University of Regina Press Spring 2018 We Also Acknowledge the Support of the University of Regina

University of Regina Press Spring 2018 PUBLISHER’S LETTER What a week! 100 Days of Cree was recommended in This spring we also launched the Henry The New York Times, The Globe and Mail and Mary Bibb Black Canadian Studies ran a two-page spread on Mudeater, and series, with Afua Cooper as its editor. This Firewater nabbed the #3 spot on CBC’s is the first Black Studies series coming from 150 picks for Canada’s anniversary. a Canadian university press. To bolster the program and create a home for black writers, We also launched a podcast series called we have begun a trade list that explores “Africa How Books Happen, which lifts the veil on and its Diaspora.” Whitney French is editing a our often-romanticized industry. To meet the collection called Black Writing Matters that high standards set by our publishing program, takes the pulse of contemporary Black Canada, we have hired veteran CBC producer Sean while an analysis of Black Lives Matter by Prpick to give us a hand. Two episodes are the activists themselves is in the works. We already posted, and we will produce ten have books in development by refugees more throughout the year. They are available from the Sudan and Somalia, as well as a from our new website and through podcast- memoir by a survivor of the Congolese war. hosting services like iTunes and Spotify. We honour our motto—“a voice for many 1 In the latest episode, I chat with Michael peoples”—with our editorial choices and hiring Langan, the founder of Colonialism decisions. Tune into How Books Happen to Skateboards, who grew up in Cote First hear how those voices resonate, and for the Nation in Treaty 4. Michael explains how inside scoop on publishing. Over the course Clearing the Plains inspired him to start his of the program we will also reveal how to company, and reveals what he thinks about publish a national bestseller. We’ve had six so Canada and our collective history. It’s a far and hope our approach can act as a model U OF R PRESS SPRING 2018 powerful interview. I also talk with publishers at for other independent Canadian publishers. the London Book Fair and at a meeting for the Association of Canadian Publishers in Toronto. Enjoy the season, I ask them what they are reading, what they are working on, and how they got into publishing. In a “Podcast extra,” I have a conversation with educator Sarah Longman about why she brought The Education of Augie Merasty into the school system. She shares how the book gave her greater insight into the effects Bruce Walsh, Publisher residential schooling had on her own family and offers a heartbreaking clue as to why Augie Merasty took so long to write his memoir. University of Regina Press acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada. / Nous reconnaissons l’appui financier du gouvernement du Canada. Our publishing activities are also supported by Creative Saskatchewan. We also acknowledge the support of the University of Regina. NEW RELEASE NEW RELEASE $34.95 CDN / $29.95 USD $24.95 CDN / $19.95 USD print 9780889775275 print 9780889775213 pdf 9780889775282 pdf 9780889775220 epub 9780889775299 epub 9780889775237 5.5 × 9.5 / 300 pages / paper 4.25 × 6.5 / 240 pages / cloth 52 colour photos January 2018 March 2018 Series: The Regina Collection Categories: Gardening, Women’s Studies, Photojournalism Categories: Memoir, Performing Arts ISBN 9780889775275 ISBN 9780889775213 52995 51995 9780889775275 9780889775213 PROVISIONAL COVER Antigone Undone Women Who Dig 2 Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, and the Art of Resistance Farming, Feminism, and the Fight to Feed the World 3 by Will Aitken by Trina Moyles, with photographs by K.J. Dakin Antigone Undone offers an urgent and mesmerizing account eaving together the narratives Trina Moyles is a freelance writer, of the creative and destructive power of great art. of female farmers from journalist, photographer, human rights activist, U OF R PRESS SPRING 2018 across three continents, and community organizer. Her fiction and poetry U OF R PRESS SPRING 2018 WWomen Who Dig offers a have been published in many literary journals, n 2015 Will Aitken journeyed to With a backstage view of the action, Aitken critical look at how women are responding and her journalism in many magazines and Luxembourg for the rehearsals and illuminates the creative process of Carson, to and increasingly rising up against the websites. She lives in Peace River, Alberta. premiere of Anne Carson’s