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ture: Literature from India, Pakistan, China, and Japan
 
Fiction

RANA BOSE, The Fourth Canvas

"The Fourth Canvas is an intellectual thriller, an ambitious novel of ideas full of juicy characters. Rana Bose tackles the enigma at the heart of all great thinkers and doers."
Marianne Ackerman

FICTION
ISBN 9781894770477    $20.95   208 pp.  paper

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LIEN CHAO, The Chinese Knot and Other Stories

Award-winning author Lien Chao weaves together eight emotionally charged short stories focusing on Chinese immigrants in Toronto’s multiracial neighbourhoods.

"There is good energy in these stories, and they give insight into experiences that might be new to many readers." - NOW Magazine

FICTION
ISBN 9781894770439    $18.95   120 pp.  paper

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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through the gripping stories of Hu Nü and her generation as they survive both political repression in Mao's China and outdated attitudes to women.
FICTION
ISBN 0920661-93-9 / 9780920661932    $16.95   240 pp.  paper

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CYRIL DABYDEEN, Drums of My Flesh

In a central park in Ottawa's Sandy Hill, Gabe, an immigrant from Guyana (South America), explores the past in the company of his young Canadian-born daughter.

FICTION
ISBN 1-894770-25-0 / 9781894770255    $18.95   256 pp.  paper

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CYRIL DABYDEEN, My Brahmin Days and Other Stories

Closely observed, finely ironic stories confront Dabydeen's Asian and Caribbean identity with his life experience of life in Canada.

FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-85-8 / 9780920661857    $15.95   144 pp.  paper

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NITIN DECKHA, Shopping for Sabzi
"Deckha's stories are local yet universal, brimming with insight and humour. Each story is laden with leitmotif and rich imagery. Deckha's stories are culturally relevant, intelligent and fascinating. An enjoyable read."
Sheniz Janmohamed (City Masala, South Asian Living)
FICTION
ISBN 9781894770460    $18.95   184 pp.  paper
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RAYWAT DEONANDAN, Divine Elemental
According to family legend, Kalya Lal is perhaps descended from a ghost.
“…quirky and engaging…at its satirical best it is amusing and incisive …”

The Globe and Mail
FICTION
ISBN 1-894770-08-0 / 9781894770088     $18.95   200 pp.  paper

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RAYWAT DEONANDAN, Sweet Like Saltwater

Guyana Prize for Best First Book, 2000
Stories set in the Caribbean, in India and in Canada profile immigration and detached belonging. “...amusing and incisive.” —The Globe and Mail

FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-77-7 / 9780920661772    $15.95   176 pp.  paper

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ZULFIKAR GHOSE, Veronica and the Gongora Passion: Stories, Fictions, Tales, and One Fable

“Zulfikar Ghose has ranked with and outranked several of the best English writers in England and America.’’ —Review of Contemporary Fiction
FICTION
ISBN 0920661-70-X / 9780920661703   $15.95   258 pp.   paper 

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KWAI-YUN LI, The Palm Leaf Fan and Other Stories

From crumbling shops in Chinatown to decaying tanneries in Tangra, Kwai-yun Li's collection of linked short stories expose us to the life of a marginalized community (the Hakka Chinese) in postcolonial Calcutta.

"The short stories in this volume are marked by a sureness of touch and an acuity of observation that match the best in their genre." — China Report

FICTION

ISBN 9781894770316    $18.95   114 pp  paper

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ANAND MAHADEVAN, The Strike

Twelve-year-old Hari tries to make sense of his tumultuous and complex world in 1980s India.

