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Nehanda |
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Yvonne Vera |
| In the
late nineteenth century white settlers and administrators arrive
to occupy the African country of Zimbabwe (Rhodesia). Nehanda, a
village girl, is recognized through omens and portents as a
saviour. The resulting uprising by the Africans is brutally
crushed but looks forward to the war of independence that
succeeded a century later. Told in lucid, poetic prose, this is
a gripping story about the first meeting of a people with their
colonizer. |
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“...crisp and touching...restrained and well-focused...’’
—The
Weekly Mail & Guardian (South Africa)
“...a meditation on fate and language...a compelling story.’’
—The Toronto Star
“Reading [it]...is like savouring a sweet delicacy. Every page
possesses its own special flavour; every morsel, a sinful
delight.’’
—Books in Canada
“...elegant...magical... “
—The Toronto Review |
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Fiction
ISBN: 9780920661628
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Night
Artillery |
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Anurima Banerji |
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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. |
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“...
lyrics that are almost too posh, almost too
sumptuous...hauntingly lovely.”
—Halifax Chronicle Herald |
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PoetryISBN:
9781894770231
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No More Watno
Dur |
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Sadhu Binning |
| Sadhu
Binning's poetry gently provokes and evokes. He uses the tools
of language, both Punjabi and English, to guide the reader
through a private journey of public relevance. Rooted in a
history of cultural and labour activism, this collection
questions our notions of home, family and community. No More
Watno Dur (Watno Dur means 'far away from the mother land')
firmly establishes Binning as an essential poet who must be read
in order to understand this continually unfolding experience of
home and homeland in the Western world.
NOTE: Includes both
the English and Punjabi texts |
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ISBN:
9780920661451
Price: $11.95 |
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Nuff Said |
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Michelle Muir |
Michelle Muir's debut poetry
collection brings a new and confident voice in the hip hop genre
to the printed page. Muir's poetry skillfully blends the
language of the contemporary urban environment with her personal
take on African-Canadian rhythmic and poly rhythmic style. The
playful cadence of her voice leaps from the pages of Nuff
Said compelling the reader forward on a wild ride through
music, life, education, community pride, love, erotic desire,
political irony and probing questions of race, class and gender.
The book comes packaged with a spoken-word CD. |
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Poetry
ISBN: 9781894770583
Price:
$17.95 |
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The Obeah
Man |
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Ismith Khan |
Carnival Day, Tuesday: Port of Spain,
Trinidad. Into this heady bacchanalian atmosphere, filled with
men and women seeking the sinful anonymity of costumes, in
street processions gyrating to the music of steel bands and in
bars packed beyond capacity, where menace seems familiar but
lurks in unknown places - comes the Obeah Man, Zampi, in search
of the beautiful Zolda.
By the time the festivities are over, disaster has struck, and
the powerful but good Obeah Man Zampi has learnt an all too
human lesson in love.
Introduction by Roydon Salick |
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“A brilliant revelation of the dark reality under a lively Caribbean
surface, The Obeah Man combines the humour of Samuel Selvon, the
pathos of George Lamming and the irony of V S Naipaul all in
one.”
—Frank
Birbalsingh, York University
“…a compelling story of living in changing times…its message and
impressions are long lasting…The Obeah Man is a very human
story.”
—Cecil
Foster,
The Toronto Review
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Novel
ISBN: 9780920661468
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$13.95 |
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Of Hockey
and Hijab
Reflections of a Canadian Muslim Woman |
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Sheema Khan |
| In these thoughtful essays, Sheema
Khan—Canadian hockey mom and Harvard PhD—gives us her own
pointed insights on the condition of being a modern and liberal,
yet practising Muslim, especially in Canada. Tackling a host of
issues, such as terrorism, human rights, Islamic law, women’s
rights, and the meaning of hijab, she explains Islam to the
greater public while calling for mutual understanding and
tolerance. She tells us “Why Muslims are angry,” and “You can’t
pigeonhole 1.2 billion Muslims” (post 9/11), while calling on
Muslims to “acknowledge the rise of fanaticism.” She explains
the plausibility of Islamic financing and applies the Charter of
Rights to Canada. “Can there be Islamic democracy?” she asks,
and then, “Will Quebec adopt France’s peculiar brand of
liberty?” Provocative and original, even-handed and
conciliatory, these essays are an important contribution to an
urgent modern debate. |
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Essays
Paperback ISBN: 9781894770569
Price: $25.95
Epub ISBN: 9781894770828
Price: $12.95 |
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Once Upon
a Time in Bollywood
The
Global Swing in Hindi Cinema |
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Edited by Gurbar Jolly,
Zenia Wadhwani, and Deborah Barretto |
| 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. |
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"Overall,
this collection is ideal for the reader who enjoys Bollywood
films but also has a keen desire to learn about the theories
and concepts that make the industry what it is."
