Product Description: Frank Davey is both participant and witness in his provocative examination of the nature of literary power as a part of the nature of literary power as a part of general cultural and political relationships in contemporary and Anglophone Canada.

Product Description: This collection of essays focuses on the varied and complex roles that editors have played in the production of literary and scholarly texts in Canada. With contributions from a wide range of participants who have played seminal roles as editors of Canadian literatures―from nineteenth-century works to the contemporary avant-garde, from canonized texts to anthologies of so-called minority writers and the oral literatures of the First Nations―this collection is the first of its kind...read more

Product Description: This collection chronicles Phyllis Webb's struggle with the creative process and her intense need to probe beneath the surface of things. The subjects of these essays are various, but themes and concerns recur, and the focus is usually literary, with a few light brush strokes of fantasy here and there...read more

Product Description: Pacific Rim Letters is a never-before-seen collection of letters Roy Kiyooka wrote between 1975 and 1985. It presents a fascinating and highly valuable picture of the artistic and literary communities Kiyooka was actively involved with, as well as Kiyooka as a man with an extraordinary intellect and passion for life and the arts...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Scandalous Bodies is an impassioned and learned book about multiculturalism and literature by diasporic writers in English Canada. Kamboureli's exploration of ethnicity ranges from government policy to media representations, from the relationship between realist fiction and historical realities to postmodern renderings of the multicultural, from the philosopher Charles Taylor to the cultural responsibilities of diasporic critics like the author herself...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine the various contexts―political, social, and cultural―that have shaped the study of Canadian literature and the role it plays in our understanding of the Canadian nation-state...read more

Product Description: Transcanada Letters by Roy Kiyooka was a landmark when it first appeared in 1975. Thirty years later, it remains one of the most remarkable literary texts in Canada. Transcanada Letters, which includes letters Kiyooka wrote from 1966 to 1975, offers a new generation of readers the opportunity to discover one of the most significant artistic and literary figures of Canada’s modern cultural history...read more