"Mahadevan’s language often enters the realm of the poetic, allowing the reader to taste the slick oil of sizzling puris and the salted rust of trains . . ."— City Masala

FICTION

ISBN 9781894770309    $18.95   208 pp. paper

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TARIQ MALIK, Rainsongs of Kotli

Set in the romantic Himalayan valleys, these beautifully told and haunting stories explore the lives and the longings and memories of the Lohar people of Kotli.
FICTION
ISBN 1-894770-15-3 / 9781894770156   $18.95  168 pp.   paper
 

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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 

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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 

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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

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History & Criticism

NATASHA BAKHT, Belonging and Banishment: Being Muslim in Canada

A variety of Canadian voices come together here to explore some of the vital issues facing Muslims in Canada. Who, indeed, is a Canadian Muslim? This is only one of the fundamental questions addressed in this volume. The authors are from diverse ethnic backgrounds, hail from coast to coast, and profess varying degrees of practice and belief. In their thoughtful contributions, they explore matters of faith, identity, sectarianism, human rights, and women’s rights.

CRITICISM
ISBN 9781894770484    $25.95  120 pp.  paper

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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

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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

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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.
HISTORY
ISBN 0920661-93-9 / 9780920661932   $16.95    240 pp.  paper

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R CHERAN, DARSHAN AMBALAVANAR, CHELVA KANAGANAYAKAM, History and Imagination: Tamil Culture in the Global Context

This collection of essays covers a broad range of topics concerning Tamil culture all over the world. Tamils, originating in South India and Sri Lanka, constitute a large part of the diasporic South Asians in Canada, as well as the United States, Australia, and Europe. This book is therefore of special relevance to the concerns of multiculturalism and globalization.

CRITICISM
ISBN 9781894770361   $28.95   208 pp.  paper

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ROCIO DAVIS, Transcultural Reinventions: Asian American and Asian Canadian Short-story Cycles
This study analyzes the manner in which important Asian American and Asian Canadian writers appropriate the short-story cycle as a tool for both self-representation and empowerment. Davis wrestles with postcolonial and other cultural theory, but her focus remains on aesthetic issues.
CRITICISM
ISBN 0920661-96-3 / 9780920661963  $23.95   224 pp.  paper
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MARTIN GENETSCH, The Texture of Identity: The Fiction of MG Vassanji, Neil Bissoondath, and Rohinton Mistry
Arguing that globalization is no longer a term defining only international cash flow but also includes the flow and exchange of cultures, this book examines the works of three major Canadian writers of South Asian origin and born in three different parts of the world—MG Vassanji, Neil Bissoondath, and Rohinton Mistry. To demonstrate the complex, textured identities of his authors of choice, Martin Genetsch shows that these and other writers not only negotiate their Canadian identities but also explore themselves in the cultures, histories, and geographical locations they come from.
The result is a fine study of an important and defining aspect of Canadian literature.
CRITICISM
ISBN 9781894770415   $25.95
  256 pp  paper
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GURBIR JOLLY, ZENIA WADHWANI, DEBORAH WADHWANI, Once Upon a Time in Bollywood: The Global Swing in Hindi Cinema
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 elaborate and politically entangled treatment of postcolonial concerns. Together, these essays invite fresh, critically informed engagements with many of the key issues and creative tensions that continue to shape the world’s most prolific film industry. For connoisseurs and critics of Hindi cinema alike, Once Upon a Time in Bollywood presents stirring insights into popular culture.
CRITICISM
ISBN 9781894770408   $25.95   208 pp.  paper
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CHELVA KANAGANAYAKAM, Configurations of Exile: South Asian Writers and Their World
Twelve of today's most prominent South Asian writers across the globe talk candidly about their work, while Kanaganayakam complements the picture with salient features of the media, critical, and public responses to their work.
CRITICISM
ISBN 0-920661-47-5 / 9780920661475   $16.95
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RITA NAYAR, Ordeal by Fire
The Indian-born daughter of a diplomat, Rita’s happy, sheltered childhood ends with her marriage to a fellow Indian she meets in the diplomatic circles of Accra: the union is violently abusive. The couple move to England and then Canada, where the outcome is breakup, then the tragedy of murder-suicide.
“Nayar has the reader's full sympathy, for her story is achingly sad.’’ —
Vancouver Sun
MEMOIR
ISBN 1-894770-10-2 / 9781894770101  
$21.95   160 pp.  paper
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MG VASSANJI, A Meeting of Streams: South Asian-Canadian Literature

The essays and articles in this volume comprise a concerted and many-sided look at the literature of South Asians in Canada and the West. Several of them are also informative surveys of the important branches of this literature. Altogether they provide the contexts for appreciating it, and understanding it as an esthetic, social, and cultural phenomenon. At the same time they address several fundamental issues, regarding the relationship of this literature both to traditional (South Asian and Third World) and to mainstream (Canada and North America) languages, literatures, and themes. They probe the past, appraise the present, and throw a glance at the future.

