This is the first book monograph devoted to Anglophone Ukrainian Canadian children's
historical fiction published between 1991 and 2021. It consists of five chapters offering cross …

Healing Haunted Histories tackles the oldest and deepest injustices on the North American
continent. Violations which inhabit every intersection of settler and Indigenous worlds, past …

Perceptive, controversial, topical, and achingly funny, Miriam Toews's books have earned
her a place at the forefront of Canadian literature. In this first monograph on Toews's work …

How do groups of people fashion shared identities in the modern world? Following two
communities of German-speaking Mennonites, one composed of voluntary migrants and the …

Though the terms “queer” and “Mennonite” rarely come into theoretical or cultural contact,
over the last several decades writers and scholars in the United States and Canada have …

Published during the# MeToo movement, Miriam Toews' 2019 novel Women Talking
focuses on the importance of listening attentively to women's words. I argue that the novel's …

Abstract “Red Tiles, White Mosaic” offers a literary and political history analyzing the settler-
colonial processes by which the state-driven project of multiculturalism became Canada's …

This chapter asks whether it is still relevant to think of Canadian prairie literature in a
regional context. It suggests that the critical focus should be rethought to provide a more …

Recent definitions of speculative fiction make ample space in the genre for religious
concerns. This essay shows how recent works of Mennonite speculative fiction such as …

Sontag notes in Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, epidemics are often used
as metaphors and tools of symbolic violence in public discourse. This type of violence is …