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Follows the story of a famous Ojibwe medicine man, his gifted grandson, and remarkable water drum. This drum, and forty…
other artefacts, were given away by a Canadian museum to an American Anishinaabe group that had no family or community connections to the collection. Many years passed before the drum was returned to the family. Matthews takes us through this astonishing set of events from multiple perspectives, exploring community and museum viewpoints, visiting the ceremonial group leader in Wisconsin, and finally looking back from the point of view of the drum. The book contains a powerful Anishinaabe interpretive perspective on repatriation and on anthropology itself. Winner of the 2017 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-fiction. 2016.Native: dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian life
By Sayed Qashu. 2016
An Arab-Israeli, Kashua started writing (in Hebrew) with the hope of creating one story that both Palestinians and Israelis could…
relate to, rather than two that cannot coexist together. Here he writes about his children’s upbringing and encounters with racism, fatherhood and married life, the Jewish-Arab conflict, his professional ambitions, travels around the world as an author, and his love of books and literature. He reflects on social and cultural dynamics as experienced by someone who straddles two societies. 2016. Uniform title: Ben Haaretz.My life with Bob: flawed heroine keeps book of books, plot ensues
By Pamela Paul. 2017
For twenty-eight years, Pamela Paul has been keeping a diary that records the books she reads, rather than the life…
she leads. Or does it? Over time, it's become clear that this Book of Books, or Bob, as she calls him, tells a much bigger story. For Paul, books reflect her inner life-- her fantasies and hopes, her dreams and ideas. And her life, in turn, influences which books she chooses, whether for solace or escape, diversion or self-reflection, information or entertainment. "My Life with Bob" isn't about what's in those books; it's about the relationship between books and readers. A testament to the power of books to provide the perspective, courage, companionship, and ultimately self-knowledge to forge our own path. 2017.Ten short years ago, Barack Obama became president of the United States, and changed the course of history. Ten short…
years ago, our America was hailed globally as a breathtaking example of democracy, as a rainbow coalition of everyday people marching to the same drum beat. We had finally overcome. But did we? Both the presidencies of Obama and Donald Trump have produced some of the ugliest divides in history: horrific racial murders, non-stop mass shootings, the explosion of attacks on immigrants and on the LGBTQ community, the rise of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, a massive gap between the haves and the have-nots, and legions of women stepping forth to challenge sexual violence-and men-in all forms. In this collection of 13 essays, the author interweaves brutally honest personal stories with the saga of America, then and now. 2018.Myself with others: selected essays
By Carlos Fuentes. 1988
In these essays the author reflects on the three great elements in his work: autobiography, love of literature and politics.…
He starts with his own beginnings as a writer, covers other writers such as Borges and Kundera, and ends with his most recent political statement, his commencement address at Harvard. This is not a translation; the author has used the English language alone. 1988.L'école des ponts jaunes: poème-vie (La voie des poètes)
By Philippe Haeck. 2004
Philippe Haeck nous livre un poème-vie autour de l'école, composé de quarante-cinq fragments, chacun précédé et suivi d'un texte de…
création d'élèves. Un poème-vie sur l'importance d'explorer librement le territoire de l'imaginaire, sur la différence entre une parole qui rend compte d'une expérience et un discours ressassant un savoir théorique. 2004.C'est de l'eau: quelques pensées, exprimées en une occasion significative, pour vivre sa vie avec compassion
By David Foster Wallace, Charles Recoursé. 2010
Mingan my village
By Solange Messier. 2014
"Mingan my village" is a collection of 15 faces and 15 poems written by young Innu. Given a platform to…
be heard, the children chose to transport readers far away from the difficulties and problems related to their realities to see the beauty that surrounds them in nature. Winner of the 2013 Prix jeunesse des libraires du Québec (5-11 years category). Grades K-3 and older readers. 2014.Memory serves and other essays (Writer as critic ; #13)
By Lee Maracle. 2015
