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By Verduyn, Christl, 1953- Wiseman, Adele Laurence, Margaret Rule, Jane Waddington, Miriam Webb, Phyllis, 1927- Page, P.K Atwood, Margaret Marlatt, Daphne Scott, Gail Tostevin, Lola Lemire Mouré, Erin, 1955- Warland, Betsy, 1946- Brandt, Di, 1952- Maracle, Lee Van Herk, Aritha, 1954- Gunnars, Kristjana, 1948- Bannerji, Himani Philip, M. NourbeSe Brand, Dionne, 1953- Elliott, Al2023., Guernica Editions Call No: NEW QWF 814.009 V487h Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Essential essays series Volume: 81.Summary Note: Her Own Thinker: Canadian Women Writers as Essayists explores the thinking, ideas, and insights that Canadian women fiction writers have chosen to express in essay form rather than in fiction form. It looks at this substantial body of writing with a primary focus on collections of essays, and on those published since the 1960s. In all, it considers over 40 collections, offering an overview and appreciation of this generally overlooked work and its contributions to cultural and intellectual thinking in Canada.
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c2015., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: Fic McW Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Against a backdrop of 21st-century east London, where cuts and job crunches and unemployment are ugly, unrelenting realities, three very different love stories bloom. Francine, a university administrator who firmly believes that she is unattractive and unloveable, is unhinged after witnessing a tragic road accident. Cracked open, she is also on the verge of realizing that she is worth something to someone. Meanwhile Robin, a young film prof who Francine has lusted after from afar, is awoken to beauty in the form of the young Polish waitress in his local cafe, who cannot believe that he might love her back. And then there is Olivia, Robin's charismatic student, a mixed race girl growing up in a racist household, who thought she'd been abandoned by her father, Ed. Conducting research for a law school project on what society owes the dead, she stumbles across him working in a council office, where he's in charge of burying the indigent and unclaimed. Soon she realizes that Ed is not the kind of man who would abandon anybody.
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-- Anatomy of race and belonging.2020., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: BLK Bio M478s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Tessa McWatt has been called Susie Wong, Pocahontas and "black bitch," and has been judged not black enough by people who assume she straightens her hair. Now, through a close examination of her own body--nose, lips, hair, skin, eyes, ass, bones and blood--which holds up a mirror to the way culture reads all bodies, she asks why we persist in thinking in terms of race today when racism is killing us. Her grandmother's family fled southern China for British Guiana after her great uncle was shot in his own dentist's chair during the First Sino-Japanese War. McWatt is made of this woman and more: those who arrived in British Guiana from India as indentured labour and those who were brought from Africa as cargo to work on the sugar plantations; colonists and those whom colonialism displaced. How do you tick a box on a census form or job application when your ancestry is Scottish, English, French, Portuguese, Indian, Amerindian, African and Chinese? How do you finally answer a question first posed to you in grade school: "What are you?" And where do you find a sense of belonging in a supposedly "post-racial" world where shadism, fear of blackness, identity politics and call-out culture vie with each other noisily, relentlessly and still lethally? Shame on Me is a personal and powerful exploration of history and identity, colour and desire from a writer who, having been plagued with confusion about her race all her life, has at last found kinship and solidarity in story." --Provided by publisher.
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c2004., Adult, HarperCollins Pub. Call No: Fic McW Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library