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Pedro Moore leaves the nurturing yet destitute home of his grandmother on a Caribbean island to join his mother Isis who works as a domestic in Montreal. There he has to negotiate the hopelessly desperate, cruel and violent world of immigrant youth, riddled with crime yet paradoxically also caring.

Fiction. Newly available from SPD. Set in colonial Trinidad, this powerful novel explores the barriers between black and white in a highly stratified and racially demarcated society. Marcus is a young black village boy who is fatefully attracted by the strangeness and the privileges of white children in his town and is befriended by the English overseer's son Anthony. The awkwardness and instability of this relationship in time reinforce his s...

This thoroughly-researched and well-documented book looks at several of the key aspects of the phenomenon of Indian indentured labour in the West Indies, from beginning to end-from the methods of recruitment in Northern India, the conditions of potential labourers in the Calcutta depots and aboard ships in transit, through conditions on the plantations in British Guiana (Guyana) and the protests and strikes against abuses, to the final aboliti...

The poetry and prose of Rienzi Crusz are about many things - exile, identity, family, religion, politics and racism - and this work is an attempt to demonstrate that the various facets are a result of a holistic vision that transcends narrow labels. Crusz is best known in Canada as a diasporic writer, committed to exploring the complexities of living between and among two worlds. This study goes beyond binary formulations to argue that while s...

An activist epistemology grounded in commitment" is the entry point to these provocative essays by renowned Toronto poet, critic and activist Himani Bannerji. Through critical discussions of Marxist theatre in Bengal, the anti-racist ad 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 a...

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 unkown 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 ...

Rethinking notions of empire and outpost and claims of universal genius in the teaching of literature in Canada a] Literature as cultural imperialism a] Racism and eruocentrism in the literary reinforcement of domination a] Beyond the reactivity of writing back to the Centre ... Fort culture and education and the Canadian state and the normalzing of imperialism .. Beyond the hushed gloom of the Royal Ontaro Museum's austere sense of permanence...

Cultural Writing. Literary Studies. Asian Studies. The dynamics of the short-story cycle make it particularly appropriate for the incorporation of immigrant legacies while adapting to the practices of the culture in which the work itself is created. This book specifically analyzes major works by a number of important Asian American and Asian Canadian writers, such as Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Shyam Selvadurai, Amy Tan, Rohinton Mistry, Sara Suleri, G...

Meena Alexander's imagination thrives in the active cross-fertilization of cultures and genres. In this new collection we are privy to the full and variegated display of her poetry." -MARILYN CHIN "The river and bridge are ultimatey the same. Just as New York City and Delhi merge in the body and imagination of a woman making poetry near the end of an age, Meena Alexander eloquently leads to the conclusion of this fine collection with: 'There i...

Short Fiction. The atmosphere and insight displayed in this book make it a considerable achievement (The Irish Times). John Stewart was born in Trinidad and educated in the United States, where he teaches at the University of California, Davis. He is arecipient of a Royal Society of literature award for his novel Last Cool Days. This is a collection of his short stories, a gentle and deeply thoughtful look at the various aspects fo Trinidadian...

Fiction. Asian American Studies. The English-speaking Caribbean countries have produced a prolific and great literature in the past fifty years. This anthology highlights the works of Indo-Caribbean fiction writers, of whom a substantial number are also Canadians. Included here is a broad spectrum of writers dealing with themes varying from the historical, with works set in the colonial past, to the more modern, in writing concerned with the c...