J. J. Steinfeld
Essays on His Works
Explore the mind of J. J. Steinfeld, a unique voice in Canadian literature, through insightful essays on his fiction, poetry, and plays. This collection delves into Steinfeld's exploration of Holocaust memory, Jewish identity, and the absurdities of modern life, offering a critical perspective on his wide-ranging body of work.
Discover the themes that define Steinfeld's writing, from second-generation trauma to cultural displacement, as leading scholars analyze his distinctive style and sardonic wit. This volume is for readers interested in Canadian and Jewish literature, Holocaust studies, and the power of art to confront history. Gain a deeper understanding of Steinfeld's contribution to Atlantic Canadian letters and his unique perspective on the human condition.
Acclaimed for his narrative lyric suites (Whylah Falls and Execution Poems), his lyric “colouring books” (Blue, Black, Red, and Gold), his selected poems (Blues and Bliss), his opera libretti and plays (Beatrice Chancy and Trudeau: Long March, Shining Path), George Elliott Clarke now presents us with his epic-in-progress, Canticles, a work that views History as a web of imperialism, enslavement, and insurrection. A native Africadian, Canada’s 7th Parliamentary Poet Laureate ranges the atlas and ransacks the library to ink lines unflinching before Atrocity and unquiet before Oppression.
University of Guelph professor Sandra Singer’s primary scholarship concerns Doris Lessing, having co-edited Doris Lessing Studies (2003-2014) and two essay collections: Doris Lessing: Interrogating the Times and Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook After Fifty. Her current projects encompass fiction, trauma and terrorism.
