A voice for many peoples.
Are you attending Congress in Montreal? While this year’s Expo has been cancelled, our editors are still available for offsite meetings with scholars. If interested, please reach out to rachel[dot]stapleton[at]uregina[dot]ca.
(And don’t miss some of our latest releases on display at Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore!)
TRUST THE BLUER SKIES:
🍊"Serves as a contemplative accounting of the ones we hold dear and the invisible threads that connect past and future." —Literary Review of Canada
🍊“A haunting memoir about the perils and promise of returning home and the joy of leaving it forever changed.” —Foreword Reviews
🍊“One man’s work to change the meaning of father—for himself, his son, and us.” —Richard Harrison, author of 'On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood'
https://uofrpress.ca/Books/T/Trust-the-Bluer-Skies
"THE MEDICINE CHEST is a frontline diary of the struggle to address our medical system's inequities and colonial legacy, and the urgency to find a new way to healing and reconciliation."
—Charlie Angus, author of 'Cobalt' and 'Children of the Broken Treaty'
https://uofrpress.ca/Books/T/The-Medicine-Chest
Beyond the lighthouse beams,
there's only the sound of water:
coves exhaling wave, receding,
the thickness of being.
Call to the earth and seas half-held by the night.
It doesn't matter
who sounds out and who listens,
only that someone's near.
You hear the lulls of sand enveloped
by the slow serrated edge of the sea.
If, just like the meeting of the waves
and the land, you return,
what does your presence say about nakedness?
If you undress in the dark, or don't,
will you wake up in any way changed?
-From WRACKLINE by MW Jaeggle
https://uofrpress.ca/Books/W/Wrack-Line
🪓Multifaceted and multi-voiced, Emily McGiffin’s poems explore the ongoing violence, destruction, and loss wrought by colonialism and capitalist extraction across time and geographic space, from Turtle Island to South Africa.
🪓INTO THE CONTINENT animates the spectres that haunt our private and public pasts.
🪓Her words remind us that we live in a world shaped by the events and people of the past, by suffering, and seizure, yet at times in the shadow of great acts of generosity.
🪓This world, largely built by iterations of violence, still concentrates wealth into the hands of a few, and McGiffin reminds us that power wants to hold its grip, to reproduce itself.
https://uofrpress.ca/Books/I/Into-the-Continent
International Transgender Day of Visibility celebrates transgender people and seeks to raise awareness of discrimination faced by transgender people worldwide.
Illuminating the day-to-day realities of trans kids who regularly experience crisis as a result of the many ways traditional s*x categories regulate their lives, THE TRANS GENERATION offers an essential and important new understanding of childhood.
Based on over five years of research in Canada and the U. S., and interviews with trans kids and their parents, Travers offers a rare look into what it is like to grow up as a transgender child.
https://uofrpress.ca/Books/T/The-Trans-Generation
Isúh Áníi / AS GRANDMOTHER SAID
✨A singular collection of stories published in Tsuut'ina, a critically endangered language✨
brings together nine traditional narratives and historical accounts in the Tsuut’ina language, originally narrated by Elders Dátł’ìshí Ts’ìká Bessie Meguinis (1883–1987) and Ninàghá Tsìtł’á Willie Little Bear (1912–1989). At once an act of language preservation and a learning resource, each story is retold in Tsuut’ina by Dit’óní Didlíshí Dr. Bruce Starlight and is presented with English translations and a Tsuut’ina-to-English glossary.
The narratives included in this collection cover considerable ground, ranging from the creation of the world in the caring hands of Xàlítsa-tsii and his animal helpers, to accounts of separation, migration, and cross-cultural contact that mark major turning points in Tsuut’ina history, and to important cultural and ceremonial items and practices that the Tsuut’ina Nation maintains to this day.
These stories will be of lasting value to Tsuut’ina language learners and teachers, and will share the legacy of Elders Bessie Meguinis and Willie Little Bear with generations of Tsuut’ina to come.
https://uofrpress.ca/Books/I/Isuh-Anii-As-Grandmother-Said
James Daschuk, author of CLEARING THE PLAINS, discussed forced famine as a colonial tool with The Conversation Canada
For centuries, colonial powers have used starvation as a tool to control Indigenous populations and take over their land and wealth. A look back at two historic examples on two different continents.
