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Land of many shores : perspectives from a diverse Newfoundland and Labrador

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    St. John's, NL, Canada, 2021

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  • Contributor: Hawthorn, Ainsley
    Date:
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    2021
    Summary:

    Seeing through the eyes of others brings new perspective on the place we call home. In Land of Many Shores, writers share their essays about life in Newfoundland and Labrador from often-neglected viewpoints. In this collection, Indigenous people, cultural minorities, LGBTQ+, people living with mental or physical disabilities and other undervalued and hidden voices are coming to the forefront, with personal, poignant, celebratory and critical visions of the land we live on. From workers in the sex industry to non-Christian faithful, from the descendants of settlers from other lands to the Indigenous people of this land, the variety of experience against the backdrop of Newfoundland and Labrador provides food for thought--and celebration of diversity.

    Contents:
    • Mapping a diverse Newfoundland and Labrador / Ainsley Hawthorn
    • Where I'm from / Julie Bull
    • House / Gemma Hickey
    • Newfoundland's offer: how the Baltic people came to Corner Brook in the 1950s / Ilga Leja
    • The pains we lie about: mental illness in rural NL / T.J Smith
    • Being Jewish in the land of Cain / Robin McGrath
    • In three parts / Ivan J. White
    • Rain, drizzle, and mental fog: growing up autistic in a small Newfoundland town / Tori Oliver
    • Assumptions / Michelle Keep
    • On the way to Hopedale / Alex Saunders
    • You're not "disabled"-disabled / Michelle Butler Hallett
    • Black motherhood and womanhood: resistance and resiliience / Delores V. Mullings
    • Les Franco-Terre-Neuviens: ces memoires, aussi, sont les miennes / Marcella Cormier
    • Man of many faces / Stephen Miller
    • Popcorn for the blind / Anne Malone
    • My family's battle with residential school and its everlasting effects / Tyler Mugford
    • Out of Oceanic Time: trans women's lives at the edge of a dying world / Daze Jefferies
    • Lipstick / Leila Beaudoin
    • We all are different: Danny's story / Dennis Gill
    • A rainbow revolution is coming / Susan Rose
    • My visit / Christine Poker
    • Sallam b'y: a story of a Muslim Newfoundlander / Aatif Baskanderi
    • Between the Rock and a harder place / Ky Pearce
    • Gallons of tea and the candy cart / Anthony Brenton
    • Who says you can't go home? / Paul David Power.
    Original Publisher: St. John's, NL, Canada
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781550818963, 1550818961