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LIEN CHAO,
Tiger Girl (Hu Nü):
A Creative Non-Fiction
Using first-person and third-person narratives, Lien Chao captures
thirty-five years of recent Chinese history through the gripping stories
of Hu Nü and her generation as they survive both political repression in
Mao's China and outdated attitudes to women.
FICTION
ISBN 0920661-93-9 / 9780920661932 $16.95 240 pp. paper
CYRIL DABYDEEN,
Drums of My
Flesh
In a central park in Ottawa's
Sandy Hill, Gabe, an immigrant from Guyana (South America), explores the
past in the company of his young Canadian-born daughter.
FICTION
ISBN 1-894770-25-0 / 9781894770255 $18.95 256 pp. paper
CYRIL DABYDEEN,
My Brahmin Days
and Other Stories
Closely observed, finely ironic
stories confront Dabydeen's Asian and Caribbean identity with his life
experience of life in Canada.
FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-85-8 / 9780920661857 $15.95
144 pp. paper
RAYWAT DEONANDAN,
Divine Elemental
According to family legend, Kalya Lal is
perhaps descended from a ghost.
“…quirky
and engaging…at its satirical best it is amusing and incisive …”
—The
Globe and Mail
FICTION
ISBN 1-894770-08-0 / 9781894770088 $18.95
200 pp. paper
RAYWAT DEONANDAN,
Sweet Like
Saltwater
Guyana Prize for Best First Book,
2000
Stories set in the Caribbean, in
India and in Canada profile immigration and detached belonging.
“...amusing and incisive.” —The Globe and Mail
FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-77-7 / 9780920661772 $15.95
176 pp. paper
ZULFIKAR GHOSE,
Veronica and
the Gongora Passion: Stories, Fictions, Tales, and One Fable
“Zulfikar Ghose has ranked with
and outranked several of the best English writers in England and
America.’’ —Review of
Contemporary Fiction
FICTION
ISBN 0920661-70-X / 9780920661703
$15.95 258 pp. paper
KWAI-YUN LI, The Palm Leaf Fan and Other
Stories
From
crumbling shops in Chinatown to decaying tanneries in Tangra, Kwai-yun
Li's collection of linked short stories expose us to the life of a marginalized community
(the Hakka Chinese) in postcolonial Calcutta.
"The short stories in this volume
are marked by a sureness of touch and an acuity of observation that
match the best in their genre." — China Report
FICTION
ISBN 9781894770316 $18.95 114
pp paper
ANAND MAHADEVAN, The Strike
Twelve-year-old Hari tries to make sense
of his tumultuous and complex world in 1980s India.
"Mahadevan’s language often enters the realm of the poetic, allowing
the reader to taste the slick oil of sizzling puris and the salted rust
of trains . . ."— City Masala
FICTION
ISBN 9781894770309 $18.95 208
pp. paper
TARIQ MALIK,
Rainsongs of Kotli
Set in the romantic Himalayan
valleys, these beautifully told and haunting stories explore the lives
and the longings and memories of the Lohar people of Kotli.
FICTION
ISBN 1-894770-15-3 / 9781894770156
$18.95 168 pp. paper
TAHIRA NAQVI,
Dying in a
Strange Country
The stories in this collection are
told in multiple voices—aging aunts, mothers, cousins, the environment
of the motherland itself—yet all manage to converge upon the world of
the immigrant in meaningful ways.
“...a poignant and moving commentary on what it means to be an immigrant
in the US.’’
—Herizons
“...issues of gender, generations and culture come together to give the
narrative a resonant depth and offer more than one layer of meaning.’’ —World
Literature Today
FICTION
ISBN 0920661-86-6 / 9780920661864
$15.95 144 pp. paper
NALINI WARRIAR,
Blues from the
Malabar Coast
The twelve stories in Blues
from the Malabar Coast describe the life of the Variyars, a
traditional matriarchal family dominated from dawn till dusk by the old
grandmother in the kitchen.