 
CRITICISM
ISBN 9780920661000   $15.95   160 pp.  paper
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Poetry

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 

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SHYAMAL BAGCHEE, Gabardine & Other Poems

Written at locations as widely disparate as eastern India, northern Canada, western Bolivia, southern Ireland, and even the taxiway at Boston's Logan airport, these poems explore the broad reach of the English erotic idiom. These are poems about love—sometimes licit though often not—lust, and the language of desire. Not primarily concerned with displacement or diasporic experience, they nevertheless reveal a deracinate and dark-limbed Krishna sort of fellow—reminiscent of classical Sanskrit erotic poetry—flitting in and out of these pages.

POETRY

ISBN 9781894770149    $16.95

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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 

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SADHU BINNING, No More Watno Dur

Sadhu Binning's poetry gently provokes and evokes. He uses the tools of language, both Punjabi and English, to guide the reader through a private journey of public relevance. Rooted in a history of cultural and labour activism, this collection questions our notions of home, family and community. No More Watno Dur (Watno Dur means 'far away from the mother land') firmly establishes Binning as an essential poet who must be read in order to understand this continually unfolding experience of home and homeland in the Western world.Zool Suleman, Editor, Rungh Magazine
NOTE: Includes both the English and Punjabi texts

POETRY
ISBN 9780920661451   $11.95     120 pp.   paper 

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LIEN CHAO, Maples and the Stream

This long narrative poem in English and Chinese follows one woman's journey from China to Canada over four decades.
NOTE: Includes both the English and Mandarin texts

POETRY
ISBN 9781894770189    
$14.95     136 pp.   paper 

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LIEN CHAO, More Than Skin Deep

These poems, created both in English and Chinese, explore the experiences of Chinese and other Asian Canadians.
NOTE: Includes both the English and Mandarin texts

POETRY
ISBN 1-894770-18-8 / 9781894770187    $16.95    88 pp.   paper 

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CHELVA KANAGANAYAKAM, Dark Antonyms and Paradise: The Poetry of Rienzi Crusz

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 such markers are necessary, a full understanding of the poet's achievement requires that personal history, the political context of migration, poetic influences, and readership in Canada be taken into account. A carefully researched and definitive study, Dark Antonyms and Paradise offers an insightful reading of the work of a major Sri Lankan Canadian poet.

POETRY
ISBN 9780920661680    $15.95 

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RIENZI CRUSZ, Gambolling with the Divine

Rienzi Crusz's tenth collection of poetry, Gambolling with the Divine is the Augustinian confessions retold with brilliantly vivid Sri Lankan and Canadian variations.
“I can’t think of a single Canadian poet who, groin-tickled and happy, could achieve such delirium on paper. The raw passion is there despite the control the poems insist on.’’
irving layton
POETRY
ISBN 1-894770-11-0 / 9781894770118   $16.95  104 pp.   paper
 

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CYRIL DABYDEEN, Hemisphere of Love

Hemisphere of Love delves into the mysteries of love. In this collection, identity and language are everything. A range of scenes and situations is carefully carved in words, and geographical and spiritual boundaries provide shifts in tonalities and moods.
“A fine craftsman, and a wonderful weaver of images and rhythms,’’
World Literature Today
POETRY
ISBN  1-894770-12-9 / 9781894770125     $16.95     80pp.  paper

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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 

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SHAISTA JUSTIN, Winter, the Unwelcome Visitor

Winter, the unwelcome visitor is a five-section poetic cycle amending the ordinary with the extraordinary. The work shows versatility in style and form and yet maintains poetic excellence: a careful balance of metaphor, imagery and thought. Always experimental, there is no one style that characterizes the book.

