wyszukanych pozycji: 3
Paddling Her Own Canoe
ISBN: 9780802080240 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Frequently dismissed as a 'nature poet' and an 'Indian Princess' E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) was not only an accomplished thinker and writer but a contentious and passionate personality who 'talked back' to Euro-Canadian culture. Paddling Her Own Canoe is the only major scholarly study that examines Johnson's diverse roles as a First Nations champion, New Woman, serious writer and performer, and Canadian nationalist. A Native advocate of part-Mohawk ancestry, Johnson was also an independent, self-supporting, unmarried woman during the period of first-wave feminism. Her... Frequently dismissed as a 'nature poet' and an 'Indian Princess' E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) was not only an accomplished thinker and writer but... |
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172,82 zł |
History of the Book in Canada: Volume Three: 1918-1980
ISBN: 9780802090478 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 696 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The History of the Book in Canada is one of this country's great scholarly achievements, with three volumes spanning topics from Aboriginal communication systems established prior to European contact to the arrival of multinational publishing companies. Each volume observes developments in the realms of writing, publishing, dissemination, and reading, illustrating the process of a fledgling nation coming into its own. The third and final volume follows book history and print culture from the end of the First World War to 1980, discussing the influences on them of the twentieth... The History of the Book in Canada is one of this country's great scholarly achievements, with three volumes spanning topics from Aborigina... |
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434,66 zł |
In Due Season
ISBN: 9781771120715 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 375 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1947, "In Due Season" broke new ground with its fictional representation of women and of Indigenous people. Set during the dustbowl 1930s, this tersely narrated prize-winning novel follows Lina Ashley, a determined solo female homesteader who takes her family from drought-ridden southern Alberta to a new life in the Peace River region. Here her daughter Poppy grows up in a community characterized by harmonious interactions between the local M?tis and newly arrived European settlers. Still, there is tension between mother and daughter when Poppy becomes involved with a... First published in 1947, "In Due Season" broke new ground with its fictional representation of women and of Indigenous people. Set during the dust... |
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106,01 zł |