—City Masala |
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Oppositional Aesthetics
Readings from a Hyphenated Space |
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Arun Mukherjee |
In these
closely argued essays, taking examples from writing and film,
Mukherjee considers the place of the third world person – both
as artistic creator and as a subject of artistic endeavour – in
the West.
This important work includes detailed and original
considerations of the works of David Lean, Michael
Ondaatje, MG Vassanji, Earle Birney,
Rohinton Mistry, Neil Bissoondath, Dionne Brand,
and numerous others. |
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Criticism
ISBN:
9780920661420
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Ordeal by
Fire |
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Rita Nayar |
| On
Thursday May 22, 1997, a night of the full moon, a brutal act
and a raging fire forever changed the lives of an Indian family
in a Toronto suburb.
Born in Rajasthan, India, Rita
leaves her native country to live with her diplomat father in
exotic places abroad. Her innocent, happy, and sheltered
childhood comes to an end with her marriage. Shock and horror
follow, for the union is violently abusive. The couple move to
England, then to Canada, where the outcome is breakup, then the
tragedy of a murder-suicide. |
“Nayar has the reader’s full sympathy, for
her story is achingly sad.”
—Vancouver
Sun |
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Memoir
ISBN:
9781894770101
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The Palm
Leaf Fan
&
Other Stories |
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Kwai-Yun Li |
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 in postcolonial Calcutta.
We meander into Wong's Shoe Shop, where a mother arranges a
marriage for her six-year-old daughter. We stop at a school for
girls, where the principal singles out students who have large
breasts for punishment. We pause by a temple guarded by a billy
goat where family drama rages. We rally with politicians while
the monsoon rain drenches us. We relax under waving palms while
the setting sun shimmers over the surface of the Tangra fish
ponds.
Kwai-yun Li's sensitivity and quirky sense of humour will keep
us wanting to return to the ghetto again and again. |
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"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
"The most striking element of Li’s
writing is her ability
to synthesize delicate, rich imagery with the dirt of reality."
— City Masala
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Pappaji
Wrote Poetry in a Language I Cannot Read |
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Rajinderpal S Pal |
| The poems
in this book form a narrative whole that leaps between past and
present, between childhood and adulthood, and between languages.
Issues of cross-cultural politics and relationships are
addressed, and loss across generations and migrations across
continents. All of this is entwined with the search for the
poet-father and the attempt to come to terms with the past. |
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"These poems travel continents, move through emotional and
political geographies of leaving and longing. From India to
England to Canada, Rajinderpal S Pal searches for his poet
father's legacy in language and body. Textured and sensuous,
challenging in form and content, these poems invite us to hold
them." —Roberta Rees
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Poetry
ISBN:
9780920661741
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Peng Ma
Chinese Brush Painting |
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by
Peng Ma, edited by Lien Chao |
Chinese brush painting refers to
paintings utilizing Chinese brush, ink, and Xuan paper. By now
Chinese brush painting has been the predominant art form in the
history of Chinese art for over one thousand years. In the
history of world arts, it stands on its own, flying a unique
banner. Chinese Canadian artist Peng Ma has been a professional
artist for over fifty years. Crossing the borders between the
East and the West, Ma’s paintings speak contemporary sentiments.
This collection has gathered seventy of his latest achievements
from the past decade.
70 colour illustrations |
"All his work is sophisticated in its composition, exquisite
with strong, decisive brushstrokes—showing clearly the artist
knows how to reveal in his work his incredible sensitivity to
beauty, bringing it to
its highest level."
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tamara jaworska, cm, rca, mfa |
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Art Book/Chinese
Culture
ISBN: 9781894770453
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Peng Ma
Abstract Ink Painting |
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by
Peng Ma, edited by Lien Chao |
Bilingual Edition
This book provides a critical study of the abstract ink painting of the Chinese Canadian artist Peng Ma, who early in his career saw abstraction as an artistic advancement on tradition. Chao’s critical approach to Ma’s work juxtaposes stimulation and resistance as the ongoing impact of Western abstract painting on contemporary Chinese brush painting. She goes on to investigate how Ma’s cross-cultural experience has gradually developed his hybrid aesthetics to embrace Eastern and Western art traditions to create his own distinctive art. Includes 210 reproductions.
