Canadian Literature & Poetry
in English
Women’s Writing
African-Canadian & Caribbean-Canadian Women’s Literature
Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature
Presents a history of the African-Canadian literature and oral
cultures, identifies African-Canadian literature’s distinguishing characteristics, argues
for its relevance to both African Diasporic Black and Canadian Studies, and critiques several
of its key creators and texts.
Authors whose work is examined in the book are André Alexis,
Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, Claire Harris, and M. Nourbese Philip.
Directions Home: Approaches to African-Canadian Literature
Building on the discoveries of his critically acclaimed
Odysseys Home, Clarke showcases the importance of little-known texts, including church
histories and slave narratives, and offers studies of autobiography, crime and punishment, jazz
poetics, and musical composition.
Settling Down and Settling Up: The Second Generation in Black
Canadian and Black British Women’s Writing
Comparing second generation children of immigrants in Black
Canadian and Black British women’s writing, the book extends discourses of diaspora and
postcolonialism by expanding recent theory on movement and border crossing.
Considering migration and settlement as complex,
interrelated processes that inform each other across multiple generations and geographies,
Medovarski challenges the gendered constructions of nationhood and diaspora with a particular
focus on Canadian and British black women writers, including Dionne Brand, Esi Edugyan, and
Zadie Smith.
Beyond the Canebrakes: Caribbean Women Writers in Canada
Essays and interviews that examine the work of West Indian women
writers living in Canada.
The essays examine the work of literary artists Claire Harris,
Olive Senior, Lillian Allen, Afua Cooper, Dionne Brand, M. Nourbese Philip, Nalo Hopkinson,
Pamela Mordecai, and Makeda Silvera as an integral not marginal element of the Canadian and
world literature canons.
PR 9188.2 .C37
B49 2008
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Indigenous Women’s Literature
Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Poetry
This critical edition delivers a comprehensive collection of
the works of Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer and educator Vera Manuel, daughter of prominent
Indigenous leaders Marceline Paul and George Manuel.
A vibrant force in the burgeoning Indigenous theatre scene,
Manuel was at the forefront of residential school writing and did groundbreaking work as a
dramatherapist and healer.
Long before mainstream Canada understood and discussed the
impact and devastating legacy of the residential schools, Manuel wrote about it as part of
her personal and community healing.
PR 9199.3
.M288 2019
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My Home as I Remember
An edited anthology comprising poetry, short stories, and
artwork created by First Nations, Inuit and Métis women across Canada and the United States,
including contributions from New Zealand and Mexico.
Tekahionwake: E. Pauline Johnson’s Writings on Native North
America
A diverse range of Johnson’s writings on what was then
called “the Indian question” and on the question of her own complex Indigenous
identity.
Six thematic sections gather Johnson’s poetry, fiction,
and non-fiction, and a rich selection of historical appendices provide context for her public
life and her work as a feminist and activist for Indigenous people.
PR 9199.3 .J6
A6 2016
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Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy and
Healing
Analyzes contemporary autobiography, fiction, and drama to
reveal how these texts respond to and critique public policy, and how literature functions as
medicine to help cure the suffering inflicted by the colonial legacy.
In the Belly of a Laughing God: Humour and Irony in Native Women’s Poetry
Examines how eight contemporary Native women poets in Canada
and the United States employ humour and irony to address the intricacies of race, gender, and
nationality.
PR 9190.9
.I53 A64 2011
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Canadian Literature at the Crossroads of Language and Culture:
Selected Essays by Barbara Godard, 1987–2005
Godard is recognized as one of the most influential scholars in
the area of Canadian Studies. This anthology of her collected essays includes “The
Politics of Representation: Some Native Canadian Women Writers,” first published in
1990.
PR 9193.5 .G63
2008
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Jewish-Canadian Women’s Literature
At Odds in the World: Essays on Jewish-Canadian Women Writers
Examines the contributions of performers and other artists to
the Yiddish theatre and culture in Montreal in the first half of the twentieth century, with
consideration to the social landscape of the city.
PR 9188.2 .J48
P25 2008
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Polish-Canadian Women’s Literature
Polish(ed): Poland Rooted in Canadian Fiction
The only anthology of Polish-Canadian writing in Canada and
includes many internationally acclaimed and award-winning Canadian writers: Aga Maksimowska,
Andrew J. Borkowski, Corinne Wasilewski, and others. The collection also features Canadian w
riters who have no Polish roots, but are interested in various aspects of Poland and Polish
culture.
