{"id":73,"date":"2012-06-13T10:57:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T10:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/ryerson-library-asian-heritage-in-canada-authors-anthologies\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T17:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:17:03","slug":"anthologies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/anthologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthologies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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AlliterAsian: Twenty Years of Ricepaper Magazine<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Julia Lin, Allan Cho, and Jim Wong-Chu.
Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press 2015.
PS8235 .A8 A46 2015<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher\u2019s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2015 marks the 20th anniversary of Ricepaper<\/em> magazine, a pioneering periodical devoted to Asian-Canadian writing. Over the years, Ricepaper<\/em>‘s focus has shifted from predominantly arts and culture reporting to the publication of original literature; as such, it has both witnessed and cultivated the maturation of an Asian-Canadian literary tradition; indeed, many of today’s most acclaimed Asian-Canadian writers were first published in the pages of Ricepaper<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Another Way to Dance: contemporary Asian Poetry From Canada and the United States<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Cyril Dabydeen.
Toronto: TSAR, 1996.
PS8283 .A8 A67 1996<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher\u2019s Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This anthology includes selected works of some of the most active and dynamic contemporary poets writing in North America. Reflecting to various degrees sensibilities based on ancestral Asian homelands and on lives in Canada and the United States, the poetry \u2026 is of a wide-ranging appeal and refreshing modernity, depicting a shifting, kaleidoscopic landscape of cultural and spiritual heterogeneity and individual interpretations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Aurat Durbar: The Court of Women: Writings by Women of South Asian Origin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Fauzia Rafiq.
Toronto.: Second Story Press, 1995.
PS8235 .S68 A97 1995<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Bae Sah Mo: Youth Journals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Willowdale, Ont.: Korean-Canadian Literary Forum-21 Press, 2006.
[The Press has subsequently been renamed: Variety Crossing Press<\/a>.]
PS8323 .K6 B34 2006<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher\u2019s Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Bae Sah Mo translated from the Korean describes people who have the strong desire to learn. With this in mind, the idea of Bae Sah Mo Youth Journals<\/em>, is born. With the acclaimed writer Bruce Meyer as editor, students of the Bae Sah Mo program explore the art of the written word and present their ideas about the world around them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Belief<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by JR Garrard, Allan Cho, Dawn Chow, Silvia Leung.
Vancouver: Asian Canadian Writers Workshop, Ricepaper, Dark Helix Press, 2021.
(Ricepaper Magazine Books ; Vol. 3)
PS8235.A8 B45 2021<\/a>
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Publisher\u2019s Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This anthology is a compilation of Ricepaper Magazine<\/em> submissions\u2014short stories, poetry, and nonfiction by writers of Asian descent from across the world. The theme that binds the collection is \u201cbelief,\u201d a notion personal to each individual sharing a piece of themselves in their works. Each author shares a conviction of truth shaping the reality of life in the Asian diaspora.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Bolo! Bolo!: A Collection of Writings by Second Generation South Asians Living in North America<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by the Kitchen Table Collective.
Mississauga, Ont.: South Asian Professionals\u2019 Networking Association, 2000.
PS8089.5 .S68 B74 2000<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Canadian Literature<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

PS8061 .A1 C36<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following issues are devoted to the writings of Asian Canadians:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Issue 132 (Spring 1992)<\/a> South Asian Connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Issue 140 (Spring 1994)<\/a> East Asian-Canadian Connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Issue 163 (Winter 1999)<\/a> Asian Canadian Writing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Issue 190 (Autumn 2006)<\/a> South Asian Diaspora<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Issue 199 (Winter 2008)<\/a> Asian Canadian Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Issue 227 (Winter 2015)<\/a> Asian Canadian Critique Beyond the Nation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Currents: A Ricepaper Anthology<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Karla Comanda, Leila Lee, and William Tham.
Vancouver: Ricepaper Magazine, 2017.
PS8235 .A8 C87 2017<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Presenting 2016\u2019s best works of poetry, fiction and nonfiction by Asian and Asian Canadian writers published in Ricepaper Magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Descant<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

