#ReadAtlanticEbooks: BIPOC Voices / #LireAtlantiqueEnNumérique: Des auteurs PANDC
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This summer, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia public library users get unlimited access to 100 accessible eBooks from Atlantic Canadian authors or publishers with no holds or waitlists. This week, we’re highlighting some of the books we love in the collection by BIPOC authors.
Books can be borrowed from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick’s OverDrive/Libby apps as well as on the accessible platforms of the National Network for Equitable Library Service (NNELS) and the Centre for Equitable Library Access (CELA).
The Forbidden Purple City by Philip Huynh (Goose Lane Editions)
Taking the title for his debut collection of short fiction from the walled palace of Vietnam’s Nguyen dynasty, Philip Huynh dives headfirst into the Vietnamese diaspora. In these beautifully crafted stories, crystalline in their clarity and immersive in their intensity, he creates a universe inhabited by the deprivations of war, the reinvention of self in new and unfamiliar settings, and the tensions between old-world parents and new-world children.
Rooted in history and tradition yet startlingly contemporary in their approach, Huynh’s stories are sensuously evocative, plunging us into worlds so all-encompassing that we can smell the scent of orange blossoms and hear the rumble of bass lines from suburban car stereos.
Borrow now: NS | HFX | NB | CELA | NNELS
It’s Our Time by Wanda Taylor (Nimbus Publishing)
The Black Loyalists were the first large group of people of African ancestry to settle in Halifax, in 1782. In 1796 the Jamaican Maroons arrived. Then in 1813, Black refugees fleeing the United States came. These Loyalists, Maroons, and refugees settled in the Preston area, and although some subsequently left for Sierra Leone, many stayed and established the largest community of African Nova Scotians in the province.
Since then, the Preston township has become a web of vibrant neighbourhoods with a rich and complex history. With care and precision, award-winning writer Wanda Lauren Taylor delves into the history and development of this area. Through interviews and archival documents, Taylor shows how a resilient group of marginalized people built a thriving community that generations of African Nova Scotians can be proud of.
Borrow now: NS | HFX | NB | CELA | NNELS
Amazing Black Atlantic Canadians by Lindsay Ruck, illustrated by James Bentley (Nimbus Publishing)
This fascinating, full-colour illustrated book features over 50 amazing Black people from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador, sharing their incredible stories and accomplishments, past and present.
Among these amazing Black Atlantic Canadians are people who saved lives, set sports records (Delmore William “Buddy” Daye), achieved international superstardom (Measha Brueggergosman), made change in their own neighbourhoods (Quentrel Provo), overcame injustice (Viola Desmond), and enacted many other inspiring deeds of courage and perseverance. With dozens of profiles on both historical and contemporary Black people from Atlantic Canada, Lindsay Ruck celebrates the accomplishments of some of our region’s amazing Black heroes.
Borrow now: NS | HFX | NB | CELA | NNELS
Warrior Life by Pamela Palmater (Fernwood Publishing)
In a moment where unlawful pipelines are built on Indigenous territories, the RCMP make illegal arrests of land defenders on unceded lands, and anti-Indigenous racism permeates on social media; the government lie that is reconciliation is exposed. Renowned lawyer, author, speaker and activist, Pamela Palmater returns to wade through media headlines and government propaganda and get to heart of key issues lost in the noise.
Warrior Life: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence is the second collection of writings by Palmater. In keeping with her previous works, numerous op-eds, media commentaries, YouTube channel videos and podcasts, Palmater’s work is fiercely anti-colonial, anti-racist, and more crucial than ever before.
Borrow now: NS | HFX | NB | CELA | NNELS
Cet été, les utilisateurs des bibliothèques publiques du Nouveau-Brunswick et de la Nouvelle-Écosse ont un accès illimité à 100 livrels du Canada atlantique sans liste d’attente. Cette semaine, nous présentons des livrels des auteurs PANDC:
Africville (français) par Shauntay Grant, illustrée par Eva Campbell, traduction par Josephine Watson (Bouton d’or Acadie)
Alors qu’une jeune fille visite le site historique d’Africville, à Halifax en Nouvelle-Écosse, elle se remémore les histoires qu’elle a entendues dans sa famille.
À quoi ressemblait la communauté ? Des maisons aux couleurs vives, logées dans la colline ; des champs où les garçons jouaient au football ; un étang où les en- fants faisaient du rafting ; la pêche en abondance; des immenses feux de joie… La jeune fille sort de sa rêverie ; elle visite le parc historique actuel et le cadran solaire où le nom de son arrière-grand mère est gravé dans la pierre, et célèbre un jour d’été aux retrouvailles annuelles d’Africville.
Emprunter: N.-É. | HFX | N.-B. | CELA | NNELS
Ce n’etait pas nous les sauvages par Daniel N Paul, traduction par Jean-François Cyr (Bouton d’or Acadie)
« […] je ne peux m’empêcher de me demander si l’omission de révéler et d’enseigner les horreurs commises par les ancêtres des Américains et des Canadiens caucasiens contre les peuples des Premières Nations d’Amérique du Nord […] est une dissimulation intentionnelle ou une indication que ces personnes gardent toujours à l’esprit la notion que la vie d’une personne des Premières Nations n’a aucune valeur. »
– Extrait de l’épilogue, Daniel Paul
Première traduction en français du célèbre livre de Daniel Paul, We Were Not the Savages. Paru pour la première fois en 1993, ce premier livre d’historiographie autochtone en est à sa 3e édition, et incorpore les recherches continues de l’auteur. Il montre clairement que les horreurs de l’histoire continuent de hanter les Premières Nations aujourd’hui… mais aussi tous.tes les Canadien.nes.
Emprunter: N.-É. | HFX | N.-B. | CELA | NNELS
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