3 spring 2021 uap.ualberta.ca Mel Hurtig Publisher of the Year On September 10, 2020, the University of Alberta Press team received the thrilling news that we had won the Mel Hurtig Publisher of the Year Award at the Alberta Book Publishing Awards. A number of UAlberta Press books also received recogni- tion and congratulations go to Jay Scherer, David Mills, and Linda Sloan McCulloch, authors of Power Play, winner of the Trade Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award, and to William Barr, editor of John Rae, Arctic Explorer, winner of the Scholarly and Academic Book of the Year Award. Our designer Alan Brownoff was also recog- nized with the Book Design Award for Knowings and Knots (Natalie Loveless, editor). This validation of our efforts during a difficult year points to the important work that book publishers do. I want to thank my colleagues at the Press and the University of Alberta Library, as well as all of our freelancers and authors. It is a privilege to work with you. But we know our job is not done. In an era of activism and social justice, Contents publishers must do more to amplify the 1 Indigenous Stories / Literature 2 Women’s Studies / Oral History voices of marginalized populations and to 3 Black Studies / Gender Studies put a spotlight on the untold histories of 4 Canadian Literature this territory while reckoning with the 5 Poetry uncomfortable truths of colonialism. This 8 Psychology / Ethics is crucial work, and we will listen and learn 9 CIUS Press as we continue with it. 10 Recently Announced 13 Top Sellers 16 Sales & Distribution douglas hildebrand 17 Order Information Director and Publisher INDIGENOUS STORIES / LITERATURE A Short History of the Blockade Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON JORDAN ABEL, Introduction In A Short History of the Blockade, award- winning writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson uses Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg stories and storytelling practices to explore the generative nature of Indigenous blockades through our relative the beaver—or in Nishnaabemowin, Amik. Moving 1 through genres, shifting through time, amikwag stories become a lens for the life-giving possibilities of dams and the world-building possibilities of blockades, deepening our understanding of Indigenous resistance. Widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation, Simpson’s work breaks open the intersections between politics, story, and song, bringing audiences into a rich and layered world of sound, light, and sovereign creativity. A Short History of the Blockade reveals how the practice of telling stories is also a culture of listening, “a thinking through together,” and ultimately, like the dam or the blockade, an affirmation of life. leanne betasamosake simpson is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer, scholar, and musician, and a member of Alderville First Nation in Ontario. She is the author of six previous books. Her newest novel is Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies, and her latest album is Theory of Ice. Simpson is on the faculty at the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning. 80 pages | Foreword/liminaire, Introduction Co-published with Canadian Literature Centre / Centre de littérature canadienne clc Kreisel Lecture Series 978–1–77212–538–2 | 5.25” x 9” | $12.99 (t) paper 978–1–77212–550–4 | $12.99 (t) epub 978–1–77212–551–1 | $12.99 (t) Kindle 978–1–77212–552–8| $12.99 (t) pdf Indigenous Stories / Literature February 2021 WOMEN’S STUDIES / ORAL HISTORY Light the Road of Freedom SAHBAA AL-BARBARI GHADA AGEEL & BARBARA BILL, Editors Sahbaa Al-Barbari’s story provides a unique perspective on Palestinian experience before and after the 1948 Nakba. Born in Gaza, Al-Barbari began her career as a school teacher and was an activist in her community. When Israel occupied the Gaza Strip in 1967, Al-Barbari was exiled from Palestine, continuing her activism 2 as she lived in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Kuwait, Tunis, Libya, and Europe. Al-Barbari returned to Gaza in 1996. This is the second book in the Women’s Voices from Gaza series, which honours women’s unique and underrepresented perspectives on the social, material, and political realities of Palestinian life. The books in this series will benefit Middle East scholars, social justice and human rights advocates, and all who want to know more about the modern history of Palestine. sahbaa al-barbari is a native Palestinian who was born and grew up in Gaza City. After Israel occupied the Gaza Strip in 1967 Al-Barbari was exiled from her country, only returning to Gaza in 1996. ghada ageel is a visiting professor of political science at the University of Alberta, a columnist for the Middle East Eye, and the editor of Apartheid in Palestine (UAlberta Press). barbara bill lived and worked in Gaza for six years and currently resides in New South Wales, Australia. 