PS8001 .D44<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following issues are devoted to the writings of Asian including South Asian Canadians:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Issue 58, vol. 18, no. 3 (Fall 1987) Land of My Fathers: India<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Issue 162, vol. 44, no. 3 (Fall 2013) Masala<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Desilicious: South Asian Erotic Writing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by The Masala Trois Collective.
Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2003.
PS595 .E76 D48 2003<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Desilicious<\/em> is a wide-ranging compilation of erotic literature by writers of South Asian descent \u2013 a medley of arousing and thematically innovative fiction, poetry, and essays, spiced for mature appetites only. The flavours of these works, by both men and women, run deep, and vary from suggestive to salacious, risque to ribald.
The collection explores the relationship between sensuality and culture, and how they can both complement and conflict with each other.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ethnicities: Plays from the New West<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Anne Nothof.
Edmonton: NeWest Press, 1999.
PS8315.5 .P73 E83 1999<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Partial contents: House of Sacred Cows \/ Padma Viswanathan \u2014 Mom, Dad, I\u2019m Living With a White Girl \/ Marty Chan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

PS8235 .W6 A14<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following issues are devoted to the writings of Asian women:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Issue 30 (Spring 1990) Asian Canadian Women: Awakening Thunder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Issue 43 (Spring 1994) Rice Papers: Writings and Artwork by East and Southeast Asian Women in Canada.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Geography of Voice: Canadian Literature of the South Asian Diaspora<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Diane McGifford.
Toronto: TSAR, 1992.
PS8089.5 .S68 G46 1992<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A comprehensive anthology of the best of the poetry, fiction and drama by those writers who trace their ancestry to the Indian subcontinent. The writers included in these pages originate from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, as well as East and South Africa and the Caribbean. What they have in common besides their ancestry is that they reside in and create their works in Canada.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Green Snow: Anthology of Canadian Poets of Asian Origin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited with an introduction by Stephen Gill.
Cornwall, Ont.: Vesta Publications, 1976. (reprinted 1993, called 2nd ed.)
With the exception of Joy Kogawa, all of the authors have South Asian ancestry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Han Kut: Critical Art and Writing by Korean Canadian Women<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by The Korean Canadian Women\u2019s Anthology Collective.
Toronto: Inanna Publications and Education, 2007.
PS8235 .K67 H36 2007<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Henry Chow and Other Stories<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by R. David Stephens, from the Asian Canadian Writers\u2019 Workshop.
Vancouver: Tradewind Books, 2009.
PS8329.1 .H44 2009<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Short stories that reflect the experiences and sentiments of North-American Asian teenagers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Her Mother\u2019s Ashes, and Other Stories by South Asian Women in Canada and the United States<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Nurjehan Aziz.
Toronto: TSAR, 1994.
PS8329 .H47 1994<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Her Mother\u2019s Ashes 2: More Stories by South Asian Women in Canada and the United States<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Nurjehan Aziz.
Toronto: TSAR, 1998.
PS8329 .H472 1998<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Her Mother\u2019s Ashes 3: Stories by South Asian Women in Canada and the United States<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Nurjehan Aziz.
Toronto: TSAR, 2009.
PS8329.1 .H45 2009<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Immersion: An Asian Anthology of Love, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by JF Garrard, Allan Cho, William Tham.
Toronto: Published by Asian Canadian Writers Workshop and Dark Helix Press, 2019.
PS8323.A85 I58 2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Your janitors are secretly part of an underground society. Craigslist shamans are available for shape shifters. Hopping corpses terrorize a small town while an aging samurai embarks on his final journey. These are just a slice of the fantasy and science fiction within the pages of this book.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Inalienable Rice: A Chinese & Japanese Canadian Anthology<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Vancouver: Powell Street Revue : Chinese Canadian Writers Workshop, 1979.
FC106 .C5 I55 1979<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Infusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

[Edited by] Allan Cho, JF Garrard, Sophie Munk
Vancouver: Asian Canadian Writers’ Worshop in partnership with Dark Helix Press, 2025.
Series: Ricepaper magazine books.
PS8235.A85 I64 2025<\/a>
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Jin Guo: Voices of Chinese Canadian Women<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Women’s Book Committee, Chinese Canadian National Council.
Toronto: Women’s Press, 1992.
FC106 .C5 J56 1992<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Love + relAsianships<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Nina Lee Aquino.
Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2009.
2 volumes.
PS8309 .A75 L68 2009<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Love Loss and Longing: South Asian Canadian Plays<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Dalbir Singh.
Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2015.
PS8315.1 .L68 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Teodoro Alcuitas, C.E. Gatchalian, and Patria Rivera.
Cormorant Books, 2023.
PS8235.F55 M34 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Making a Difference: Canadian Multicultural Literature<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Smaro Kamboureli.
Torontor: Oxford University Press, 1996.
PS8235 .M56 M35 1996<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making a Difference: Canadian Multicultural Literatures in English<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