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“In 1989, Peng Ma came to Canada where he continues to flourish as an artist. His work acts as a multidimensional portal from the ancient past to the present and from China to Canada.”
—JAY GOULDING, York University
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Art Book
ISBN: 9781894770576
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Postcolonialism: My Living |
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Arun Mukherjee |
| This work
charts the author’s intellectual journey during the last ten
years as an academic teaching Postcolonial literature in a
Canadian university. The essays critique the dominant models of
Postcolonial theory that emerge from metropolitan centres and
ignore the specifics of time and place. Arun Mukherjee tests
these theories by applying them to her classroom experience of
teaching authors such as Mulk Raj Anand, Dionne Brand,
Anita Desai, Claire Harris, Bessie Head,
Sky Lee, and many others. |
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"This book
bespeaks a dedicated mind and an important critical voice among
postcolonial readers."
—Canadian Literature
"This is a book that feminists need to read."
—Herizons
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Canadian Studies
ISBN:
9780920661758
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Prairie
Journey
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Madeline Coopsammy |
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collection is a sensory journey from a warm green equatorial
island to the changing seasons of a Prairie landscape. These
poems explore the effects of colonialism, ancestral memories,
and immigration on the poet's journey from youth to maturity.
The frantic push for first-world development, rapidly eroding
the once-pristine landscape and simple way of life of a
third-world island, and creating a new race of colonials, is
passionately delineated. The book is sectioned as follows:
Roots, Indian Sojourn, Prairie Seasons, and Autumnal Season. |
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"Poems which are
well worth reading not only for their craft, but also for their
honest content."
— Trinidad Express
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Poetry
ISBN: 9781894770170
Price: $16.95 |
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Rainsongs
of Kotli |
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Tariq Malik |
Set in
the romantic Himalayan valleys, amidst the breathtaking mountain
snowmelts and the monsoon rainstorms, these beautifully told and
haunting stories explore the lives and the longings and memories
of the Lohar people of Kotli.
Much has changed in the Lohar village since the independence and
partition of India, and there is a story and a secret to every
person, every family. A man’s wife turns out to be a stranger,
and his house is not quite his own, when two strangers appear
and dig out their past from its earth; a boy contemplates the
mystery behind an old picture . . . |
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of lively conversation and sure-handed narratives."
— BC BookWorld
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Poetry
ISBN: 9781894770330
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Return to
Arcadia |
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H Nigel Thomas |
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When at age 51, Joshua
Éclair—victim of a pygmalianism gone awry—emerges from
amnesia in a hospital in Montreal, he must explore what
makes him want to erase his identity, and must undertake the
process of exorcising what has brought him to this pass.
This is the gripping story of a man’s search for sanity set
in the fictional Caribbean Isabella Island and the various
places Joshua has fled to: Montreal, New York, Tallahassee,
London, Paris and Madrid.
This is a finely accomplished novel about a very modern
predicament: the malformed dysfunctional identity in the
global village. |
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"In lean, precise prose,
Return to Arcadia journeys through the unspeakable and
tabooed in the contemporary Caribbean, reminding us that the
brutalities of slavery and colonialism continue to raise hell
and fierce memory in the more secret realms of flesh and
desire."
—
Thomas
Glave, State University of New York
"Thomas offers a fine story of
forgiveness, self-actualization, and belonging."
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Montreal Review of Books |
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FICTION
ISBN: 9781894770385
Price: $20.95
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River and
Bridge |
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Meena Alexander |
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In this new
collection we are privy to the full and variegated display of [Meena
Alexander's] poetry. |
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“Meena Alexander is one of the
finest Indian poets writing today.’’
—Keki N. Daruwalla
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Poetry
ISBN: 9780920661567 Price: $11.95 |
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Rootless
but Green Are the Boulevard Trees |
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Uma Parameswaran |
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In Winnipeg in the late seventies, an Indian immigrant family (the Bharves),
are on the brink of coming apart due to a clash of values and
ambitions. Sharad (the father), a former scientist, works as a
real-estate agent; Savitri (the mother) is a teacher; Veejala
(the aunt) is a frustrated scientist at the university. Jyoti
(the daughter) has a white boyfriend and will probably move out.
A crisis occurs as Veejala announces that she is going back to
India and Jayant (the son) is packing to go off to Montreal. A
phone call comes during this tense situation. |
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". . . an effective
examination of all the issues that immigrants face. It would be
an effective catalyst for discussion in today’s high schools
which are full of youth from every continent."
