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Being Chinese in Canada

By (author) William Ging Wee Dere
Categories: Biography: general

Part memoir, part history, Being Chinese in Canada explores systemic discrimination against the Chinese Canadian community and the effects of the redress movement.

Soar, Adam, Soar

By (author) Rick Prashaw
Categories: Biography: general

Adam D. Prashaw’s life was full of surprises from the moment he was born. Assigned female at birth, and with parents who had been expecting a boy, he spent years living as “Rebecca Danielle Adam Prashaw” ...

Chop Suey Nation

By (author) Ann Hui
Categories: Biography: general

Part family memoir, part social history, and part culinary narrative, Chop Suey Nation explores the Chinese restaurants of small-town Canada.

A World of Songs

 

Celebrated as a novelist and made famous by her novel Anne of Green Gables and its sequels, L. M. Montgomery (1874–1942) is far less known for also writing and publishing hundreds of poems over a period ...

Avant Canada

Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements from the past 50 years. From the works of Leonard Cohen and bpNichol ...

zéro douze

By (author) Marie Chouinard
Categories: Memoirs
Series: Poésie

Eleven years after her first poetry book, Marie Chouinard comes back to writing with a story inspired by her early years, from zero to twelve years old. With a lot of humor and tenderness, Marie Chouinard ...

Les grandes fatigues

La fatigue nous sculpte et nous façonne. Il y a par exemple ces désirs qui nous agitent et nous exténuent. Ou au contraire cette ambivalence qui nous lasse à n’entreprendre rien. Il y a ces faiblesses ...

Par la peau des couleuvres

Quand je veux la peau de l’autre, quand celui qui est du bon côté du miroir s’en prend à son reflet, le traque, un duel s’annonce, une inversion se prépare: on ne sait plus qui est qui, ni dans ...

Juillet, le Nord

La Côte-Nord, les grands déserts de toundra, la mer, l’omniprésence du vent: que font ces choses à la voix, au corps ? Comment teintent-elles le rapport à soi, mais également à l’autre ? Plus ...