Pathways of Creativity in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador

María Jesús Hernáez Lerena is an Associate Professor of American and Canadian literatures at the University of La Rioja, Spain. Her books and essays deal with the way stories support the rethinking of time and place. Her articles can be found in University of Toronto Quarterly, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, Numéro Cinq, and Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective, among others. She teaches courses on Canadian literature in a doctoral program presented with the Quality Distinction Award by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.

'Pathways of Creativity in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador is a significant contribution to scholarly criticism on the cultures of Canada's most easterly province. All of us working in cultural fields connected to Newfoundland and Labrador owe a debt of gratitude to María Jesús Hernáez Lerena, the Spanish academic who compiled and edited twelve essays from eminent local scholars, artists, and commentators. [...] The collection is remarkable for a number of reasons. First, although the book is weighted toward literary scholarship, it also includes chapters on film, theatre, visual art, and oral storytelling traditions. Such transdisciplinarity in the context of scholarship on Newfoundland and Labrador is innovative and provides a breadth of reference that asks readers to link various creative endeavors. [...] I recommend this collection not just for the way it positions various fields of creativity and scholarship of Newfoundland and Labrador cultures as they are today but also because it indicates possible avenues of where these fields are going. In this regard, Pathways of Creativity in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador is a text that will continue to be important as time goes by.'Jonathan Parsonsariel: A Review of International English Literature, 48:2 (2017)'Pathways of Creativity in Newfoundland and Labrador proves that positivity and ingenuity continue to produce a thriving and evolving culture.'Paul ChafeRyerson UniversityEnglish Studies in Canada, 42.3-4