DIVERSITY STUDIES
SELECTED NON-FICTION
ONE BEAD AT A TIME
a memoir by Beverly Little Thunder
as told to Sharron Proulx-Turner
This is the oral memoir of Beverly Little
Thunder, a two-spirit Lakota Elder from
Standing Rock, who has lived most of her life
in service to Indigenous and non-Indigenous
women in vast areas of both the United
States and Canada. Little Thunder
established the first and today, the only allwomen’s Sundance in the world, securing a
land base in the Green Mountains of
Vermont for future generations of
Indigenous women’s ceremony. She was
active in the A.I.M. movement and she
continues to practice and promote political
and spiritual awareness for Indigenous
women around the world.
9781771332651 $22.95
Indigenous Studies
LGBTQ Studies
Women / Gender Studies
ROMANI WOMEN IN CANADA
Spectrum of the Blue Water
Hedina Tahirović-Sijerčić and
Cynthia Levine-Rasky, Eds.
This edited volume of essays, creative
writing, and images created by Romani
women in North America is the first of its
kind. Grounded upon Romani women’s
lived experience as writers, essayists, visual
artists, and activists. Reflecting the panoply
of women’s voices, the book links everyday
experience and a social critique of the
factors that enable and constrain women’s
lives. The book features essays on activism,
identities, and representation.
9781771334013 $29.95
English Literature
Diaspora Studies
Women / Gender Studies
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MIN FAMI
Arab Feminist Reflections on Identity, Space and
Resistance
Ghadeer Malek and Ghaida Moussa, Eds.
This is an anthology that cradles the thoughts of
Arab feminists, articulated through personal
critical narratives, academic essays, poetry, short
stories, and visual art. It is a meeting space where
discussions on home(land), exile, feminism,
borders, gender and sexual identity, solidarity,
language, creative resistance, and
(de)colonization are shared, confronted, and
subverted. In a world that has increasingly found
monolithic and one-dimensional ways of
representing Arab womyn, this anthology
celebrates multiple voices, honours ancestry, and
builds community.
9780980882247 $29.95
Middle Eastern Studies
Women / Gender Studies
NATURALLY WOMAN
The Search for Self in Black Canadian
Women's Literature
Sharon Morgan Beckford
This work examines the ways in which Black
immigrant women must adapt to survive in a
multicultural country without losing their
sense of self. The author examines the texts of
five major modern/contemporary Canadian
writers: Dionne Brand, Marlene Nourbese
Philip, Tessa McWatt, Claire Harris, and
Makeda Silvera. The book argues that there is
a universal central myth on which the writings
of these marginalized women are based, and
how multiculturalism can become a site for
creativity and innovation.
9781926708126 $29.95
Literary Criticism
Diaspora Studies
Women / Gender Studies
OTHER TONGUES
Mixed-Race Women Speak Out
Adebe DeRango- Adem
and Andrea Thompson, Eds.
FIRST VOICES
An Aboriginal Women’s Reader
Patricia A. Monture
and Patricia D. McGuire, Eds.
This is an anthology of poetry, spoken word,
fiction, creative non-fiction, spoken word
texts, as well as black and white artwork
and photography, explores the question of
how mixed-race women in North America
identify in the twenty-first century.
Contributions engage, document, and/or
explore the experiences of being mixedrace, by placing interraciality as the center,
rather than periphery, of analysis.
9781926708140 $24.95
A collection of articles that examine
many of the struggles that Aboriginal
women have faced, and continue to
face, in Canada. Sections include:
Profiles of Aboriginal Women; Identity;
Territory; Activism; Confronting
Colonialism; the Canadian Legal System;
and Indigenous Knowledges.
Photographs and poetry are also
included.
9780980882292 $39.95
English Literature
Diaspora Studies
Women / Gender Studies
Indigenous Studies
Women / Gender Studies
SELECTED FICTION
SHADE
Mia Herrera
THE DEAD MAN
Nora Gold
After her plans for the future are disrupted
by an unexpected breakup, Benni, born and
raised in northern Ontario, seeks escape
from her everyday routine by visiting her
father in the Philippines – the fantastical
land of ghosts and glamour that her parents
described to her as a child. Shade explores
such diverse issues of identity,
multiculturalism, celebrity television culture,
poverty and wealth, with prose that is as
bright and brilliant as the country it depicts.
9781771332897 $22.95
The Dead Man is a novel about a woman
obsessed. Eve — a composer of sacred
music and a music therapist — can’t recover
from a brief relationship she had five years
ago. In an attempt to move on, she returns
to Israel where Jake still lives, and the dark
mystery behind their complex relationship
begins to unravel. This novel, filled with
music, dealing with themes of love, grief,
early loss, and the power of art resonates
deeply.
9781771332613 $22.95
English Literature
Southeast Asian Studies
Women / Gender Studies
English Literature
Jewish Studies
Women / Gender Studies
ONE MAN DANCING
Patricia Keeney
AMITY
Nasreen Pejvack
Finalist, 2016 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Based on the true story of a young actor
growing into artistic maturity in Uganda
during the murderous regime of dictator Idi
Amin, the action moves in and out of Africa.
