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  • Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada

    Edited by Christine Kim, Sophie McCall, Melina Baum Singer ...
    Series series TransCanada
    Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada considers how the terms of critical debate in literary and cultural studies in Canada have shifted with respect to race, nation, and difference. In asking how Indigenous and diasporic interventions have remapped these debates, the contributors argue that a new “cultural grammar” is at work and attempt to sketch out some of the ways ... Read more

    $55.19 CAD

  • The Child in World Cinema

    by Michael Brodski, Juanita But, Lucia Rabello de Castro, Lennon Yao-chung Chang, Shih-Wen Sue Chen, Jessica Davidson, Paromita Deb, Yoad Eliaz, Einat Baram Eshel, Swarnavel Eswaran, Negin Golravesh Fekry, Walaa Ghanayim, Omri Grinberg, Caroline Isabel Grose, Seyyed Mohsen Habibi, Kelly Hansen, Belinda He, Kobe Chan Yan Chuen, Caroline Larde, Sin Wen Lau, Fabiana de Amorim Marcello, Kenta McGrath, Kaori Mori Want, Mina Rezaei, Carolina Rocha, Christine Singer, Adelaide Rezende de Souza, Paula Uglione, Onoriu Colacel, Christa Jones ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    This collection seeks to broaden the discussion of the child image by close analysis of the child and childhood as depicted in non-Western cinemas. Each essay offers a counter-narrative to Western notions of childhood by looking critically at alternative visions of childhood that does not privilege a Western ideal. Rather, this collection seeks to broaden our ideas about children, childhood, and ... Read more

    $183.99 CAD

  • Arab Worlds Beyond the Middle East and North Africa

    by Manal al-Natour, Imène Ajala, Aisha Sahar Waheed Alkharusi, Diogo Bercito, Richard M. Breaux, Youssef Chouhoud, Jodor Jalit, Bessma Momani, Michael Ahn Paarlberg, Rigoberto Menendez Paredes, Naomi Sakr, Nawroos Shibli, Christine Singer, Jeanette Steemers, Rita Stephan ...
    Just like people around the world have done for generations, Arab people from the Middle East and North African (MENA) region have immigrated to various nations around the world. A number of ‘push’ factors account for why groups have left their homeland and ‘pulled’ to another nation to settle. The history and patterns of Arab migration out of the MENA illustrates the wide array of reasons for ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

  • Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema

    by Sage Leslie-McCarthy, Jayne Steel, Stella M. Hockenhull, Sarah E. S. Sinwell, Nicole Beth Wallenbrock, Christine Singer, Lindiwe Dovey, Kiu-wai Chu, Gilles Chamerois, Carolyn Salvi, Christian Stewen, Fran Hassencahl, Adrian Schober ...
    Children have been a part of the cinematic landscape since the silent film era, yet children are rarely a part of the theoretical landscape of film analysis. Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema, edited by Debbie C. Olson and Andrew Scahill, seeks to remedy that oversight. Throughout the over one-hundred year history of cinema, the image of the child has been inextricably bound to ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

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    A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

    by Loung Ung ...
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    $11.99 CAD

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  • Arrival

    The Story of CanLit

    by Nick Mount, 3M National Teaching Fellowship ...
    “The most important book to be written in more than 40 years about the rise of Canadian literature… Arrival: The Story of CanLit brims and crackles, in equal measure, with information and energy.” — Winnipeg Free PressA Globe and Mail Top 100 BookNational Post 99 Best Books of the YearIn the mid-twentieth century, Canadian literature transformed from a largely ignored trickle of books into an ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature

    Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature

    by Herb Wyile ...
    Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature is a study of the work of over twenty contemporary Atlantic-Canadian writers that counters the widespread impression of Atlantic Canada as a quaint and backward place. By examining their treatment of work, culture, and history, author Herb Wyile highlights how these writers resist the image of Atlantic Canadians ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Cruel World

    The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web

    by Lynn H. Nicholas ...
    To be a child in mid-twentieth-century Europe was to be not a person but an object, available for use in the service of the totalitarian state. Very soon after Adolf Hitler came to power, policies of eugenic selection and euthanasia began to weed ill or disabled children out of the New Order by poison, gas, and starvation. Defect-free “good blood” children were subjected to an “education” based on ... Read more

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  • The Myth of the Age of Entitlement

    Millennials, Austerity, and Hope

    by James Cairns ...
    We are said to be living in the age of entitlement. Scholars and pundits declare that millennials expect special treatment, do whatever they feel like, and think they deserve to have things handed to them. In The Myth of the Age of Entitlement, Cairns peels back the layers of the entitlement myth, exposing its faults and arguing that the majority of millennials are actually disentitled, facing ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature

    Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature

    by Smaro Kamboureli, Roy Miki ...
    Series series TransCanada
    The study of Canadian literature—CanLit—has undergone dramatic changes since it became an area of specialization in the 1960s and ’70s. As new global forces in the 1990s undermined its nation-based critical assumptions, its theoretical focus and research methods lost their immediacy. The contributors to Trans.Can.Lit address cultural policy, citizenship, white civility, and the celebrated status ... Read more

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  • First Peoples

    Indigenous Cultures and their Futures

    by Jeffrey Sissons ...
    Series series FOCI
    First Peoples argues, controversially, that far from disappearing in the face of global capitalism, indigenous cultures today are as diverse as they ever were. Rather than being absorbed into a uniform modernity, indigenous peoples are anticipating alternative futures and appropriating global resources for their own, culturally specific needs. For Sissons, however, the traditional and the modern ... Read more

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  • Reforming Child Protection

    by Bob Lonne, Nigel Parton, Jane Thomson, Maria Harries ...
    Child protection is one of the most high profile and challenging areas of social work, as well as one where children’s lives and family life are seen to be at stake. Vital as child protection work is, this book argues that there is a pressing need for change in the understanding and consequent organization of child protection in many English speaking countries.The authors present compelling ... Read more

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