Thomas King is the first Native writer to generate widespread interest in both Canada and the United States. He has been nominated twice for Governor General's Awards, and his first novel, Medicine River, has been transformed into a CBC movie. His books have been reviewed in publications such as The New York Times Book Review, The Globe and Mail, and People magazine. King is also the author of the serialized radio series The Dead Dog Caf? and is an accomplished photographer. Border Crossings is the first full-length study to explore King's...
Thomas King is the first Native writer to generate widespread interest in both Canada and the United States. He has been nominated twice for Govern...
I wrote this book to give young teenagers, young adults, and anyone who is looking for guidance a chance to see how good GOD is, he brought me out of many storms, I would like to name a few; teen pregnancy, peer pressure, how to forgive, and when someone knock you down how to get back up again
I wrote this book to give young teenagers, young adults, and anyone who is looking for guidance a chance to see how good GOD is, he brought me out of ...
How can humour and irony in writing both create and destroy boundaries? In the Belly of a Laughing God examines how eight contemporary Native women poets in Canada and the United States - Joy Harjo, Louise Halfe, Kimberly Blaeser, Marilyn Dumont, Diane Glancy, Jeannette Armstrong, Wendy Rose, and Marie Annharte Baker - employ humour and irony to address the intricacies of race, gender, and nationality. While recognizing that humour and irony are often employed as methods of resistance, this careful analysis also acknowledges the ways that they can be used to assert or restore...
How can humour and irony in writing both create and destroy boundaries? In the Belly of a Laughing God examines how eight contemporary Nat...
After walking in on her boyfriend with another woman, Lacey Fuller has had it with men In the dark of night, she retreats to the one place she's always felt safe - the Lucille, her late grandfather's boat - to lick her wounds and hopefully come up with a way to salvage her love life. Calvin Chatsworth has spent the last three months running from the paparazzi. After the very public breakup of the billionaire businessman's marriage to an international supermodel, the press have been relentless. Despite his controlling father's disapproval, Cal slips onto his yacht, the Lucinda late at night...
After walking in on her boyfriend with another woman, Lacey Fuller has had it with men In the dark of night, she retreats to the one place she's alwa...
This book explores how Canada is imagined primarily by US writers, and what readers and scholars on both sides of the Canada-US border can learn from these recent depictions by examining a selection of US-authored fiction from 9/11 to the present. The novels — and occasionally paintings, films, and musicals — that are the subject of the book provide a deliberately varied set of case studies to probe how US texts, along with works of art produced on both sides of the Canada-US border, uncover moments in Canadian historical and literary studies that have been buried or occluded to protect...
This book explores how Canada is imagined primarily by US writers, and what readers and scholars on both sides of the Canada-US border can learn from ...