English & Literature Studies

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The Gang Mother

The Gang Mother

From: Gang Life

Monica, a forty-fiveyear- old lesbian gang mother. Now clean after too many years of injecting morphine and cocaine, she takes in young gang members and cares for them. She was terrorized by a … 19 $1.90 Add
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"The Goldfish" 1970

"The Goldfish" 1970

From: The Quebec Anthology

"Le poisson rouge" ("The Goldfish," as Sheila Fischman has translated the tide), first appeared in the anthology Nouvelles du Québec, edited by Katherine Brearley and … 16 $0.96 Add
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"The Good Old Days" 1981

"The Good Old Days" 1981

From: The Quebec Anthology

Though perhaps less overtly political than many of Major’s other works, "The Good Old Days" is definitely a story about disillusionment— a theme that runs through all of … 14 $0.84 Add
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The Great Unravelling

The Great Unravelling

From: Disfigured

Chapter 9 explores the future of how disability will be in the present and near future, discussing topics like fairy tales and the ideology of able bodiedness, the political, social, economic … 17 $1.70 Add
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The haiku club

The haiku club

From: Within the Barbed Wire Fence

Discusses the Haiku Club at Angler ; 7 $0.70 Add
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Lengua Latina: Queer Palabras en Toronto

Lengua Latina: Queer Palabras en Toronto

From: Any Other Way

A poem by Karleen Pendleton Jiménez and Janet Romero-leiva on the queer Latina experience in Toronto. ; ; 5 $0.50 Add
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Jim Egan, Gay Warrior

Jim Egan, Gay Warrior

From: Any Other Way

Donald McLeod tells the story of Jim Egan, Toronto’s first publicly gay activist. 4 $0.40 Add
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The Hunger To Be Seen: The Mountain and the Valley's Modernist New Eyes

The Hunger To Be Seen: The Mountain and the Valley’s Modernist New Eyes

From: The Canadian Modernists Meet

This essay,[…], seeks to restore temporal being and representation as the real issues of The Mountain and the Valley. 26 $2.34 Add
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Marvellous Grounds: QTBIPOC Counter-Archiving against Imperfect Erasures

Marvellous Grounds: QTBIPOC Counter-Archiving against Imperfect Erasures

From: Any Other Way

This essay explores how many queer archives are predominantly white and errase the experiences of queer people of colour. ; ; ; 5 $0.50 Add
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"The Italian Teacher" 1927

"The Italian Teacher" 1927

From: The Quebec Anthology

"Le professeur d’italien," translated as "The Italian Teacher" by Matt Cohen, first appeared in Bernard’s only collection of short stories, La Dame blanche (The … 12 $0.72 Add
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"The Legend of Rose Latulipe" 1837

"The Legend of Rose Latulipe" 1837

From: The Quebec Anthology

The novel is a work of fantasy and folklore, a blend of the surreal and the macabre that relates the story of Charles Amand, a native of Saint-Jean-Port-Joli who becomes obsessed by the desire to … 7 $0.42 Add
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The Literary Archive and the Telling of Modernist Lives: Retrieving Anne Marriott

The Literary Archive and the Telling of Modernist Lives: Retrieving Anne Marriott

From: The Canadian Modernists Meet

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 … 19 $1.71 Add
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The Little Dumb Foundling

The Little Dumb Foundling

Hans Christian Andersen's Ugly Little Duckings

From: Disfigured

Chapter 5 focuses on the work of Hans Christian Andersen, exploring topics including “The Little Mermaid”, Andersen’s own disability, Andersen’s book "The … 26 $2.60 Add
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The Long Ladder of Shame

The Long Ladder of Shame

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

In this chapter, the author suggests that people like her – a trans Chicana sex worker who is chronically homeless – are terrorized by America’s obsession with pathogenic medicine. 5 $0.50 Add
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"The Love of Lies" 1989

"The Love of Lies" 1989

From: The Quebec Anthology

The present story, "L’amour du mensonge," translated by David Homel as "The Love of Lies," was first published in XYZ in 1989 and is part of a second collection of … 5 $0.30 Add