2nd ed. 2007
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Many-Mouthed Birds: Contemporary Writing by Chinese Canadians<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Bennett Lee & Jim Wong-Chu.
Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1991.
PS8235 .C5 M35 1991<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This exciting collection introduces the choicest stories and poems by twenty contemporary writers of Chinese descent living in Canada. The writers\u2019 experiences of two cultures and awareness of the tensions between them bear fruit in stories that surprise, enlighten and entertain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Maple: Tanka Poems by Japanese Canadians<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Tomi Nishimura. Translations by Toyoshi Hiramatsu.
Kisaragi Poem Study Group.
Toronto: Centennial Times, 1975.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Millennium Messages<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Kenda D. Gee.
Edmonton: Asian Canadian Writers Workshop Society of Edmonton, 1997.
PS8235 .A8 M54 1997<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Morphogenesis: The Beginnings of the Shape<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Dae-Tong Huh.
Toronto: Variety Crossing, 2009.
PS8233 .M67 2009<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Includes some text in Korean.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Native & Japanese Canadian Poets & Writers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Earth Spirit Festival, 1991.
PS8279 .N38 1991<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Includes contributions by: Gerry Shikatani, Joy Kogawa, Roy Miki, and Roy Kiyooka.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Paper Doors: An Anthology of Japanese-Canadian Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Gerry Shikatani and David Aylward. Translations by David Aylward.
Toronto: Coach House Press, 1981.
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Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Rishma Dunlop & Priscilla Uppal.
Toronto: Mansfield Press, 2004.
PS8283 .A8 R43 2004<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpt from the editors\u2019 introduction<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The works included here are not exercises in nostalgia; rather, they are imaginings and re-imaginings of history, memory, the material reality of lives, testifying to the fact that boundaries of nation, culture and gender are slippery inventions requiring continuous interrogation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contributors: Hiro Boga, Rishma Dunlop, Kuldip Gill, Sonnet L\u2019Abb\u00e9, Danielle Lagah, Soraya Peerbaye, Sharandpal Ruprai, Sandeep Sanghera, Shauna Singh Baldwin, Proma Tagore, Priscila Uppal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Reimagining ChinaTOwn: Speculative Fiction from Toronto’s Chinatown(s) in 2050.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Linda Zhang.
Toronto: Reimagining Chinatown Press, 2021.
PS8319 .R44 2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reimagining Chinatown: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Linda Zhang.
Toronto: Mawenzi House, 2023.
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Rice: Explorations Into Gay Asian Culture + Politics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited with an introduction by Song Cho.
Toronto: Queer Press, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Rice. A life-sustaining staple of Asian cultures for thousands of years served as a side-dish on Western menus. Rice is also a metaphor for gay Asians and how we are consumed by a white gay culture as exotic \u201ctricks.\u201d This books is a collection of work by emerging and established writers and artists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Saclit Drama: Plays by South Asian Canadians<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Uma Parameswaran.
Bangalore, India: IBH Prakashana, 1996.
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Shakti’s Words: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women\u2019s Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Diane McGifford & Judith Kearns.
2nd ed. rev. and expanded.
Toronto: TSAR, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Articulating a purely feminist consciousness; giving voice to Third World and immigrant concerns; decrying racism and bigotry; rebellious and subversive, sometimes simply lyrical or imagistic; invoking the real, magical, and mythical, old worlds and the new; analytical or synthetical: these poems reflect also a commitment to craft, the search for form, and individual style. They represent the new voices that are gradually changing the landscape of Canadian literature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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South Asian Ensemble: A Canadian Quarterly of Literature, Arts and Culture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Journal Home Page
Editors: Gurdev Chauhan and Rajesh Sharma.
Trenton, ON: South Asian Ensemble, Inc.
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The Spirits Have Nothing to Do with Us: New Chinese Canadian Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Dan K. Woo.
Hamilton: Buckrider Books, 2023.
PS8323.C5 S65 2023<\/a>
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Stone Voices: Wartime Writings of Japanese Canadian Issei<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Keibo Oiwa.
Montr\u00e9al: V\u00e9hicule Press, 1991.
D810 .N3 C27 1991<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

With the bombing of Pearl Harbour in December 1941, all persons of Japanese descent were declared \u2018enemy aliens.\u2019 Their assets were seized and most of the Japanese Canadian population was relocated or sent to internment camps. Stone Voices<\/em> is a selection of memoirs, diaries, and letters written by four Issei, the first generation of Japanese to settle in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

