Cultural History
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 NEW! Ghosts in a Photograph |
In Ghosts in a Photograph, award-winning nonfiction writer Myrna Kostash delves into the lives of her grandparents, all of whom moved from Galicia, now present-day Ukraine, to Alberta at the turn … | Myrna Kostash | 304 | 2022 | View |
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From  NEW! Gnocchi LoveThe Sauce |
Domenica Marchetti explores the Italian potato pasta, gnocchi, her parents attributing gnocchi as helping them fall in love, the gnocchi process, regional differences in gnocchi flavours and … | Domenica Marchetti | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Good Times’ CoonfooleryFrom: Uncle |
In this chapter, Thompson writes about depictions of African Americans on television, especially in shows written and produced by Norman Lear. | Cheryl Thompson | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Great AgainOn Political Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia |
This chapter examines nostalgia in modern democracies, where generalized nostalgia binds individuals into a mass movement through its vagueness. The dissonance between nostlagia and how politics … | David Berry | 23 | 2020 | $2.30 Add |
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From  Great Moments with Mr. HamiltonFrom: Bigotry on Broadway |
The author critiques Disney and Hamilton, asserting that the sugarcoated treatment of American history that the musical presents is perfectly in sync with the Disney ethos. This chapter explores … | Lonely Christopher | 35 | 2021 | $3.50 Add |
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From Harry Belafonte and Sidney PoitierFrom: Uncle |
In this chapter, Thompson examines the careers of several important Black actors whose characters were not "stranded in cinematic slavery." | Cheryl Thompson | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Heavy Is the Head That Wears the Pierogi CrownThe Filling |
Monika Warzecha reflects on pierogies and becoming the ‘pierogi princess’, being a hyphenated Canadian, the multicultural classrooms of Toronto, Polish diaspora in Canada, Polish … | Monika Warzecha | 7 | 2022 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! HouseholdingPart Six From: Earthkeeping |
Part Six contains the sections: This Old House: Honeymoon & After, Getting to Know You, Old House, Window Talk, Gone to a Better Place: A Wood Stove Memoir, Winter Woodchuck Woes, Fire from … | Gary Saunders | 45 | 2022 | $4.50 Add |
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From NEW! I Pinch, Therefore I AmThe Filling |
Matthew Murtagh-Wu reflects on growing up in Vancouver’s Chinatown, his business the Dumpling King, his mama dumpling recipe, and the power of nostalgia. | Matthew Murtagh-Wu | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, Why am I Eating Matzo Ball Soup?The Sauce |
Amy Rosen reflects on matzo ball soup, Jewishness and Judaism, industrial matzo ball making, the authority on matzo, recipes that evoke specific memories, and context. | Amy Rosen | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From I’m Just So Tired of All These Star WarsOn Art and Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia |
Modern nostalgia in novel and flim is discussed, using examples of Ready Player One, Back to the Future, American Graffitti, Indiana Jones, and the introduction of prequels with Star Wars. … | David Berry | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
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From IntroductionFrom: Uncle |
In the introduction, the author discusses her lifelong fascination with the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. | Cheryl Thompson | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From IntroductionPlay It Once Again From: On Nostalgia |
The introduction discusses paradise as a place where nothing ever happens, as in the song "Heaven" by the Talking Heads. It also discusses the tension in nostalgia between the loss, the … | David Berry | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add |
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From IntroductionFrom: Bigotry on Broadway |
Ishmael Reed | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add | |
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From NEW! Introduction |
In the Introduction Karon Liu describes his goal to map the dumplings of Toronto, highlighting culinary diversity in the multiethnic make up of the city, migration, tradition, Covid-19 and … | Karon Liu | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! Introduction: Nature under Glass?From: Earthkeeping |
The Introduction reflects on nature from a child’s perspective and the lessons to be learned. | Gary Saunders | 3 | 2022 | $0.30 Add |
