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by Erin Wunker (Author)
This book addresses the aesthetic and social contexts of Canadian poetry written in the 20th and 21st centuries: it models for its readers the critical and theoretical discourses needed to understand the contexts of literary production in Canada.
Author Biography
Erin Wunker is an associate professor of Canadian literature at Dalhousie University, which is located in Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq Peoples. Her areas of research and teaching include Canadian poetry and poetics, feminist and affect theory, and creative non-fiction with a focus on the personal essay and autotheory. She is the author of Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life (2016). With Sina Queyras and Geneviève Robichaud she edited Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader (2020). With Hannah McGregor and Julie Rak she edited Refuse: CanLit in Ruins (2018). With Bart Vautour, Travis V. Mason, and Christl Verduyn she edited Public Poetics: Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics (2015). She is currently working on a creative non-fiction project about boredom, anxiety, and care work.
