Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Redress
From 1942 to 1949 some 23,000 Japanese Canadians were uprooted from their homes along the B.C. coast, dispossessed and dispersed across Canada. This passionate and compelling book - a creative blend of memoir, documentary history and critical examination - explores the Japanese Canadian redress movement of the late 20th century that resolved the violation of their citizenship rights during this mass expulsion. Governor General's Award-winner Roy Miki applies the concept of "negotiation" to the 20th century history of Japanese Canadians - a history formed out of complex mediations with a Canadian government that denied them fundamental rights. From the moment the first Japanese immigrants arr...
Justice in Our Time
How the Japanese-Canadian community brought the issue of redress for wartime injustices to the forefront of public debate.
Justice in Our Time
The Redress Movement refers to efforts to obtain the restitution of civil rights, an apology, and/or monetary compensation from the Canadian government during the six decades that followed the World War II mass removal and confinement of Japanese Canadians. The movement emphasized the violation of rights, lost property, and the repeal of anti-Japanese legislation.
Surrender
Surrender opens into a new space where ideas, borders, and authority are questioned, explored, and exploded. The poems in this book, written over a period of years in a variety of geographical sites, from Vancouver, B.C., to Sydney, Australia, interact in apposition and opposition, often in parts that face each other across pages, in dialogue, counterbalance, or antiphony.
Writing in Our Time
Process poetics is about radical poetry — poetry that challenges dominant world views, values, and aesthetic practices with its use of unconventional punctuation, interrupted syntax, variable subject positions, repetition, fragmentation, and disjunction. To trace the aesthetically and politically radical poetries in English Canada since the 1960s, Pauline Butling and Susan Rudy begin with the “upstart” poets published in Vancouver’s TISH: A Poetry Newsletter, and follow the trajectory of process poetics in its national and international manifestations through the 1980s and ’90s. The poetics explored include the works of Nicole Brossard, Daphne Martlatt, bpNichol, George Bowering, Roy Kiyooka, and Frank Davey in the 1960s and ’70s. For the 1980-2000 period, the authors include essays on Jeff Derksen, Clare Harris, Erin Mour, and Lisa Robertson. They also look at books by older authors published after 1979, including Robin Blaser, Robert Kroetsch, and Fred Wah. A historiography of the radical poets, and a roster of the little magazines, small press publishers, literary festivals, and other such sites that have sustained poetic experimentation, provide context.
Peggy's Impossible Tale
Peggy tells the story of the wonderful life of a guinea pig.
Broken Entries
In these moving, lyrical and articulate essays, Roy Miki explores the issues and realities that comprise, for him, a writing life: redress, history, memory, "race", language, displacement— and their interrelationships— as well as the voices of those known and loved whose wisdom rings even after death, Roy Kiyooka and bpNichol. These essays form a net of thought, a way of seeing, that is full of acumen, theory, affection, faith, and skepicism— here is a brilliant series of daring meditations on the inflections of identity in our social and cultural time.
Voices Rising
This interdisciplinary inquiry examines Asian Canadian political and cultural activism around community building, identity making, racial equity, and social justice. Informed by a postcolonial and postmodern cultural critique, it traces the trajectory of progressive cultural discourse generated by Asian Canadian cultural activists over the course of several generations. Xiaoping Li draws on historical sources and personal testimonies to convincingly demonstrate how culture acts as a means of engagement with the political and social world. He addresses topical issues of "race," ethnicity, identity, and transculturalism.
Tracing the Lines
Like an artist's retrospective, Tracing the Lines marks a milestone in the life of an important public intellectual.
Dolphin Sos
Provides a fictionalized account of how local children took it upon themselves to save three dolphins trapped in the ice in Newfoundland.
