Islands of Decolonial Love

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Description

In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation. Found on reserves, in cities and small towns, in bars and curling rinks, canoes and community centres, doctors offices and pickup trucks, Simpson’s characters confront the often heartbreaking challenge of pairing the desire to live loving and observant lives with a constant struggle to simply survive the historical and ongoing injustices of racism and colonialism. Told with voices that are rarely recorded but need to be heard, and incorporating the language and history of her people, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Islands of Decolonial Love is a profound, important, and beautiful book of fiction.

Sujets

• Love
• Love (disambiguation)

Informations

• Publié par: Arbeiter Ring Publishing
• Date de parution: 15 novembre 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 6
• EAN13: 9781927886052
• Langue: English

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Lirary and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Pulication

Betasamosake Simbson, Leanne, 1971-, author Islands of decolonial love / Leanne Betasamosake Simbson.

ISBN 978-1-927886-05-2 (eook) I. Title.

PS8637.I4865I75 2013

C813’.6

C2013-906100-2

still, i am not tragic

—lee maracle, “blind justice”

i have to tell you something, i said. i’m not going to lie. i have to tell you. i have this god-shaped hole in my heart, and i think you do too.

—rIchard van camp,the lesser blessed