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The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 423

The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests

The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests is the first collection of interdisciplinary essays bringing together scholars from both sides of the forty-ninth parallel to examine life in a transboundary region. The result is a text that reveals the diversity, difficulties, and fortunes of this increasingly powerful but little-understood part of the North American West. Contributions by historians, geographers, anthropologists, and scholars of criminal justice and environmental studies provide a comprehensive picture of the history of the borderlands region of the western United States and Canada. The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests is divided into six parts: Defining the...

Gained Ground
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 254

Gained Ground

  • Categories: Art

Mapping North America: comparative North American literature and its contexts / Bettina Mack -- The Scottish invention of Canadian literature: John Buchan in Canada / Silvia Mergenthal -- "Poetics of the Potent": Yann Martel's Life of Pi, Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and modes of transcreation / Jutta Ernst -- "Wanting to light out for tender tenantless territories": reading landscape in Robert Kroetsch's The hornbooks of Rita K (2001) and Mark Anthony Jarman's 19 knives (2000) / Claire Omhovere -- "Landscape-of-the-heart": transgenerational memory and relationality in Roy Kiyooka's Mothertalk: life stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka / Katja Sarkowsky -- Pe...

Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: UNM Press

"Jennifer Reid looks at the man known today as the founder of Manitoba. Not just a traditional biography, Reid examines Riel's education and religious beliefs."--[book jacket].

The Way Is Made by Walking
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 221

The Way Is Made by Walking

Pilgrimage is a spiritual discipline not many consider. In these pages Arthur Paul Boers describes his month-long journey on the Camino de Santiago in Spain, a classic pilgrimage route that ends at the cathedral where St. James is buried, opening to us his incredible story of renewed spirituality springing from an old, old path walked by millions before.

Teaching, Learning, and Loving
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 221

Teaching, Learning, and Loving

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Life Writing and Literary Métissage as an Ethos for Our Times
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Life Writing and Literary Métissage as an Ethos for Our Times

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

This book introduces literary métissage as a way to research, teach, and live ethically «with all our relations» in our precarious times. The authors theorize and perform literary métissage through the praxis of life writing, braiding their autobiographical texts, in various (mixed) genres, into seven themes. Life Writing and Literary Métissage as an Ethos for Our Times explores this writing praxis, with its more inclusive and generative notions of knowledge and knowledge practices, as a tool for creating more just societies and schools.

Reena Virk
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 359

Reena Virk

The murder of British Columbia teen Reena Virk shocked Canadians and provoked an outpouring of media commentary, academic explanation, plays, and novels. But while much attention was paid to the problem of violence and "girl bullying," race and related issues hardly figured in mainstream conversation. This collection aims to refocus the conversation about Reena Virk by considering how racism, colonialism, and hierarchies of gender, class, age, and sexuality figure in this crime and our understanding of it. The ten thoughtful chapters by both prominent and emerging scholars force us to grapple with the difficult and at times ugly implications of Reena Virk's murder for Canadian national identity.

Biographical Dictionary of American Physicians of African Ancestry, 1800-1920
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 517

Biographical Dictionary of American Physicians of African Ancestry, 1800-1920

Presents biographical information on physicians of African ancestry who practiced in the United States or taught those who practiced in the U.S. between 1800 and 1920. Features almost 3,000 entries that provide the physician's birth and death dates, place of practice, medical school and year of graduation, birthplace, parents, spouse, and children. Includes a geographical index and a general index.

Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 505

Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America

The Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America tells of the heroic endeavors and remarkable achievements, the endless speculation about a northwest passage, and the fighting and manipulation for commercial advantage that surrounded this terrain. This is done through an introductory essay, a detailed chronology, an extensive bibliography, modern maps and selected historical maps and drawings, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries.

Mothering Alone
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Mothering Alone

'The lives of women are inextricably linked to the well-being of children. If they are not educated, if they are not healthy, if they are not empowered, the children are the ones who suffer.' (UNICEF report, 2006) The study this book is based upon was of a pioneering facilitating programme enabling low-income mothers with little to no outside support to attend college or university. The women's stories are told in their own words and are used to explore the importance of education as a way to improve their and their children's lives. The book begins with an engaging Foreword from Rosemary H. Balsam, FRCPsych (London), MRCP (Edinburgh), Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Yale Medic...