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Nehanda |

FICTION
ISBN: 9780920661413
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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.
“...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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Night
Artillery |

POETRY
ISBN: 9780920661901
Price: $13.95
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Anurima Banerji
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
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No More Watno Dur |

POETRY
ISBN: 9780920661451
Price: $11.95
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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
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Novels and the Nation
Essays in Canadian Literature |

CANADIAN STUDIES
ISBN: 9780920661499
Price: $19.95
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Frank Birbalsingh
Whatever it has meant historically and come to mean
today, Canadian identity has always been felt passionately, even as
Canadian nationhood has been perceived to be at the brink, under attack
from forces both within and without the country.
In these eighteen essays Birbalsingh discusses the
evolution of Canadian identity and nationhood as reflected,
predominately, in the English fiction of this country, from the writings
of the first British expatriates, through the colonial, empire-conscious
works of the nineteenth century, to the strongly nationalistic literary
consciousness of the mid-twentieth century and finally the contemporary
work of a multicultural country continually transforming itself.
This is a timely work with fresh insights on over thirty
writers, including Sara Jeanette Duncan, Stephen Leacock,
Mordecai Richler, Marian Engel, Austin Clarke, Robertson Davies,
Ethel Wilson, and considerations of Native,
Jewish, Caribbean, and South Asian writers.
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Nuff
Said |

POETRY
ISBN: 9781894770583
Price: $17.95
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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.
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The
Obeah Man |

FICTION
ISBN: 9780920661468
Price: $13.95
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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
“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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Of Hockey and Hijab
Reflections of a Canadian Muslim Woman |

ESSAYS
ISBN: 9781894770569
Price: $25.95
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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
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Once Upon a Time in Bollywood
The Global Swing in Hindi Cinema |

CULTURAL
STUDIES
ISBN: 9781894770408
Price: $25.95
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Gurbir 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.
"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 |

CRITICISM
ISBN: 9780920661420
Price: $24.95
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Arun
Prabha 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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Ordeal by Fire |

MEMOIR
ISBN: 9781894770101
Price: $21.95
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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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The Palm Leaf Fan and
Other Stories |

FICTION
ISBN: 9781894770316
Price: $18.95
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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.
"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 |

POETRY
ISBN: 9780920661741
Price: $13.95
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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.
"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."
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Peng Ma: Chinese Brush Painting |

ART / CHINESE CULTURE
ISBN: 9781894770453
70 colour illustrations
Price: $36.00
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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.
"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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Postcolonialism: My Living |

CANADIAN STUDIES
ISBN: 9780920661758
Price: $21.95
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Arun
Prabha 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.
"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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Prairie Journey |

POETRY
ISBN: 9781894770170
Price: $16.95
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Madeline
Coopsammy
This
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.
"Poems which are well worth reading not only for
their craft, but also for their honest content."
— Trinidad Express
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Rainsongs of Kotli |

FICTION
ISBN: 9781894770156
Price: $18.95
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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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lively conversation and sure-handed narratives."
— BC BookWorld
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Red Lacquered Chopsticks |

POETRY
ISBN: 9781894770330
Price: $16.95
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Betty
Warrington-Kearsley
This
first volume of poetry bridges the spaces between cultures. From
detailed observation and personal experience, with honesty and clarity,
these poems reflect upon the poet’s Asian and Western experiences.
Ancient legends counterpoint modern observation; beauty and peace are
offset by the raw reality of death and dying.
Erudite and referential in both cultures, these poems are also
intelligent and accessible.
Full of verbal and visual
felicities, this is an astonishing first collection
abounding with a gallery of familial and fabular figures.
A virtuoso debut!
—
Seymour Mayne, University
of Ottawa
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Return to Arcadia
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FICTION
ISBN: 9781894770385
Price: $20.95
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H Nigel Thomas
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.
"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."
—
Montreal Review of Books
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River and Bridge |

POETRY
ISBN: 9780920661567
Price: $11.95
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Meena Alexander
In this new collection we are privy to
the full and variegated display of [Meena Alexander's] poetry.
“Meena Alexander is one of the finest Indian poets writing today.’’
—Keki N. Daruwalla |
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Rootless
but Green Are the Boulevard Trees |

DRAMA
ISBN: 9781894770354
Price: $16.95
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Uma Parameswaran
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.
". . . 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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Rosa's District 6 |

FICTION
ISBN: 9781894770163
Price: $18.95
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Rozena
Maart
In
Cape Town’s District 6, despite the brutality of apartheid laws, the
lives of people go on. In these five connected stories, the central
character is a precocious little girl called Rosa. Through her
adventures in the neighbourhood we come to meet and know the District
and its many colourful inhabitants--including Mamma Zila, Auntie
Flowers, Mrs Hood and Uncle Peter--and their confusing, enigmatic lives,
and all too human quirks.
"Maart
observes the human costs of apartheid and homophobia with a keen eye."
— The Globe and Mail
"Consistently compelling."
— NOW
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Shakti's Words
An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women's Poetry |

POETRY
ISBN: 9780920661291
Price: $12.95
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edited by
Diane McGifford
and
Judith Kearns
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.
"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."
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Canadian
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Shopping for Sabzi |

FICTION
ISBN: 9781894770460
Price: $18.95
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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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The
Silly Turtle and Other Stories from the East for Children |

