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THE WEST Series
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  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Introduction: Writing Alberta: Continuities, Interventions, and Lacunae
  6. 1. My Alberta Home
  7. 2. “My Bones Have Known this Land Long Before Alberta Was Born”: Intersections in Indigenous Geography and Indigenous Creative Expression
  8. 3. Strategies for Storying the Terrible Truth in John Estacio’s and John Murrell’s Filumena and Betty Jane Hegerat’s the Boy
  9. 4. Alberta’s Environmental Janus: Andrew Nikiforuk and Chris Turner
  10. 5. Alberta in the Alberta Novels of David Albahari
  11. 6. Science and the City: The Poetics of Alice Major’s Edmonton
  12. 7. Double Vision in Betty Lambert’s Jennie’s Story
  13. 8. Seeing Seeing, and Telling Telling: Framing and Transparency in Robert Kroetsch’s The Hornbooks of Rita K. and James Turrell’s “Twilight Arch”
  14. 9. The Mythological and the Real: Sheila Watson’s Life and Writing
  15. 10. Gwen Pharis Ringwood and Elsie Park Gowan: Writing the Land 1933-1979
  16. 11. Writing Alberta’s History
  17. 12. Fin de Siècle Lunacy in Fred Stenson’s The Great Karoo
  18. 13. The “Father” of Ukrainian-language Fiction and Non-fiction in Alberta: Rev. Nestor Dmytrow, 1863-1925
  19. Contributors

THE WEST Series

Aritha van Herk, Series Editor

ISSN 1922-6519 (Print) ISSN 1925-587X (Online)

This series focuses on creative non-fiction that explores our sense of place in the West - how we define ourselves as Westerners and what impact we have on the world around us. Essays, biographies, memoirs, and insights into Western Canadian life and experience are highlighted.

No. 1 ∙ Looking Back: Canadian Women's Prairie Memoirs and Intersections of Culture, History, and Identity S. Leigh Matthews

No. 2 ∙ Catch the Gleam: Mount Royal, From College to University, 1910–2009 Donald N. Baker

No. 3 ∙ Always an Adventure: An Autobiography Hugh A. Dempsey

No. 4 ∙ Promoters, Planters, and Pioneers: The Course and Context of Belgian Settlement in Western Canada Cornelius J. Jaenen

No. 5 ∙ Happyland: A History of the “Dirty Thirties” in Saskatchewan, 1914–1937 Curtis R. McManus

No. 6 ∙ My Name is Lola Lola Rozsa, as told to and written by Susie Sparks

No. 7 ∙ The Cowboy Legend: Owen Wister’s Virginian and the Canadian-American Frontier John Jennings

No. 8 ∙ Sharon Pollock: First Woman of Canadian Theatre Edited by Donna Coates

No. 9 ∙ Finding Directions West: Readings that Locate and Dislocate Western Canada’s Past Edited by George Colpitts and Heather Devine

No. 10 ∙ Writing Alberta: Building on a Literary Identity Edited by George Melnyk and Donna Coates

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