Henry Carter Hull

Erin Wunker is a feminist killjoy, and she thinks you should be one, too. Following in the tradition of Sara Ahmed (the originator of the concept of the "feminist killjoy"), Wunker brings memoir, theory, literary criticism, pop culture, and feminist thinking together in this collection of essays that take up Ahmed's project as a multi-faceted lens through which to read the world from a feminist point of view. Neither totemic nor complete, the non-fiction...

Shortlisted for the 2018 Toronto Book Award Shortlisted for the First Nation Communities READ 2018-2019 Award On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one she couldn't possibly answer at that moment. But she has been thinking about it ever since. As time has passed, she has been asked countless similar questions, all of them too big to answer, but not too large to contemplate. These questions,...

CanLit—the commonly used short form for English Canadian Literature as a cultural formation and industry-has been at the heart of several recent public controversies. Why? Because CanLit is breaking open to reveal the accepted injustices at its heart. It is imperative that these public controversies and the issues that sparked them be subject to careful and thorough discussion and critique. Refuse provides a critical and historical context to help...

Blank is a collection of previously out-of-print essays and new works by one of Canada's most important contemporary writers and thinkers. Through an engagement with her earlier work, M. NourbeSe Philip comes to realize the existence of a repetition in the world: the return of something that, while still present, has become unembedded from the world, disappeared. Her imperative becomes to make us see what has gone unseen, by writing memory upon the...

To devote oneself to the study of beauty is to offer footnotes to the universe for all the places and all the moments that one observes beauty. I can no longer grab beauty by her wrists and demand articulation or meaning. I can only take account of where things touch. Part lyric essay, part prose poetry, Where Things Touch grapples with the manifold meanings and possibilities of beauty. Drawing on her experiences as a physician-in-training, Orang...

Never forget / to connect the dots / This book is an attempt to connect a couple. In Begin by Telling, experimental pop sensation Meg Remy (U.S. Girls) spins a web out from her body to myriad corners of American hyper-culture. Through illustrated lyric essays depicting visceral memories from early childhood to present day, Remy paints a stark portrait of a spectacle-driven country. As though channel surfing, we catch glimpses of Desert Storm,...

Le Témiscamingue québécois a créé un type humain particulier, fier, vaillant, d'une certaine verdeur dans ses propos, d'une bonhomie assez abrupte à l'occasion. Caractéristiques qui ne s'estompent pas quand ces gens changent de région, si ce n'est que pour traverser vers l'autre rive du lac Témiscamingue. Monsieur Terrien était du type. Situation classique : un vieux qui est bien prêt à raconter, un jeune assez astucieux qui veut bien...

Voyages en nostalgie explore un corpus de productions culturelles et artistiques choisies en fonction de leur pouvoir évocateur et de leur capacité à faire ressurgir des moments privilégiés grâce à des lectures, des musiques, des publicités, des fictions télévisuelles, des films et des jeux vidéo. Si notre existence est faite de rencontres avec des personnes en chair et en os, elle est également modelée par d'innombrables rencontres...

Ce recueil nous convie dans l'espace d'une quotidienneté o surgit l'immensurable Traversant la vie de Yolande Bastarache, les récits nous transportent de son enfance à sa vie d'adulte, offrant un portrait riche et sincère de cette vie singulière. Ancré dans le quotidien d'une femme des XXe et XXIe siècles, le recueil nous invite dans un monde à la fois proche et lointain. L'autrice en scène l'investissement du quotidien par les femmes, là...