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Title: |
Ten Canadian Writers in Context |
| Series: |
Robert Kroetsch Series |
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Marina Endicott Edited by: Marie Carrière Contributions by: Lawrence Hill, Daniel Laforest, Alice Major, Don Perkins, Julie Rodgers, Joseph Pivato, Eden Robinson, Gregory Scofield, Winfried Siemerling, Pamela Sing Edited by: Curtis Gillespie, Jason Purcell Contributions by: Lynn Coady, Ying Chen, Michael Crummey, Jennifer Bowering Delisle, Kit Dobson, Caterina Edwards |
| ISBN10-13: |
177212141X : 9781772121414 |
| Illustrations: |
10 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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228x152x13mm |
| Pages: |
216 |
| Weight: |
.326 Kg. |
| Published: |
University of Alberta Press (CA) - June 2016 |
| List Price: |
19.99 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Subjects: |
Poetry : Anthologies (non-poetry) : Literature: history & criticism : Canada |
| Ten years, ten authors, ten critics. The Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne reaches into its ten-year archive of Brown Bag Lunch readings to sample some of the most diverse and powerful voices in contemporary Canadian literature. This anthology offers readers samples from some of Canada's most exciting writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Each selection is introduced by a brief essay, serving as a point of entry into the writer's work. From the east coast of Newfoundland to Kitamaat territory on British Columbia's central coast, there is a story for everyone, from everywhere. True to Canada's multilingual and multicultural heritage, these ten writers come from diverse ethnicities and backgrounds, and work in multiple languages, including English, French, and Cree. Ying Chen | essay by Julie Rodgers Lynn Coady | essay by Maïté Snauwaert Michael Crummey | essay by Jennifer Bowering Delisle Caterina Edwards | essay by Joseph Pivato Marina Endicott | essay by Daniel Laforest Lawrence Hill | essay by Winfried Siemerling Alice Major | essay by Don Perkins Eden Robinson | essay by Kit Dobson Gregory Scofield | essay by Angela Van Essen Kim Thúy | essay by Pamela V. Sing |
| Table of Contents: |
| Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION / Making Literature, Literature in the Making by Marie Carrière, Curtis Gillespie & Jason Purcell 1 YING CHEN / Experiment and Innovation by Julie Rodgers / Le Mangeur (excerpt) L'Ingratitude (excerpt) 2 LYNN COADY / a.k.a. The Wit by Maïté Snauwaert / The Antagonist (excerpt) 3 MICHAEL CRUMMEY / The Presence of the Past by Jennifer Bowering Delisle / Sweetland (excerpt) 4 CATERINA EDWARDS / History Lost in Forgetfulness by Joseph Pivato / Finding Rosa: A Mother with Alzheimer's, a Daughter in Search of the Past (excerpt) 5 MARINA ENDICOTT / Lights and Shadows across the Continent by Daniel Laforest / Close to Hugh (excerpt) 6 LAWRENCE HILL / History and the Truth of Fiction by Winfried Siemerling / Meet You at the Door (excerpt) 7 ALICE MAJOR / Metaphors, Myths, and the Eye of the Magpie by Don Perkins / The Office Tower Tales (excerpt) 8 EDEN ROBINSON / Reading for B'gwus by Kit Dobson / The Sasquatch at Home: Traditional Protocols & Modern Storytelling (excerpt) 9 GREGORY SCOFIELD / kistêyihtamowin êkwa sâkihitowin (Honour and Love) by Angela Van Essen / kipocihkân: Poems New & Selected (excerpt) 10 KIM THúY / A Gentle Power by Pamela V. Sing / Ru (excerpt) Essay Contributors Permissions |
| Marie Carrière is the Director of the Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne and teaches French, English, and Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on contemporary women's writing and the theory and history of feminism. |
| Don Perkins is a lecturer in the department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, and has also taught for the Drama department and the Faculty of Native Studies. He teaches and publishes in the areas of non-fiction writing, Canadian drama, popular culture, literature and history, and Native literature. |
| Julie Rodgers is a lecturer in French at Maynooth University, Ireland. She teaches and publishes on contemporary women's writing and film in French. She has published two articles on Ying Chen to-date, with a third forthcoming in a special issue of Quebec Studies in 2015. |
| Gregory Scofield is one of Canada's most renowned Aboriginal writers, whose collections include kipocihkân: Poems New & Selected, I Knew Two Metis Women, and Love Medicine and One Song. His unique style blends oral storytelling, song, spoken word and the Cree language. His poetry and memoir, Thunder Through My Veins (1999), is widely taught across Canada and the U.S. |