—
Harriet
Zaidman, CM: Canadian Review of Materials |
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Drama
ISBN: 9781894770354
Price: $16.95 |
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Fiction
ISBN: 9781894770163
Price: $18.95 |
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Shakti's
Words
An
Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women's Poetry |
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edited by Diane McGifford, Judith Kearns |
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Articulating a purely feminist consciousness; giving voice to
Third World and immigrant concerns; decrying racism and bigotry;
rebellious and subversive, sometimes simply lyrical or
imagistic; invoking the real, magical, and mythical, old worlds
and the new; analytical or synthetical; these poems reflect also
a commitment to craft, the search for form, and individual
style. They represent the new voices that are gradually changing
the landscape of Canadian literature. |
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"Shakti's
Words is a diverse collection, as personal as it is
politicized."
—
Books in
Canada
"This
collection deserves a place in Canadian poetry courses across
the country."
—
Canadian
Literature |
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Poetry/Anthology
ISBN: 9780920661291
Price: $12.95 |
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Shopping
for Sabzi |
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Nitin Deckha |
Shopping for Sabzi interweaves themes of ambition and
identity in the lives of its brash, young, and successful
Indo-Canadian and Indo-American characters. Poignant and
humorous, this collection of stories describes the jockeying for
social status, successful love, career fulfillment and personal
meaning and the anxieties of its characters as they balance the
old ways with the new and reflect on the passage of time.
In “Piece of Cake,” Raj, transplanted from Houston to New York,
and dating a European photographer, is forced to confront Neha,
his ex-girlfriend, an anorexic suffering a major relapse.
In “Spick and Span,” Shilpa doubts the path she has taken when
she’s asked to help matchmake at a Gujarati marriage convention
in New Jersey.
“Potatoes and Punjabis are Everywhere” follows Happy, a college
student, during his first days in Toronto, as he encounters a
series of strangers that compel him to consider cutting or
keeping his still- unshorn hair.
In “Woh Auntie Hai Yahan (The Auntie is Here),” Kusum, a
recently widowed real estate agent in the Toronto suburbs,
struggles to repair her life, finding inspiration from Bollywood
dance lessons given by her friend’s teenage daughter. |
"Deckha's stories are
local yet universal, brimming with insight and humour. Each
story is laden with leitmotif and rich imagery. Deckha's
stories are culturally relevant, intelligent and
fascinating. An enjoyable read."
—Sheniz
Janmohamed (City Masala, South Asian Living) |
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Fiction/Short Stories
ISBN: 9781894770460
Price: $18.95
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The Silly
Turtle and Other Stories from the East |
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Stella Sandahl |
| The blue
jackal, the monkey, the crocodile, the clever rabbit, the
conceited lion, the foolish tiger - these are some of the
colourful characters who meet wonderful adventures and learn the
wisdom of their world in these fourteen stories selected and
retold from the ancient Panchatantra and Jataka tales of India.
As they have done for ages, they will enchant and instruct the
young and entertain the old.
This book tells fourteen
stories from the Panchatantra and Jatakas
traditions.
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Children's Book
ISBN: 9780920661079
Price: $13.95 |
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Songs to a
Moonstruck Lady |
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Barnett Zumoff |
| In this
volume, Barnett Zumoff has stepped into the breach by creating
and presenting masterly translations of 85 Yiddish poems by the
best of the women poets and 60 Yiddish poems about women by a
broad range of the great male poets. Women play a major role in
Yiddish poetry, both as brilliant creators and as beloved
subjects of male poets: mothers, wives, daughters, lovers, and
historical and legendary figures.
Readers
previously unfamiliar with Yiddish literature will obtain a
striking picture of a magnificent slice of world literature and
will experience the emotional impact of great poetry. Those
familiar with Yiddish literature will experience a revelation
when they are exposed to the poetic creations of its women
poets, whose work is far less well known that that of the male
poets, but is equally brilliant.
This book
includes both the English translation and the original Yiddish
text. |
“Songs to a
Moonstruck Lady is a treasure. In Barnett Zumoff’s careful
choices and supple translations voices long forgotten come
startlingly alive once again, surprising and touching us. An
invaluable collection.”
— Jeremy Dauber, Columbia University
“Dr. Zumoff’s translation of love poetry in Yiddish has opened
the door to humanism in Yiddish– especially because the poems
are beautifully chosen and well translated.”
