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  • What the Oceans Remember

    Searching for Belonging and Home

    de Sonja Boon ...
    Series series Life Writing
    Sonja Boon’s heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than 30 years, she was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dutch father. An invitation to join a family tree project inspired a journey to the heart of the histories that have shaped her identity, as she sought to answer two questions that have dogged her over the years: Where does she belong? And who does she ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Telling the Flesh

    Life Writing, Citizenship, and the Body in the Letters to Samuel Auguste Tissot

    de Sonja Boon ...
    Series Libro 44 - McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
    In the second half of the eighteenth century, celebrated Swiss physician Samuel Auguste Tissot (1728-1797) received over 1,200 medical consultation letters from across Europe and beyond. Written by individuals seeking respite from a range of ailments, these letters offer valuable insight into the nature of physical suffering.Plaintive, desperate, querulous, fearful, frustrated, and sometimes ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

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    What the Oceans Remember

    Searching for Belonging and Home

    de Sonja Boon ...
    Narrado por Ryanne Chisholm ...
    Series series Life Writing

    Completo

    9 hora 9 minutos

    Sonja Boon’s heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than 30 years, she was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dutch father. An invitation to join a family tree project inspired a journey to the heart of the histories that have shaped her identity, as she sought to answer two questions that have dogged her over the years: Where does she belong? And who does she ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada

    Series series Routledge Introductions to Canadian Literature
    The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada explores the exciting world of nonfiction writing about the self, designed to give teachers and students the tools they need to study both canonical and lesser-known works. The volume introduces important texts and contexts for interpreting life narratives, demonstrates the conceptual tools necessary to understand what life narratives are and ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water's Edge

    Unsettled Islands

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book takes an intimate, collaborative, interdisciplinary autoethnographic approach that both emphasizes the authors’ entangled relationships with the more-than-human, and understands the land and sea-scapes of Newfoundland as integral to their thinking, theorizing, and writing. The authors draw on feminist, trans, queer, critical race, Indigenous, decolonial, and posthuman theories in order ... Leer más

    $71.99 USD

  • BIG

    Stories about Life in Plus-Sized Bodies

    Pop culture stereotypes, shopping frustrations, fat jokes, and misconceptions about health are all ways society systemically rejects large bodies. BIG is a collection of personal and intimate experiences of plus size women, non-binary and trans people in a society obsessed with thinness. Revealing insights that are both funny and traumatic, surprising and challenging, familiar and unexpected, 26 ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Dead Woman Pickney

    A Memoir of Childhood in Jamaica

    Series series Life Writing
    Dead Woman Pickney chronicles Yvonne Shorter Brown’s life growing up in Jamaica between 1943 and 1965 and teaching in Canada from 1969. Told with stridency and humour, the stories include both personal experience and history.Taking up the haunting memories of childhood, along with persistent racial marginalization of Black people, both globally and in Canada, the author sets out to construct a ... Leer más

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    Dead Woman Pickney

    A Memoir of Childhood in Jamaica

    Series series Life Writing

    Completo

    7 hora 45 minutos

    Dead Woman Pickney chronicles Yvonne Shorter Brown’s life growing up in Jamaica between 1943 and 1965 and teaching in Canada from 1969. Told with stridency and humour, the stories include both personal experience and history. Taking up the haunting memories of childhood, along with persistent racial marginalization of Black people, both globally and in Canada, the author sets out to construct a ... Leer más

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    Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.

    A Memoir

    Narrado por Diana Bang ...

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    4 hora 59 minutos

    **Winner of the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for NonfictionA beautiful and haunting memoir of kinship and culture rediscovered.**Jenny Heijun Wills was born in Korea and adopted as an infant into a white family in small-town Canada. In her late twenties, she reconnected with her first family and returned to Seoul where she spent four months getting to know other adoptees, as well as her ... Leer más

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  • Looking for the Other

    Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze

    de E. Ann Kaplan ...
    What happens when white people look at non-whites? What happens when the gaze is returned? Looking for the Other responds to criticisms leveled at white feminist film theory of the 1970s and 1980s for its neglect of issues to do with race. It focuses attention on the male gaze across cultures, as illustrated by women filmmakers of color whose films deal with travel.Looking relations are determined ... Leer más

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  • Haunted Nations

    The Colonial Dimensions of Multiculturalisms

    de Sneja Gunew ...
    Series series Transformations
    Postcolonialism has attracted a large amount of interest in cultural theory, but the adjacent area of multiculturalism has not been scrutinised to quite the same extent. In this innovative new book, Sneja Gunew sets out to interrogate the ways in which the transnational discourse of multiculturalism may be related to the politics of race and indigeneity, grounding her discussion in a variety of ... Leer más

    $101.99 USD

  • Eating Chinese

    Culture on the Menu in Small Town Canada

    de Lily Cho ...
    "Chicken fried rice, sweet and sour pork, and an order of onion rings, please."Chinese restaurants in small town Canada are at once everywhere - you would be hard pressed to find a town without a Chinese restaurant - and yet they are conspicuously absent in critical discussions of Chinese diasporic culture or even in popular writing about Chinese food. In Eating Chinese, Lily Cho examines Chinese ... Leer más

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