“Squatter” is a short story by Indo-Canadian writer Rohinton Mistry about a man named Sarosh who immigrates to Canada from India but leaves a decade later after failing to use the toilet properly in his new country. “Simple Recipes” is another short story by the Chinese-Malaysian Canadian writer Madeleine Thien about a Chinese Canadian family... Continue Reading →
Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel written by Lucy Maud Montgomery which explores the coming of age of a girl named Anne Shirley in the town of Avonlea. While Anne’s imaginary adventures make the book resonate with children, it is Marilla’s struggles that adults identify with. In the beginning of the novel Marilla... Continue Reading →
In her 1892 article “A Strong Race Opinion: On the Indian Girl in Modern Fiction” the Canadian First Nations author Pauline Johnson critiques the narrow, stereotyped representation of Indigenous women in fiction. She wrote a counter narrative in her short story “A Red Girl’s Reasoning”. In mainstream Amerindian stories written by white Canadians at the... Continue Reading →
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