Writing Alberta

R. Douglas Francis is a professor of history at the University of Calgary. He has published extensively in the areas of Canadian and western Canadian intellectual and cultural history. George Melnyk is professor emeritus of Communication, Media, and Film at the University of Calgary. He is the author and editor of over two dozen books in Canadian Studies, including the two-volume The Literary History of Alberta (1998-99). He is also co-editor with Tamara Palmer Seiler of The Wild Rose Anthology of Alberta Prose (2003) and co-editor with Donna Coates of Wild Words: Essays on Alberta Literature (2009). His most recent title is First Person Plural (2015), a collection of his essays on the self and its image. He is currently preparing the second volume in the trilogy. Donna Coates teaches in the English Department at the University of Calgary. She has published dozens of articles and book chapters on Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and American women's responses to the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and contemporary warfare in fiction and drama. With Sherrill Grace, she has selected and edited Canada and the Theatre of War, Volume One (2008) and Volume Two (2010). With George Melnyk, she edited Wild Words: Essays on Alberta Writing (2007). She has edited Sharon Pollock: First Woman of Canadian Theatre, published in 2015 with the University of Calgary Press. She is currently completing a book on Australian women's war fictions and editing an eight-volume collection on women and war for the History of Feminism series published by Routledge. Geo Takach is a writer, speaker, instructor, filmmaker, and scholar. He recently joined the faculty of Royal Roads University. Cynthia Zimmerman, is associate professor of English, Glendon College, York University. Her articles and essays on Canadian drama have been published in a wide range of publications. Series editor Christopher Innes is professor of English at York University. Joseph J. Pivato is a professor of Literary Studies in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Athabasca University. He is the founding professor of the Master of Arts Integrated Studies program. His research has helped to establish the academic recognition of ethnic minority writing in Canada, particularly the Italian-Canadian literature.

• IntroductionWriting Alberta: Continuities, Interventions, and LacunaeGeorge Melnyk and Donna CoatesChapter 1. My Alberta HomeKatherine Govier Chapter 2. ""My Bones Have Known this Land Long Before Alberta Was Born"": Intersection in Indigenous Geography and Creative ExpressionTasha HubbardChapter 3. Strategies for Storying the Terrible Truth in John Estacio's and John Murrell's Filumena and Betty Jane Hegerat's the BoyTamara Palmer Seiler Chapter 4. Alberta's Environmental Janus: Andrew Nikiforuk and Chris TurnerGeo TakachChapter 5. Alberta in the Alberta Novels of David AlbahariGeorge Melnyk Chapter 6. Science and the City: The Poetics of Alice Major's EdmontonNeil QuerengesserChapter 7. Double Vision in Betty Lambert's Jennie's StoryCynthia ZimmermanChapter 8. Seeing Seeing, and Telling Telling: Framing and Transparency in Robert Kroetsch's The Hornbooks of Rita K. and James Turrell's ""Twilight Art"" Harry Vandervlist Chapter 9. The Mythological and the Real: Sheila Watson's Life and WritingJoseph Pivato Chapter 10. Gwen Pharis Ringwood and Elsie Park Gowan: Writing the Land, 1933-1979Moria Day Chapter 11. Writing Alberta's HistoryR. Douglas Francis Chapter 12. Fin de Siècle Lunacy in Fred Stenson's The Great KarooDonna CoatesChapter 13. The ""Father"" of Ukrainian-language Fiction and Nonfiction in Alberta: Rev. Nestor Dmytrow, 1863-1925Jars Balan Contributors

Writing Alberta is an extraordinary collection of thirteen deftly crafted and presented essaysâ| [It] is an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to community and academic library Canadian Literary Studies collections. - Helen Dumont, Midwest Book Review