CHILDREN'S
ISBN: 9780920661079
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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
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Songs to a Moonstruck Lady
Women in
Yiddish Poetry |

BILINGUAL POETRY
ISBN: 9781894770262
Price: $22.95 (Paperback)
(Paperback):
ISBN: 9781894770279
Price: $30.95 (Hardcover)
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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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Strangers in the Mirror
In and Out of
the Mainstream of Culture in Canada |

CRITICISM
ISBN: 9781894770194
Price: $24.95
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Sanjay Talreja
and Nurjehan Aziz
This 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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The Strike |

FICTION
ISBN: 9781894770309
Price: $18.95
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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...
"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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Strike the Wok
An Anthology of
Contemporary Chinese Canadian Fiction |

ANTHOLOGY
ISBN: 9781894770095
Price: $23.95
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Lien
Chao
and
Jim Wong-Chu
This new anthology brings together some of the most
exciting works of fiction by contemporary Chinese Canadian writers.
Representing three generations of Chinese from a variety of backgrounds,
including writers born in Canada as well as places outside, presenting a
diversity of themes and styles, and set in various geographical
locations and time periods, Strike the Wok is a truly
kaleidoscopic look at Chinese life from modern Canadian perspectives.
Internationally renowned as well as newer voices are included.
"This
collection pushes against assumptions about Chinese Canadian literature
and shows support for emerging writers."
— Ricepaper
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Sweet Like Saltwater |

FICTION
ISBN: 9780920661772
Price: $15.95
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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.
“Deonandan’s prose is quirky and engaging
. . . at its satirical best it is amusing and incisive . . .”
—The
Globe and Mail |
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The
Tanganyika Way
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HISTORY
ISBN: 9780894770514
Price: $28.95
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Sophia
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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Teeny Weeny Penny
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CHILDREN'S
ISBN: 9780920661369
Price: $4.95
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Shenaaz Nanji
illustrated by
Rossitza Skortcheva Penney
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.
"Teeny Weeny Penny is
an appealing story with which many children should identify."
—CM:
Canadian Review of Materials
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The Texture of Identity
The Fiction of MG Vassanji, Neil Bissoondath, and
Rohinton Mistry |

CRITICISM
ISBN: 9781894770415
Price: $25.95
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Martin Genetsch
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
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Those
Who Eat the Cascadura |

FICTION
ISBN: 9780920661123
Price: $17.95
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Sam
Selvon
A story of inter-racial romance and the havoc it creates
in a Trinidad village by
“a master yarn-spinner” —The Globe and
Mail
"Selvon writes with great charm and
a fresh earthy naiveté . . ."
— New York Times
"A simple, lyrical, moving writer."
— New Statesman
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Tiger
Girl (Hu Nu)
A Creative Memoir |

MEMOIR
ISBN: 9780920661932
Price: $16.95 (Paperback)
(Paperback):
ISBN: 97810920661925
Price: $29.95 (Hardcover)
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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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Transcultural
Reinventions
Asian American and Asian Canadian Short-Story Cycles |

CRITICISM
ISBN: 9780920661963
Price: $23.95
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Rocio
Davis
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. 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.
"Transcultural Reinventions
deserves notice for its commitment to
a significant critical project."
— Canadian Literature
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Veronica
and the Gongora Passion
Stories, Fictions, Tales, and One Fable |

FICTION
ISBN: 9780920661703
Price: $15.95
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Zulfikar
Ghose
Displaying the astonishing range of imaginative power and
formal invention he is justly acclaimed for, and a subtly seductive
prose, Ghose lays bare the multiple layers of human experience in
settings as diverse as South America, India and Pakistan, and Islamic
Spain.
“Zulfikar Ghose has ranked with and
outranked several of the best English writers in England and America.”
—Review
of Contemporary Fiction |
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A
Walnut Sapling on Masih's Grave
and Other Stories by Iranian Women |

FICTION
ISBN: 9780920661390
Price: $14.95
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John Green
and
Farzin Yazdanfar
“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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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 |

POETRY
ISBN: 9781894770002
Price: $16.95
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Trish Salah
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.
“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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Wearing Glasses of Water
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POETRY
ISBN: 9781894770392
Price: $16.95
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Irene Marques
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.
"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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Why
Don't You Carve Other Animals |

FICTION
ISBN: 9780920661246
Price: $15.95
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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.
“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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Why We Write
Conversations with African Canadian Poets and Novelists |

INTERVIEWS
ISBN: 9781894770347
Price: $24.95
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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.
"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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Wilting Laughter
Three Tamil Poets |

POETRY
ISBN: 9781894770590
Price: $28.95
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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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Winter, the
Unwelcome Visitor |

POETRY
ISBN: 9781894770521
Price: $16.95
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Shaista Justin
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.
“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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Without
a Name |

FICTION
ISBN: 9780920661543
Price: $12.95
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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.
“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)
WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH REGIONAL PRIZE.
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The Writing Circle |

FICTION
ISBN: 9781894770378
Price: $20.95
$16.76
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Rozena Maart
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.
"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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Writing
from the Borderlands
A Study of Chicano, Afro-Caribbean, and Native
Literatures in North America |

CRITICISM
ISBN: 9780920661871
Price: $21.95
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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.
"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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The Writing
on the Wall
Essays on Culture and Politics |

CRITICISM
ISBN: 9780920661307
Price: $14.95
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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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