translation Binoche, and Van Hove and offers a rare injustices of the global food system. Iof Sophokles’ 5th-century BCE tragedy glimpse into collaborative genius in action. K.J. Dakin is a photojournalist and writer. Antigone, starring Juliette Binoche and He also investigates the response to the Beautifully written with spectacular photos, it Her work has taken her to various locales, directed by theatrical sensation Ivo van Hove. play by Kierkegaard, Virginia Woolf, Judith examines gender roles, access to land, domestic including Nicaragua, Bosnia, and South Africa. Butler, and others who, like him, were moved violence, maternal health, political and economic In repeatedly watching the play, he became by its timeless protest against injustice. marginalization, and a rapidly changing climate. awestruck with the plight of the young It also shows the power of collective action. woman at the centre of the action. “Look at Will Aitken has written three novels— what these men are doing to me,” Antigone Realia, A Visit Home, and Terre Haute—as With women from Guatemala, Nicaragua, cries, expressing the predicament of the well as Death in Venice: A Queer Film the United States, Canada, Uganda, the dispossessed throughout time. Transfixed by Classic. He lives in Montreal, Quebec. Democratic Republic of Congo, India, and the strange and uncanny power of the play, he Cuba included, this book explores the ways finds himself haunted by its protagonist, finally women are responding, both individually resulting in his own suicidal breakdown. and collectively, to the barriers they face in providing the world a healthy diet. Named as a tribute to Saskatchewan’s capital city and its rich history of boldness and innovation, The Regina Collection builds upon our motto of “a voice for many peoples.” Antigone Undone is the eighth title in the series. NEW RELEASE NEW RELEASE $39.95 CDN / $29.95 USD $18.95 CDN / $14.95 USD print 9780889775428 print 9780889775244 pdf 9780889775435 pdf 9780889775251 epub 9780889775442 epub 9780889775268 6 × 9 / 300 pages / paper 5 × 8.25 / 144 pages / paper May 2018 March 2018 Categories: Literary Series: Writers on Writing Collections, Indigenous Categories: Writing Skills, Literary Criticism ISBN 9780889775428 52995 ISBN 9780889775244 51495 9780889775428 9780889775244 kisiskâciwan Sleuth 4 Indigenous Voices from Where the River Flows Swiftly Gail Bowen on Writing Mysteries 5 edited by Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber by Gail Bowen foreword by Maria Campbell smart, practical, and often funny Praise for Gail Bowen: groundbreaking anthology from Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber guide for those who aspire to territory that is now known as is an associate professor of Indigenous U OF R PRESS SPRING 2018 write mysteries, Sleuth reveals “A master of ramping up suspense.” U OF R PRESS SPRING 2018 Saskatchewan, kisiskâciwan literatures at the First Nations University of the secrets of the genre by a Ottawa Citizen contains rich, oral narratives Canada. He lives in Regina, Saskatchewan. A A bestselling and award-winning author. from Cree, Saulteaux, Nakoda, Dakota, Dene, “Bowen has a hard eye for the way Gros Ventres, and Métis cultures; speeches Gail Bowen shows how to map out a plot, plant human ambition can take advantage of and letters by Treaty Chiefs; stories from page-turning clues, develop fully rounded human gullibility.” Publishers Weekly Elders; archival discoveries; and exciting, characters, and create a crime scene. She also contemporary literary works in all genres. looks at the power of story to communicate “I love this series... Bowen does it all with truths about the human condition. panache.” Margaret Cannon, Globe and Mail Historically and culturally comprehensive, the anthology includes Big Bear, Thunderchild, Digging into the works of Agatha Christie, Louis Riel, Gabriel Dumont, Edward Ruth Rendell, Ian Rankin, Louise Penny, and A retired Associate Professor of English at First Ahenakew, Maria Campbell, Buffy Sainte- a score of others, Bowen explores how the Nations University of Canada, Gail Bowen Marie, Rita Bouvier, Harold Johnson, Gregory best mystery writers keep readers up at night. is the author of twenty-five books—including Scofield, Warren Cariou, Louise Halfe, Neal the Joanne Kilbourn mystery series—and McLeod, Dawn Dumont, Erica Lee, and numerous plays and short stories. She and her many more authors, thinkers, and leaders. husband Ted live in Regina, Saskatchewan. 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