Black Writers Matter

Edited by Whitney French
Foreword by Afua Cooper
Categories:
General

African American

Canadian

"Black Writers? African, Bluesy, Classical, Disrespectful, Erudite, Fiery, Groovy, Haunting, Inspiring, Jazzy, Knowing, Liberating, Militant, Nervy, Optimistic, Pugnacious, Quixotic, Rambunctious, Seductive, ...

kisiskâciwan

Edited by Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber
Category Indigenous

This groundbreaking anthology from territory that is now Saskatchewan, kisiskâciwan, includes rich oral narratives from Cree, Saulteaux, Nakoda, Dakota, Dene, and Metis cultures; early writings from ...

Aaniiih/Gros Ventre Stories

Compiled by Terry Brockie & Andrew Cowell
Categories:
Indigenous Languages

Indigenous

Series First Nation Language Readers

The first-ever collection of Anniiih/Gros Ventre narratives to be published in the Aaniiih/Gros Ventre language, this book contains traditional trickster tales and war stories. Some of these stories were ...

Measures of Astonishment

Introduction by Glen Sorestad
Compiled by League of Canadian Poets
Categories:
Essays

Speeches

Poetry

Series Oskana Poetry & Poetics

"A society without poetry and the other arts would have broken its mirror and cut out its heart. "Margaret Atwood

So boldly insists one of our greatest writers in Measures of Astonishment, a refreshing ...

These Are Our Legends

Translated by Jan van Eijk
Illustrated by Marie Abraham
Categories:
Indigenous

Alphabets & Writing Systems

Series First Nation Language Readers

Like all First Nations languages, Lillooet (Lil'wat) is a repository for an abundantly rich oral literature. In These Are Our Legends, the fifth volume of the First Nations Language Readers series, the ...

The New Wascana Anthology

Edited by Medrie Purdham & Michael Trussler
Categories:
Canadian

General

English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

The New Wascana Anthology is named for the Cree word "oskana," meaning "bones,"* but this anthology is no literary graveyard. It will introduce you to stories, poems, and essays that can be discussed ...

-30-: Thirty Years of Journalism and Democracy in Canada

Edited by Mitch Diamantopoulos
Categories:
Essays

Democracy

Essays

Series University of Regina(UR)

Journalism matters--and this book proves it.

This insightful, eloquent and entertaining anthology paints a compelling portrait of Canada and Canadian journalism in a rapidly changing world. It brings ...

Berlin's Culturescape in the Twentieth Century

Edited by Thomas Bredohl & Michael Zimmermann
Category Essays
Series UR

Berlin's Culturescape in the Twentieth Century reflects the many facets of Berlin's unique development as a cultural metropolis. At the centre of this compilation of essays is the notion of culturescape ...

Traditional Narratives of the Rock Cree Indians

By Robert Brightman
Categories:
Non-classifiable

Indigenous

Series Canadian Plains Reprint Series(CPRS)

First published in 1980 by the Canadian Museum of Civilization, this study presents narratives from different genres of Rock Cree oral literature in northwestern Manitoba together with interpretive and ...

Regina's Secret Spaces

Edited by Lorne Beug, Anne Campbell, and Jeannie Mah
Photographs by Don Hall
Categories:
Regional

Essays

Series Trade Books based in Scholarship (TBS)

Regina's Secret Spaces: Love and Lore of Local Geography is an anthology of essays and poems by eighty writers, artists, architects, musicians, patrons of the arts, and cultural theorists who were inspired ...