Canadian Literature and Poetry in English

A range of Indigenous stories from across Turtle Island (North America): short fiction, narratives, illustrated stories, and personal essays. This collection explores core concepts in Indigenous literary expression, such as the relations between land, language, and community.

PR9185.6 .I53 R43 2017
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A study of Indigenous literatures published in Canada between 1980 and 2010, written in multiple languages, in French, and in English by the members of the Haida Nation on Haida Gwaii to the Mi’kmaq of Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island.

Rich oral narratives from Cree, Saulteaux, Nakoda, Dakota, Dene, and Metis cultures, early writings from Cree missionaries, speeches and letters by Treaty Chiefs, stories from elders, archival discoveries, and contemporary literary works in all genres.

Historically and culturally comprehensive, voices include Big Bear, Thunderchild, Louis Riel, Gabriel Dumont, Edward Ahenakew, Maria Campbell, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Rita Bouvier, Harold Johnson, Gregory Scofield, Warren Cariou, Louise Halfe, and many more.

PR9194.5 .I5 K57 2018
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Eight Blackfoot stories told by Lena Russell, a fluent speaker of Blackfoot from the Kainai (Blood) reserve in southern Alberta.

An in-depth, paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of stories on womb memories, birth, namesaking, and reincarnation.

E99 .E7 S23513 2018
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A collection of Gothic and horror short stories by First-Nations authors.

Contributors are Richard Van Camp, Lee Maracle, Katie-Jo Rabbit, Autumn Bernhardt, Brittany Johnson, Gord Grisenthwaite, Joanne Arnott, Délani Valin, Cathy Smith, David Geary, Yugcetun Anderson, Gerald Silliker Pisim Maskwa, Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith, Sara General, Wendy Bone, Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler, and Karen Lee White.

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.

A library of recordings of legends, mystery stories, and oral history of the Omushkegowak or “Swampy Cree” people of the Hudson and James Bay Lowlands of northern Manitoba and Ontario.

Part survey of the field of indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, this book asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous Peoples today.

PS153 .I52 J878 2018
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The essays in this volume explore issues that mark the study of Indigenous literature: appropriation of voice, stereotyping, traditional knowledge, language, land, spirituality, orality, colonialism, post-colonialism, gender, hybridity, authenticity, resistance, and ethical scholarship.

A collection of conversations with Richard Van Camp, Lee Maracle, Daniel Heath Justice, Marilyn Dumont, and others. They centre on the writers’ concerns, critiques, and craft, and how they navigate the challenge of storying their communities in politically charged terrain.

The topics explored in the interviews include discourses of Indigenization, reconciliation, appropriation, and representation, as well as Indigenous publishing and literary studies.

PR9188.2 .I54 H36 2020
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Examines John Richardson’s novels about Pontiacs War and the War of 1812 that document the breaking of British promises to Indigenous nations.

PR9185.6 .I53 F43 2015
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Award-winning Indigenous author Harold R. Johnson discusses the promise and potential of storytelling. He explains the role of storytelling in every aspect of human life, from personal identity to history and the social contracts that structure our societies.

P96 .S78 J64 2022
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An exploration of storytelling as a tool for knowledge production and sharing to build new connections between people and their histories, environments, and cultural geographies.

The collection pays particular attention to the significance of storytelling in Indigenous knowledge frameworks and extends into other ways of knowing in works where scholars have embraced narrative and story as a part of their research approach.

P302.7 .A28 2018
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Organized into five subject areas: Position, the necessity of considering where you come from and who you are; Imagining Beyond Images and Myths, a history and critique of circulating images of Indigenousness; Debating Indigenous Literary Approaches; Contemporary Concerns, a consideration of relevant issues; and finally Classroom Considerations, pedagogical concerns particular to the field.

Each section is introduced by an essay that orients the reader and provides ideological context.

PR9188.2 .I54 L43 2016
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A major survey of Indigenous writings on the residential school system: Rita Joe (Mi’kmaq) and Anthony Apakark Thrasher (Inuit), Basil Johnston (Ojibway), and Tomson Highway (Cree).

E96.2 .M34 2007
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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.

PR9194.5 .I5 E65 2009
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A critical anthology of essays by Aboriginal academics provides an in-depth analysis of literature by Aboriginal authors.

The contributors study the works of their peers with an insightful understanding of the significance of contemporary literature within Aboriginal cultural paradigms.

The first collection in Canada of critical analysis of Indigenous literatures written by First-Nations scholars. The book includes reviews, poetry analysis, overviews of the literatures. The contributors are Marilyn Dumont and Kimberly Blaeser, among other writers.

A collection of theoretical essays, articles, interviews, fiction, personal essays, poems, and stories that provide a revisioning of trickster criticism.

PR9188.2 .I54 T76 2010
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An interdisciplinary study of the Indigenous literary response to racist writing in the Canadian historical and literary record from 1850 to 1990.

E78 .C2 L3733 2010
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Bryant explores how colonized and Indigenous environments occupy the same given geographical coordinates even while existing in distinct epistemological worlds through the analysis of a wide range of northeastern texts, including Puritan captivity narratives, Wabanaki wampum belts, and contemporary Innu poetry.

PR9184.3 .B79 2017
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An excellent critical introduction to the place of postcolonial theory in Canadian literary criticism. Includes essays by George Grant, Northrop Frye, Margaret Atwood, Dennis Lee, Robert Kroetsch, Linda Hutcheon, Diana Brydon, Thomas King, Terry Goldie, Arun Mukherjee, Smaro Kamboureli, Stephen Slemon, and Roy Miki.

Considers how the terms of critical debate in literary and cultural studies in Canada have shifted with respect to matters of race, nation, and difference.