“Beautiful and gripping stories
written with a seasoned maturity.” —Austin
clarke
FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-99-8 / 9780920661994
$18.95 144 pp. paper
NALINI WARRIAR,
The Enemy
Within
Set against the backdrop of Quebec
politics and spanning three decades, The Enemy Within is a
memorable portrait of a woman caught between worlds, who breaks with
tradition in search of peace and love, only to be betrayed by the man
she first loved and the land she has thought of as hers.
FICTION
ISBN 1-894770-24-2 / 9781894770248 $18.95 224 pp.
paper
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LIEN CHAO,
Beyond Silence: Chinese Canadian Literature in English
Winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize in Canadian Literary Criticism (1998)
“...the first book-length study to attempt to construct the historical
and cultural contexts of Chinese Canadian writing.” —frank
davey,
University of Western Ontario
“...an important milstone in the evolution of Canadian literary
studies.”
—Arun
mukherjee, York University
CRITICISM
ISBN 0-920661-69-6 / 9780920661697 Can $21.95 US $19.95 224 pp. paper
LIEN CHAO,
Tiger Girl (Hu Nü):
A Creative Non-Fiction
Using first-person and third-person narratives, Lien Chao captures
thirty-five years of recent Chinese history through the gripping stories
of Hu Nü and her generation as they survive both political repression in
Mao's China and outdated attitudes to women.
HISTORY
ISBN 0920661-93-9 / 9780920661932 $16.95 240 pp. paper
R CHERAN, DARSHAN AMBALAVANAR, CHELVA KANAGANAYAKAM,
History
and Imagination: Tamil Culture in the Global Context
This collection of essays
covers a broad range of topics concerning Tamil culture all over
the world. Tamils, originating in South India and Sri Lanka,
constitute a large part of the diasporic South Asians in Canada,
as well as the United States, Australia, and Europe. This book
is therefore of special relevance to the concerns of
multiculturalism and globalization.
CRITICISM
ISBN 9781894770361 $28.95 208 pp. paper
ROCIO DAVIS,
Transcultural
Reinventions: Asian American and Asian Canadian Short-story Cycles
This study analyzes the manner in which important Asian American and
Asian Canadian writers appropriate the short-story cycle as a tool for
both self-representation and empowerment. Davis wrestles with
postcolonial and other cultural theory, but her focus remains on
aesthetic issues.
CRITICISM
ISBN 0920661-96-3 / 9780920661963 Can $23.95 224 pp. paper
MARTIN
GENETSCH,
The Texture of Identity: The Fiction of MG
Vassanji, Neil Bissoondath, and Rohinton Mistry
Arguing that globalization is no longer a
term defining only international cash flow but also includes the flow and
exchange of cultures, this book examines the works of three major Canadian
writers of South Asian origin and born in three different parts of the
world—MG Vassanji, Neil Bissoondath, and Rohinton Mistry. To demonstrate the
complex, textured identities of his authors of choice, Martin Genetsch shows
that these and other writers not only negotiate their Canadian identities
but also explore themselves in the cultures, histories, and geographical
locations they come from.
The result is a fine study of an important and
defining aspect of Canadian literature.
CRITICISM
ISBN 9781894770415 $25.95 256 pp paper
GURBIR JOLLY, ZENIA
WADHWANI, DEBORAH WADHWANI,
Once Upon a Time
in Bollywood: The Global Swing in Hindi Cinema
Once Upon a Time in Bollywood
presents an extravaganza of essays on globalization and contemporary Hindi
cinema (“Bollywood”). The wide-ranging analytic strategies in the
collection—including ethnographic self-reflection, literary comparison, economic
contextualization, and biographic study – bear witness to Hindi cinema’s
aesthetically elaborate and politically entangled treatment of postcolonial
concerns. Together, these essays invite fresh, critically informed engagements
with many of the key issues and creative tensions that continue to shape the
world’s most prolific film industry. For connoisseurs and critics of Hindi
cinema alike, Once Upon a Time in Bollywood presents stirring insights
into popular culture.
CRITICISM
ISBN 9781894770408 $25.95 208 pp. paper
CHELVA
KANAGANAYAKAM,
Configurations of Exile: South Asian Writers and
Their
World
Twelve of today's most prominent South Asian writers across the
globe talk candidly about their work, while Kanaganayakam complements
the picture with salient features of the media, critical, and public
responses to their work.
