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Translated from French by Howard Scott. Assi Manifesto is a celebration of the Innu land in the tradition of Jos?phine Bacon. This telluric power is reminiscent of Paul Chamberland's Terre Qu?bec. Natasha Kanap s challenge is to name her land, but also to reconcile opposites. In this collection of poetry, the author engages with the environment, colonialism, anxiety, anger, healing, solitude, and love. "Assi" in Innu means Land. Assi Manifesto...

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These twenty-one personal stories are told by women from practically all backgrounds and persuasions revealing in their own ways what it means to them to be a Muslim woman (a Muslimah). What we get is a complex of stories, all challenging conventions and stereotypes, and united by two ideas--Islam (or the Quran) and nationality (Canadian).

These gracefully understated stories, set during and post apartheid, depict the lives of South African black women. But their calm surface is illusive, violence lurks just beneath the surface. A moving collection.

An upright and modest Muslim family in Mississauga, Ontario, discovers by accident the plans to bomb public places in Toronto on their son Rafiq's computer. Belief tells the story of the family's escape from Bombay to Canada following the communal violence of 1993, their small success, epitomized by their proud ownership of a house, and Rafiq's attraction to fundamentalist Islamic ideas. Rafiq, it appears, has rejected the planned act of terro...

It's 1974, a coup has just installed a repressive military regime in Ethiopia. A family of five undertakes to escape from Addis Ababa to Djibouti, cross the brutal Danakil Desert on foot. Beth Gebreyohannes, a young girl at the time, describes that grim, perilous journey. Betrayed by guides and robbed by bandits, lost in the desert without food or water, they are rescued finally by a trading caravan of nomadic Afar tribesmen, complete stranger...

Poetry. Fiction. Essays. In WHY WE WRITE: CONVERSATIONS WITH AFRICAN CANADIAN POETS AND NOVELISTS, fifteen leading African Canadian writers interview with editor H Nigel Thomas, discussing the complexities of the writing experience and revealing their thoughts on their creative process. Identifying how their social and geographical origins have influenced their work, the interviews provide valueable insights both on individual creativity and o...

Fiction. Asian Studies. From crumbling shops in Chinatown to decaying tanneries in Tangra, Kwai-yun Li's collection of linked short stories expose us to the sights, sounds, and smells of a marginalized community in post-colonial 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 punishmen...

Poetry. African American Studies. In this collection, Kuwabong celebrates love--love for the people of the Caribbean and love between lovers. In the first part of the book, the love that is celebrated emerges from a deep sense of historical reconnection with the poet's African ancestors who were taken captive and sent to the Caribbean. The poems perform a retrospective search for the roots that his African ancestors planted in the new world wi...

Award-winning author Lien Chao weaves together these emotionally charged short stories focusing on Chinese immigrants in Toronto's multiracial neighbourhoods. In a public playground Wei Ming finds herself strangely alone, but she takes an unusual step when she observes the prejudices at work among the parents and children, middle-ages and divorced, Katherine mulls over the possibilities of spending a loney life and marrying a stable and safe ...

Poetry. Jewish Studies. Translated from the Yiddish by Mary Schulman. Edited by Mary Schulman, Joan Brauman and David Weintraub. This collection brings together in English the work of one of the most gifted and remarkable Jewish poets of the Soviet Union. Suffused with a consciousness of suffering, homelessness, and inevitably, the Holocaust, these modernist poems are meditative, elegiac, and prophetic in tone, and touch on the themes of loss,...

Cultural Writing. Film Studies. Asian Studies. Edited by 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...

Fiction. Afro-Caribbean Studies. When at age 51, Joshua Eclair--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 ...

The village obeahman Manko foresees trouble when Englishman Garry Johnson comes to stay in the cacao estate of his friend Roger Franklin in post-independence Trinidad. Before long his prophecy is fulfilled when the visitor falls in love with the beautiful Indian girl Sarojini. "Selvon writes with great charm.

Cultural Writing. Latino/Latina Studies, African American Studies and Native American Studies. This work looks at three borderlands literary responses: those of Chicanos at the border between the southern United States and Mexico, the African Caribbean minority in Canada, and the Native North Americans. Examining the poetry of Gloria Anzaldua and Alma Villanueva and the performance work of Guillermo Gomez-Pena, the poetry and prose of Dionne B...

In the postwar Caribbean colony of Trinidad, as an earlier generation thinks of returning to India, Foster, a young man, goes to England and Rufus, his brother, leaves for the United States, each in search of himself and his world. Combining his characteristic humour with a vivid sense of place, Selvon, tells a moving story of personal and intellectual quest for our time. "A lyrical, moving writer.

Fiction. Asian American Studies. 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 ...

Fiction. It is the turbulent 1980s in apartheid South Africa, when even the ordinary life is full of danger and uncertainty. Tihelo, a thirteen-year-old girl lives with her older sister Keitumetse and their mother Kgomotso in a township outside Pretoria. Life in this brutalized South Africa holds mysteries of other sorts. DANCING IN THE DUST is a moving story of growing up in a fearful, oppressive society, where the only comfort for the young ...

Fiction. African American Studies. From the opening sentence--Heat mauled the upturned faces.---on, WITHOUT A NAME burns forward with graceful, poetic power. Set in Zimbabwe, this novel tracks a young woman's journey for refuge while her country is in the midst of guerrilla war. Vera is the author of the short story collection WHY DON'T YOU CARVE OTHER ANIMALS and the novel NEHANDA, both short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers Award Africa R...

Fiction. African American Studies. The place is the white-ruled Rhodesia of the seventies (now Zimbabwe), the exile the African in his own land. Young men and women flee 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. Yvonne Vera, born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, tells her stories from a woman's point of vi...