{"product_id":"ground-to-stand-on-a-canadian-literary-life-hardcover","title":"Ground to Stand on: A Canadian Literary Life - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSandra Djwa\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Now, don't you ever leave Newfoundland,\" Premier Joey Smallwood told seventeen-year-old Sandra Djwa in 1956. But leave she did - only to return decades later as a pathbreaking literary scholar and one of Canada's most influential female academics, carrying with her a remarkable legacy of intellectual nation-building. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart memoir and part literary history, \u003ci\u003eGround to Stand On\u003c\/i\u003e traces a life in letters that was often ahead of its time. In a voice by turns quizzical, amused, and indignant, Djwa offers an immersive account of the struggles and achievements of the first generations of women professors in a male-dominated academy while charting the emergence of Canadian literature as a respected field of study. Along the way, she sketches incisive portraits of Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Michael Crummey, Northrop Frye, and Pierre Trudeau. Revisiting her acclaimed biographies of F.R. Scott, Roy Daniells, and P.K. Page, Djwa enriches them with fresh reflections on the art and challenges of literary biography. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eScholarship on Canadian poetry and criticism does more than record: it shapes cultural belonging. \u003ci\u003eGround to Stand On\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on selfhood, memory, and place, culminating in Djwa's reckoning with her ancestry and her Newfoundland sense of belonging.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSandra Djwa is professor emeritus of English at Simon Fraser University, and the prize-winning\u003cbr\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of the Imagination: A Life of F.R. Scott \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eProfessing English: A Life of Roy Daniells.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.6 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 19, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48452208853241,"sku":"9780228027706","price":47.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/89wYNaKRgo9780228027706.webp?v=1779947547","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/ground-to-stand-on-a-canadian-literary-life-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}