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Dallas Hunt Pender Harbour: Harbour Publishing 2024 This is a book about grief, death and longing. It’s about the gristle that lodges itself deep into one’s gums, between incisors and canines. Teeth details not only the symptoms of colonization, but also the foundational and constitutive asymmetries that allow for it to proliferate and reproduce itself. […]

 

Richard Cavell Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press 2024 Edmund Snow Carpenter (1922-2011), shaped by an early encounter with Marshall McLuhan, was a renegade anthropologist who would plumb the connection between anthropology and media studies over a thoroughly unconventional career. As co-conspirators in the founding of the legendary journal Explorations (1953-59), Carpenter and McLuhan established the groundwork […]

 

Know the first-year English and Literature requirements! UBC Medicine requires 6 credits of Literature or 3 credits of Literature and 3 credits of Writing, taught by an English Department. UBC Medicine does not accept SCIE 113 or LFS 150. UBC Science requires SCIE 113. So, if you are new to UBC Science in 2024, you […]

 

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edited by Nancy M. Frelick and Edith Benkov Toronto: ITER Press 2024 Subject/Object and Beyond: Women in Early Modern France brings together seventeen essays by established and emerging scholars to honour the exceptionally rich contributions and career of Colette H. Winn. The essays explore multiple perspectives on early modern women, including their writings, translations, reception, […]

 

Mo Pareles Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2024 Early English culture depended on a Judaism translated away from Jews. Revealing the importance of Jewish law to the workings of early Christian England, Nothing Pure presents a Jewish revision of the history of English Bible translation. The book illuminates the paradoxical process by which the abjection […]

 

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Phanuel Antwi London: Pluto Press 2023 Ranging from the terrifying embrace of the slave ship’s hold to the racist encoding of ‘cuddly’ toys, On Cuddling is a unique combination of essay and poetry that contends with the way racial violence is enacted through intimacy. Informed by Black feminist and queer poetics, Phanuel Antwi focuses his […]