“Some of these poems are vivid evocations of South Africa’s Western Cape, and elegies of loss; others capture moments of longing and desire between lovers, as well as passages of bitterness.” —JM Coetzee

POETRY

ISBN 9781894770521     $16.95     80 pp.    paper

 

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DIANE McGIFFORD and JUDITH KEARNS, Shakti's Words: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women's Poetry

Articulating a purely feminist consciousness; giving voice to Third World and immigrant concerns; decrying racism and bigotry; rebellious and subversive, sometimes simply lyrical or imagistic; invoking the real, magical, and mythical, old worlds and the new; analytical or synthetical; these poems reflect also a commitment to craft, the search for form, and individual style. They represent the new voices that are gradually changing the landscape of Canadian literature.

POETRY
ISBN 9780920661291   
$12.95    120 pp.   paper 

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Consensual Genocide

The long-awaited first collection of poetry by queer Sri Lankan writer and spoken-word artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Tracing bloodlines from Sri Lanka’s civil wars to Brooklyn and Toronto streets, these fierce poems are full of heart and guts, telling raw truths about brown girl border crossings before and after 9/11, surviving abuse, mixed-race journeys and high femme rebellions. Consensual Genocide celebrates our survival and marks our rebel memories into history.

“Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's words leap off the page–urgent, sumptuous writing that demands, and deserves, a wide audience. I'm listening.”— Anna Camilleri, author of I Am a Red Dress

POETRY
ISBN 9781894770293    $16.95    paper
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RAJINDERPAL S PAL, Pappaji Wrote Poetry in a Language I Cannot Read

The poems in this book form a narrative whole that leaps between past and present, between childhood and adulthood, and between languages. Issues of cross-cultural politics and relationships are addressed, and loss across generations and migrations across continents. All of this is entwined with  the search for the poet-father and the attempt to come to terms with the past.

POETRY
ISBN 9780920661741    $13.95    paper

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SASENARINE PERSAUD, In a Boston Night

From the very first piece in this collection, the title poem “In a Boston Night,” Sasenarine Persaud signals a return to the passionate and sensuous that informed much of his earlier work.

POETRY
ISBN 9781894770491   $16.95     88 pp.   paper 

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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 
 

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BETTY WARRINGTON-KEARSLEY, Red Lacquered Chopsticks

Betty Warrington-Kearsley's first volume of poetry bridges the spaces between cultures. From detailed observation and personal experience, with honesty and clarity, these poems reflect upon the poet’s Asian and Western experiences.

"Full of verbal and visual felicities, this is an astonishing first collection abounding with a gallery of familial and fabular figures. A virtuoso debut!" Seymour Mayne, University of Ottawa
POETRY
ISBN 9781894770330     $16.95     120 pp.   paper  

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Drama
UMA PARAMESWARAN, Rootless but Green Are the Boulevard Trees
 
In Winnipeg in the late seventies, an Indian immigrant family (the Bharves), are on the brink of coming apart due to a clash of values and ambitions. Sharad (the father), a former scientist, works as a real-estate agent; Savitri (the mother) is a teacher; Veejala (the aunt) is a frustrated scientist at the university. Jyoti (the daughter) has a white boyfriend and will probably move out. A crisis occurs as Veejala announces that she is going back to India and Jayant (the son) is packing to go off to Montreal. A phone call comes during this tense situation.
DRAMA
ISBN 9781894770354    $16.95 
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Anthology

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

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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