Literary Review of Canada says "As a country that prides itself in providing equitable care, Canada needs a 'whole health system redesign.' THE MEDICINE CHEST is Boan’s call for—and commitment to—exactly that."
Bookworm, no. 36 raises the literary stakes!
A review of Deirdre Kessler's "Darwin's Hornpipe" (Penumbra Press). Leighton Schreyer on Jarol Boan's new book (University of Regina Press). A Q&A with cover artist Raymond Biesinger. Finalists for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize (Writers' Trust of Canada).
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https://reviewcanada.substack.com
"THE MEDICINE CHEST is a frontline diary of the struggle to address our medical system's inequities and colonial legacy, and the urgency to find a new way to healing and reconciliation."
—Charlie Angus
https://uofrpress.ca/Books/T/The-Medicine-Chest
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Civilization is a western, Eurocentric construct borne from a distrust of nature, a desire to endlessly exploit it and profit from it. Despite being a relatively recent development, civilization’s inherent logic has resulted in over-population, inequality, poverty, misery, war, and climate change and now threatens humanity’s very survival.
How can humanity expect to survive if it continues to look for solutions from the very structures and ideologies that have brought it to the brink of extinction?
In CHALLENGE TO CIVILIZATION, Dr. Blair Stonechild deftly illustrates how Indigenous spirituality, wisdom, and land-based knowledge is critical to human survival in the face of environmental destruction and human-induced climate change.
https://uofrpress.ca/Books/C/Challenge-to-Civilization
"I am on a path of discovering my own racism"
Read an excerpt from Dr. Jarol Boan's upcoming THE MEDICINE CHEST: A PHYSICIAN'S JOURNEY TOWARDS RECONCILIATION
On sale March 26!
Read the full excerpt below:
Returning to her home province, a settler physician seeks to improve healing approaches for her Indigenous patients. An excerpt.
Thanks to everyone who came out to last night for the launch of Eroding A Way Of Life. Author Murray Knuttila was kind enough to sign some copies for the bookstore, so if you want a signed copy, come visit The Penny University Bookstore!
An exposé of the reality of Saskatchewan’s potash industry management—prioritizing private profit over public interest
A single province in Canada—Saskatchewan—is blessed with a remarkable birthright: 50% of the world’s potash reserves.
Potassium is a necessary ingredient of the fertilizer required to feed a growing world population. Accordingly, prices and corporate profits have soared to unprecedented levels in recent decades. While other countries have taken steps to capture the value of their natural resources for their people, Saskatchewan has failed to leverage the value of its potash and has given much of it up for an inadequate price.
Billions of dollars of forgone revenue has resulted in tax unfairness, program underfunding and malfunction, and a growing and worrying divide between the affluent and the very poor. Analysts from across the political spectrum have identified this revenue problem, as well as a straightforward solution. Unfortunately, the Saskatchewan government has declined to review the situation and instead seems to rely upon the advice of the industry itself. The province now faces the game-changing issue of how to tax appropriately the small number of multinational conglomerates that now own these potash mines. Whether or not the province obtains reasonable value for its potash will determine whether Saskatchewan will be a place of opportunity for all of its citizens or continue on a path of wealth for a few and extreme poverty for many.
https://uofrpress.ca/Books/S/Squandered
In “TRUST THE BLUER SKIES,” paulo da costa invites readers on an evocative journey, exploring the theme of innocence.
The narrative unfolds as a father embarks on a trip with his four-year-old son to his ancestral home in Portugal. Through Koah, the young boy, we witness the purity of a child’s perspective—a lens that highlights the poetic nature of their bond.
As the story progresses, the reader is drawn into the poignant struggle of a father striving to preserve his son’s innate wit and sense of wonder.
This quest takes place against a backdrop of a transforming world, where exploitation is rampant and once-natural landscapes are lost to ‘progress.’ The inexorable march of change threatens to erase the simplicities of life, leaving a world where innocence cannot endure untouched.
Koah’s character represents a poignant reminder—a call to rediscover the often-overlooked splendour in our surroundings we so readily sacrifice. His innocence challenges us to consider a slower pace of life, to reawaken to the beauty we are on the brink of destroying."
Thank you for the beautiful review and 📸, Lindsay Wincherauk!
https://uofrpress.ca/Books/T/Trust-the-Bluer-Skies
CREATING A SEAT AT THE TABLE compiles the experiences of eighteen women as they navigate their way through the male-dominated spaces of law school and the legal profession.
