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The study of Canadian literature—CanLit—has undergone dramatic changes since it became an area of specialization in the 1960s and ’70s.

Since the early 1990s, tens of thousands of memoirs by celebrities and unknown people have been published, sold, and read by millions of American readers.

As a comparative study which includes the analysis of both English-Canadian and Quebec novels, this book provides an overview of the novel as it has developed in this country since the Second World

Violence against Indigenous women in Canada is an ongoing crisis, with roots deep in the nation’s colonial history.

The first serious book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada contains thirteen essays on many of Canada’s most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt, Gail

This book stems from an examination of how Western philosophy has accounted for the foundations of law.

Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women.

Revolution, abolition of slavery, public health care, welfare, violence against women, war and militarism — such issues have been debated for centuries.

Debate still rages on about who invented baseball. But one thing is certain...it was alive and fractious in southwestern Ontario in the summer of 1949. It was a remarkable summer.

Nine Canadian scholars of Buddhism consider philosophical and cultural issues in Buddhist thought.

In Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, international scholars investigate how films portray human emotional relationships with the more-than-human world and how such films act

How did a Belgian Oblate missionary who came to Canada to convert the aboriginals come to be buried as a Cree chief?

The essays in Home Words explore the complexity of the idea of home through various theoretical lenses and groupings of texts.

Strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPP) involves lawsuits brought by individuals, corporations, groups, or politicians to curtail political activism and expression.

In 1991, the Government of Canada ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, requiring governments at all levels to ensure that Canadian laws and practices safeguard the rig