 hardcover $85.00

Digital978-1-55458-422-2 epub $49.95

Drawing on themes from John MacKenzie’s Empires of Nature and the Nature of Empires (1997), this book explores, from Indigenous or Indige-nous-infl uenced perspectives, the power of nature and the attempts by empires (United States, Canada, and Britain) to control it. It also exam-ines contemporary threats to First Nations communities from ongoing political, environmental, and social issues, and the eff orts to confront and eliminate these threats to peoples and the environment.

The Nature of Empires and the Empires of NatureIndigenous Peoples and the Great Lakes EnvironmentKarl S. Hele, editor

Print 2013264 pages59 maps, 192 b/w illus.6 x 9978-1-92680-413-2 paper $34.95

Published by the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies and distributed by Wilfrid Laurier University Press

1812: A Guide to the War and its Legacy is organized into two parts. First, a historical section places events in their strategic, operational, and human context. Then a tour section introduces and guides readers to key locations of war and memory, off ering an explanation of the fl uid memory that has evolved over the last 200 years.

1812A Guide to the War and its LegacyTerry Copp, Matt Symes, Caitlin McWilliams, Nick Lachance, Geoff Keelan, and Jeff rey W. Mott


Florence Nightingale

Collected Works of Florence Nightingale The Complete SetLynn McDonald, editor

The Complete Set The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale: The Complete Set comprises all the surviving writing of Florence Nightingale, featuring original material from over 150 archives and private collections world-wide. Known as the heroine of the Crimean War and the major founder of the modern profession of nursing, Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) is affirmed as a scholar, theorist, and social reformer of enormous scope and importance. This series demonstrates her astute use of the political process; reports on her extensive correspondence with royalty, viceroys, cabinet ministers, and international leaders; and contains a great deal of previously unpublished material—Florence Nightingale is revealed as so much more than the “lady with the lamp.” The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale is indispensable to scholars, and accessible and revealing to the general reader.

The Deal To celebrate the release of the 16th and final volume of the series, we are offering the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale: The Complete Set for $1,200.00—a 50% discount!

The Editor Lynn McDonald, director of the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, is university professor emerita at the University of Guelph. She is a former member of parliament, a former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, and a long-time activist on women’s issues. She has an honorary doctorate from York University. An active environmentalist, McDonald works on climate change with JustEarth: A Coalition for Environmental Justice and serves on the board of directors of Climate Action Network Canada.

The Reviews “This series is an essential addition to any serious nursing history collection.”

– Nursing Standard

“This magnificent and devoted effort should be in every major research library or any library with collections on the changing role of women.... Highly recommended.”

– V.L. Bullough, CHOICE

“The Collected Works will allow us to see for the first time the full complexity of this extraordinary and multi-faceted woman. It will be a tool of enormous value not only to Nightingale scholars and biographers, but also to historians of a wide variety of aspects of Victorian society: war, the army, public health nursing, religion, India, women’s issues and so on.”

– Mark Bostridge, Times Literary Supplement

Available Volumes1: Florence Nightingale:An Introduction to Her Life and Family2002 · Hardcover · $150.00928 pages · 6 x 9978-0-88920-387-7 2010 · Paper · $95.00 928 pages · 6 x 9978-1-55458-231-0

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The Canadian Bulletin of Medical History / Bulletin canadien d’histoire de la médecine is the official organ of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine / Société canadienne d’histoire de la médecine and is the primary outlet in Canada for refereed scholarship in the history of medicine. It presents articles, notes, review articles, and book reviews in French and in English. Although the particular focus is on Canadian medical history, no aspect of the general field is excluded.

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Canadian Military History is published by the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University and features articles and book reviews by leading scholars which appeal to both an academic and popular audience. Co-published with the Canadian War Museum since 1992, Canadian Military History is a core resource for students, practitioners, and the informed general reader.

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Florilegium, an annual publication devoted to studies of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, is the official journal of the Canadian Society of Medievalists / Société canadienne des médiévistes.

