Social Justice Literature
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From  Check Your Privilege!From: Refuse |
Writing from the perspective of the university and the study of Canadian literature, Marie Carrière thinks through the work of self-situation and acknowledgements of power in relation to a … | Marie Carrière | 6 | 2018 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! HineniFrom: All the Shining People |
The short story "Hineni." | Kathy Friedman | 14 | 2022 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! The StoneCutter’s MasterpieceFrom: Above Discovery |
Contains the short story: The StoneCutter’s Masterpiece | Jennifer Falkner | 9 | 2023 | $0.90 Add |
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From refusea trans girl writer's story From: Refuse |
Kai Cheng Thom addresses some of the ways in which “CanLit” functions as metonym for the settler-colonial project of nation-building. | Kai Cheng Thom | 6 | 2018 | $0.60 Add |
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From When a Cow Saves Your Life, You Learn that Audre Lorde is Always RightFrom: Refuse |
Dorothy Ellen Palmer builds on her writing on Facebook, Twitter, and her blog, and focuses on what due process means and on the labour issues — including Steven Galloway’s own rights … | Dorothy Ellen Palmer | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add |
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From CanLit Hierarchy vs. the RhizomeFrom: Refuse |
The hierarchical structures of literary culture are central to writer and professor Natalee Caple’s interview with writer Nikki Reimer. | Natalee Caple; Nikki Reimer | 9 | 2018 | $0.90 Add |
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From How Do We Get Out of Here?An Atwood Scholar Signing Off From: Refuse |
In her contribution, Lorraine York, one of the leading scholars of Margaret Atwood’s work, thinks about the ethics of academic cultural capital and how it can work to either shore up or, … | Lorraine York | 6 | 2018 | $0.60 Add |
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From "No Appeal"From: Refuse |
Chelsea Vowel’s poem is a powerful tying-together of the many forces that constitute the dumpster fire as it extends beyond CanLit into Canadian culture, society, and politics writ large. | Chelsea Vowel | 2 | 2018 | $0.20 Add |
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From On Not Refusing CanLitFrom: Refuse |
In her contribution, Laura Moss foregrounds her roles as both professor and editor. Rather than avoiding issues of power in both these roles, Moss addresses them directly as a mode of both … | Laura Moss | 3 | 2018 | $0.30 Add |
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From Visions and Versions of Resilience: Mentoring as a Means of SurvivalFrom: Refuse |
Phoebe Wang thinks about power and her position of power from the perspective of mentorship within the Asian-Canadian writing community. | Phoebe Wang | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add |
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From In the "New CanLit," We Must all Be AntigonesFrom: Refuse |
In her essay, A. H. Reaume draws on the work of activists like Jael Richardson, Alicia Elliott, and Carrianne Leung,who argue that we must resist the desire to push past critique into optimism. … | A. H. Reaume | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add |
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From Refusing the Borders of CanLitFrom: Refuse |
Through the setting of the university, literature scholar Jennifer Andrews asks what the relationship is between the study of Canadian literature within the university and the industry called CanLit. | Jennifer Andrews | 12 | 2018 | $1.20 Add |
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From Whose CanLitSolidarity and Accountability in Literary Communities From: Refuse |
The university as an institution is central to writers and activists Kristen Darch and Fazeela Jiwa’s conversation, as they think through the UBCAccountable controversy as an event that can … | Fazeela Jiwa; Kirsten Darch | 7 | 2018 | $0.70 Add |
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From Hearing the Artificial ObviousMargaret Atwood, UBCAccountable, and the Power of Listening From: Refuse |
Community — its possibilities and its limitations — is also central to Erika Thorkelson’s essay, as she thinks about how and why we fail to communicate across divides of status … | Erika Thorkelson | 7 | 2018 | $0.70 Add |
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From Writing as a RuptureA Breakup Note to CanLit From: Refuse |
Joshua Whitehead powerfully evokes the failures of accountability that have defined CanLit, and decentres CanLit as a white colonial project in favour of Indigenous Lit. He brings us back to the … | Joshua Whitehead | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add |
