Nous sommes en 1847. Alors que les lépreux sont transférés de l’île Sheldrake au nouveau lazaret de Tracadie, Isa, toujours bien portante, perd espoir. Bien que la maladie ne semble avoir aucune emprise sur la jeune femme, l’isolement,...
Canadian literature
- Auteur:Desjardins, SergineSommaire:
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A groundbreaking anthology from territory that is now known as Saskatchewan, Kisiskâciwan contains rich, oral narratives from Cree, Saulteaux, Nakoda, Dakota, Dene, Gros Ventres, and Métis cultures; speeches and letters by Treaty Chiefs...
- Auteur:Houde, NicoleSommaire:
Dans ce roman, son onzième livre, Nicole Houde fait évoluer ses personnages à l’époque de la Crise des années trente, dans les villages de l’Anse-Saint-Jean et de Saint-Fulgence, près de Chicoutimi, des usines de l’Alcan et des...
- Auteur:Seymour, DavidSommaire:
Shortlisted for the 2006 Gerald Lampert Award
Inter Alia is the long-awaited first collection by one of Canada’s most talented young poets. His work has been widely published in journals and was selected by Lorna Crozier...
- Auteur:Authers, Benjamin, Snauwaert, Maïté, Laforest, Daniel, Braz, Albert, Delisle, Jennifer, Gaboury-Diallo, Lise, Kamboureli, Smaro, Korkka, Janne, Lamontagne, André, Mackey, Margaret, Sing, Pamela, Wunker, ErinSommaire:
This book examines the cultural work of space and memory in Canada and Canadian literature, and encourages readers to investigate Canada within its regional, national, and global contexts. It features seven chapters in English and five...
- Auteur:Sugars, CynthiaSommaire:
Canadian literature, and specifically the teaching of Canadian literature, has emerged from a colonial duty to a nationalist enterprise and into the current territory of postcolonialism. From practical discussions related to specific...
- Auteur:Fiamengo, JaniceSommaire:
Home Ground and Foreign Territory is an original collection of essays on early Canadian literature in English. Aiming to be both provocative and scholarly, it encompasses a variety of (sometimes opposing) perspectives, subjects, and...
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The Canadian Prairie has long been represented as a timeless and unchanging location, defined by settlement and landscape. Now, a new generation of writers and historians challenge that perception and argue. Instead, that it is a region...
- Auteur:Gladstone, AmielSommaire:
Hippies and Bolsheviks and Other Plays collects three works by Amiel Gladstone, introducing a wide range of fascinating characters and a formidable new voice in Canadian drama. In The Wedding Pool, three single friends in unsatisfactory...
- Auteur:Christie, EvieSommaire:
Gutted, Evie Christie’s powerful and harrowing debut, pulses with the rhythms of life, loss, and love. Energized with the language of now and the wide scope of popular culture, while dwelling in Yeats’ “foul rag and bone shop...
- Auteur:Knowles, MikeSommaire:
Bullets squared everything. Wilson left his old boss alive in exchange for a clean slate. Wilson held up his end of the bargain and stayed off the grid for two years. Two years of peace until a man came calling. The man brought a gun...
- Auteur:Adler, Nathan Niigan NoodinSommaire:
Pyromaniacs, vigilantes, mysterious phenomena, prehistoric beasts, cryptid species, grave robbers and ghosts... the stories of Ghost Lake feature a cast of interrelated characters and their brushes with the supernatural, creatures of...
- Auteur:Bloomfield, DacciaSommaire:
A great love comes with bells... Flip is an unemployed writer with a heart of gold and limited social skills--he's also very much in love. And you? You're invited to witness the carnage' . It's a story we're all familiar with: just as...
- Auteur:Lavallée, FrançoisSommaire:
On s’en veut toujours, pour mille et une raisons. Par jour. Est-il possible de se libérer de ce sentiment de culpabilité? En fait, pour bien des gens, on dirait que la dureté envers soi-même est une sorte de vertu. Et fatalement, quand...
- Auteur:McKegney, SamSommaire:
Through rigorous engagement with Indigenous literary art, Carrying the Burden of Peace highlights the decolonial potential of Indigenous masculinities. Can a critical examination of Indigenous masculinities be an honour song--one that...
- Auteur:Camlot, Jason, McLeod, KatherineSommaire:
The materials we turn to for the construction of our literary pasts - the texts, performances, and discussions selected for storage and cataloguing in archives - shape what we know and teach about literature today. The ways in which...
- Auteur:Morrison, KatherineSommaire:
On a 300-year journey through the historical, political and sociological milieux of Canada and the United States, Morrison examines national views of the past, nature, place and home, religion, violence and the law, humor and satire,...
- Auteur:Colombo, John RobertSommaire:
Here is a list of three dozen of the top literary locales in the country. The selection of sites is necessarily subjective, yet it attempts to represent geographical, historical, social and cultural concerns as well as strictly literary...
- Auteur:Erregue-Sacchi, LucianaSommaire:
A collection of 14 creative non-fiction essays that intersect food, geography, politics, heritage, language, and nostalgia allowing new connections to flourish between cuisines, authors, nationalities, and the texts themselves.
- Auteur:Tanti, MelissaSommaire:
The dismantling of “Understanding Canada”—an international program eliminated by Canada’s Conservative government in 2012—posed a tremendous potential setback for Canadianists. Yet Canadian writers continue to be celebrated globally by...