Books – Literature

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  The Dog’s Children

  Anishinaabe Texts told by Angeline Williams

  Angeline Williams (Author), Leonard Bloomfield (Editor), John D. Nichols (Editor)

  These are a collection of 20 stories, dictated in 1941 to Bloomfield’s linguistics class, edited from manuscripts now in the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution, and published for the first time. In Ojibwe, with English translations by Bloomfield. Ojibwe-English glossary and other linguistic study aids.

  Published January 1999 | Publications of the Algonquian Text Society, Indigenous Studies, Linguistics, Literature, Translation

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  Making it Home

  Place in Canadian Literature

  Deborah Keahey (Author)

  Redefines our understanding of place, home, and the relationship between them.

  Published December 1998 | Literary Criticism, Literature

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  Writings by Western Icelandic Women

  Kirsten Wolf (Translator)

  This collection of short stories and poems spans 75 years of writings. It includes translated work by little-known authors such as Undina, “a modest poet,” as well as works in English by prominent writers such as Laura Goodman Salverson, twice a winner of the Governor-General’s Award. From the hopefulness of the early immigration in the 1870s to the conflict of assimilation in the 1950s, the pieces reflect a range of experiences common to immigrant women from many cultures.

  Published January 1997 | Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Icelandic Studies, Literature, Translation, Women’s Studies

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  Western Icelandic Short Stories

  Kirsten Wolf (Translator), Arny Hjaltadottir (Translator)

  This selection of Western Icelandic writings, the first of its kind in English, represents a wide collection of first and second generation Icelandic-Canadian authors. The stories, first published between 1895 and 1930, are set mainly in North America (especially Manitoba). They reflect a weath of literary activity, from the numerous Western Icelandic newspapers and journals, to the reading circles and cultural and literary societies that supported them.

  Published December 1992 | Ethnic Studies, Icelandic Studies, Literature, Social History, Translation