First Person Plural
Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship
Focusing on the 1990s, when debates over voice and representation were particularly explosive, McCall investigates a wide range of “told-to” narratives that have shaped the struggle for Aboriginal rights in Canada, and asks what is at stake in crafting a politics and ethics of collaboration.
On the Art of Being Canadian
Drawing on a wealth of artistic expression, this book explores how the arts and artists have shaped Canadian national identity.
Invocations
The Poetry and Prose of Gwendolyn MacEwen
A new critical reading of eminent Canadian author Gwendolyn MacEwen's poetry and prose.
Words We Call Home
Celebrating Creative Writing at UBC
Gives voice to several generations of Canadian writers in their restless search for literary identity. - Calgary Herald
Native Writers and Canadian Writing
A co-publication with the journal Canadian Literature – Canada's foremost literary journal – this collection examines the growing prominence of contemporary Native writing.
The Letters of Malcolm Lowry and Gerald Noxon, 1940-1952
These letters observe the mind of eminent author Malcolm Lowry at play on questions of literary technique, on films, and on the beauties and rigors of life in his Dollarton shack on an inlet near Vancouver.
Life Spaces
Gender, Household, Employment
This collection introduces a new chapter in feminist literature, focusing on women and their experiences in Canadian urban settings and illustrating the importance of gender in the development of urban areas.
Ethel Wilson
Stories, Essays, and Letters
The fullest biography of the Ethel Wilson to date.
Vancouver Short Stories
The stories in this collection present the experience of living in Vancouver as filtered through the imagination of some of Canada's most famous writers.
Harsh and Lovely Land
The Major Canadian Poets and the Making of a Canadian Tradition
Poet-critic Tom Marshall examines four stages in the development of a purely Canadian tradition in poetry through a focus on the work of major poets writing in English from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.