PR9188.2 .M55 C84 2011
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Analyzes the influence of postcolonial criticism on the reading, writing, and status of short fiction: Métis narratives, Maori myth, and stories by Thomas King, Alice Munro, Salman Rushdie, Alistair MacLeod, Mavis Gallant, and Emily Carr.

PR9084 .T76 2007
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Examines the historical context of the portrayal of Indigenous characters in Canadian literature, including the prose of Anna Jameson and Susanna Moodie and the poetry of Duncan Campbell Scott.

PR9185.6 .I53 G76 2004
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Examines the writings of Haudenosaunee leaders John Norton and John Brant and Anishinabeg authors Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Peter Jones, and George Copway, as well as European figures John Beverley Robinson, John Strachan, Anna Brownell Jameson, and Sir Francis Bond Head.

Hutchings argues that, despite their cultural differences, many factors connected these writers, including shared literary interests, cross-Atlantic journeys, metropolitan experiences, mutual acquaintance, and engagement in ongoing dialogue over Indigenous territory and governance.

PR9185.2 .H88 2020
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A collection of original pieces by some of Canada’s best known writers. The essays ask, and attempt to answer, what it means to be a writer in Canada, what the literature of today can tell us about Canada’s social arrangements, its political and aesthetic shapes, and its preoccupations.

Contributors include Margaret Atwood, George Elliott Clarke, Camilla Gibb, Rawi Hage, Lawrence Hill, Greg Hollingshead, Lee Maracle, Lisa Moore, Michael Ondaatje, Marie-Helaine Poitras, Pascale Quiviger, Nino Ricci, Eden Robinson, Madeleine Thien, Judith Thompson, M.G. Vassanji, Rita Wong, and others.

Considers how the interconnected concepts of nationalism and sexuality have helped shape the production and reception of Canadian and First-Nations literatures.

An investigation of the idea of the “North” as an element of Canada’s national identity and the development of this theme in Canadian culture and Canadian literature.

PR9185.5 .N67H84 2002
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In this 1995 symposium on Arctic narrative, storytellers, politicians and academics assembled at the University of Ottawa to celebrate the Arctic’s landscape and its cultural traditions.

The essays present northern legends, accounts of the Franklin Expeditions, the oral narrative traditions and the interaction between the southern and northern Canadian cultures.

PR9185.5 .A7E34 1997
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Explores how Samuel Hearne’s account of the Bloody Falls massacre has shaped the ongoing colonization and economic exploitation of the North.

E99 .E7 C2177 2015
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The first critical study (which appeared in 1990) of Indigenous literatures in Canada. It begins with an examination of the oral traditions and discusses a diverse set of works, including prose, orations, sermons, petitions, letters, journals, autobiographies, historical and travel writings, and journalism.

A comprehensive, authoritative guide to many different genres, topics, and aspects of Canadian literary history, including Indigenous literatures, poetry, oral traditions, Métis literature, and Indigenous women’s writing.

PR9180.2 .O95 2016
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A comprehensive, authoritative guide to many different genres, topics, and aspects of Canadian literary history, including Indigenous literatures, poetry, oral traditions, Métis literature, and Indigenous women’s writing.

PR9180.2 .O95 2016
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A comprehensive introduction to major writers, genres and topics in Canadian literature, including Indigenous writing.

PR9184.3 .C34 2017

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A complete history of Canadian writing from its beginnings, including Indigenous literatures and poetry.

PR9184.6 .C26 2009
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Critical study of Canadian literature, placing internationally successful 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: colonization, race, ethnicity; wildernesses, cities, regions; desire; and histories and stories. Authors chosen for close analysis include Thomas King, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Alice Munro, Leonard Cohen, and Carol Shields.

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.

Part I, “Native American Oral Literatures,” examines different aspects of oral literatures, such as oratory, the trickster, dreams and songs, and revitalization movements.

Part II, “The Historical Emergence of Native American Writing,” is federal government policy, autobiography, women’s autobiography, and humour.

Part III, “A Native American Renaissance: 1967 to the Present,” studies critical responses to Indigenous literatures, approaches to teaching, the literature of Canada, fiction, theatre, and the depiction of Indigenous characters in Anglo-American literature.

Coverage of both historical and contemporary Canadian First Nations writers and poets: Beth Brant, Maria Campbell, Peter Blue Cloud, Tomson Highway, Basil H. Johnston, E. Pauline Johnson, Peter Jones, Lee Maracle, Thomas King, Markoosie, Beatrice Culleton Monsier, Daniel David Moses.

The Biography provides authoritative biographical information about significant figures of Canada’s past who died between the years 1000 and 1930, or whose last known date of activity falls within these years.

There are detailed articles on Canada’s major historical figures, and short articles on minor personages who have hitherto found no place in reference works or general histories.

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Summary of the contributions of northern writers to 1972 who produced texts in various topics, from literary to political: books, anthologies, articles, conferences, reports, poetry and songs, studies, theses, and periodicals.

An older book (published in 1990), but it remains an excellent resource for locating poetry, fiction, and drama authored by foreign-born authors residing in Canada.

Composed of five parts: immigrant communities, English Canada, French Canada, First-Nations communities, and Inuit communities.

PR9185.2 .B62 2003
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Scholarly criticism of literatures in English, with particular focus on the influence of colonization on literature. Peer-reviewed.

Articles, bibliographies, book reviews, and discussions related to all cultural aspects of Indigenous Peoples, including literature. Peer-reviewed.

Includes articles, interviews and commentaries on Canadian writing. Peer-reviewed.

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Includes articles on a wide range of studies on Canada: literature, arts, architecture, anthropology, community planning, culture, the economy, education, history, Indigenous issues, politics and public affairs, and sociology. Peer-reviewed.

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