— Dr. (Rabbi) Hertzberg, New York University |
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Poetry/Bilingual
ISBN: 9781894770262
Price: $22.95 (Paperback) |
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Poetry/Bilingual
ISBN: 9781894770279
Price: $30.95 (Hardcover) |
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Strangers in
the Mirror
In
and Out of the Mainstream of Culture in Canada |
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edited by Sanjay Talreja, Nurjehan Aziz |
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collection of essays, consisting of personal insights,
anecdotes, and analyses, looks at the representations of
minorities in the cultural space of Canada: the national news
media, advertising and commercials, school and university
curricula, art and entertainment. The contributors come from a
variety of personal and professional backgrounds and the
definition of the term “minority” is itself examined. In the
process, the authors consider the concept of Canada and being
Canadian from different perspectives.
The contributors include:
Arun Mukherjee, York
University;
Fraser Sutherland, editor and
writer; Robin Breon, University of Toronto; Michael Neumann,
Trent University; Cecil Foster, novelist, University of Guelph;
Tarek Fatah, Muslim Canadian Congress;
Rozena Maart, University of
Guelph. |
"If we are
interested in learning how to create a truly multicultural
vision, reading and then re-reading this group of eloquent
essays
would be an important start."
— India Currents
(California) |
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CRITICISM
ISBN: 9781894770194
Price: $24.95
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The Strike |
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Anand Mahadevan |
Twelve-year-old Hari tries to make sense of his tumultuous and
complex world in 1980s India. His experiment at eating fish
leads to the accidental death of his grandmother; his preference
for Hindi over his mother tongue Tamil leads to slanderous
graffiti against his family in Madras; and his friendship with
the family maid lands him in trouble with a militant Tamil film
fan and political functionary called Vishu.
Matters come to a head when MGR, a film star turned politician
dies and his supporters led by Vishu declare a strike, trapping
Hari and his mother in a train bound for Madras... |
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"Mahadevan engages all the
reader's senses with writing that is vivid and exotic, very
often erotic, and touched throughout with gentle humour. He
writes with such compassion that while reading this book you
will undoubtedly nod in recognition of your own family and loves
and sometimes foolish self."
— Gail Anderson-Dargatz,
A Recipe for Bees
"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
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FICTION
ISBN: 9781894770309
Price: $18.95
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ANTHOLOGY
ISBN: 9781894770095
Price: $23.95
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Sweet Like
Saltwater |
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Raywat Deonandan |
| These
stories, set in India, the Caribbean and North America, profile
immigration, and detached belonging. Race, history, love, war
and water are the themes of this collection, bathing the reader
in moods of subtle seduction, ghostly paranoia and familial
regret. |
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“Deonandan’s prose is quirky and
engaging . . . at its satirical best it is amusing and incisive
. . .” —The Globe and Mail
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FICTION
ISBN: 9780920661772
Price: $15.95
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The
Tanganyika Way |
Sophia Mustafa
edited and with an introduction by Fawzia
Mustafa |
The
Tanganyika Way spans the political events of 1958–1961 that led
to Tanganyika’s independence from Britain. Sophia Mustafa
participated in those events, and her account offers a rare
insider’s perspective of the political drama. She covers large
international and national issues, which, coupled with the
smaller personal details of her life, open a window into a time
and an experience that are emblematic of an unique historical
moment.
We witness close-up one form of the decolonization that marked
mid-twentieth century Africa. An unlikely set of circumstances
led to Mustafa’s political career, and as we learn about them we
also meet the first generation of politicians who helped shape
the nascent nation of Tanzania, including Julius Nyerere, one of
Africa’s most respected and cherished leaders.
This re-issue is accompanied by rare photographs and a series of
short essays that collectively offer historical, familial, and
political contexts of both the author and her work. They include
reminiscences by friends, spanning generations and geographies,
inquiries by scholars theorizing “transnational subjectivity”,
feminist readings of Tanzania’s early years, and the complex of
diaspora/postcoloniality embedded in Sophia Mustafa’s unusual
biography. |
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HISTORY
ISBN: 9780894770514
Price: $28.95
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Teeny Weeny
Penny |
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Shenaaz Nanji
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Teeny Weeny Penny tells
the story of Shaira, a young Asian girl, who finds a dull,
brown penny while making mudpies. She decides that the penny
is a lucky penny and will not trade it with her friend for
any toy he has or with her brother for candy. Neither does
Shaira take her mother's advice and put the penny in the
bank to make more pennies. Shaira's father understands her
feelings, helps her make the penny shiny again, and gives
her three other pennies, which she uses to trade for a toy
and candy and to put in the bank. |
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"Teeny Weeny Penny is an appealing story with which many children
should identify."
