Mawenzi House: 55 books

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by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015

In Bodymap, Lambda Award-winner Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha sings a queer disabled femme-of-colour love song filled with hard femme poetics and disability justice. The first book of the author to examine disability from a queer femme-of-colour lens,Bodymap contains work created and...
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by Mayank Bhatt
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016

An upright and modest Muslim family in Mississauga, Ontario, discovers by accident the plans to bomb public places in Toronto on their son Rafiq’s computer. Belief tells the story of the family’s escape from Bombay to Canada following the communal violence of 1993; their small success,...
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by Bethlehem Terrefe Gebreyohannes
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016

It’s 1974, a coup has just installed a repressive military regime in Ethiopia. A family of five undertakes to escape from Addis Ababa to Djibouti, cross the brutal Danakil Desert on foot. Beth Gebreyohannes, a young girl at the time, describes that grim, perilous journey. Betrayed by guides and...
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Why We Write

Conversations with African Canadian Poets and Novelists

by H Nigel Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016

In this volume, African Canadian novelists and poets discuss the complexities of the writing experience. Most of the writers interviewed here are humanists; i.e., they see their work as serious depictions of the human condition, admit that their works are informed by an African Canadian ontology,...
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by Natasha Kanape Fontaine, Howard Scott, translator
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018

Translated from French by Howard Scott In this, her third volume of poetry, this Aboriginal writer from Quebec again confronts the loss of her landscape and language. On my left hip a face I walk I walk upright like a shadow a people on my hip a boatload of fruit and the...
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Into that Heaven of Freedom

The impact of apartheid on an Indian family's diasporic history

by Mohamed Keshavjee
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015

This book captures the history of the South African Ismaili families and some of the people among whom they lived from 1894, when the first Ismaili, Jeevan Keshavjee, left Kathiawad (Gujarat) and arrived in South Africa, up to 1994, when the country attained its multiparty democracy following the...
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Shadows of the Crimson Sun

One Man's Life in Manchuria, Taiwan, and North America

by Julia Lin
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017

After the Russian invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchuria (Manchukuo) in 1945, fourteen-year-old Akihisa Takayama escapes with his family to their ancestral Taiwan. Here they find themselves under the brutal Chinese dictatorship of the Kuomintang. In the 1960s, now a physician calling himself...
Cover of Flesh, Tongue
by Yaya Yao
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015

In this brilliant and provocative first collection, Yaya Yao confronts her inherited fragmented self and her hunger for a home, using scraps of personal and communal memory to bridge languages, worldviews, and physical distance from her ancestoral homeland. Bits of Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, and...
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The Muslimah Who Fell to Earth

Personal Stories by Canadian Muslim Women

by Saima S Hussain
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016

These twenty-one personal stories are told by women from practically all backgrounds and persuasions—devout and not-so devout, professionals and housewives, westernized and traditional, wearing jeans, hijab, or niqab, straight and gay, and originally from Africa, North America, South Asia, the Middle...
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Troubled Pilgrimage

Passage to Pakistan

by Balwant Bhaneja
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014

Born in Lahore in present-day Pakistan, Balwant Bhaneja grew up in the exiled Sindhi Hindu community of Delhi, before emigrating to Canada. Troubled Pilgrimage is his account of a journey to his ancestral Sindh in Pakistan. Struggling against the preconceptions nurtured in post-1947 India,...
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by Sheema Khan
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009

In these thoughtful essays, Sheema Khan—Canadian hockey mom and Harvard PhD—gives us her pointed insights on being a modern and liberal, yet practising, Muslim, especially in Canada. Tackling a host of issues, such as terrorism and fanaticism, human rights post 9/11, Islamic law, women’s rights,...
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by Lien Chao
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014

Born in the Year of the Tiger, Hu Nu, unwanted female child, is nearly given away as a one-year-old bride in a Chinese village. She grows up during the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, when traditional values are challenged by the politicized young, and nonconformity is repressed with brutal humiliation,...
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by Ava Homa
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013

These haunting stories beautifully evoke the oppressive lives of modern women in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Anis, a computer programmer, is at the end of her rope, putting up with the bullying criticism of a no-good, unemployed lout of a husband; Azar is a young divorcee, and the only person she...
Cover of Lives: Whole and Otherwise
by H Nigel Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013

Meet Mary Fellows, a sex-worker organizing a demonstration on St Catherine Street; how can she make the Anglican dean support it? . . . Disappointment follows disappointment as Margaret tries to find a suitable man; her latest folly is the suave younger man she brought over from Jamaica; . . . Greta,...
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