English & Literature Studies
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From Family as a Site of Contestation:Queering the Normal or Normalizing the Queer? From: In a Queer Country |
Michelle K. Owen’s essay looks at what recently has become the most prominent aspect of this struggle for recognition. Owen ‘s response is informed and polemical; a scholarship that … | Michelle K. Owen | 22 | 2001 | $0.44 Add |
From Family in Crisis New York, 1956-57From: 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 | 7 | 2019 | $0.70 Add |
From How to Avoid Getting Your Upset All Over Other People When You Feel Out of Control |
- | S. Bear Bergman; Saul (Illus.) Freedman-Lawson | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
From I Was Miss General IdeaFrom: Any Other Way |
Derek McCormack describes how he adopted the identity of Miss General Idea, a character created by the Toronto art collective, and made her real. | Derek McCormack | 2 | 2017 | $0.20 Add |
From PART TWO |
- | Madelyn Holmes | 3 | 2017 | $0.30 Add |
From Robert Ornelas, New York City, Lipan Apache / Ysleta del Sur Pueblo“A part of the soul sickness for me was being ashamed. . . . What we were being taught about Indians was so minimal and so negative.” From: How We Go Home |
Robert Ornelas, who lives in New York City, and is of the Lipan Apache / Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, is a retired substance abuse counselor. He shares how he understood and felt about being native as … | Sara Sinclair | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
From Spring: The Greening Season |
Spring usually begins as a tug-of-war with winter. Just when we think warmer weather is here to stay, we are hit with another blast of cold and snow. However, the change of season is always … | Drew Monkman; Jacob Rodenburg | 62 | 2016 | $6.20 Add |
From Storytelling as Activism, as Crip-Centric StrategyFrom: Crip Kinship |
Topics discussed include storytelling as a form of activism, silencing of the disabled and ill, empowering and using one’s own voice, historical lineages of oppression, mapping community, … | Shayda Kafai | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
From The Centre and the Periphery |
This chapter will focus on two main themes: the creation and development of a popular literature in the periphery (with the help of translation), and the possible relations between the popular … | Nitsa Ben-Ari | 62 | 2006 | $6.82 Add |
From The Little Dumb FoundlingHans 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 … | Amanda Leduc | 26 | 2020 | $2.60 Add |
From What a Rush it wasFrom: Gang Life |
The story of Janie, aged twenty-five, and George, eight years older, is in Chapter Five. Both Aboriginal, they were married until George killed a rival a couple of years ago. He also tried to … | Mark Totten | 18 | 2014 | $1.80 Add |
From White Pride WorldwideFrom: Cure for Hate |
In this chapter, the author describes his continued development into a white supremacist via connecting with other skinheads and white supremacists internationally, across Canada and into the … | Tony McAleer | 9 | 2019 | $0.90 Add |
From "Hay Fever" 1917From: The Quebec Anthology |
"La fièvre des foins," translated by Wayne Grady as "Hay Fever," was first published in 1917, and is taken here from Clapin’s Contes et nouvelles, a collection of … | Sylva Clapin | 20 | 1997 | $1.20 Add |
From 0.5 No Man’s LandFrom: You Only Live Twice |
Mike reflects on a moment of early sexual attraction to men, while Chase shares an early reflection that while he might actually relate more to men than women. | Chase Joynt; Mike Hoolboom | 3 | 2016 | $0.30 Add |
From A Blind Date Brings a Miracle New York, 1957From: 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 | 9 | 2019 | $0.90 Add |
From Artmaking as EvidenceFrom: Crip Kinship |
Topics discussed include multidisciplinary artmaking, strategies of resilience, building disabled queer art-activism, crip time, Disability Justice and Transformative Justice, eugenics, and … | Shayda Kafai | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |