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Extrait : "J'ai donné mes fleurs et mon fruit : je ne suis plus qu'un tronc retentissant ; mais quiconque s'assied à mon ombre et m'entend, devient plus sage. Je ressemble en beaucoup de choses au papillon : comme lui j'aime la lumière ; comme lui j'y brûle ma vie ; comme lui j'ai besoin, pour déployer mes ailes, que dans la société il fasse beau autour de moi, et que mon esprits s'y sente environné et comme pénétré d'une douce température,...
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Essais volume 2
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Erin Wunker is a feminist killjoy, and she thinks you should be one, too. Following in the tradition of Sara Ahmed (the originator of the concept "feminist killjoy"), Wunker brings memoir, theory, literary criticism, pop culture, and feminist thinking together in this collection of essays that take up Ahmed's project as a multi-faceted lens through which to read the world from a feminist point of view. The essays attempt to think publicly about why...
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L'architecture maure survivant dans la Giralda de Séville, dans la Mezquita de Cordoue et dans l'Alhambra de Grenade m'a fait découvrir l'identité andalouse à travers les fantmes qui l'habitent. L'effet hypnotique de la pénombre des mosquées et des synagogues transformées en églises m'a révélé le souffle intérieur d'un pays. La musique de la guitare de flamenco a donné un rythme à mes promenades ethnographiques à travers les allées...
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Shortlisted for the 2018 Toronto Book Award
Shortlisted for the First Nation Communities READ 2018-2019 Award
On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one she couldn't possibly answer at that moment. But she has been thinking about it ever since. As time has passed, she has been asked countless similar questions, all of them too big to answer, but not too large to contemplate. These questions,...
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From Vancouver-based writer Chelene Knight, Dear Current Occupant is a creative non-fiction memoir about home and belonging set in the 80s and 90s of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Using a variety of forms, Knight reflects on her childhood through a series of letters addressed to all of the current occupants now living in the twenty different houses she moved in and out of with her mother and brother. From blurry non-chronological memories of trying...
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CanLit—the commonly used short form for English Canadian Literature as a cultural formation and industry-has been at the heart of several recent public controversies. Why? Because CanLit is breaking open to reveal the accepted injustices at its heart. It is imperative that these public controversies and the issues that sparked them be subject to careful and thorough discussion and critique.
Refuse provides a critical and historical context to help...
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Essais volume no. 9
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Rather than making "something" out of "nothing," what follows is an endeavor to express the potential of language and thought to encounter what is infinitely beyond both yet to be imagined. In The Nothing That Is, Johanna Skibsrud gathers essays about the very concept of "nothing." Addressing a broad range of topics-including false atrocity tales, so-called fake news, high-wire acts, and telepathy, as well as responses to works by John Ashbery, Virginia...
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Ce livre est un outil précieux pour comprendre les cultures
et traditions noires et pour combattre les discriminations et le racisme.
Ainsi parla l'Oncle, premier manifeste de la condition noire, a inspiré les auteurs du mouvement de la négritude. Jean Price-Mars y explore les traditions, les légendes du vaudou et l'héritage africain qui fondent les cultures noires.
Rééditée dans un nouveau format, cette œuvre monumentale a servi de bréviaire...
12) Blank
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Blank is a collection of previously out-of-print essays and new works by one of Canada's most important contemporary writers and thinkers.
Through an engagement with her earlier work, M. NourbeSe Philip comes to realize the existence of a repetition in the world: the return of something that, while still present, has become unembedded from the world, disappeared. Her imperative becomes to make us see what has gone unseen, by writing memory upon the...
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L'avenir des relations entre Autochtones et Québécois et le sens même de la nation du Québec dépendent intimement de ce que sera ou ne sera pas la réécriture à parts égales de notre histoire.
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Les Autochtones, la part effacée du Québec retrace les premiers contacts entre les colons français et les Autochtones. Cette rencontre fondatrice a modelé l'identité québécoise et le regard sur l'Autre. Les récits des voyageurs-explorateurs...
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Décoloniser la décolonisation québécoise
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L'œil du maître interroge le mythe du maître chez nous qui définit les luttes souverainistes au Québec, la relation au territoire et aux Premières Nations. Contre la conquête, la domination, la surveillance, Dalie Giroux revendique une autre idée de l'indépendance, à rebours de la violence fondatrice de l'État. Elle évoque le rendez-vous manqué avec un passé-futur décolonial du...
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Following in the tradition of Sara Ahmed (the originator of the concept "feminist killjoy"), Wunker brings memoir, theory, literary criticism, pop culture, and feminist thinking together in this collection of essays that take up Ahmed's project as a multi-faceted lens through which to read the world from a feminist point of view.
Neither totemic nor complete, the nonfiction essays that make up Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life...
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Essai coup poing de Lilian Thuram qui dévoile le mécanisme du racisme et la pensée qui le nourrit et le reproduit.
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Ce livre revisite certains pans de l'histoire : les conquêtes coloniales, l'esclavage, les empires, le Code Noir, l'instrumentalisation de la science et de la religion, la post-décolonisation et le pillage des ressources naturelles, le vol du patrimoine africain... Il examine les mécanismes intellectuels invisibles qui...
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To devote oneself to the study of beauty is to offer footnotes to the universe for all the places and all the moments that one observes beauty. I can no longer grab beauty by her wrists and demand articulation or meaning. I can only take account of where things touch.
Part lyric essay, part prose poetry, Where Things Touch grapples with the manifold meanings and possibilities of beauty.
Drawing on her experiences as a physician-in-training, Orang...
18) Acadissima
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Acadie, 1917. Dans un village acadien de bord de mer, o la vie se déploie au fil de ses saisons et de ses luttes, dans sa beauté et son âpreté, Jean-Baptiste, à peine un homme, et la jolie Angelaine s'aiment éperdument.
Du jour au lendemain, leur monde bascule du tout au tout. Devenu orphelin en temps de guerre, désemparé, le jeune homme s'enrle dans l'Armée canadienne et quitte les rivages de son Acadie natale et sa bien-aimée.
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19) Begin By Telling
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Never forget /
to connect the dots /
This book is an attempt to connect a couple.
In Begin by Telling, experimental pop sensation Meg Remy (U.S. Girls) spins a web out from her body to myriad corners of American hyper-culture. Through illustrated lyric essays depicting visceral memories from early childhood to present day, Remy paints a stark portrait of a spectacle-driven country.
As though channel surfing, we catch glimpses of Desert Storm,...
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Que signifie prendre racine, s'insérer dans un espace, le faire ntre, le transformer à notre image et, en retour, devenir autre sous son influence? En somme, que signifie devenir « abitant»?
Le terme a longtemps été péjoratif chez nous: quasi-synonyme de personne inculte, rustre, ours mal dégrossi , le péquenaud des Français. À tort. C'est toute une aventure que celle de devenir habitant, aventure que nos aïeux ont menée à bien,...
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