arsenal pulp press jul 2002 (14 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Judgement at Stoney Creek' has been released in a new edition of an aboriginal studies classic: an engrossing look at the investigation into the hit-and-run death of Coreen Thomas, a young Native woman in her ninth month of pregnancy, at the wheels of a car driven by a young white man in central BC. The resulting inquest into what might have been just another small-town tragedy turned into an inquiry of racial tensions, both implicit and explicit, that surfaced not only on country backroads but in the courtroom as well, revealing a dual system of justice that treated whites and aboriginals differently. First published in 1990, 'Judgement at Stoney Creek' has been hailed for its moving and deeply personal depiction of a controversial subject that continues to make news today how the justice system has failed Canada's aboriginal people. This new edition includes a new preface by the author, who returns to the area to discover how much racial relations, and the relationship between Natives and the justice system, have changed.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Close to Spider Man marks the debut of an exciting new literary talent: a collection of connected stories whose female narrators seek out lives for themselves amidst the lonely, breathtaking landscape of the Yukon. The girls in Ivan Coyote's deeply personal stories are looking to make a break from their circumstances, but the North is in their bones: so is their connections to family, friends, and other women. Like the protagonist in the title story, a waitress whose attempts to help a young co-worker saddled with a lunatic father finds her running across rooftops and climbing ladders; by getting close to Spider Man, she gets closer to freedom. Startling in their intimacy, the stories in Close to Spider Man make up a moving scrapbook of what it's like to be a young queer woman in the North, journeys imbued with the colors of a prescient sexuality and an honest heart.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A dead man is discovered in his apartment, surrounded by notes, books, and other assorted fragments of his life. A distant acquaintance is called in to clean up the mess, clear out the space, and try to make sense of the suicide, which leads to his own world being turned upside down. As he sifts through the evidence of his friend's life and death, the things he once thought of as certain cannot now be taken for granted, subsumed by the anonymous urban chaos of Vancouver's West End, a world populated by voyeurs, exhibitionists, and lonely outcasts looking for a way out, and a way in.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A mass murderer, a musician, a dominatrix, and a private eye gather around a game of Snakes and Ladders on New Year's Day. Lenore is waiting to murder, A.J. is waiting to die, Roxanne waits to usher in the end of the world. And all McGraw wants for Christmas is Doctor Tin. Some of them will die. Some of them have died before. Enter, if you will, the incendiary world of Doctor Tin?first introduced in the novel of the same name that won the first ever 3-Day Novel Contest in 1979, and included here in its entirety. You will never be the same again.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nominated for a Commonwealth Writers Prize, this extravagant and tragicomic novel is told in the musical lilt of Spanglish. Camilo, a strong-willed queen from Chile, tells his story as he lays dying in his hospital bed, recalling a life of sequins and disco. 'Realistic, stream-of-consciousness style.'--'Time Out '(London).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Ice and Fire' is a collection of nonfiction narratives from award-winning writer Stephen Osborne, who retains an abiding sense that the places and the people he encounters are still to be discovered. Negotiating the Trans-Canada Highway near Moncton during a whiteout, visiting Timothy Eaton's grave in Toronto, leaving offerings of tobacco at a Nez Perce battleground, drinking with his Japanese mentor in a revolving bar in Vancouver while debating Buddhism vs. class struggle for Osborne, all of these are occasions to conjure our time and our place. Ice and fire are extremes of a Canadian North, from which several of these dispatches are written. But Osborne's special insight is that Kamloops, New Glasgow and even Toronto are as unknowable as Pangnirtung. We live in a country that can claim the world's only souvenir police force, and whose analogue is a department store; a country that believes itself to be part of a New World, even though people have lived here for ten thousand years. Smart, funny, moving, and full of wonder and surprise, the dispatches in 'Ice and Fire' illuminate a very old world striving to make itself new.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Keenly surveying the borders of queer male community and identity, the fictions of 'Contra/Dictions', a collection of stories by queer male writers from the U.S. and Canada, resist simple answers to complex questions. They suggest that while the 'gay community' is becoming more 'accessible' and 'visible', there are regions and mindstates that cannot or refuse to subscribe to it, recognizing the plurality of gay identity. Mordant, coarse, and full of angry, wry truths, Contra/Dictions asks pressing questions of both the culture of queer men and the larger world in which it is often uncomfortably enmeshed. The nightmare and paradise of sexuality, love, and community are viewed from different perspectives, along with issues of race, economics, violence, politics, and homophobia. Pulling no punches, Contra/Dictions is a snapshot of queer male life in North America at the cusp of the millenium.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The captivating story of Mary John (who passed away in 2004), a pioneering Carrier Native whose life on the Stoney Creek reserve in central BC is a capsule history of First Nations life from a unique woman's perspective. A mother of twelve, Mary endured much tragedy and heartbreak the pangs of racism, poverty, and the deaths of six children but lived her life with extraordinary grace and courage. Years after her death, she continues to be a positive role model for Aboriginals across Canada. In 1997 she received the Order of Canada. This edition of 'Stoney Creek Woman,' one of Arsenal's all-time bestsellers, includes a new preface by author Bridget Moran, and new photographs. Shortlisted for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize Now in its 14th printing.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The controversial and provocative personal testimony of an urban guerrilla .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Wayde Compton's first poetry book: a stunning set of poems documenting the migration of blacks to Canada, specifically when the first black settlers facing an increasingly hostile racist government left San Francisco and travelled north to British Columbia beginning in 1858. With recurring themes of the unknowable, the crossroads, the trickster, and entropy, '49th Parallel Psalm' jumbles history, time, and the Canadian black literary canon. Shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize Now in its 2nd printing.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Some twenty-five years after the height of the 'women's liberation movement', feminism has, in certain circles, become a dirty word; for some, it is no longer relevant, nor descriptive of women's lives today. For others, however, the struggles and the issues continue, implying the need for a redefinition of feminism and its role in modern society. Bringing it Home is a collection of intensely personal essays by women, from diverse experiences and backgrounds, on the role of feminism in their lives. Provocative and inspiring, the book brings feminism home and sits her down for frank discussions about life, love, motherhood, daughterhood, work, sex, and community. From the kitchen sink to the corporate boardroom, these essays peel away the rhetoric from feminist discourse, and pose meaningful questions for women everywhere.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - National Dreams is an incisive study of the most persistent icons and stories in Canadian history.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Lambda Award-nominated anthology of gay horror fiction.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dreena Burton demonstrates that anyone can prepare an array of delectable vegan dishes without compromising one's health or sense of taste. 'The Everyday Vegan 'includes recipes as well as cooking and shopping tips, meal plan suggestions, and nutritional analyses.