152 pages | 3 maps, introduction, chronology, notes, glossary, bibliography Women’s Voices from Gaza Series 978–1–77212–544–3 | 5.5” x 8.5” | $24.99 (t) paper 978–1–77212–568–9 | $24.99 (t) epub 978–1–77212–569–6 | $24.99 (t) Kindle 978–1–77212–570–2 | $24.99 (t) pdf Oral History / Palestine / Women’s Studies July 2021 BLACK STUDIES / GENDER STUDIES Appealing Because He Is Appalling Black Masculinities, Colonialism, and Erotic Racism TAMARI KITOSSA, Editor TOMMY J. CURRY, Foreword This collection invites us to think about how African-descended men are seen as both appealing and appalling, and exposed to eroticized hatred and violence and how some resist, accommodate, and capitalize on their eroticization. Drawing on James Baldwin and Frantz Fanon, the contributors examine the contradictions, para- 3 doxes, and politico-psychosexual implications of Black men as objects of sexual desire, fear, and loathing. Kitossa and the contributing authors use Baldwin’s and Fanon’s cultural and psychoanalytic interpretations of Black masculini- ties to demonstrate their neglected contributions to thinking about and beyond colonialist and Western gender and masculinity studies. This innovative and sophisticated work will be of interest to scholars and students of cultural and media studies, gender and masculinities studies, sociology, political science, history, and critical race and racialization. contributors: Katerina Deliovsky, Delroy Hall, Dennis O. Howard, Tamari Kitossa, Kemar McIntosh, Leroy F. Moore Jr., Elishma Noel, Watufani M. Poe, Satwinder Rehal, John G. Russell, Mohan Siddi tamari kitossa is Associate Professor of Sociology at Brock University. He studies the convergences of race, racism, and criminalization. He is a contributor to and co-editor of African Canadian Leadership. 384 pages | Foreword, 5 b&w photographs, references 978–1–77212–543–6 | 6” x 9” | $49.99 (s) paper 978–1–77212–553–5 | $49.99(s) epub 978–1–77212–554–2 | $49.99 (s) Kindle 978–1–77212–555–9 | Open Access pdf Black Studies / Sociology / Gender May 2021 CANADIAN LITERATURE You Look Good for Your Age An Anthology RONA ALTROWS, Editor You Look Good for Your Age is a collection of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry about ageism by 29 women writers ranging in age from their forties to their nineties. The anthology responds to a culture that values youth and that positions aging in women as a failure. Questions arise. What effects do negative social assumptions have on women as they age? What messages about 4 aging do we pass on to our daughters? Through essays, short stories, and poetry, the contributing writers explore these questions with thoughtfulness, satire, and fury. contributors: Rona Altrows, Debbie Bateman, Moni Brar, Maureen Bush, Sharon Butala, Jane Cawthorne, Joan Crate, Dora Dueck, Cecelia Frey, Ariel Gordon, Elizabeth Greene, Vivian Hansen, Joyce Harries, Elizabeth Haynes, Paula Kirman, Joy Kogawa, Laurie MacFayden, JoAnn McCaig, Wendy McGrath, E.D. Morin, Lisa Murphy Lamb, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Olyn Ozbick, Roberta Rees, Julie Sedivy, Madelaine Shaw-Wong, Anne Sorbie, Aritha van Herk, Laura Wershler rona altrows is an editor, fiction writer, essayist, and playwright. With Naomi K. Lewis, she co-edited Shy (UAlberta Press), and with Julie Sedivy she co-edited Waiting (UAlberta Press), both theme-based anthologies. Her website is www.ronaaltrows.com. 224 pages Robert Kroetsch Series 978–1–77212–532–0 | 5.25” x 9” | $26.99 (t) paper 978–1–77212–573–3 | $26.99 (t) pdf Canadian Literature / Women’s Studies May 2021 POETRY The Bad Wife MICHELINE MAYLOR Micheline Maylor’s The Bad Wife is an inti- mate, first-hand account of how to ruin a marriage. This is a story of divorce, love, and what should have been, told in a brave and unflinching voice. Pulling the reader into a startling web of sensuality, guilt, resentment, and pleasure, this collection asks what if you set off a bomb in your own house? What if you lose love and destroy everything you ever knew? These poems have a disarming immediacy, full of surprising imagery, dark humour, and the 5 bold thoughts of a vibrant and flawed protagonist. Balancing a need for wild- ness and the space to dwell, The Bad Wife explores the taut confines of those vivid, earthly pleasures that we all know and sometimes can’t escape. micheline maylor is a Poet Laureate Emeritus of Calgary (2016–18) and was the Calgary Public Library Author in Residence in Fall 2016. She teaches creative writing at Mount Royal University. Her most recent book Little Wildheart (UAlberta Press) was long- listed for both the Pat Lowther and Raymond Souster awards. Find her online at www.michelinemaylor.com. 84 pages Robert Kroetsch Series 978–1–77212–548–1 | 6” x 9” | $19.99 (t) paper 978–1–77212–558–0 | $19.99 (t) pdf Canadian Literature / Poetry March 2021 POETRY Deriving JENNIFER BOWERING DELISLE Deriving explores infertility, motherhood, and family, while troubling the colonial legacies of the English language and Canadian identity.