Fiction. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. These stories, poems, and one essay are the outpourings of women who spent time writing together at the Newcomer Women's Services (NEW), Toronto. In their creatio
Wanting in Arabic is a refusal of convenient silences,convenient stories. The author dwells on the contradictionsof a transsexual poetics, in its attendant disfigurationsof lyric, ghazal, l?criture fe
Literary Nonfiction. Middle Eastern Studies. TROUBLED PILGRIMAGE: A PASSAGE TO PAKISTAN is about a journey by the author, a retired Canadian diplomat, who is visiting his ancestral land of Sindh and P
Poetry. Translation. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the French into English by Phyllis Aronoff. This bilingual work (English and Innu-aimun) is an invitation to discourse. MESSAGE STICKS makes ref
Poetry. African American Studies. This collection results from the author's experiences in Hamilton, Ontario, where he has a home, and his travels over several Caribbean islands and in the United Stat
Fiction. Asian American Studies. The stories in the collection are largely about the tribulations faced by Punjabi immigrants living in Canada from the early 1970s onwards. Coming from a rural agricul
Fiction. Middle Eastern Studies. THE GHOSTS OF SMYRNA is a historical novel which tells the story of the events leading to the great fire of Smyrna (modern day Izmir) in 1922, through the trials and t
Fiction. African American Studies. Pedro Moore leaves the nurturing yet destitute home of his grandmother on Isabella Island to join his mother Isis, who works as a domestic in Montreal. Pedro brings
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
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 f
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
Literary Criticism/ Cultural Studies, newly available from SPD. BEYOND SILENCE is the first book-length study to attempt to construct the historical and cultural contexts of Chinese-Canadian writing,
Cultural Writing. Memoir. Fiction. Cross Genre. Asian Studies. 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
At no time in history has there been such a massive movement across geographical, political, and cultural barriers as the one we are witnessing in our own time. The South Asian presence in Canada and