CRITICISM
ISBN 0-920661-47-5 / 9780920661475 $16.95 176 pp. paper
RITA NAYAR,
Ordeal by Fire
The Indian-born daughter of a diplomat, Rita’s happy, sheltered
childhood ends with her marriage to a fellow Indian she meets in the
diplomatic circles of Accra: the union is violently abusive. The couple
move to England and then Canada, where the outcome is breakup, then the
tragedy of murder-suicide.
“Nayar has the reader's full sympathy, for her story is achingly sad.’’
—Vancouver Sun
MEMOIR
ISBN 1-894770-10-2 / 9781894770101 $21.95 160 pp. paper
MG VASSANJI,
A Meeting of Streams: South Asian-Canadian Literature
The essays and articles in this volume comprise a concerted and
many-sided look at the literature of South Asians in Canada and the West. Several of them are
also informative surveys of the important branches of this literature.
Altogether they provide the contexts for appreciating it, and
understanding it as an esthetic, social, and cultural phenomenon. At the
same time they address several fundamental issues, regarding the
relationship of this literature both to traditional (South Asian and
Third World) and to mainstream (Canada and North America) languages,
literatures, and themes. They probe the past, appraise the present, and
throw a glance at the future.
CRITICISM
ISBN 9780920661000 $15.95 160 pp. paper
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MEENA ALEXANDER,
River and
Bridge
“In this new collection we are
privy to the full and variegated display of [Meena Alexander's] poetry.’’
—marilyn chin
“Meena Alexaner is one of the finest Indian poets writing today.’’ —keki
n. daruwalla
POETRY
ISBN 0920661-56-4 / 9780920661567
$11.95 104 pp. paper
ANURIMA BANERJI,
Night
Artillery
Passionate and subtly exotic,
keenly aware of Persian mystical love concepts and with a trained eye on
Hindu mythology, these supple new poems explore the territories of love,
the longings of the body, and the pains of loss and exile.
“...lyrics
that are almost too posh, almost too sumptuous...hauntingly lovely.’’
—Halifax Chronicle Herald
POETRY
ISBN 0-920661-90-4 / 9780920661901
$13.95 71 pp. paper
LIEN CHAO,
More Than Skin Deep
These poems, created both in
English and Chinese, explore the experiences of Chinese and other Asian
Canadians.
POETRY
ISBN 1-894770-18-8 / 9781894770187
$16.95 88 pp. paper
RIENZI CRUSZ,
Gambolling with
the Divine
Rienzi Crusz's tenth collection of
poetry, Gambolling with the Divine is the Augustinian confessions
retold with brilliantly vivid Sri Lankan and Canadian variations.
“I
can’t think of a single Canadian poet who, groin-tickled and happy,
could achieve such delirium on paper. The raw passion is there despite
the control the poems insist on.’’
—irving
layton
POETRY
ISBN 1-894770-11-0 / 9781894770118
$16.95 104 pp. paper
CYRIL DABYDEEN,
Hemisphere of
Love
Hemisphere of Love delves
into the mysteries of love. In this collection, identity and language
are everything. A range of scenes and situations is carefully carved in
words, and geographical and spiritual boundaries provide shifts in
tonalities and moods.
“A fine craftsman, and a wonderful weaver of images and rhythms,’’
—World
Literature Today
POETRY
ISBN 1-894770-12-9 / 9781894770125 $16.95 80pp.
paper
BING HE,
Alphabet Zen
Rooted in Zen, Taoism and
traditional Chinese poetry, influenced by modern Western movements, this
collection reflects the author's transfigurations and redemptions of
life's drabness with imagination, harmonizing oriental wisdom with
metaphysical sensibilities.
POETRY
ISBN 1-894770-23-4 / 9781894770231
$16.95 80 pp. paper
SALIMAH VALIANI,
breathing for
breadth
Breathing is an action we take
for granted... A collection of poems exploring notions of
experience, learning, and understanding.
