Product Description: Cities are material and symbolic spaces through which nations define their cultural identities. The great cities that have arisen in the US and Canada, however, play very different roles in the imaginations of their nations. In American literature the city has always played a central role, glorified as a "city upon the hill" yet demonized as the locus of sin and degradation...read more

Product Description: This study brings together analysis of novels by three contemporary North American women from diverse backgrounds in order to make contributions not only to gender studies, but also to narrative theory. Audrey Thomas and Daphne Marlatt are contemporary Anglo-Saxon Canadian writers whose work has been extensively analyzed within the field of feminist literary theory...read more

Product Description: The purpose of this book is to provide social work students and practitioners with a conceptual framework and practice skills to understand and respond to the tragic events of September 11 and other contemporary disasters as they impact individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities...read more