Beyond Autoethnography
Wilfrid Laurier University
Featured Speakers
Author of Scandalous Bodies: Diasporic Literature in English Canada (2000); Making a Difference: Canadian Multicultural Literature, editor (1996); On the Edge of Genre: The Contemporary Canadian Long Poem (1991); A Mazing Space: Writing Canadian Women Writing, co-editor (1987); in the second person (1985).
Canada Research Chair in Social Justice and Cultural Studies, University
of Toronto
Author of Black like who? : writing Black Canada (2003); editor: Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism (2000)
Winner, John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, 1999; Recipient, Ontario Arts Council Foundation Award for Emerging Writers, 1998.
Author of The Salt Roads (2003); Skin Folk (2001); Midnight Robber (2000); Brown Girl in the Ring (1997); and editor of Mojo (2003).
Author of Salt Fish Girl (2002)- Shortlisted for the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchelll Book Prize; When Fox is a Thousand (1995).
Winner, Governor General Award for Poetry 2002; Winner Association of Asian American Studies Poetry Award 1997.
Author of Surrender (2001); Anticipation Alert (2000); Random Access File (1995); Market Rinse (1993); Justice in Our Time: The Japanese Canadian Redress Settlement, co-authored with Cassandra Kobayashi (1991); Saving Face: Selected Poems 1976-1988 (1991); A Record of Writing: An Annotated and Illustrated Bibliography of George Bowering (1990); The Prepoetics of William Carlos Williams: Kara in Hell (1983); editor, Pacific Windows: Collected Poems of Roy K. Kiyooka (1997); Colour: An Issue, with Fred Wah; George Bowering: Selected Poems 1961-1992, Tracing the Paths: Reading + Writing (1988); This is My Own: Letters to Wes and Other Writings on Japanese Canadians, 1941-48 by Muriel Kitagawa (1985).
Faith Nolan
Singer, Songwriter, and Guitarist.
CDs include: I am a Prisoner, Faith Nolan Compilation, 1986-1996, Hard to Imagine, Freedom to Love, Sistership and Africville.