—CM: Canadian Review of Materials |
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CHILDREN'S
ISBN: 9780920661369
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The
Texture of Identity
The Fiction of MG Vassanji, Neil Bissoondath, and Rohinton Mistry |
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Martin Genetsch |
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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. |
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CRITICISM
ISBN: 9781894770415
Price: $25.95
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Those Who
Eat the Cascadura |
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Sam Selvon |
| A story
of inter-racial romance and the havoc it creates in a Trinidad
village. |
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“a master yarn-spinner”
—The Globe and Mail
"Selvon writes with great charm and a fresh earthy naiveté . .
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— New York Times
"A simple, lyrical, moving writer."
— New Statesman |
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FICTION
ISBN: 9780920661123
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Tiger Girl (Hu
Nü)
A
Creative Memoir |
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Lien Chao |
| Born in
the Year of the Tiger, Hu Nu, unwanted female child, is nearly
given away as a one-year-old bride in a Chinese village. She
grows up during the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, when
traditional values are challenged by the politicized young, and
nonconformity is repressed with brutal humiliation, examples of
which she witnesses daily in her neighbourhood and in her
school. Hu Nu joins the Red Guard movement more out of fear than
conviction, later to reject it bitterly for its senseless
cruelty.
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. |
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Memoir
Hard Cover
ISBN: 9780920661925
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$29.95 |
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ISBN: 9780920661932
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Transcultural Reinventions
Asian American and Asian Canadian Short-story Cycles |
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Rocio Davis |
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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. This work
specifically analyzes a number of major works by writers such as
Amy Tan, Rohinton Mistry, Sara Suleri,
Garrett Hongo, Terry Watada, Sylvia Watanabe,
MG Vassanji, and Wayson Choy, among others. |
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"Transcultural
Reinventions deserves notice for its commitment to
a significant critical project." —Canadian
Literature |
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CRITICISM
ISBN: 9780920661963
Price: $23.95
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Transnational Poetics
Asian Canadian Women's Fiction of the 1990s |
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Pilar Cuder-Domínguez, Belén Martín-Lucas, Sonia Villegas-López |
| This substantial book examines the
fiction of Asian Canadian women writers—Indian, Chinese and
Japanese—of the 1990s, specifically how their work reveals their
self-perception as members of minority subcultures. By close
readings of the fiction and related texts, the authors consider
to what extent and in what manner these authors—Evelyn Lau,
Larissa Lai, Joy Kogawa, Shauna Singh Baldwin, Anita Rau Badami
and others—feel at ease or at odds in the cultural climate of
Canada. A variety of subjects are covered: feminist anti-racism,
resistance to Indo-Chic, feminist fictions, the racialization of
bodies, the trauma of Canadian Japanese internment, etc. |
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CRITICISM
ISBN: 9781894770682
Price: $28.95
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To Love a
Palestinian Woman |
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Ehab Lotayef |
| Inspired by the rich poetic tradition
of the author’s native Arab culture, To Love a Palestinian Woman
includes works written over eight years. Richly evocative and
often passionate, these poems can be described as personal and
romantic, as well as public and political. While the condition
in Palestine is a dominant theme, so is love. Conciliatory in
tone or passionately confrontational, these poems stem from a
deep humanity that cannot fail to engage the reader. |
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"Listening
to Ehab Lotayef read his poems . . . I begin to believe again
that poetry matters. I am reminded of Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Allen
Ginsberg and other poets . . . who challenged the beliefs of
their times, who were not afraid to enter the political fray and
who went on to become the conscience of a generation." —Angela
Leuck, author of Flower Heart
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POETRY
ISBN: 9781894770552
Price: $17.95
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A Walnut
Sapling on Masih's Grave
and
Other Stories by Iranian Women |
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John Green
and Farzin Yazdanfar |
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“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 |
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FICTION
ISBN: 9780920661390
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| Wang Dehui: Oil and Chinese Brush
Paintings |

ART / CHINESE CULTURE
ISBN: 9781894770446
53 colour illustrations
Price: $36.00
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edited by Lien Chao
This book collects fifty-three
of Wang Dehui’s works, including his Chinese brush paintings,
Chinese calligraphy, and oil paintings. This book will help
Western readers become more acquainted with the subject of
contemporary Chinese art, and therefore provides one more
opportunity for artistic exchanges between the East and the
West.
His paintings are
exhilarating, life-enhancing
—a transcendence to a spiritual
reality.
— virginia j rock, ph.d, d.lit
In both Chinese brush
painting and oil painting, Dehui has made new impacts.