Hear from women from different generations and areas of the law—big and small law firms, legal aid, government and politics, the judiciary, in-house positions, administrative agencies. The authors discuss a multitude of issues they’ve faced in their careers, including the compound effects of discrimination based on race, s*xual orientation, or disability as well as gender. The stories presented here are inspirational at times and discomforting at others.
CREATING A SEAT AT THE TABLE shows that much has been done to advance women in law but also highlights that much remains to be done.
https://uofrpress.ca/Books/C/Creating-a-Seat-at-the-Table
“In her must-read book, Candace Brunette-Debassige gives light to the complexities of the embodied experience of Indigenous women leaders in higher education as they navigate the precarious terrain of Canadian universities.
This book casts light on Indigenous leadership positions largely held by Indigenous women that are too often stymied by tokenization.
Within a university culture that explicitly and complicitly reproduces racial and gender marginalization, this engaging work meets the moment as Canadian universities reckon with what it means to share senior administration leadership power in decolonizing higher education.
Animated through story and written with compassion and confidence, this book is a call for change.”
—Margaret Kovach, author of Indigenous Methodologies
https://uofrpress.ca/Books/T/Tricky-Grounds
The staff from Russell Books recommend reading Helen Knott's IN MY OWN MOCCASINS to celebrate Women’s Day:
https://www.mondaymag.com/entertainment/turning-a-page-to-celebrate-womens-day-7325403 via Monday MAG
Staff from Russell Books give their top five book picks
WHO GETS IN by Norman Ravvin is a "masterful archival-based account"
Read the full review from Alberta Views magazine below!
An Immigration Story
Series editors Dr. Afua Cooper and Dr. Saje Matheiu, are currently seeking scholarly monographs and collections for the Henry and Mary Bibb Series!
With their founding of Canada’s first Black newspaper, 'The Voice of the Fugitive', in 1851, Henry and Mary Bibb established the Black Press in Canada. As leading Abolitionists, their work and writings made impacts in the areas of education, religion, housing, agriculture, journalism, and political mobilization. Their activism advanced Black rights in Canada and the United States.
'The Henry and Mary Bibb Series' welcomes scholarly book submissions that explore various aspects of Black Canadian history and life from established and emerging scholars. Multi-disciplinary in scope, the series will be published and widely promoted by University of Regina Press.
Submissions details can be found here:
https://uofrpress.ca/Publish-With-Us/Submitting-a-Proposal
Please mention “The Henry and Mary Bibb Series” in the subject line of your submission.
Evocative and heartwarming, TRUST THE BLUER SKIES is a literary time capsule—a father’s vivid account of his son’s early years, a sensory-rich journey through rural Portugal, and “a haunting memoir about the perils and promise of returning home and the joy of leaving it forever changed.” (Foreword Reviews)
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In stores now!
https://uofrpress.ca/Books/T/Trust-the-Bluer-Skies
An anthology of African-Canadian writing, BLACK WRITERS MATTER offers a cross-section of established writers and newcomers to the literary world who tackle contemporary and pressing issues with beautiful, sometimes raw, prose.
As editor Whitney French says in her introduction, BLACK WRITERS MATTER “injects new meaning into the word diversity [and] harbours a sacredness and an everydayness that offers Black people dignity. ”
An “invitation to read, share, and tell stories of Black narratives that are close to the bone,” this collection feels particular to the Black Canadian experience.
Thank you, , for the beautiful 📸!
Next up at : Rodney Diverlus! Rodney is the co-editor of UNTIL WE ARE FREE: REFLECTIONS ON BLACK LIVES MATTER IN CANADA, out now with University of Regina.
Join us virtually (April 28 - May 1) and in-person (May 2 - 5) in downtown Brampton for this year's festival. Registration opens on March 20!
[Image description: square graphic showcasing Rodney Diverlus—a Black person with dark short hair and a beard—next to the cover image for their latest book, UNTIL WE ARE FREE: REFLECTIONS ON BLACK LIVES MATTER IN CANADA. Black text beside author headshot reads: THE FESTIVAL OF LITERARY DIVERSITY, April 28 - May 5. Two purple circles on author headshot read: Virtual April 28 - May 1, and In-Person Brampton May 2 - 5. At the bottom of the graphic is a orange bar with black and orange text: Registration opens March 20 at thefoldcanada.org.]
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