"The Unarrested Archivecontains five excellent studies of Canadian women writers and their personal and literary archives. This book will make an important contribution to Canadian literary and cultural studies."--Carole Gerson, Department of English, Simon Fraser University "This isn't just a book of exhaustively researched case studies about women, archives, and CanLit; it represents a vital and compelling response to the transformation of archival studies that is presently taking place across multiple disciplines."--Dean Irvine, Department of English, Dalhousie University "Linda Morra's Unarrested Archivesreminds us that the arrival of a writer's fonds in an archive marks the inauguration of another public life - one structured by the legal and political complex of the archive itself. Theoretically sophisticated and meticulously researched, the case studies that compose Morra's study trace how five Canadian women writers and their works have been reinvented, appropriated, and at times eclipsed by the national, institutional, and private archives where their collections are housed. A notable contribution to theorizing on Canadian literature, women's writing, and archives, this book will be of interest to scholars, archivists, and anyone with an interest in the legal and political terrain of contemporary archives." --Kate Eichhorn, Culture and Media Program, The New School.