PR 9197.3 .P65
2017
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History, Literary Interpretation & Criticism
Canadian Literature
Critical study of Canadian literature, placing internationally
successful anglophone Canadian authors in the context of their national literary history.
While the focus of the book is on twentieth-century and
contemporary writing, it also charts the historical development of Canadian literature and
discusses important eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors.
The chapters focus on four central topics in Canadian culture:
ethnicity, race, colonization; wildernesses, cities, regions; desire; and histories and
stories. Authors chosen for close analysis include Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Alice
Munro, Leonard Cohen, Thomas King and Carol Shields.
PR 9189.6 .H36
2007
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Canadian Literature at the Crossroads of Language and Culture:
Selected Essays by Barbara Godard, 1987–2005
Godard is recognized as one of the most influential scholars in
the area of Canadian Studies. This anthology of her collected essays includes “The
Politics of Representation: Some Native Canadian Women Writers,” first published in 1990.
PR 9193.5 .G63
2008
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Canadian Women Writing Fiction
A collection of critical essays about contemporary Canadian
women writers including, Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, Anne Hébert, Margaret Atwood, Marie Claire
Blais, Carol Shields and Joy Kogawa.
PR 9188 .C36
1993
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Writing in the Feminine in French and English Canada: A Question
of Ethics
Considers the contemporary movement of “writing in the
feminine” by examining the work of five women writers from French and English Canada and
the dialogue therein with feminist and psychoanalytic theory and theories of ethics.
Gynocritics: Feminist Approaches to Canadian and Quebec Women’s Writing
The essays in this volume explore women as readers and writers
and the collection concludes with the first extensive bibliography of feminist criticism about
Canadian and Québec literature.
PR 9188 .G95
1987
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Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian
Women’s Poetry
Presents a revision of the genealogy of Canadian literary
modernism by foregrounding the originary and exemplary contribution of women poets, critics,
cultural activists, and experimental prose writers Dorothy Livesay, P.K. Page, Miriam
Waddington, Phyllis Webb, Elizabeth Brewster, Jay Macpherson, Anne Wilkinson, Anne Marriott,
and Elizabeth Smart.
PR 9188 .W54
2009
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Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada 1760–2000
Six women writers from six different periods and how they
portray Canadian women authors: Frances Brooke, Susanna Moodie, Sara Jeannette Duncan; L.M.
Montgomery, Margaret Atwood, and Carol Shields.
PR 9188 .H35
2003
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Contemporary Canadian Women’s Fiction: Refiguring Identities
Charts the changes in the Canadian literary landscape since the
early 1990s in the work of Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Carol Shields, Ann-Marie MacDonald,
Kerri Sakamoto, Shani Mootoo, Gail Anderson-Dargazt, and Eden Robinson.
PR 9188 .H67
2003
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All My Sisters: Essays on the Work of Canadian Women Writers
Clara Thomas has been an important contributor to Canadian
literary feminism. This volume of essays deals to a large part with Margaret Laurence but also
includes major nineteenth-century and twentieth-century women writers.
PR 9188 .T48
1994
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Canadian Women in Print, 1750–1918
Historical examination of women’s engagement with multiple
aspects of print over some two hundred years in Canada, from the settlers who wrote diaries and
letters to the New Women who argued for ballots and equal rights.
Jane Eyre’s American Daughters: From the Wide, Wide World to
Anne of Green Gables: A Study of Marginalized Maidens and What They Mean
PS 374 .W6 S44
2005
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The Island Motif in the Fiction of L.M. Montgomery, Margaret
Laurence, Margaret Atwood, and Other Canadian Women Novelists
Examines islands and idylls as recurring images inthe work of
Canadian women novelists.
Narrative Strategies in Canadian Literature: Feminism and
Postcolonialism
The essays focus on the interrelation of realism, modernism and
postmodernism as a set of tensions within the literary traditions of the English language.
PR 9192.5 .N37
1991
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Tropes and Territories: Short Fiction, Postcolonial Readings,
Canadian Writing in Context
Analyzes the influence of postcolonial criticism on the reading,
writing, and status of short fiction: Métis narratives, Maori myth, and stories by Alice Munro,
Salman Rushdie, Alistair MacLeod, Mavis Gallant, Emily Carr, and Thomas King.
Alice Munro’s Miraculous Art: Critical Essays
The book is then divided into three sections, focusing on Munro's characteristic forms, themes, and most notable literary effects.
PR 9199.3 .M8 Z516 2017
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reviewed & updated 20 May 2021 | compiled by Agatha Barc, MI