Gathers together the oratories that author Maracle has delivered and performed over a twenty-year period. Revised for publication, the lectures…
hold the features and style of oratory intrinsic to the Salish people in general and the Stó:lō in particular. From her Coast Salish perspective and with great eloquence, Maracle shares her knowledge of Stó:lō history, memory, philosophy, law, spirituality, feminism and the colonial condition of her people. 2015. Uniform title: Essays.Medicine unbundled: a journey through the minefields of indigenous health care
By Gary Geddes. 2017
Me artsy: an exploration and deconstruction of the Aboriginal artistic spirit as seen and practised through various art forms that demonstrate reflections on society through an indigenous perspective, including talents not just limited to those considered
By Drew Hayden Taylor, Zacharias Kunuk. 2015
While First Nations cultural practice still honours traditional forms, contemporary indigenous artists have diversified into many areas. The fourteen contributors…
whose essays make up "Me Artsy" pursue such varied disciplines as filmmaking, gourmet cuisine, blues piano, fashion design, acting, writing and painting as well as traditional drumming and storytelling. Their concerns include the ones that occupy artists everywhere—how does one get started, where do you find inspiration, how does one make a living. What makes "Me Artsy" special is that all these concerns are always overlaid with an awareness of First Nations identity. 2015.Memoirs of a book molesting childhood and other essays
By Adele Wiseman. 1987
Essays on a variety of topics, from nostalgia for the passing of old ethnic markets to the author's pride in…
Canada's female authors, her early fascination with China, and the death of her mother. 1987.Bienvenue au pays de la vie ordinaire: essai (Phares)
By Mathieu Bélisle. 2017
Lecture attentive de la grande et de la petite histoire de ce pays ainsi que de sa littérature, cet essai…
brosse le portrait de l'homme québécois moyen dont le défi, qui est aussi celui de l'Occident, consiste à supporter la tension entre Sancho Pança et son maître, entre l'horizon prosaïque et le goût du vertige et de la verticalité. L'honnêteté intellectuelle et la bienveillante ironie de l'essayiste - qui se définit comme un généraliste formé par la littérature et qui avoue se reconnaître dans cet homme moyen -, la sobriété de sa prose et de sa pensée en font un guide sûr pour voyager dans un pays où la vie ordinaire est pour les uns un point d'arrivée et pour les autres un point de départ. 2017.L'intelligence de la nature: l'homme n'a rien inventé
By Michel Lamy, Rémy Chauvin. 2002
L'auteur dresse un inventaire de faits peu connus ou totalement ignorés, qui démontrent qu'il y a de l'intelligence non seulement…
chez l'homme, mais dans l'ensemble de la nature. Un essai qui nous forcera "à un certain nombre de révisions déchirantes de nos idées sur les animaux, sur l'homme et sur le monde vivant en général". 2002.L'indiscrétion des frères Goncourt: essai
By Roger Kempf. 2004
Historiens et biographes, critiques d'art, dramaturges, romanciers, Jules et Edmond de Goncourt comptent parmi les écrivains majeurs du XIXe siècle.…
Beaucoup ne voient dans leur Journal, matière de cet essai, que cancans et calomnies. N'est-ce pas méjuger le travail des deux frères ? Chaque soir, ils se font un devoir de consigner à chaud, sans vergogne, tout ce qu'ils ont vu, surpris, entendu : des habitudes sexuelles d'Alphonse Daudet aux problèmes de vessie d'Émile Zola, sans ménager leurs propres travers. 2004.L'inconnu sur la terre: [essai]
By J.-M. G Le Clézio. 1978
Living in a dark age
By Rick Salutin. 1991
Les vues animées: récits
By Michel Tremblay. 1990
En douze petits récits autobiographiques et initiatiques, l'auteur raconte la découverte des cinémas français, américain et québécois, par un enfant…
du Plateau Mont-Royal. Après quoi il nous permet de lire par-dessus son épaule le petit roman qu'il avait écrit à 16 ans: "Les loups se mangent entre eux". 1990.Âmes et corps: textes choisis, 1981-2003
By Nancy Huston. 2004
En une quinzaine de textes, Nancy Huston questionne son appartenance à la littérature, les origines de son engagement dans le…
monde des idées et la chair des terribles vivants qui, aux expériences de la vie, de l'amour, de la guerre, de la folie, de l'exil, ont arraché la lumière des mots. 2004.L'homme révolté: Essai (Folio Essais Ser. #Vol. 15)
By Albert Camus. 1951
L'homme est la seule créature qui refuse d'être ce qu'elle est. La révolte est le mouvement de la vie. Inhérente…
à l'homme, elle manifeste sa grandeur devant l'absurdité du monde. L'auteur distingue révolte et révolution. La révolution se retourne contre ses origines et détruit l'humanité. 1985, c1951.