Category Archives: Postcolonial

My Top Ten Favourite Authors: All Women, Mostly Queer, Some Canadian

Posted on November 30, 2012 by CaseytheCanadianLesbrarian

Feeling inspired by a recent post on Autostraddle about favourite authors and the influences they’ve had in your life, I decided to do a top ten list of my own.  (Speaking of Autostraddle, the latest Lez Libery Lit column mentioned … Continue reading →

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A Review of Lee Maracle’s Ravensong: Queering Decolonization, Decolonizing Queerness

Posted on November 25, 2012 by CaseytheCanadianLesbrarian

Salish- Métis author Lee Maracle’s 1993 novel Ravensong doesn’t centre around queerness or lesbian sexuality or two-spirit identity in the way that you might expect in a book reviewed here.  It’s a beautiful and powerful novel about settler and Indigenous … Continue reading →

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Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night: A Visceral, Sensual, and Compassionate Novel

Posted on August 14, 2012 by CaseytheCanadianLesbrarian

A few months ago when I reviewed Shani Mootoo’s most recent novel, Valmiki’s Daughter, I prefaced the review with an admission that I already loved Mootoo’s writing before I even started the book.  It was her first novel, Cereus Blooms … Continue reading →

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Caribbean-Canadian Science Fiction: A Review of Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring

Posted on June 25, 2012 by CaseytheCanadianLesbrarian

Many writers and other literary types have been concerned as of late with the idea of queering science fiction, fantasy, and other kinds of speculative fiction, which have an unfortunate but not entirely undeserved reputation of glorifying certain kinds of … Continue reading →

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Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here: A Novel to Give Yourself Over to

Posted on June 20, 2012 by CaseytheCanadianLesbrarian

For readers unaccustomed to the Black Caribbean vernacular that begins Dionne Brand’s 1996 novel In Another Place, Not Here—like me—there’s a bit of an initial hurdle to leap over to sink into this book.  But trust me, it’s worth it; … Continue reading →

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