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Polar bears are truly majestic animals: the largest land-dwelling
carnivore on earth, they can measure up to 3 metres in length, and
weigh up to 700 kilograms. They are also iconic in other ways - a
symbol of the climate change debate, with their survival now
threatened by the loss of Arctic ice. Their images decorate
fountains and the cornices of buildings across Europe. They sell
cold drinks. They feature in children's books, on merry-go-rounds,
and under the arms of weary toddlers heading for bed. Their pelts
were once highly prized by hunters and live captures became
attractions in zoos and circuses. Stuffed bears still haunt museums
and stately homes. This is a natural and cultural history of the
polar bear, describing the evolution, species, habitat and
behaviour of the animal, as well as its portrayal in art,
literature, film and advertising. With many fine images throughout,
this will appeal to the wide audience who love these outsize,
beautiful, seemingly cuddly yet deadly carnivores.
The complexities of the English language can be daunting for even
the most fluent speakers, and for Canadians this is doubly so with
the mixture of British and American traditions. Almost anyone
engaged in formal writing will sometimes need to consult a usage
guide for advice, but Canadians have always been forced to choose
between a British or an American source. With the Guide to Canadian
English Usage, writers will have an authoritative reference based
on Canadian sources that provides pithy direction on numerous
details of the language.
From the indefinite article to zoology, alphabetically arranged
entries clarify issues of word choice, punctuation, spelling, and
abbreviation. Throughout it offers guidance on Canadianisms,
confusibles, difficult expressions, First Nation names, foreign
phrases, grammar, inclusive language, punctuation, spelling, and
troublesome pronunciations. Each entry explains the problem at
hand, outlines a range of prescriptions, and then either recommends
a particular usage or reviews the alternatives from which the
now-informed reader can choose. All entries feature a wide range of
fascinating quotations from Canadian sources.
Newly reissued in an attractive hardcover edition, the Guide to
Canadian English Usage is the essential reference for any writer,
editor, or speaker of English in Canada.
All the Feels / Tous les sens presents research into emotion and
cognition in Canadian, Indigenous, and Québécois writings in
English or French. Affect is both internal and external, private
and public; with its fluid boundaries, it represents a productive
dimension for literary analysis. The emerging field of affect
studies makes vital claims about ethical impulses, social justice,
and critical resistance, and thus much is at stake when we adopt
affective reading practices. The contributors ask what we can learn
from reading contemporary literatures through this lens. Unique and
timely, readable and teachable, this collection is a welcome
resource for scholars of literature, feminism, philosophy, and
transnational studies as well as anyone who yearns to imagine the
world differently. Contributors: Nicole Brossard, Marie Carrière,
Matthew Cormier, Kit Dobson, Nicoletta Dolce, Louise Dupré,
Margery Fee, Ana María Fraile-Marcos, Smaro Kamboureli, Aaron
Kreuter, Daniel Laforest, Carmen Mata Barreiro, Ursula
Mathis-Moser, Heather Milne, Eric Schmaltz, Maïté Snauwaert,
Jeanette den Toonder
Literature not only represents Canada as "our home and native land"
but has been used as evidence of the civilization needed to claim
and rule that land. Indigenous people have long been represented as
roaming "savages" without land title and without literature.
Literary Land Claims: From Pontiac's War to Attawapiskat analyzes
works produced between 1832 and the late 1970s by writers who
resisted these dominant notions. Margery Fee examines John
Richardson's novels about Pontiac's War and the War of 1812 that
document the breaking of British promises to Indigenous nations.
She provides a close reading of Louis Riel's addresses to the court
at the end of his trial in 1885, showing that his vision for
sharing the land derives from the Indigenous value of respect. Fee
argues that both Grey Owl and E. Pauline Johnson's visions are
obscured by challenges to their authenticity. Finally, she shows
how storyteller Harry Robinson uses a contemporary Okanagan
framework to explain how white refusal to share the land meant that
Coyote himself had to make a deal with the King of England. Fee
concludes that despite support in social media for Theresa Spence's
hunger strike, Idle No More, and the Indian Residential School
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the story about "savage
Indians" and "civilized Canadians" and the latter group's superior
claim to "develop" the lands and resources of Canada still
circulates widely. If the land is to be respected and shared as it
should be, literary studies needs a new critical narrative, one
that engages with the ideas of Indigenous writers and
intellectuals.
E. Pauline Johnson, also known as Tekahionwake, is remarkable as
one of a very few early North American Indigenous poets and fiction
writers. Most Indigenous writers of her time were men educated for
the ministry who published religious, anthropological,
autobiographical, political, and historical works, rather than
poetry and fiction. More extraordinary still, she became both a
canonical poet and a literary celebrity, performing on stage for
fifteen years across Canada, in the US, and in London. Johnson is
now seen as a central figure in the intellectual history of Canada
and the United States, and as an important historical example of
Indigenous feminism. This edition collects a diverse range of
Johnson's writings on what was then called "the Indian question"
and on the question of her own complex Indigenous identity. Six
thematic sections gather Johnson's poetry, fiction, and
non-fiction, and a rich selection of historical appendices provide
context for her public life and her work as a feminist and activist
for Indigenous people.
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