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Writing the Body in Motion: A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature
Writing the Body in Motion, edited by BC writers and literary scholars Angie Abdou and Jamie Dopp, is an introduction and literary companion for readers wishing to delve into Canadian sports literature. The book is...
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Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada
THE TASK APPEARS straightforward – in this case, to read W.H. New’s monumental Encyclopedia ofLiterature in Canada for information on BC writing. There is, usefully, an entry on British Columbia (unsigned, meaning “written by New”):...
BC Studies no. 145 Spring 2005 | Page(s) 108-12
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Landscapes of War and Memory: The Two World Wars in Canadian Literature and the Arts, 1977–2007
In Jack Hodgins’s Broken Ground (1998), memories of the Great War haunt the fictional community of Portuguese Creek on Vancouver Island, but what should be remembered of the horrors of France remains uncertain. The notebook...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 161-163
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Comrades and Critics: Women, Literature, and the Left in 1930s Canada
Canada’s best-known female literary writers from the 1930s are all closely associated with British Columbia: activist wordsmith Dorothy Livesay, then a member of the Communist Party, who first moved to Vancouver in 1936; Anne Marriott,...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 117-8
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Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Culture
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 136, Winter 2002
BC Studies no. 136 Winter 2002-2003 | Page(s) 138-40
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Towards an Art History of Northwest Coast First Nations: A Review Essay of Recent Literature 
Northwest Coast Indian Painting: House Fronts and Interior Screens
The Transforming Image: Painted Arts of Northwest Coast First Nations
Spirits of the Water: Native Art Collected on Expeditions to Alaska and British Columbia, 1774-1910
BC Studies no. 135 Autumn 2002 | Pages 187-95
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Catching the Torch: Contemporary Canadian Literary Responses to World War I
Neta Gordon’s Catching the Torch: Contemporary Canadian Literary Responses to World War I is a firmly contemporary study of the notion of the Great War in modern memory: that is, the First World War’s imaginative...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 209-211
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Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers
THE IDEA OF a story being as sharp as a knife, which is the title of Robert Bringhurst’s astonishing introduction to the works of classical Haida poets, is a useful proposition to consider in order...
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 181-4
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Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)
POET, WRITER, storyteller, spokesperson, performer, actress, performance artist. Pauline Johnson is certainly the most public and popular writer that nineteenth-century Canada produced, and perhaps even the most public Canadian writer of the last century. Such...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 115-8
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First Invaders: The Literary Origins of British Columbia
Alan Twigg is the publisher of BC BookWorld, which plays an important role in the literary life of British Columbia, and the author of eight previous books, chiefly on literature and politics. First Invaders is...
BC Studies no. 150 Summer 2006 | Page(s) 126-8
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The Heavens are Changing: Nineteenth-Century Protestant Missions and Tsimshian Christianity
WRITING IN Moon of Wintertime: Missionaries and the Indians of Canada in Encounter since 1534 (University of Toronto Press, 1984, 250) of seventeenth-century Jesuit missions to the Huron, John Webster Grant quoted a Huron man...
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 184-6
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Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law
REGULATING LIVES adds to a rapidly growing body of work in Canadian legal history and in the history of moral regulation. The collection should be of great interest to historians of the family, gender, race...
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 203-4
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Contesting White Supremacy: School Segregation, Anti-Racism, and the Making of Chinese Canadians
In September 1922, the Victoria, B.C. school board ordered 155 Chinese children (97 were Canadian-born and many spoke only English) to leave its regular elementary schools and move to segregated schools which only they would...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 148-50
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The Reluctant Land: Society, Space, and Environment in Canada before Confederation
This ambitious book takes up the daunting challenge of surveying Canada’s evolution from the 1500s to the 1870s. Cole Harris’ long and distinguished career as a historical geographer with exceptionally wide-ranging interests provide him with...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 125- 7
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Makuk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations
Makúk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations is a thorough treatment of a significant subject in BC history. Lutz has examined the history of exchanges of things, labour, and ideas between Aboriginal peoples and immigrants...
BC Studies no. 163 Autumn 2009 | Page(s) 133-4
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A Political Space: Reading the Global through Clayoquot Sound
Clayoquot Sound. Home of the Nu-Chah-Nuulth First Nation for thousands of years. Home of loggers and fishers who have contributed to a global market for wood and fish products for decades. Home to scenic fjords,...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 120-3
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Mountains So Sublime: Nineteenth-Century British Travellers and the Lure of the Rocky Mountain West
Mountains So Sublime is a thoughtful study of the reactions of Victorian British travellers to the Rocky Mountain West, as expressed through their published travelogues and unpublished diaries and reminiscences. Recently retired from a long...
BC Studies no. 153 Spring 2007 | Page(s) 128-30
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The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific
In their recent edited collection, Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History (2005), Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton call for a renewed focus on gender as a category of historical analysis, positioning “the...
BC Studies no. 151 Autumn 2006 | Page(s) 104-5
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Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade
This may be the most important book on the history of the fur trade in the Hudson’s Bay Company Territories published in a generation. Although its purview does not include British Columbia, all historians of...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 143-45
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The Literary Storefront: The Glory Years: Vancouver’s Literary Centre 1978-1985
Few bookstores figure prominently in modern literary history. Shakespeare and Company in Paris, once frequented by Joyce, Stein, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway, and City Lights in San Francisco, made famous by Ginsberg and Kerouac, are shrines...
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Points of Entry: How Canada’s Immigration Officers Decide Who Gets In
Though less controversial than in many other countries, admission of immigrants and refugees to Canada not infrequently raises protests of “too many” or “too few” from partisan commentators, and sensationalised media accounts of particular entry...