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LIEN CHAO, Tiger Girl (Hu Nü): A Creative Non-Fiction
Using first-person and third-person narratives, Lien Chao captures thirty-five years of recent Chinese history through the gripping stories of Hu Nü and her generation as they survive both political repression in Mao's China and outdated attitudes to women.
CREATIVE MEMOIR
ISBN 0920661-93-9 / 9780920661932  $16.95  240 pp.  paper

FARIDA KARODIA, Against an African Sky and Other Stories

“...riveting...palpable and heart wrenching.” —The Globe and Mail

“Karodia had taken the writer's role to new heights in South Africa.”
—The South African Review of Books
FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-92-9 / 9780920661628  $13.95  128 pp.  paper

KAGISO LESEGO MOLOPE,  Dancing in the Dust
...“cinematic in clarity...Molope makes her reader see and understand...feel the enormity of apartheid's atrocity.” —The Globe and Mail
FICTION
ISBN 1-894770-01-3 / 9781894770019  $18.95  200 pp.  paper

TAHIRA NAQVI, Dying in a Strange Country

The stories in this collection are told in multiple voices—aging aunts, mothers, cousins, the environment of the motherland itself—yet all manage to converge upon the world of the immigrant in meaningful ways.
“...a poignant and moving commentary on what it means to be an immigrant in the US.’’
—Herizons
“...issues of gender, generations and culture come together to give the narrative a resonant depth and offer more than one layer of meaning.’’ —World Literature Today
FICTION
ISBN 0920661-86-6 / 9780920661864  $15.95   144 pp.   paper 

YVONNE VERA, Why Don't You Carve Other Animals

“Caught between memory and dreaming, the hopeful exile weaves a comforting performance out of a tale of agony.” (excerpt from the book)
“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

FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-24-6 / 9780920661246  $11.95  102 pp.  paper

YVONNE VERA, Without a Name
“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

FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-54--8 / 9780920661543   $12.95   112 pp.  paper

NALINI WARRIAR, Blues from the Malabar Coast

The twelve stories in Blues from the Malabar Coast describe the life of the Variyars, a traditional matriarchal family dominated from dawn till dusk by the old grandmother in the kitchen.
 “Beautiful and gripping stories written with a seasoned maturity.” —Austin clarke
FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-99-8 / 9780920661994  $18.95  144 pp.   paper 

NALINI WARRIAR, The Enemy Within

Set against the backdrop of Quebec politics and spanning three decades, The Enemy Within is a memorable portrait of a woman caught between worlds, who breaks with tradition in search of peace and love, only to be betrayed by the man she first loved and the land she has thought of as hers.
FICTION
ISBN 1-894770-24-2 / 9781894770248  $18.95   224 pp.   paper

SALIMA BHIMANI, Majalis al-ilm: Sessions of Knowledge
Majalis al-ilm takes the reader through the journeys of nine Canadian Muslim women from a diversity of backgrounds, as they consider issues such as identity, gender, faith, spirituality, and community development.
“...provides a breath of life into contemporary understanding of the inner dimension of Islam.”
—Montreal Gazette
SOCIAL STUDIES / HISTORY / RELIGION
9781894770056  $25.95  216 pp.  paper
9781894770064  $36.95  216 pp.  hardcover

CARMEN CALIZ-MONTORO, Writing from the Borderlands: A Study of Chicano, Afro-Caribbean and Native Literatures in North America.

Caliz-Montoro shows how in three diverse cases mythology and symbolism get transformed and recreated to respond to the burdens of history to produce new works of art.

ISBN 0-920661-87-4 / 9780920661871 $21.95  200 pp.  paper

LIEN CHAO, Beyond Silence: Chinese Canadian Literature in English
Winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize in Canadian Literary Criticism (1998)
“...the first book-length study to attempt to construct the historical and cultural contexts of Chinese Canadian writing.” —frank davey, University of Western Ontario
“...an important milstone in the evolution of Canadian literary studies.”
—Arun mukherjee, York University
CRITICISM
ISBN 0-920661-69-6 / 9780920661697  $21.95  224 pp.  paper

LIEN CHAO, Tiger Girl (Hu Nü): A Creative Non-Fiction
Using first-person and third-person narratives, Lien Chao captures thirty-five years of recent Chinese history through the gripping stories of Hu Nü and her generation as they survive both political repression in Mao's China and outdated attitudes to women.
FICTION
ISBN 0920661-93-9 / 9780920661932  $16.95  240 pp.  paper

ARUN MUKHERJEE, Oppositional Aesthetics

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.

