{"title":"Poetry for Parliament: The Women’s Peace Write Campaign","authors":"Andrea Beverley","doi":"10.1353/esc.2018.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esc.2018.0003","url":null,"abstract":"In January 1985, a call went out for Canadian women writers to stand up for world peace and nuclear disarmament by sending literature to the government. Called the Women’s Peace Write / Rites des femmes pour la paix, the campaign was rooted in the conviction that women writers should mobilize their craft in opposition to nuclear weapons. Not long before, in 1983, Margaret Laurence, whose name is perhaps the first to spring to mind when considering connections between Canadian literature and antinuclear mobilization of this era, expressed a similar conviction (Gerry 218, 224–28; Stovel 325–27). In “My Final Hour,” Laurence unequivocally states, “the question of disarmament is the most pressing practical, moral, and spiritual issue of our times” (189). She goes on: “I believe that as a writer ... as an artist, if you will ... I have a responsibility, a moral responsibility, to work against the nuclear arms race” (195). For the contributors to the Women’s Peace Write, acting on this “moral responsibility” took the form of a concerted effort to send pro-peace literature in the mail weekly to all Members of Parliament while the House of Commons was in session over the course of an entire year. My essay aims to describe how this campaign came to be and to provide some literary analysis of its contents. How did this activist project emerge? What are the features of its literary corpus? Poetry for Parliament: The Women’s Peace Write Campaign","PeriodicalId":384095,"journal":{"name":"ESC: English Studies in Canada","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131188782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Pedagogies of the Archive","authors":"J. Wiens","doi":"10.1353/esc.2018.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esc.2018.0001","url":null,"abstract":"To u.s. poet susan howe’s brief catalogue of potential archival investigators, we might add two more: a teacher, a student. These positions, of course, are not mutually exclusive from the others listed by Howe; nor, for that matter, are they exclusive from each other. It is revealing that Howe focuses on the archive as a scene of private, individual investigation, and in this she is not alone. For Carolyn Steedman, “the Historian goes to the Archive to be at home as well as to be alone” (72), while Antoinette Burton describes the aversion of some scholars to the “dreaded solitary existence” of archival work (8). In The Allure of the Archives, Arlette Farge’s persistent second-person address establishes the archive as a space of silent, solitary investigations, in which the sounding of an indecipherable word in the Introduction: Pedagogies of the Archive","PeriodicalId":384095,"journal":{"name":"ESC: English Studies in Canada","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114508177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Things Fall Apart: Supporting Undergraduate Research in the Archives","authors":"Laurie S. McNeill","doi":"10.1353/esc.2018.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esc.2018.0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":384095,"journal":{"name":"ESC: English Studies in Canada","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115279007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lisa Robertson’s Archive, Singular and Collective","authors":"Julia Polyck-O'Neill","doi":"10.1353/esc.2018.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esc.2018.0002","url":null,"abstract":"They were resisting the totalizing movement of capital and its usurpation of both individual and collective time, but they were resisting by widely varying means: Marxist class critique, avant-garde experiment, conceptual rigor, feminist rejections of gendered hierarchy, woman-centred editing practices, queer identity explosions, post-colonial and anti-racist actions. Some used images, or alcohol, or archives, or housing, or sex as the resistant material, experiencing these inseparably from language. Myriad groupings of identifications and practices ripped through and animated the collective fabric. [...] Resistance became a form of life, a form of lived coexistence. This form of life included the structure of group conversations, the improvised ways decisions were made and tasks were allotted, Lisa Robertson’s Archive, Singular and Collective","PeriodicalId":384095,"journal":{"name":"ESC: English Studies in Canada","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129107397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Access and Public-Facing Pedagogy in Digital Archival Production","authors":"Leah Van Dyk","doi":"10.1353/esc.2018.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esc.2018.0000","url":null,"abstract":"The conversations around digital archives, whether born-digital or digitized, is often predicated on the deeper issue of access. Specifically, who is able to access these digital objects and what does this mean for the restrictions usually placed on engaging with archival materials? Or, is it beneficial or detrimental to the preservation of the archives that we broaden access beyond the material archive? Having engaged with various digital archival projects, I have noticed an increasing imperative for accessibility and public-facing pedagogy in the study, dissemination, and maintenance of the archive. In an increasingly digital age, institutional resistance to public-facing pedagogy—access to research which is both widespread and intelligible to non-specialists—is becoming rapidly less feasible (Looser). Consequently, I am interested in the specific space of the digital (or digitized) archive and how through this space we may, or must, engage with “a range of broader publics around and through our work” (Fitzpatrick 4). I began working with digital archival objects in a purposefully limited digital space, digitizing a typescript from a Canadian author’s fonds for access in an undergraduate course. This developed, in a subsequent course, into digitization and metadata production for a university-based platform. Both of these experiences maintained the Access and Public-Facing Pedagogy in Digital Archival Production","PeriodicalId":384095,"journal":{"name":"ESC: English Studies in Canada","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116987298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exit Survey: The Terrain of Struggle","authors":"N. Attewell","doi":"10.1353/esc.2020.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esc.2020.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":384095,"journal":{"name":"ESC: English Studies in Canada","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115882134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teaching As La-Ing: Thinking About the English Lit and Creative Writing Classroom on Turtle Island","authors":"Sonnet L’abbé","doi":"10.1353/esc.2020.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esc.2020.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":384095,"journal":{"name":"ESC: English Studies in Canada","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130308568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“A National Library for Canada”: The J.D. Barnett Collection","authors":"Ian Rae","doi":"10.1353/esc.2020.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esc.2020.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":384095,"journal":{"name":"ESC: English Studies in Canada","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115376568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition by Rinaldo Walcott (review)","authors":"Sadie Barker","doi":"10.1353/esc.2020.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esc.2020.0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":384095,"journal":{"name":"ESC: English Studies in Canada","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130168295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}