Silence and Seizure is a memoir about raising a son with a rare epilepsy syndrome-about the fear of seizures and the fear of unknown futures. The story starts when Christine Stewart-Nunez's plan for a stable life disintegrates. She chases a diagnosis for her son Holden's odd behavior and lapses in language, and she watches her marriage to ......
For some outdoor enthusiasts, the word "wilderness" means "free of people". This book shows that many beloved stories of outdoor adventure forget that people have lived in and with the natural spaces of North America since long before Europeans arrived. When we read Western narratives in partnership with Indigenous authored narratives, a new ......
Unequivocal Magic speaks to the "quiet power" of photographs and their hidden creativity, bringing readers into the author's own journey into the history of a 1910 portrait of iconic French actress, Sarah Bernhardt. What begins as a quest to recognize the work of her once renowned photographer, Walter Barnett, becomes a story about the female ......
The Weather and the Words: The Selected Letters of John Newlove, 1963-2003, gathers hundreds of never-before-seen letters from the poet John Newlove's archives and sheds light on an author who was, to many Canadian writers, a literary master. Despite his stature during his lifetime, Newlove has been largely forgotten, and these letters remind ......
Reading With My Grandmother is an analysis of a range of Chinese Canadian literature that deepens the scholarly engagement by using elements of the author's family's story-her grandmother's letters and and photographs. This engagement allows the author to simultaneously illustrate and participate in the varied ways Chinese Canadian literature ......
Public Amusements, Variety Shows, and Racial Acts in an Age of Imitation, 1898-1919
In the early twentieth-century, Canada's theatres were mostly controlled by Americans. As variety shows flooded these stages, new forms of blackface, inspired by modern forms of amusements, changed the theatre. In this era marked by progressive social reforms, the stage embodied the modern ethos of imitation, mimicry, and change. Staging ......
The image of the dusty, undisturbed archive has been swept away in response to growing interest across disciplines in the materials they house and the desire to find and make meaning through an engagement with those materials. Archival studies scholars and archivists are developing related theoretical frameworks and practices that recognize that ......
Arthur Lipsett's first film was nominated for an Academy Award in 1962, marking the arrival of an influential new voice. The film's dark humour and dancing rhythms had captured the spirit of his times. When Lipsett died by suicide in 1986, the humour and joy of his work was eclipsed by that sardonic darkness. It all came to feel like an omen. ......
Arab Techno for the People analyses electronic music soundscapes as a field site to explore the lived experiences of cosmopolitan, Arab individuals living in Toronto and Montreal, Canada. This book seeks to move readers-and Canadians more broadly-to a more nuanced understanding of the misinterpellation, discrimination, and racism faced by those ......