POETRY
ISBN 1-894770-21-8 / 9781894770217
$16.95 120 pp. paper
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NURJEHAN AZIZ,
Her Mother’s Ashes: Stories by South Asian Women in Canada and the United States
Precisely crafted and sensitively told, each of these twenty
stories offers us a wonderful glimpse into the complex and manifold
world of the South Asian women of North America.
ANTHOLOGY FICTION
ISBN 0920661-40-8
/ 9780920661406
Can $15.95 US $14.95 208 pp.
paper
NURJEHAN AZIZ,
Her Mother’s Ashes 2: Stories by South Asian Women in Canada and the United States
Following the greatly acclaimed first volume, this collection
brings together more first-rate stories by South Asian women
that—whether set in their home countries or those of their
adoption—explore with profound and sensitive insight the inner tenor of
women’s lives.
ANTHOLOGY FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-63-7 /
9780920661635 $19.95
184 pp.
paper
FRANK BIRBALSINGH,
Jahaji: An
Anthology of Indo-Caribbean Fiction
Jahaji (the term meaning “ship traveler”) brings together a
representative selection of Indo-Caribbean fiction from three
generations of writers, from Ismith Khan through Rooplall Monar and
Cyril Dabydeen to Marina Budhos and Shani Mootoo. Together, the sixteen
writers included here give us an imaginative depiction of the
experiences of their people across a span of fifty years.
“…covers a range of prose styles, while thoroughly exploring issues and
preoccupations relevant to the Indo-Caribbean experience.” —
Caribbean Beat Magazine
ANTHOLOGY FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-88-2 / 9780920661888 $21.95 220 pp.
paper
LIEN CHAO and
JIM WONG-CHU,
Strike
the Wok: An
Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Canadian Fiction
Representing three generations of
Chinese from a variety of backgrounds, presenting a diversity of themes
and styles, and set in various locations and time periods, Strike the
Wok is a truly kaleidoscopic look at Chinese life from modern
Canadian perspectives.
ANTHOLOGY FICTION
ISBN 1-894770-09-9 / 9781894770095
$23.95 264 pp. paper
CYRIL DABYDEEN,
Another way to
Dance: Contemporary Asian Poetry from Canada and the United States
This anthology contains some of the most active and dynamic voices of
contemporary poetry written by Americans and Canadians of Asian
background. Included are Canadians Joy Kogawa, Rienzi Crusz, Suniti
Namjoshi and Himani Bannerj, and Americans Arthur Sze, Mei-mei
Berssenbrugge, David Mura, and Cathy Song.
ANTHOLOGY POETRY
ISBN 0-920661-59-9 / 9780920661598 $19.95 272 pp.
paper
JOHN GREEN and
FARZIN YAZDANFAR,
A Walnut Sapling on Masih's Grave and Other Stories by Iranian Women
“The stories allow readers to glimpse the rich, poetic Persian spirit
trapped within the rigid social constraints all Iranians, especially
women, endure.” —
The Christian Science Monitor
ANTHOLOGY POETRY
ISBN 0-920661-39-4 / 9780920661390 $14.95 224 pp.
paper
CHELVA KANAGANAYAKAM,
Lutesong and
Lament: Tamil Writing from Sri Lanka
“...The first major anthology of Sri Lankan Tamil writing translated in
English—Lutesong and Lament is a rich, vibrant collection of
contemporary writing...” —The Toronto Star
ANTHOLOGY
ISBN 0-920661-97-1 / 9780920661970 $23.95 192 pp.
paper
MUHAMMAD UMAR MEMON,
Domains of
Fear and Desire: Urdu Stories
Urdu stories by some of the best and most renowned writers of the
language today brought to the English reader in accurate modern
translations.
“Superb... the 21 stories are both exotic and
accessible, mystical and mundane.”
—The Globe and Mail
“A real find—strong vivid stories that plunge
us without preparation or any sort of guidance into a society that we
may not know but which we immediately accept.” —
Books in Canada
ANTHOLOGY FICTION
ISBN 0920661-21-1 /
9780920661215 $15.95
272 pp.
paper
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