Cultural History

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Uncle Tom’s Cabin From: Uncle View Coach House Books	This chapter explores Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, which was an explosive success in antebellum America. It also examines Uncle Tom himself, who in the novel was a devout and pious …	Cheryl Thompson	8	2021	$0.80 Add
From Vaudeville Tom From: Uncle View Coach House Books	This chapter describes the evolution of minstrelsy into vaudeville, and how this new form of entertainment brought new meaning to the character of Uncle Tom.	Cheryl Thompson	7	2021	$0.70 Add
NEW! What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings	Nearly every culture has a variation on the dumpling: histories, treatises, family legends, and recipes about the world’s favourite lump of carbs. If the …		234		View
From NEW! What’s in a Name? The Jamaican Patty Controversy The Sauce From: What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings View Coach House Books	Cheryl Thompson reflects on her parents ties to their Jamaican roots through food, learning to make Jamaican food, the book Traditional Jamaican Cookery, food history, the Jamaican beef patty, …	Cheryl Thompson	5	2022	$0.50 Add
From When You Mess with Creation Myths, the Knives Come Out From: Bigotry on Broadway View Baraka Books	Tha author recounts his experiences and thoughts after having written and produced his play The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda and critiques the popular play Hamilton.	Ishmael Reed	8	2021	$0.80 Add
From NEW! Who Was Uncle Nick? From: Ghosts in a Photograph View NeWest Press	Chapter Seven focuses on Uncle Nick, the author’s maternal great uncle Mykola Kosovan. Discussing his time in Lethbridge, his communist leanings, poverty and radicalization back in …	Myrna Kostash	16	2022	$1.60 Add
From Why Butterfly Should Stop Committing Literary Hara-kiri From: Bigotry on Broadway View Baraka Books	This chapter explores the racism, fetishism/objectification, and misogyny of Madame Butterfly.	Yuri Kageyama	9	2021	$0.90 Add
From Wild Kin From: Earthkeeping View Goose Lane Editions	Part Three contains the sections: The Lovely Duckling, Turtle Tale, So Excellent a Fish: Capelin, Gift from the Sky, God’s Dead Dog & Other Roadkills, Caribou Caper, COVID-19 Moment, …	Gary Saunders	43	2022	$4.30 Add
Winter Five Windows on the Season House of Anansi Press	The 2011 CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author, essayist, cultural observer, and famed New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik, whose subject is winter — the season, …	Adam Gopnik	290	2011	View
From NEW! Wonton of Joy The Filling From: What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings View Coach House Books	Arlene Chan discusses her connection to Cantonises food and in particular the wonton, her family’s Kwong Chow Chop Suey Restaurant in Toronto, the annual ritual of making dumplings for …	Arlene Chan	6	2022	$0.60 Add
From Work & Play & Food From: Earthkeeping View Goose Lane Editions	Part Five contains the sections: Down to Earth, A Salmon for Supper, Of Seals and Cod and Us, Oatmeal Shenanigans, Part Surgeon, Part Seamstress: A Fly-Tying Memoir, Dike-Land Rambles, Chaga …	Gary Saunders	51	2022	$5.10 Add
From NEW! Yuri Versions of a Murder From: Ghosts in a Photograph View NeWest Press	Chapter Ten is about Yuri Kosovan, the author’s maternal great uncle. Describing his death, the four varying tales of his death at the hands of either “bandyty” (bandits), UPA, Banderivtsi …	Myrna Kostash	22	2022	$2.20 Add