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Kouchibouguac
Removal, Resistance, and Remembrance at a Canadian National Park
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
In 1969, the federal and New Brunswick governments created Kouchibouguac National Park on the province’s east coast. The park’s creation required the relocation of more than 1200 people who lived within its boundaries. Government officials claimed the mass eviction was necessary both to allow...
Remembering and Forgetting in Acadie
A Historian's Journey through Public Memory
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Between 2004 and 2005, Acadians observed two major anniversaries in their history: the 400th anniversary of the birth of Acadie and the 250th anniversary of their deportation at the hands of the British. Attending many of the commemorative activities that marked the anniversaries, Ronald Rudin has...
Communicating in Canada's Past
Essays in Media History
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2009
Communicating in Canada's Past evolved out of essays presented at the inaugural Conference on Media History in Canada of 2006, which brought together media historians from across the disciplines and from both French and English Canada. The first collection of its kind, this volume assembles both well-established...
Innovation and the Social Economy
The Quebec Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Social economy organizations such as cooperatives, non-profits, mutual benefit groups, foundations, and non-governmental organizations are uniquely positioned to respond not only to emerging social and economic needs, but also to new collective aspirations. In Québec, for instance, a pioneering social...
Culture, Communication and National Identity
The Case of Canadian Television
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1990
‘There can be no political sovereignty without culture sovereignty.’ So argued the CBC in 1985 in its evidence to the Caplan/Sauvageau Task Force on Broadcasting Policy. Richard Collins challenges this assumption. He argues in this study of nationalism and Canadian television policy that Canada’s...
Editing the Image
Strategies in the Production and Reception of the Visual
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2008
The editing process is a vital part of virtually every form of media. Primarily associated with texts and written language, editing is equally essential, if less examined, in regard to visual media. Editing the Image looks at the editing of visual media as both a series of technical exercises and...
Shakespeare in Quebec
Nation, Gender, and Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
In Shakespeare in Qu**ébec, Jennifer Drouin analyses representations of nation and gender in Shakespearean adaptations written in Québec since the Quiet Revolution. Using postcolonial and gender theory, Drouin traces the evolution of discourses of nation and gender in Québec from the Conquest of...
The Narcissistic Text
A Reading of Camus' Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
Critics, theologians, philosophers, and psychoanalysts have written several thousand books, theses, and articles about Camus' fiction. His first published novel, L'Etranger, had a unique impact on a whole generation of readers, and is other fiction, although not as well known, has also been influential....
Angelic Echoes
Hervé Guibert and Company
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
In 1990 Hervé Guibert gained wide recognition and notoriety with the publication of "À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie (To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life)". This novel, one of the most famous AIDS fictions in French or any language, recounts the battle of the first-person narrator...
Translating Pain
Immigrant Suffering in Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2010
In the post-Cold War, post-9/11 era, the immigrant experience has changed dramatically. Despite the recent successes of immigrant and world literatures, there has been little scholarship on how the hardships of immigration are conveyed in immigrant narratives. Translating Pain fills this gap by examining...
'Will the Circle be Unbroken?'
Aboriginal Communities, Restorative Justice, and the Challenges of Conflict and Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
Embraced with zeal by a wide array of activists and policymakers, the restorative justice movement has made promises to reduce the disproportionate rates of Aboriginal involvement in crime and the criminal justice system and to offer a healing model suitable to Aboriginal communities. Such promises...
by Isabella Valancy Crawford, Douglas Lochhead
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
This volume established Isabella Valancy Crawford as one of Canada's principal poets. Coupled with an introductory collage of viewpoints and reactions to her work by James Reaney its provides a vivid glimpse into the literary past of this country.
Although her poetry reflects the patterns of...
by Wilfred Campbell, Archibald Lampman, Duncan Campbell Scott
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1979
The original At the Mermaid Inn, one of the most notable literary endeavours in Canada, was the result of the combined efforts of three poets: Wilfred Campbell (1858-1918), Archibald Lampman (1861-99), and Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947).
A Saturday column that ran in the Toronto Globe from...
by Jonathan Ball
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
John Paizs’s ‘Crime Wave’ examines the Winnipeg filmmaker’s 1985 cult film as an important example of early postmodern cinema and as a significant precursor to subsequent postmodern blockbusters, including the much later Hollywood film Adaptation. Crime Wave’s comic plot is simple: aspiring...