Challenging Addiction in Canadian Literature and Classrooms

In the richly interdisciplinary study, Challenging Addiction in Canadian Literature and Classrooms , Cara Fabre argues that popular culture in its many forms contributes to common assumptions about the causes, and personal and social implications, of addiction. Recent fictional depictions of addiction significantly refute the idea that addiction is caused by poor individual choices or solely by disease through the connections the authors draw between substance use and poverty, colonialism, and g