CLC Kreisel Lecture Series – serie
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16 produkter
Dreaming of Elsewhere
Observations on Home
Av Esi Edugyan
Häftad, 2014
258 kr
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Home, for me, was not a birthright, but an invention. It seems to me when we speak of home we are speaking of several things, often at once, muddled together into an uneasy stew. We say home and mean origins, we say home and mean belonging. These are two different things: where we come from, and …
Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour
Av Kate Beaton
Häftad, 2025
191 kr
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Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour by Kate Beaton, award-winning author of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, explores connections between class, literature, and art from Cape Breton Island. She addresses the fact that people from poor or working-class backgrounds face significant barriers entering …
Un art de vivre par temps de catastrophe
Av Dany Laferrière, Marie Carrière
Häftad, 2010
160 kr
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"L'interrogation n'a pas change a 56 ans: pourquoi ne profite-t-on pas de tout ce qui nous arrive pour changer notre vie?" -Dany Laferriere Le 5 mars 2009, le Centre de litterature canadienne de l'Universite de l'Alberta recevait l'auteur acclame, Dany Laferriere dans le cadre de la conference …
Sasquatch at Home
Traditional Protocols & Modern Storytelling
Häftad, 2011
255 kr
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In The Sasquatch at Home, Robinson shares an intimate look into the intricacies of family, culture, and place. Robinson’s disarming honesty and wry irony shine through her depictions of the trip she and her mother took to Graceland, the potlatch where she and her sister received their Beaver Clan …
Imagining Ancient Women
Av Annabel Lyon
Häftad, 2012
276 kr
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Annabel Lyon's passion for historical novels and her love of ancient Greece make her lecture on the process of creating characters of historical fiction captivating. She discusses the process of wading through historical sources-and avoiding myriad pitfalls-to craft believable people to whom …
Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book
An Anatomy of a Book Burning
Häftad, 2013
276 kr
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Censorship and book burning are still present in our lives. Lawrence Hill shares his experiences of how ignorance and the fear of ideas led a group in the Netherlands to burn the cover of his widely successful novel, The Book of Negroes, in 2011. Why do books continue to ignite such strong …
Tale of Monstrous Extravagance
Imagining Multilingualism
Häftad, 2015
255 kr
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"Speaking one language, I submit, is like living in a house with one window only..." From his legendary birth in a snow bank in northwestern Manitoba, through his metamorphosis to citizen-artist of the world, playwright, pianist, polyglot, storyteller, and irreverent disciple of the Trickster, …
Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading
Av Dionne Brand
Häftad, 2020
160 kr
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The geopolitics of empire had already prepared me for this…coloniality constructs outsides and insides—worlds to be chosen, disturbed, interpreted, and navigated—in order to live something like a real self.Internationally acclaimed poet and novelist Dionne Brand reflects on her early reading of …
Short History of the Blockade
Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin
Av Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Häftad, 2021
157 kr
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In A Short History of the Blockade, award-winning writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson uses Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg stories, storytelling aesthetics, and practices to explore the generative nature of Indigenous blockades through our relative, the beaver—or in Nishnaabemowin, Amik. Moving through …
Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics
Häftad, 2024
304 kr
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Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics seeks to dislodge the often unspoken white universalism that underpins literary production and reception today. In this personal and thoughtful book, award-winning author Wayde Compton explores how we might collectively develop a poetic approach that makes space for …
Every Story Is a Call to Action
Häftad, 2026
295 kr
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In Every Story Is a Call to Action, David A. Robertson explores the role of Indigenous stories in stitching together a new understanding of Canada and nurturing a collective experience that helps create lasting social change. He emphasizes the vital and ongoing role of young people in the …
Writing in Place
Av Richard Van Camp, Shani Mootoo m. fl.
Häftad, 2027
221 kr
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In honour of the twentieth anniversary of the CLC Kreisel Lecture series, three writers explore what it means to write from, in, and with Canada at a moment when “in Canada” is at once fraught and fiercely defended. How do writers think about the relationship between place, identity, and …
