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Asian Heritage in Canada
Authors
Baldwin, Shawna Singh
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Shauna Singh Baldwin was born in Montreal in 1962 and raised in India. She completed an M.B.A. at Marquette University. She is a website designer who has also worked as an independent radio producer. Today, she resides in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
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Fiction (Short stories)
English Lessons and Other Stories
Fredericton, N.B.: Goose Lane, 1996.
Publisher's Synopsis
Shauna Singh Baldwin's passionate stories dramatize the lives of Indian women from 1919 to today, from India to North America, and from the closed circle of the family to the wilderness of office and university. These women inhabit silence; by saying little, they can know everything. Some, imprisoned by silence, choke on their knowledge. Some use knowledge with bloody force against their oppressors. And some harness its power to seize their freedom.
Awards and Honours
1996 Friends of American Writers Award (Winner) |
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Fiction
The Tiger Claw
Toronto: A.A. Knopf Canada, 2004.
9th floor PS8553 .A4493 T44 2004
Publisher's Synopsis (from its website)
[A]n extraordinary story of love and espionage, cultural tension and displacement, inspired by the life of Noor Inayat Khan (code name “Madeleine”), who worked against the Occupation after the Nazi invasion of France ...
In its portrayal of intolerance, The Tiger Claw eerily mirrors our own times, and progresses with moments of great beauty and white-knuckle tension towards a moving and astonishing denouement.
Awards and Honours
2004 Giller Prize (Nominated)
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Fiction (Short stories)
We Are Not in Pakistan
Fredericton, N.B.: Goose Lane, 2007.
9th floor PS8553 .A4493 W4 2007
Publisher's Synopsis (from its website)
In the title story, 16-year-old Megan hates her Pakistani grandmother - until Grandma disappears. In the enchanting magical realism of “Naina,” an Indo-Canadian woman is pregnant with a baby girl who refuses to be born. “The View from the Mountain” introduces Wilson Gonzales, who makes friends with his new American boss, the aptly named Ted Grand. But following 9/11, Ted’s suspicions cloud his judgment and threaten his friendship with Wilson. |
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Fiction
What the Body Remembers
Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 1999.
Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2000.
9th floor PS8553 .A4493 W42 2000
Publisher's Synopsis (from its website)
Roop is a sixteen-year-old village girl in the Punjab region of undivided India in 1937 whose family is respectable but poor -- her father is deep in debt and her mother is dead.
Innocent and lovely, yet afraid she may not marry well, she is elated when she learns she is to become the second wife of a wealthy Sikh landowner, Sardarji, whose first wife,
Satya, has failed to bear him any children. Roop trusts that the strong-willed Satya will treat her as a sister, but their relationship becomes far more ominous and
complicated than expected.
Awards and Honours
2000 Commonwealth Writers Prize Best Book--Canada and Caribbean Region(Winner)
2000 Commonwealth Writers Prize Best Book
1999 Commonwealth Writers Prize Best First Book |
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Selected Criticism and Interpretation
Chopra, Vinod K. Partition Stories: Mapping Community, Communalism and Gender. New Delhi: Anamika Publishers, 2009.
Ruprai, Sharanpal Kaur. "Europe's Poisoned Kiss: Navigating Hybrid Space in Shauna Singh Baldwin's Fiction." M.A. diss., University of Calgary, 2007.
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