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The 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot in the War of 1812

The 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot in the War of 1812

by John R. Grodzinski
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tagged : canada, north america, pre-confederation (to 1867)

A long-awaited history of this important Canadian regiment, The 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot in the War of 1812 looks at this military unit from its beginnings in the early days of the 19th century to its disbanding in 1817. Best known for its perilous Winter March through the wilderness of New Brunswick to the battlefields of Upper Canad …

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Activating the Heart

Activating the Heart

Storytelling, Knowledge Sharing, and Relationship
edited by Julia Christensen; Christopher Cox & Lisa Szabo-Jones
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Activating the Heart is an exploration of storytelling as a tool for knowledge production and sharing to build new connections between people and their histories, environments, and cultural geographies. The collection pays particular attention to the significance of storytelling in Indigenous knowledge frameworks and extends into other ways of know …

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Troubling Tricksters

Troubling Tricksters

Revisioning Critical Conversations
edited by Deanna Reder & Linda M. Morra
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tagged : native american studies, native american

Troubling Tricksters is a collection of theoretical essays, creative pieces, and critical ruminations that provides a re-visioning of trickster criticism in light of recent backlash against it. The complaints of some Indigenous writers, the critique from Indigenous nationalist critics, and the changing of academic fashion have resulted in few new s …

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Home Words

Home Words

Discourses of Children’s Literature in Canada
edited by Mavis Reimer
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tagged : native american, canadian, children's literature

The essays in Home Words explore the complexity of the idea of home through various theoretical lenses and groupings of texts. One focus of this collection is the relation between the discourses of nation, which often represent the nation as home, and the discourses of home in children’s literature, which variously picture home as a dwelling, fam …

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Boom!

Boom!

Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market
by Julie Rak
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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. The memoir boom, as the explosion of memoirs on the market has come to be called, has been welcomed, vilified, and dismissed in the popular press. But is there really a boom in memoir production …

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Words of the Huron

Words of the Huron

by John L. Steckley
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tagged : native american studies, native american, customs & traditions

Words of the Huron is an investigation into seventeenth-century Huron culture through a kind of linguistic archaeology of a language that died midway through the twentieth century.

John L. Steckley explores a range of topics, including: the construction of longhouses and wooden armour; the use of words for trees in village names; the social anthropo …

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Latin American Identities After 1980

Latin American Identities After 1980

edited by Gordana Yovanovich & Amy Huras
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Latin American Identities After 1980 takes an interdisciplinary approach to Latin American social and cultural identities. With broad regional coverage, and an emphasis on Canadian perspectives, it focuses on Latin American contact with other cultures and nations. Its sound scholarship combines evidence-based case studies with the Latin American tr …

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Borrowed Tongues

Borrowed Tongues

Life Writing, Migration, and Translation
by Eva C. Karpinski
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tagged : translating & interpreting, women, feminist

Borrowed Tongues is the first consistent attempt to apply the theoretical framework of translation studies in the analysis of self-representation in life writing by women in transnational, diasporic, and immigrant communities. It focuses on linguistic and philosophical dimensions of translation, showing how the dominant language serves to articulat …

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The Seats of the Mighty

The Seats of the Mighty

by Gilbert Parker, afterword by Andrea Cabajsky
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From the pen of Gilbert Parker comes one of the most popular Canadian novels of the late nineteenth century. First published simultaneously in Canada and the United States in 1896, The Seats of the Mighty is set in Quebec City in 1759, against the backdrop of the conflict between the English and the French over the future of New France. Written and …

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The Last Train

The Last Train

A Holocaust Story
by Rona Arato
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Grade: 6 to 12
tagged : holocaust, judaism, siblings, historical

The Last Train is the harrowing true story about young brothers Paul and Oscar Arato and their mother, Lenke, surviving the Nazi occupation during the final years of World War II. Living in the town of Karcag, Hungary, the Aratos felt insulated from the war — even as it raged all around them. Hungary is allied with Germany to protect its citizens …

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