Charles collides constantly with political
violence and natural disaster. It is a
capricious fate that bounces him from
Uganda to Jamaica, from Scandinavia to
Canada and back again through this novel of
risk and freedom, of political mystery and
ultimately through the unravelling of this
myth about theatre and faith.
9781771332736 $22.95
Amity provides a window to the wreckage
caused by wars—the destruction and
displacement, here specifically within the
contexts of Yugoslavia’s dissolution and
Iran’s revolution. In a novel that strives
to raise awareness about the extent to
which elites manipulate nations into wars,
with total disregard for the lives of
millions, it is the warmth between two
very different women that is the key to
healing.
9781771332378 $22.95
English Literature
African Studies
Theatre Studies
Women / Gender Studies
English Literature
Diaspora Studies
Peace & Conflict Studies
Women / Gender Studies
THE HOMES WE BUILD ON ASHES
Christina Park
CALLS ACROSS THE PACIFIC
Zoë S. Roy
Set against an historical backdrop when
Korea was a colony and citizenry was
rendered impotent, Nara’s life is forged
in the 1919 March First Movement. Her
journey takes her from her ancestral
home to an insidious orphanage to a
forced-labour factory during the
Japanese Occupation. Eventually
moving to Vancouver, and amidst
violence and abject injustice, Nara finds
a way to rise up from the ashes again.
9781771332330 $22.95
Fleeing the Cultural Revolution, a young Nina
Huang steals across the bay to Hong Kong,
afterward immigrating to the U.S. and later
to Canada. She returns to China to reunite
with her mother and friends, and to see how
Chinese society and politics are evolving.
However, as an escaped citizen who has
returned with an American passport, Nina is
in danger and finds herself fleeing from the
red terror once again.
9781771332293 $22.95
English Literature
East Asian Studies
History
Women / Gender Studies
A HERO
Charlotte R. Mendel
Finalist, 2016 William Saroyan
International Prize for Writing (Fiction)
Charlotte Mendel charts the challenging
and heartfelt path of a family living in the
Middle East during revolutionary times. A
Hero is a poignant story of survival through
a conflict that is raging not only at state
level, but between family members as well.
9781771331937 $22.95
English Literature
Middle Eastern Studies
Peace & Conflict Studies
Women / Gender Studies
English Literature
East Asian Studies
History
Women / Gender Studies
DAWNING OF A NEW GARDEN
Tara Nanayakkara
Confronted with the task of re-inventing
her life, young widow Priya grieves by
researching spiritualism and spending time
in the garden her late husband had tended.
While her Canadian and Sri Lankan friends
conduct a tug of war over her destiny,
Priya’s life is mired in uncertainty. But as
spring begins to stir, the garden Gabe
planted begins to speak to her of new life
and fresh possibilities.
9781771333177 $22.95
English Literature
Diaspora Studies
Women / Gender Studies
SELECTED POETRY
LAND OF THE SKY
Salimah Valiani
Inspired by the Rocky Mountains, ‘Land of the
Sky’, the last poem in this collection, is a
means of using detail from various distances
to reflect on the socio-political and the
human that is all around us. This collection is
also a continuation of one of the projects of
the previous poetry collection, Letter Out:
Letter In: defining and redefining love as an
alternative to solidarity, with the added twist
of drawing alternatives to diversity and
democracy from the multiplicity of nature.
9781771332538 $18.95
TERRA INCOGNITA
Adebe DeRango-Adem
Finalist, 2016 Pat Lowther Memorial Award
Titled after the Latin term for “unknown
land”—a cartographical expression referring
to regions that have not yet been mapped or
documented—Terra Incognita is a collection
of poems that creatively explores various
racial discourses and interracial crossings
buried in history’s grand narratives.
9781771332170 $18.95
Poetry
Women / Gender Studies
Poetry
Women / Gender Studies
THE SNOW KIMONO
Ilona Martonfi
DARK WATER SONGS
Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes
Ilona Martonfi’s third poetry collection, The
Snow Kimono, can best described as an
obsession with truth. Compassionate and
disturbing, witness poems elaborate on
history, exile, the war refugee, the
dispossessed, and the disappeared. The past
and the present mix in this compelling
collection of free verse and prose poetry that
draw the reader into a language that
illuminates the way in which the beauty of
human spirit is both concise and eloquent.
97817713322576 $18.95
The poems in Dark Water Songs begin on the
margins of islands and ancestors, and fan out,
probing love, loss and life's dilemmas. They
expand and deepen the poetic exploration
which began with my earlier collections,
mining the reciprocal spaces enabled by the
hyphen between Jamaican and Canadian,
exploring silences, the weight of memory,
and a sense of the sacred.
9781926708942 $18.95
Poetry
Women / Gender Studies
Poetry
Women / Gender Studies
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