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• Role-Playing, Reader Response, and Play-Therapy in Fantasy Fiction: "You could hear the dice rolling" in Novels About Abuse and Recovery.

  Author:James GiffordFrom:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 202011,874 words Essay Role-playing games (RPGS) have an established use in play-therapy, particularly psychotherapy with childrend and teens as well as in social work with these groups. Likewise, reader response studies have long established...

• Teaching As La-Ing: Thinking About the English Lit and Creative Writing Classroom on Turtle Island.

  Author:Sonnet L'AbbeFrom:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20202,590 words Essay Huy ch q'a siem hwulmuxw mustimuxw. Noor hindi opens her poem, "Fuck Your Lecture On Craft, My People Are Dying," with a confrontation: "Colonizers write about flowers. / I tell you about children throwing rocks at...

• "A National Library for Canada": The J.D. Barnett Collection.

  Author:Ian RaeFrom:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 202010,536 words Essay This article will examine the development of John Davis Barnett's private collection of over forty-two-thousand books, which Barnett had hoped to make the foundation of a National Library of Canada but which ultimately...

• Exit Survey: The Terrain of Struggle.

  Author:Nadine AttewellFrom:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20203,119 words Essay In the autumn of 2020, the Department of English at Cornell University voted to become a Department of Literatures in English. Writing about the change in Brittle Paper, faculty members Carole Boyce Davies and Mukoma wa...

• "A Garden of Her Own": Toward a Wilful Politics of Hope in Shani Mootoo's Out on Main Street.

  Author:Maite Escudero-AliasFrom:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20207,336 words Essay Born in Ireland to Indian parents and raised in Trinidad, Shani Mootoo chose Canada as her homestead, thus positioning herself amongst those contemporary writers from multicultural and multi-ethnic backgrounds who do not...

• Disciplinarity and Decolonization in Indigenous Literary Studies.

  Author:Aubrey Jean HansonFrom:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20202,304 words Essay Taanishi, hello, my lriends and relatives. I greet you from the Treaty 7 region of southern Alberta and from the broad homeland of the Metis Nation, of which I am a member. My name is Aubrey Jean Hanson, and I am of...

• Hasty Reading and Literary Values: A Pilot Study of University Student Reading Experience in Relation to Critical and Empathetic Engagement.

  Authors:Glenn Willmott and Mitchell CrouseFrom:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20206,482 words Essay Recently, in an introduction to literature course, I began a class by asking my students what they thought about Gregor's sister, Grete, in Kafka's The Metamorphosis. Describe her character? I met silence. Retrenching, I...

• The End of the English Department: Decolonizing Futures.

  Author:Ronald CummingsFrom:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20204,591 words Essay Call this apocalyptic propaganda if you must: The World Ended in the Spring of 2006. But how much you are willing to accept this story depends on how far your minds can stretch. Kei Miller A Light Song of Light The...