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Indigenous Studies eBook Series

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  • Literary Land Claims

    The “Indian Land Question” from Pontiac’s War to Attawapiskat

    by Margery Fee ...
    Series series Indigenous Studies
    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 ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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  • Stolen Life

    The Journey of a Cree Woman

    by Rudy Wiebe, Yvonne Johnson ...
    "Written with primal intensity, touched with redeeming compassion, Rudy Wiebe--has explored our history, our roots and the secrets of our hearts with moral seriousness and great feeling." Governor General's Award for Fiction Citation, 1994A powerful, major work of non-fiction, beautifully written, from the twice winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, and the great-great-granddaughter ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

    A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

    by Margaret Atwood ...
    Series series A List
    As a part of the launch of the new A-List series, a curated selection of titles from Anansi's backlist featuring handsome new covers and introductions by well-known Canadian writers, comes Margaret Atwood's Survival, with an introduction by the author.01 When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • W.E.H. Stanner

    Selected Writings

    by W.E.H. Stanner ...
    One of Australia’s finest essayists, the first to cut through ‘the great Australian silence’ to convey the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture to settler Australians‘The most literate and persuasive of all contributions on Australia’s Indigenous people’ —Marcia LangtonW.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. In his 1968 Boyer Lectures he exposed a ‘cult of forgetfulness practised on a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • An Act of Genocide

    Colonialism and the Sterilization of Aboriginal Women

    by Karen Stote ...
    During the 1900s eugenics gained favour as a means of controlling the birth rate among “undesirable” populations in Canada. Though many people were targeted, the coercive sterilization of one group has gone largely unnoticed. An Act of Genocide unpacks long-buried archival evidence to begin documenting the forced sterilization of Aboriginal women in Canada. Grounding this evidence within the ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Falling Sky

    Words of a Yanomami Shaman

    by Davi Kopenawa, Bruce Albert ...
    Translated by Nicholas Elliott, Alison Dundy ...
    The 10th anniversary editionA Guardian Best Book about DeforestationA New Scientist Best Book of the YearA Taipei Times Best Book of the Year“A perfectly grounded account of what it is like to live an indigenous life in communion with one’s personal spirits. We are losing worlds upon worlds.”—Louise Erdrich, New York Times Book Review“The Yanomami of the Amazon, like all the i... ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Indigenous Poetics in Canada

    Edited by Neal McLeod ...
    Series Book 13 - Indigenous Studies
    Indigenous Poetics in Canada broadens the way in which Indigenous poetry is examined, studied, and discussed in Canada. Breaking from the parameters of traditional English literature studies, this volume embraces a wider sense of poetics, including Indigenous oralities, languages, and understandings of place.Featuring work by academics and poets, the book examines four elements of Indigenous ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Canadian Modernists Meet

    Edited by Dean Irvine ...
    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    The Canadian Modernists Meet is a collection of new critical essays on major and rediscovered Canadian writers of the early to mid-twentieth century. F.R. Scott's well-known poem 'The Canadian Authors Meet' sets the theme for the volume: a revisiting of English Canada's formative movements in modernist poetry, fiction, and drama. As did Scott's poem, Dean Irvine's collection raises questions - ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Angéline de Montbrun

    A Psychological Romance of Quebec

    by Laure Conan ...
    Translated by Yves Brunelle ...
    Series series Heritage
    Laure Conan was the first woman novelist in French Canada and the first writer in all Canada to attempt a roman d'analyse. As she refused to have her true identity revealed, the author of the preface to her book, Abbé H.-R. Casgrain, made a point of confirming that it was indeed a woman hiding behind the pen-name. Her daring in writing a psychological novel was 'forgiven' because she was a woman, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Nta’tugwaqanminen

    Our Story: Evolution of the Gespe’gewa’gi Mi’gmaq

    by Gespe’gewa’gi Mi’gmawei Mawiomi ...
    Nta’tugwaqanminen provides evidence that the Mi’gmaq of the Gespe’gewa’gi (Northern New Brunswick and the Gaspé Peninsula) have occupied their territory since time immemorial. They were the sole occupants of it prior to European settlement and occupied it on a continuous basis. This book was written through an alliance between the Mi’gmaq of Northern Gespe’gewa’gi (Gaspé Peninsula), their Elders ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Engendering Genre

    The Works of Margaret Atwood

    by Reingard M. Nischik ...
    Winner of the 2010 Margaret Atwood Society Best Book Prize.In Engendering Genre, renowned Margaret Atwood scholar Reingard M. Nischik analyzes the relationship between gender and genre in Atwood’s works. She approaches Atwood’s oeuvre by genre – poetry, short fiction, novels, criticism, comics, and film – and examines them individually. She explores how Atwood has developed her genres to be gender ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Grandchild of Empire

    About Irony, Mainly in the Commonwealth

    by W. H. New ...
    Canada's foremost literary critic looks at the politics of irony in modern writing and explains how it relates to imperial history, how it impacts upon personal memories, how it speaks from the margin, and how it indirectly teaches us to resist presumptuous authority. Funny, informed and emotionally engaging, Grandchild of Empire, an extension of the 2002 Sedgewick Lecture at the University of BC, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD