The Routledge introduction to auto/biography in Canada / Sonja Boon, Laurie McNeill, Julie Rak, and Candida Rifkind.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boon, Sonja, author.

McNeill, Laurie, author.

Rak, Julie, 1966- author.

Rifkind, Candida, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge introductions to Canadian literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiography--Canadian authors.

Autobiography.

Biography as a literary form.

Canada--Biography--History and criticism.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 227 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Routledge introduction to autobiography in Canada

Routledge introduction to biography in Canada

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Sonja Boon holds a PhD in Women's Studies from Simon Fraser University. She is currently Professor of Gender Studies at Memorial University. Sonja is the author of four books, including Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water's Edge: Unsettled Islands (with Lesley Butler and Daze Jefferies, 2018) and What the Oceans Remember: Searching for Belonging and Home (2019). She is the 2020 recipient of the Royal Society of Canada's Ursula Franklin Award in Gender Studies. Laurie McNeill holds a PhD in English from the University of British Columbia. She is currently a Professor of Teaching in the Department of English Language and Literatures at UBC and Director of First-Year and Interdisciplinary Programs. She is co-editor (with Kate Douglas) of Teaching Lives: Contemporary Pedagogies of Life Narratives (Routledge, 2020), and Online Lives 2.0, a special issue of the journal Biography, co-edited with John David Zuern (2015), and her most recent articles and chapters have been published in the journals a/b: Autobiography Studies and English Studies in Canada and the collection Inscribed Identities (Routledge, 2019). Julie Rak holds a PhD in English from McMaster University. She is the Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. Julie's awards include the Killam Annual Professorship (2017-2018) and the Hogan Prize (2017). Her books and collections include False Summit: Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction (2021), Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market (2013), Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse (2004), Auto/biography in Canada (2005), and Identity Technologies (2014). Candida Rifkind holds a PhD in English from York University. She is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg. Her books and edited collections include Comrades and Critics: Women, Literature and the Left in 1930s Canada (winner of the 2009 Anne Saddlemeyer Award), Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives (co-edited with Linda Warley, winner of the 2016 Gabrielle Roy Prize), Documenting Trauma in Comics (co-edited with Dominic Davies) and "Migration, Exile, and Diaspora in Graphic Life Narratives," a special issue of a/b: Autobiography Studies co-edited with Nima Naghibi and Eleanor Ty (2020).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 09, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Boon, Sonja. Routledge introduction to auto/biography in Canada

ISBN:

9781003193197

1003193196

9781000800913

1000800911

9781000800944

1000800946

Publisher Number:

40031553120

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