1992 Canada-Japan Book Award<\/a> (Winner)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Story Wallah!: A Celebration of South Asian Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Shyam Selvadurai.
Toronto: Thomas Allen, 2004.
PR9415 .S76 2004<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A \u201cwallah\u201d is a merchant or hawker. In Story-Wallah!<\/em> some of the world\u2019s best fiction writers, including Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje, Anita Desai, Rohinton Mistry, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Monica Ali \u2014 hawk their wares. There is an eclectic quality to the way the stories jostle against each other \u2014 life on a sugar plantation in Trinidad next to a story set in bustling Bombay, a honeymoon in the hills of Sri Lanka, and a childhood in rural Australia. Selvadurai\u2019s arrangement creates a marvelous cacophony like early morning at a South Asian bazaar. Story-Wallah!<\/em> is essential reading for anyone with an interest in South Asian writers and the dynamic, important tales they have to tell.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Strike the Wok: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Canadian Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Lien Chao and Jim Wong-Chu.
Toronto: TSAR, 2003.
PS8235 .C5 S77 2003<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This new anthology brings together some of the most exciting works of fiction by contemporary Chinese Canadian writers. Representing three generations of Chinese from a variety of backgrounds, including writers born in Canada as well as places outside, presenting a diversity of themes and styles, and set in various geographical locations and time periods, Strike the Wok<\/em> is a truly kaleidoscopic look at Chinese life from modern Canadian perspectives. Internationally renowned as well as newer voices are included.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Swallowing Clouds: An Anthology of Chinese-Canadian Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Andy Quan & Jim Wong-Chu.
Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 1999.
PS8283 .C5 S92 1999<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

These poems evoke the spirit and sentiment of the Chinese-Canadian community in all of its various forms and guises, representing a diversity of language and style that speak to issues of ethnicity and culture while forging new and exciting paths of their own.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Toward the North: Stories by Chinese Canadian Authors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Hua Laura Wu, Xueqing Xu, Corinne Bieman Davis.
Toronto: Inanna Publications and Education, 2018.
PS8235.C55 T69 2018<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher\u2019s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Toward the North<\/em> is the first anthology of thirteen short fiction pieces written and translated by Chinese-Canadian writers during the last two decades, each of which depicts the contemporary lives of new Chinese immigrants to Canada, and illustrates newcomers\u2019 perspectives of multicultural Canada.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Under a Kabul Sky: Short Fiction by Afghan Women<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Elaine Kennedy.
Toronto: Inanna Poetry & Fiction, 2022.
E-book<\/a> (Access restricted to members of the community)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Originally published in French in 2019 by \u00c9ditions Le Soupirail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five of the twelve contributors are residing in Canada as of date of publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In Kabul, nature is emotionally charged\u2014the sky, the earth, the water. Demons have come to invade and possess people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These twelve short stories dive deep into imaginary worlds where everyday life is marked and marred by war. They speak of wounded love, captured women, confinement, talismans, borders, wolves. They give expression to the voices of Afghan women who would like to change the fate of people like N\u00e2zboo, Khorshid, Hamid and so many others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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University of Toronto Quarterly<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Electronic Journal<\/a> (Access restricted to members of the TMU community)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Issue 84:4 (Fall 2015) To Make a Difference: A Memorial Tribute to Chelva Kanaganayakam.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Voices In The Desert: An Anthology of Arabic-Canadian Women Writers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Elizabeth Dahab.
Toronto: Guernica, 2002.
PS8235 .W7 V66 2002<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

There exists in Canada, a literature that was born in the 1970s at the hands of first-generation Canadians of Arabic descent; this literature shows the indelible marks of genius and has produced great works, in significant amounts. It has been produced in all genres and it covers styles ranging from the realist to the post-modernist. These works are written in French, English and Arabic \u2026 . It bears the indelible mark of exile and can presently join ranks with \u201cother solitudes\u201d Canada has come to acknowledge, admit and embrace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Wanderings: An Anthology of Anglophone Nepali Diaspora Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Asma Sayed, Pushparaj Acharya.
Toronto: Mawenzi House, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contributors include Pushparaj Acharya, Rohan Chhetri, Mukul Dahal, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Anuja Ghimire, Saraswoti Lamichhane, Mukahang Limbu, Nabin K Chhetri, Samyak Shertok, and Y B Shakya.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Whistling Thorn: South Asian Canadian Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Suwanda Sugunasiri.
Oakville, ON: Mosaic Press, 1994.
PS8239 .W55 1994<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis (From the editor\u2019s intro.)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe characters in these stories, like the whistling thorn tree in the African bush, live their quiet ways in the wilderness of life, whistling paeans of joy and bearing the thorns of pain, roots reaching out to wherever they would find sustenance.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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