— prof wang liu qiu, Artist and Art Critic
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Wanting in
Arabic |
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Trish Salah |
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Wanting in Arabic is a refusal of convenient silences,
convenient stories. The author dwells on the contradictions of a
transsexual poetics, in its attendant disfigurations of lyric,
ghazal, l’ecriture feminine, and, in particular, her own sexed
voice. Without a memory of her father’s language, the questions
her poems ask are those for a home known through photographs,
for a language lost with childhood. |
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“Trish
Salah's poetic sequence is not simply a narrative of gender
change; it's a wandering, thoughtful text, one both fierce and
tremulous.” —Erin
Mouré
“...Salah’s writing bosoms up every damn dam in the literary
waterway.”
—The Globe and Mail |
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POETRY
ISBN: 9781894770002
Price: $17.95
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Wearing
Glasses of Water |
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Irene Marques |
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These evocative and complexly intriguing poems suggest a variety of
modern issues. Combining the real with the imaginary, the
logical with the intuitive, the mystical and the mythical, and
both oral and written traditions, they bring together different
geographical, temporal, and cultural spaces to explore spiritual
alienation and the nature of being, and the power of language
both to liberate and to oppress.
“‘Wearing glasses of water’ . .
. refers to suffering and the very act of crying. This
suffering comes across in different ways: the suffering of
the poetic self, the loss of loved ones, the witnessing of
exploitation of humans by humans, animals by humans . . .”
— from a statement by the
author. |
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"Marques has a clear ability
to turn a poem and make it her own."
—ARC
"The essence of Marques's
poetry is a peep into the compleximensions and psychological
states of being, of creativeness and inventiveness with the
Word, of themes and motifs of libidinal drives or instincts,
of internal emotional conflicts where individual impulses
and needs must be placed in ethical resolution with social
or moral obligations."
—African
Journal of New Poetry |
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POETRY
ISBN: 9781894770392
Price: $16.95
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Why Don't
You Carve Other Animals |
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Yvonne Vera |
“Caught
between memory and dreaming, the hopeful exile weaves a
comforting performance out of a tale of agony.’’
The place is white-ruled Rhodesia of the seventies (now
Zimbabwe), the exile the African in his or her own land. Young
men and women flee from their villages to join the freedom
fighters in the forests.
These stories, set during the years of the armed struggle, tell
of the other struggle, that of survival of those who stayed
behind. Told essentially from the women’s point of view, in
lyrical but unaffected prose, the stories recreate the dark
atmosphere of those months full of fear and hope. |
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“A subtle writer... [This
book] radiates the same commitment as The Grass Is Singing,
Doris Lessing’s first novel, which forty years ago also reported
unbridgeable boundaries in Southern Africa.’’
—The Toronto Review |
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FICTION
ISBN: 9780920661246
Price: $15.95
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Why We
Write
Conversations with African Canadian Poets and Novelists |
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edited with an introduction
by
H Nigel Thomas |
In this
volume, African Canadian novelists and poets discuss the
complexities of the writing experience. Most of the writers
interviewed here are humanists; i.e., they see their work as
serious depictions of the human condition, admit that their
works are informed by an African Canadian ontology, and adhere
to the notion that their books must delight and instruct. These
interviews, therefore, are valuable additions to the creative
process of the individual writers.
Apart from identifying how the writers’ geographical and social
origins have influenced their work, the questions deliberately
avoid autobiography. Instead, these writers respond to the
exigencies of craft, the manipulations of publishers, the
criticism of readers, and the absence of a clearly identifiable
market for their works.
The writers include Austin Clarke, Bernadette Dyer, Althea
Prince, Afua Cooper, M. NourbeSe Philip, Cecil Foster, Lawrence
Hill, George Elliott Clarke, Wayde Compton, Robert Sandiford,
Suzette Mayr, Claire Harris, Pamela Mordecai, and Ayanna Black. |
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"Indispensable . . . Overall there is a sense in which the
writers interviewed in this collection know they are
contributing to an absolutely necessary project guaranteed to
aid future writers and readers, with its discussions of the
political and literary contexts, as well as formal and aesthetic
aspects, of current Black Canadian writing."
