English & Literature Studies
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From AfterwordFrom: Disfigured |
The afterword reflects on portrayals of disability and wheelchair use in recent media. | Amanda Leduc | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add |
From Beauty as Liberation, as Splendid Crip FutureFrom: Crip Kinship |
Topics discussed include crip-centric reclaiming of beauty, desire and eroticism, decolonizing beauty, and beauty as liberation. | Shayda Kafai | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
From Blaine Wilson, Tsartlip First Nation“When I was twenty-five, thirty, there was more salmon and I was fishing every other day. Now I’m lucky to go once a week.” From: How We Go Home |
Blaine Wilson, of Tsartlip First Nation on Vancouver Island, is a hunter and fisherperson, one of the few remaining who know how to live off the land. He describes his childhood and family at … | Sara Sinclair | 12 | 2020 | $1.20 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 10Nail Biting |
Though not as dangerous as other addictions, Wood notes that nail biting was his longest-standing vice. An impulse to hurt himself came with it. Being in the hospital to support Nora during … | Alex Wood | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
From Having a Gay Old Time in Paris:John Glassco's Not-50-Queer Adventures From: In a Queer Country |
It is a common concern in literary studies of homosexuality to ascertain the sexuality of the author, but Glassco’s autobiographical Memoirs of Montparnasse presents a special case. Much … | Andrew Lesk | 18 | 2001 | $0.18 Add |
From How to Take Criticism (and How to Tell What’s Criticism and What’s Just a Pointless Insult) |
- | S. Bear Bergman; Saul (Illus.) Freedman-Lawson | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
From Language Impoverishment |
As a result of decades of the attenuation of the erotic, the literary sexual and intimate language became impoverished and supplied clichéd “pseudo-scientific” or “pulp … | Nitsa Ben-Ari | 29 | 2006 | $3.19 Add |
From Path to Independence California, 1959-60From: Holocaust to Resistance |
Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey is a powerful, awe-inspiring memoir from author and activist Suzanne Berliner Weiss. Born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1941, Suzanne was hidden from the Nazis … | Suzanne Berliner Weiss | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
From Radical CompassionFrom: Cure for Hate |
This chapter continues to detail the changes in the views of the author, including the impact of Vipassana meditation and the radical compassion of a new counselor, mentor and friend. He … | Tony McAleer | 20 | 2019 | $2.00 Add |
From Terms and ConditionsFrom: Gang Life |
The story of Ivan is told in Chapter Ten. He is forty-one years of age, and he came to Canada as a young boy when his family — mother, stepfather, and younger brother — fled a civil … | Mark Totten | 15 | 2014 | $1.50 Add |
From The Dictionary of Homophobia: LPublisher's note, Preface to the Original Edition, Editor's Preface To the English-Language Edition, Introduction, The Anti-Anthology, Table of Entries, Contributors |
Latin America (Luiz Mott); Law. See European Law; Leduc, Violette (Anne-Claire Rebreyend); Lesbophobia (Raymonde Gérard); Literature (Louis-Georges Tin); Lobby (Caroline Fourest) | Louis-Georges Tin | 38 | 2008 | $1.14 Add |
From The Literary Archive and the Telling of Modernist Lives: Retrieving Anne Marriott |
The centrality of archives to the process of literary biography is undeniable. Archives must be plumbed and it is only when every relevant archive with respect to a subject has been mined that … | Marilyn Rose | 19 | 2005 | $1.71 Add |
From Town Squares and Spiritual HeartsFrom: Any Other Way |
Shawn Micallef describes how Barbara Hall Park has, at times, served as the town square for Toronto’s queer community. | Shawn Micallef | 6 | 2017 | $0.60 Add |
From NEW! When the News Trucks Go AwayFrom: The Trauma Beat |
In this chapter, Cherry discusses the fatal Humboldt Broncos car crash that occurred in 2018. She includes excerpts of her interview with Laurie, whose son was among the passengers that did not … | Tamara Cherry | 8 | 2023 | $0.80 Add |
From "Mrs. Filly" 1942From: The Quebec Anthology |
"Madame Pouliche," here translated by David Homel as "Mrs. Filly," first appeared in La Fin du voyage, and in 1962 it was included in Gerard Bessette’s Anthologie Albert … | Albert Laberge | 13 | 1997 | $0.78 Add |
From 0.10 RehersalFrom: You Only Live Twice |
Mike shares a memory about learning to ride a bike with his little brother and crashing, after which they discuss death. Chase shares a memory of his mother teaching him about menstruation when … | Chase Joynt; Mike Hoolboom | 4 | 2016 | $0.40 Add |