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Index


AuthorsAlcalde 28Allen 11Amat-Piniella 2Arason 29Baillargeon 27Bartlett 14Baxter 8beaulieu 14Black 19Blair 11Boschman 23Bradford 10Brand 14Brandt 14Brossard 14Budde 14Cabajsky 5Cabri 14Calder 14Caragata 28Clarke 14Coleman 6Connor 6Conrad 12Cook 14Cooley 14Copp 29Copway 6Côté 24Crozier 14Davey 14DeCoste 22Devereux 6Dewdney 14Dobson 14, 26Domanski 14Dominic 1Dudek 14Elder 25Ellenwood 26Fetherling 14Finley 2Fiorentino 14Fleras 27Forsyth 14Fullerton 29Gammon 20Genosko 22Gharabaghi 18Gordon, C.W. 6Gordon, N. 26Greig 27Grubisic 8Harrison 4Hele 29Henderson 26Himelfarb, A. 28Himelfarb, J. 28Hodgson 20Hulan 6Hunter 14Ivakhiv 23Jirgens 14

Kamboureli 26Karpinski 26Keelan 29Kilbourn 25Kinder 20Knabe 24Knutson 15Krueger 18Kurschinski 3Lai 7Lachance 29Lane 14Leavey 28Lee 8Lilburn 14Lynes 14MacDonald, D.B. 22MacDonald, T. 14Mackintosh 29MacLeod 20Mandel 14Mannik 25Marín-Dòmine 2Markotić 14Marlatt 15Martel 27Marti 3Mason 9McCaffery 14McClung 6McDonald 30McGarry 25McKay 14McLeod 21McWilliams 29Moritz 14Morrey 24Morton Brown 14Moss 14Mott 29Nicol 16Parker 5Pearson 24Percy 14Piper 23Plews 28Purdy 14Rak 25Reimer 10Ricciardelli 17Ripmeester 29Roberts 16, 22Robinet 3Rose 24Rymhs 17Saarinen 21Sanders 14Schmenk 28Scott 14Shearer 14Sheldrick 22Sinner 12Skott-Myhre 18

Sloniowski 24Sowton 26Steckley 21Stirrup 16, 22Stojanova 24Stubbs 14Sugars 4Symes 3, 29Szabo-Jones 23Taylor 23Trono 23Ty 25Unger 20Vallée 30van den Hoonaard 21Van Der Meer 20Vance 3Vautour 9Verduyn 9, 26Wah 14Wayman 14Webb 14Weik von Mossner 13Werschler 14White 24Wilson 27Wunker 9

Titles1812 29All These Roads 14Avatar and Nature Spirituality 23Before the First Word 14Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase 8Blocking Public Participation 22Blues and Bliss 14Boom! 25Brief History of Women in Quebec 27By Word of Mouth 14Canada and Africa in the New Millennium 19Canada the Good 27Catching the Torch 26Children of the Outer Dark 14Collected Works of Florence Nightingale 30Creating Together 12Crisp Day Closing on My Hand 14Critical Collaborations 26DADA, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect 25Desire Never Leaves 14Detecting Canada 24Earthly Pages 14Ecologies of the Moving Image 23Eighteenth-Century Wyandot 21Europe in Its Own Eyes 22False Laws of Narrative 14Fence and the Bridge 16Field Marks 14Fierce Departures 14Foreigner 6Forest of Bourg-Marie 4Found in Alberta 23From Meteorite Impact to Constellation City 21From Room to Room 14 From the Iron House 17Girls, Texts, Cultures 10Great War 3Indigenous Poetics in Canada 21K.L. Reich 2Leaving the Shade of the Middle Ground 14Legacies of Jean-Luc Godard 24Living Recovery 28Map Worlds 21Material Cultures in Canada 11Memory Effect 25Mobility of Light 14More Easily Kept Illusions 14Motherlode 20Moving Environments 13Nature of Empires and the Empires of Nature 29No Accident 29

Not the Whole Story 28Ontario Boys 27Order in Which We Do Things 14Painted Fires 6Parallel Encounters 16, 22Plans Deranged by Time 14Please, No More Poetry 14Producing Canadian Literature 26Public Poetics 9Queen of Peace Room 1Racisms in a Multicultural Canada 27Reclaiming Canadian Bodies 25Representing Sound 20Reverse Shots 24Rivering 15Seats of the Mighty 5Slanting I, Imagining We 7Speaking of Power 14Street Angel 1Surviving Incarceration 17Tax Is Not a Four-Letter Word 28This Awareness of Beauty 20Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation 6Traditions and Transitions 28Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory 26Two Bicycles 24Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger 20 Verse and Worse 14When Technocultures Collide 22With Children and Youth 18World of Niagara Wine 29

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