Bøger af Christl Verduyn

"Her Own Thinker: Canadian Women Writers as Essayists explores the thinking, ideas, and insights that Canadian women fiction writers have chosen to express in essay form rather than in fiction form. It looks at this substantial body of writing with a primary focus on collections of essays, and on those published since the 1960s. In all, it considers over 40 collections, offering an overview and appreciation of this generally overlooked work and its contributions to cultural and intellectual thinking in Canada."--

Explores some of the latest developments in the literary and cultural practices of Canadians of Asian heritage. The essays in this collection examine the ways in which Asian Canadian authors (such as Larissa Lai and Shani Mootoo) and artists (such as Ken Lum and Paul Wong) have gone beyond autoethnography, or ethnographic autobiography.

Long before she became a best-selling author, Edna Staebler was a writer of a different sort. Staebler began serious diary writing at the age of sixteen and continued to write for over eighty years. This volume draws from these diaries to map Staebler's construction of herself as a writer and documents her frustrations and struggles.