| Winfried Siemerling is a professor in the department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo. His current research includes African Canadian writing, literary history, and the presence of the past. He is co-researcher of "International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation: A Partnered Research Institute," funded by the SSHRC Partnership Grant. |
| Pamela V. Sing is Director of the Institut d'études canadiennes/Institute of Canadian Studies at Campus Saint-Jean, the University of Alberta's francophone campus, and Associate Director of the Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne at the University of Alberta. She teaches French, Québec, and Franco-Canadian literature at Campus Saint-Jean and is the co-editor of Impenser la francophonie: Recherches, renouvellement, diversité, identité with Estelle Dansereau (Campus Saint-Jean, 2012). Her research focuses on Franco-Canadian and Québécois writers, as well as Canadian and American writers of Franco-Métis ancestry. |
| Curtis Gillespie is the author of five books, including the memoirs Almost There and Playing Through and the novel Crown Shyness. He has won or been nominated for a variety of awards for his books including the Danuta Gleed Award, the Henry Kreisel Award and the MacEwan Prize. He is the recipient of seven National Magazine Awards from twenty nominations for his writing on science, politics, sports, travel and the arts, including a record-tying four awards in 2014. In 2010, he co-founded the narrative journalism magazine Eighteen Bridges, which he also edits. In addition to his own writing, he has worked with many of Canada's best writers as an editor, teacher and mentor at the University of Alberta, the Banff Centre for the Arts and Eighteen Bridges. |
| Jason Purcell is a graduate student at the University of Alberta in the Department of English and Film Studies. He is the Communications Officer for the Canadian Literature Centre/ Centre de littérature canadienne at the University of Alberta, the Circulation Coordinator for Eighteen Bridges magazine, and the Manuscript Coordinator at NeWest Press. |
| Ying Chen left her native Shanghai and settled in Montreal in 1991. Her first novel, La mémoire de l'eau was published by Leméac in 1992. Subsequent novels include the award-winning Les Lettres chinoises (Leméac, 1993); L'ingratitude (Leméac, 1995), Immobile (Boréal, 1998) which won the Prix Alfred-DesRochers 1999), Un enfant À ma porte (Boréal, 2008) and La rive est loin (Boréal, 2013). Chen lives in Vancouver. |
| Michael Crummey is a poet, novelist, and short story writer from Newfoundland. His first novels, River Thieves (Doubleday, 2001) and The Wreckage (Doubleday, 2005) were each finalists for various prestigious literary awards. His third, Galore (Doubleday, 2009), won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book. His most recent novel Sweetland (Doubleday, 2014) was released in August. |
| Awards / Prizes: |
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Independent Publisher Awards, Anthology
2017
United States
Runner-up
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| Reviews: |
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#6 on the Edmonton Journal's Non-fiction Bestsellers list for the week of October 28, 2016 The Edmonton Journal
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"...the collection is ideal for students and teachers of Canadian Literature at the high school or undergraduate levels, but would also be a useful resource for any active, engaged reader.... Overall, it imparts the impression of a vibrant, lively Canadian literature ranging widely in interests and preoccupations. The editors have been careful to select a diverse range of writers.... The net impact of this slim volume is to force a reconsideration of who in the world of Canadian literature is canonical and worthy of sustained, thoughtful examination. Every writer selected lives up to this standard.... [the] collection functions as something of a sampler pack of some of the most interesting writers working in Canada today." -- Brenna Clark Gray -- Event Poetry and Prose, 46.1, 20170215
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"[A] compilation of excerpts of creative non-fiction, fiction, and poetry.... Each of the ten featured works is preceded by a critic's essay, giving sharp insight into this transcultural anthology and further contextualizing individual works for the reader. The selections...are...preoccupied...with the relationship between spatiality, geography, and Canadian identity. Displacement and journeying--the impulse to search for the self--are most clearly seen in the anthology's latter works." Canadian Literature 233 (Summer 2017) [Full review at http://canlit.ca/article/landscapes-of-the-mind] -- Rachel Lallouz
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