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Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland--one of Canada's most beloved writers and one of Canada's most significant publishers--enjoyed an unusual rapport. In this collection of annotated letters, readers gain rare insight into the private side of these literary icons. Their correspondence reveals a professional relationship that evolved into deep friendship over a period of enormous cultural change. Both were committed to the idea of Canadian wr...

Told from the alternating perspectives of Zinnia, a humorous young loner, and an unintentionally comical hive of honeybees, this quirky, heartfelt debut novel is sure to strike a chord with anyone who has ever felt alone, betrayed, or misunderstood. Illustrations.

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Articulates how Margaret Laurence addresses decolonization and nation building in 1950s Somalia and Ghana, and 1960s and 1970s English-Canada. Laurence displaces the simple notion that Canada is a sum total of different cultures, and conceives Canada as a mosaic that is in flux and constituted through continually changing social relations.

Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada is the first book to examine how Laurence addresses decolonization and nation building in 1950s Somalia and Ghana, and 1960s and 1970s English Canada.Focusing on Laurence's published works as well as her unpublished letters not yet discussed by critics, the book articulates how Laurence and her characters are poised between African colonies of occupation during decolonization and the settler-colony of...