—The University of Toronto
Quarterly |
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INTERVIEWS
ISBN: 9781894770347
Price:$24.95
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Wilting
Laughter
Three Tamil Poets |
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translated and edited by Chelva
Kanaganayakam |
poetry by
R Cheran
Puthuvai Ratnathurai
VIS Jayapalan
This collection brings together seventy-five poems by
three internationally known Tamil poets, whose works, over the
last three decades, have dealt with issues ranging from
ethnicity and nationalism, to religion and diaspora. Together
they have shaped the Tamil literary tradition, urging the reader
to look at the past and present in new and important ways. All
three poets have confronted the reality of Sri Lankan violence,
displacement, and struggle in different ways, but reading them
together reveals both connections and differences. |
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POETRY
ISBN: 9781894770590
Price: $28.95
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Winter, the
Unwelcome Visitor |
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Shaista Justin |
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Winter, the Unwelcome Visitor
is a five-section poetic cycle amending the ordinary with the
extraordinary. The work shows versatility in style and form and
yet maintains poetic excellence: a careful balance of metaphor,
imagery and thought. Always experimental, there is no one style
that characterizes the book. From brief and academic, to wordy
and effusive, the style shifts according to the subject.
Unstintingly political, unforgivingly critical of commonly held
ideas about the relationship of humans to the natural world and
to each other, the relevance of this work to both a Canadian and
an international audience is undeniable. |
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“Some of these poems are vivid
evocations of South Africa’s Western Cape, and elegies of loss;
others capture moments of longing and desire between lovers, as
well as passages of bitterness.” —JM Coetzee |
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POETRY
ISBN: 9781894770521
Price: $16.95
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Without a
Name |
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Yvonne Vera |
In
Zimbabwe, in 1977, in the midst of the guerrilla war raging
against the white minority regime, a young woman escapes her
war-ravaged village to go to the city, Harare. But the city has
its own perils, and takes away considerably more than it offers.
A moving, uncompromising novel, written in Vera’s graceful
poetic style, about the horrors of war and oppression in the
modern world and their effects on the individual soul.
WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH REGIONAL PRIZE. |
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“Probably one of the most serious female writers to come from
this country [Zimbabwe] in the decade and a half of
independence.’’
—The Herald (Harare, Zimbabwe) |
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FICTION
ISBN: 9780920661543
Price: $12.95
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The Writing
Circle |
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Rozena Maart |
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Five women gather every Friday
night to discuss their writing lives. Isabel, returning home,
where the writing circle are to meet, is attacked in her car at
gunpoint and raped. But she manages to turn the gun on her
attacker and shoot him. In coping with the killing, the disposal
of the body, and the breakdown and recovery of Isabel, we learn
about the intersecting personal lives of the women—Isabel,
Carmen, Jazz, Beauty, and Amina, all successful professionals in
today’s South Africa. And when the body is discovered, and the
identity of the attacker revealed, all their stereotypes fall
away. The novel is narrated by all five women in their
individual styles.
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"The Writing Circle
is a beautifully written, heartbreaking piece. If your book club
is looking for a book to spark meaningful conversation and bring
awareness to the group, no matter where you live,
The Writing Circle
will deliver that and more." —
carp(e) libris
"Maart challenges our deepest
preconceptions about everything South African—and manages to
convey a remarkable resilience." —
Herizons |
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FICTION
ISBN: 9781894770378
Price: $20.95
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Writing
from the Borderlands
A Study of Chicano,
Afro-Caribbean, and Native Literatures in North America |
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Carmen Cáliz-Montoro |
| This work
looks at three “borderlands” literary responses: those of the
Chicanos at the border between the southern United States and
Mexico, the African Caribbean minority in Canada, and the Native
North Americans. Carmen Cáliz-Montoro shows how in these diverse
yet similar cases mythology and symbolism get transformed and
recreated to respond to the burdens of history to produce new
works of art. |
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"A beautiful
discourse on feminine spirituality in literature.
Cáliz-Montoro’s writing is distinguished by a sincere search for
truth, harmony, and peace."
— Frederick Ivor Case, University of Toronto |
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CRITICISM
ISBN: 9780920661871
Price: $21.95
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The Writing
on the Wall
Essays on Culture and Politics |
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Himani Bannerji |
| Through
critical discussions of Marxist theatre in Bengal, the
anti-racist and feminist poetry of Dionne Brand in Canada, the
revolutionary poetry of Ernesto Cardenal in Nicaragua, a recent
popular trend in Bengali fiction, and the films of Russian
Andrei Tarkovsky, these essays provide acute, dispassionate
insights into politically committed cultural activity. What is a
true people's theatre (as opposed to a middle-class version of
one?) How is Marxism reconciled with Christianity in Nicaraguan
revolutionary politics? What has been the role and status of
women actors in India? How does recent trendy Bengali fiction
reflect an attitude towards acquisition of commodity (and
women?) How does the mind comprehend history, in the films of
Andrei Tarkovsky, and why do they unsettle the Western
sensibility? These are some of the questions addressed in this
well-argued, informative, and engaging book. |
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CRITICISM
ISBN: 9780920661307
Price: $14.95
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