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FRANK BIRBALSINGH, Jahaji: An Anthology of Indo-Caribbean Fiction
Jahaji (the term meaning “ship traveler”) brings together a representative selection of Indo-Caribbean fiction from three generations of writers, from Ismith Khan through Rooplall Monar and Cyril Dabydeen to Marina Budhos and Shani Mootoo. Together, the sixteen writers included here give us an imaginative depiction of the experiences of their people across a span of fifty years.
“…covers a range of prose styles, while thoroughly exploring issues and preoccupations relevant to the Indo-Caribbean experience.” — Caribbean Beat Magazine
ANTHOLOGY FICTION
ISBN 0-920661-88-2 / 9780920661888     $21.95     220 pp.   paper

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LIEN CHAO and JIM WONG-CHU, Strike the Wok: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Canadian Fiction
Representing three generations of Chinese from a variety of backgrounds, presenting a diversity of themes and styles, and set in various locations and time periods, Strike the Wok is a truly kaleidoscopic look at Chinese life from modern Canadian perspectives.
ANTHOLOGY FICTION
ISBN 1-894770-09-9 / 9781894770095        $23.95   264 pp.   paper

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CYRIL DABYDEEN, Another way to Dance: Contemporary Asian Poetry from Canada and the United States
This anthology contains some of the most active and dynamic voices of contemporary poetry written by Americans and Canadians of Asian background. Included are Canadians Joy Kogawa, Rienzi Crusz, Suniti Namjoshi and Himani Bannerj, and Americans Arthur Sze, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, David Mura, and Cathy Song.
 ANTHOLOGY POETRY
ISBN 0-920661-59-9 / 9780920661598    $19.95   272 pp.   paper

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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

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CHELVA KANAGANAYAKAM, Lutesong and Lament: Tamil Writing from Sri Lanka
“...The first major anthology of Sri Lankan Tamil writing translated in English—Lutesong and Lament is a rich, vibrant collection of contemporary writing...” —The Toronto Star
ANTHOLOGY
ISBN 0-920661-97-1 / 9780920661970    $23.95   192 pp.   paper

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MUHAMMAD UMAR MEMON, Domains of Fear and Desire: Urdu Stories
Urdu stories by some of the best and most renowned writers of the language today brought to the English reader in accurate modern translations.
“Superb... the 21 stories are both exotic and accessible, mystical and mundane.”
The Globe and Mail
“A real find—strong vivid stories that plunge us without preparation or any sort of guidance into a society that we may not know but which we immediately accept.” — Books in Canada
ANTHOLOGY FICTION
ISBN 0920661-21-1 / 9780920661215    $15.95     272 pp.   paper

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DIANE McGIFFORD and JUDITH KEARNS, Shakti's Words: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women's Poetry

Articulating a purely feminist consciousness; giving voice to Third World and immigrant concerns; decrying racism and bigotry; rebellious and subversive, sometimes simply lyrical or imagistic; invoking the real, magical, and mythical, old worlds and the new; analytical or synthetical; these poems reflect also a commitment to craft, the search for form, and individual style. They represent the new voices that are gradually changing the landscape of Canadian literature.

POETRY
ISBN 9780920661291   
$12.95     120 pp.  paper 

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Art/Criticism

LIEN CHAO, Peng Ma: Chinese Brush Painting

Chinese brush painting refers to paintings utilizing Chinese brush, ink, and Xuan paper. By now Chinese brush painting has been the predominant art form in the history of Chinese art for over one thousand years. In the history of world arts, it stands on its own, flying a unique banner. Chinese Canadian artist Peng Ma has been a professional artist for over fifty years. Crossing the borders between the East and the West, Ma’s paintings speak contemporary sentiments. This collection has gathered seventy of his latest achievements from the past decade.

ART BOOK
ISBN 9781894770453     $36.00    96 pp.  70 colour illustrations 

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LIEN CHAO, Wang Dehui: Oil and Chinese Brush Paintings

This book collects fifty-three of Wang Dehui’s works, including his Chinese brush paintings, Chinese calligraphy, and oil paintings. This book will help Western readers become more acquainted with the subject of contemporary Chinese art, and therefore provides one more opportunity for artistic exchanges between the East and the West.

ART BOOK

ISBN 9781894770446    $36.00     80 pp.  53 colour illustrations

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