ISBN 0-920661-42-4 / 9780920661420  $24.95  262 pp.  paper

ARUN MUKHERJEE, Postcolonialism: My Living

This work critiques the dominant models of postcolonial theory that emerge from the metropolitan centres and ignore the specifics of time and place. Considers writers such as Mulk Raj Anand, Dionne Brand, Anita Desai, Bessie Head, etc.

ISBN 0-920661-75-0 / 9780920661758  $21.95  262 pp.  paper

MEENA ALEXANDER, River and Bridge

“In this new collection we are privy to the full and variegated display of [Meena Alexander's] poetry.’’ —marilyn chin
“Meena Alexaner is one of the finest Indian poets writing today.’’ —keki n. daruwalla
POETRY
ISBN 0920661-56-4 / 9780920661567  $11.95  104 pp.   paper 

ANURIMA BANERJI, Night Artillery

Passionate and subtly exotic, keenly aware of Persian mystical love concepts and with a trained eye on Hindu mythology, these supple new poems explore the territories of love, the longings of the body, and the pains of loss and exile.
“...lyrics that are almost too posh, almost too sumptuous...hauntingly lovely.’’
—Halifax Chronicle Herald
POETRY
ISBN 0-920661-90-4 / 9780920661901  $13.95  71 pp.   paper 

LIEN CHAO, More Than Skin Deep

These poems, created both in English and Chinese, explore the experiences of Chinese and other Asian Canadians.
POETRY
ISBN 1-894770-18-8 / 9781894770187  $16.95  88 pp.   paper 

MADELINE COOPSAMMY, Prairie Journey

"A brave and beautiful collection—at times reflective, at times haunting, but always, challenging us to rethink our ideas of home and our dilemmas of belonging."
—ramabai espinet
POETRY
ISBN 1-894770-17-X / 9781894770170  $16.95   120 pp.   paper 

BING HE, Alphabet Zen

Rooted in Zen, Taoism and traditional Chinese poetry, influenced by modern Western movements, this collection reflects the author's transfigurations and redemptions of life's drabness with imagination, harmonizing oriental wisdom with metaphysical sensibilities.
POETRY
ISBN 1-894770-23-4 / 9781894770231  $16.95   80 pp.   paper 

SALIMAH VALIANI, breathing for breadth

Breathing is an action we take for granted... A collection of poems exploring notions of experience, learning, and understanding.
POETRY
ISBN 1-894770-21-8 / 9781894770217  $16.95  120 pp.   paper  

NURJEHAN AZIZ, Her Mother’s Ashes: Stories by South Asian Women in Canada and the United States
 Precisely crafted and sensitively told, each of these twenty stories offers us a wonderful glimpse into the complex and manifold world of the South Asian women of North America.
ANTHOLOGY FICTION
ISBN 0920661-40-8 / 9780920661406   $15.95  208 pp.   paper

NURJEHAN AZIZ, Her Mother’s Ashes 2: Stories by South Asian Women in Canada and the United States
 Following the greatly acclaimed first volume, this collection brings together more first-rate stories by South Asian women that—whether set in their home countries or those of their adoption—explore with profound and sensitive insight the inner tenor of women’s lives.
ANTHOLOGY FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-63-7 / 9780920661635   $19.95   184 pp.   paper

JOHN GREEN and FARZIN YAZDANFAR, A Walnut Sapling on Masih's Grave and Other Stories by Iranian Women
“The stories allow readers to glimpse the rich, poetic Persian spirit trapped within the rigid social constraints all Iranians, especially women, endure.” — The Christian Science Monitor
ANTHOLOGY POETRY
ISBN 0-920661-39-4 / 9780920661390  $14.95   224 pp.   paper

BARNETT ZUMOFF, Songs to a Moonstruck Lady: Women in Yiddish Poetry
Masterly translations by Barnett Zumoff 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.
ANTHOLOGY POETRY
ISBN 1-894770-27-7 / 9781894770279  $30.95   256 pp.   hardcover

ISBN 1-894770-26-9 / 9781894770262  $22.95   256 pp.   paperback

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