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The Embalmer
A small-town embalmer's daughter lifts the shroud on the fascinating minutiae of dealing with the dead. Imagine rubbing shoulders with the dead for most of your life. As she picks the brain of her father for the most gruesome and thought-provoking secrets of his embalming career - from the drowned boy whose organs were eaten by eels to how to inject just the right amount of colour into a corpse's skin for that blushing look - the narrator must look her parents' deaths, and her relationship with them, straight in the eye. Quietly poetic, The Embalmer glimpses at something most would rather look away from.
Hungry Listening
WInner of the Best First Book from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award Winner of the Ann Saddlemyer Award from the Canadian Association for Theatre Research Reimagining how we understand and write about the Indigenous listening experience Hungry Listening is the first book to consider listening from both Indigenous and settler colonial perspectives. A critical response to what has been called the “whiteness of sound studies,” Dylan Robinson evaluates how decolonial practices of listening emerge from increasing awareness of our listening positionality. This, he argues, involves identifying habits of se...
Territoires de la non-fiction
Si les siècles qui précédaient avaient vu le couronnement du roman, la littérature du XXIe siècle débute avec le triomphe du document : écritures de voyage, d’investigation, enquêtes judiciaires ou ethnologiques, autobiographies, factographies, factions, rapports et enregistrements littéraires, et autres formes de récits refusant de se dire fictions occupent nos librairies : émerge sous nos yeux une toute nouvelle littérature d'information, de témoignage, d’inventaire ou de documentation. Or ces textes ne se contentent pas de déjouer les critères des classements des bibliothèques et d’intriguer les théoriciens du récit, ils modifient profondément les catégories du l...
La virginité en question
Quel pouvoir réside dans la virginité ? Comment comprendre le concept de parthénos, qui peut à la fois désigner un adolescent, fille ou garçon, une jeune vierge à marier, une figure tragique ou une puissante déesse ? Et comment les destins d’Antigone, des Érinyes, de Blanche-Neige, de Susan Salmon – l’héroïne angélique du roman populaire d’Alice Sebold – et de Valentine – la jeune punk imaginée par Virginie Despentes – illustrent-ils la temporalité au coeur des idées véhiculées sur les jeunes filles depuis l’Antiquité ? Au moment où plusieurs penseurs annoncent une crise mondiale des rites de passage de l’adolescence, cet essai réfléchit au discours o...
Kay's Lucky Coin Variety
Mary, a Korean girl growing up with her brother above her parents' convenience store in 1980s Toronto, is caught between the traditional culture of her parents and her desire to be a Canadian.
Impressionism Reflections and Perceptions
Presents a revision of the late Columbia University art historian's lectures given at Indiana University in 1961.
The Embalmer
A small-town embalmer's daughter lifts the shroud on the fascinating minutiae of dealing with the dead.
High School
NEW YORK TIMES AND NATIONAL BESTSELLER First loves, first songs, and the drugs and reckless high school exploits that fueled them—meet music icons Tegan and Sara as you’ve never known them before in this intimate and raw account of their formative years. High School is the revelatory and unique coming-of-age story of Sara and Tegan Quin, identical twins from Calgary, Alberta, growing up in the height of grunge and rave culture in the ’90s, well before they became the celebrated musicians and global LGBTQ icons we know today. While grappling with their identity and sexuality, often alone, they also faced academic meltdown, their parents’ divorce, and the looming pressure of what might come after high school. Written in alternating chapters from both Tegan’s point of view and Sara’s, the book is a raw account of the drugs, alcohol, love, music, and friendships they explored in their formative years. A transcendent story of first loves and first songs, it captures the tangle of discordant and parallel memories of two sisters who grew up in distinct ways even as they lived just down the hall from one another. This is the origin story of Tegan and Sara.
Les père-mutations
Comment les oeuvres d’Hervé Bouchard et de Michael Delisle abordent-elles la paternité ? Comment la fonction paternelle – au sens de la psychanalyse – est-elle révélée et subvertie au sein de leurs poétiques ? Pour parler de Bouchard, d’abord, l’auteur de ce livre fait un détour du côté de Freud et de son célèbre Totem et tabou. Il revisite le mythe du père de la horde et montre comment la prose bouchardienne est marquée par un désir de déclarer le leurre supposé de la loi symbolique, désir détecté dans une entreprise de « totémisation » de l’écriture. Puis, s’intéressant à l’oeuvre de Delisle, il s’attarde à la conception lacanienne du mythe indiv...
