Wild Words:
Essays on Alberta Literature

About the Book

As the first collection of literary criticism focusing on Alberta writers, Wild Words establishes a basis for identifying Alberta fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction as valid subjects of study in their own right. By critically situating and assessing specific Alberta authors according to genre, this volume continues the work begun with Melnyk's Literary History of Alberta.

About the Editors:

Donna Coates is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Calgary. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand fiction and drama (especially by women) and recently co-edited a volume on Canadian war drama.

George Melnyk is an Associate Professor of Canadian Studies and Film Studies in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. He is a historian of Canadian culture and has published numerous books in the field.

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Download PREFACE: The Struggle for an Alberta Literature
Donna Coates and George Melnyk

Download INTRODUCTION: Wrestling Impossibilities: Wild Words in Alberta
Aritha van Herk

PART ONE: Poetry

Download1. The "Wild Body" of Alberta Poetry
Douglas Barbour

Download2. "To Canada": Michael Gowda's Unique Contribution to the Literary History of Alberta
Jars Balan

Download3. Pastoral Elegy, Memorial, Writing: Robert Kroetsch's "Stone Hammer" Poem
Christian Riegel

PART TWO: Drama

Download4. No Cowpersons on This Range: The Cultural Complexity of Alberta Theatre
Anne Nothof

Download5. Playing Alberta with Sharon Pollock
Sherrill Grace

PART THREE: Fiction

Download6. "No Woman is Natural": The (Re)production of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
in Suzette Mayr's Moon Honey
Helen Hoy

Download7. Wandering Home in Rudy Wiebe's Sweeter Than All the World and Of This Earth
Malin Sigvardson

Download8. Richard Wagamese – An Ojibway in Alberta
Frances W. Kaye

PART FOUR: Nonfiction

Download9. From Grizzly Country to Grizzly Heart: The Grammar of Bear-Human Interactions
in the Work of Andy Russell and Charlie Russell
Pamela Banting

Download10. The Doomed Genre: Myrna Kostash and the Limits of Non-fiction
Lisa Grekul

DownloadAFTERWORD: Writing in Alberta – Up, Down, or Sideways?
Fred Stenson

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