RELUCTANT REBELLIONS: New and Selected Nonfiction, an essay collection featuring yet unpublished pieces by Giller Prize finalist and internationally bestselling novelist Shauna Singh Baldwin, has been released by the CICS/Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies, University of the Fraser Valley today! Happy Book Birthday to Shauna!
Says the University of the Fraser Valley of the book, “In Reluctant Rebellions: New and Selected Nonfiction, Baldwin presents essays and speeches on the act of writing as a feminist author, while at the same time writing about the resistance of cultural communities to false presumptions and definitions imposed by the dominant community. ”
Shaun
a will be launching her book tonight at a Reading and Book Launch Reception at the UFV Centre for Indo Canadian Studies. For further details, please visit Ufv.ca/CICS.htm.
Shauna will also be on tour in India from November 2nd to the 29th, for more information and event dates visit Shaunasinghbaldwin.com/upcoming-events.
Check out the book trailer!
Please visit Shauna Singh Baldwin’s website at the following link: www.ShaunaSinghBaldwin.com
Reviews:
“Put simply, this book is a gem. Shauna gives us a compilation of essays and speeches that offer readers a primer on how to live with compassion and empathy in an ever increasing multicultural world, and it offers writers invaluable craft-focused lessons for documenting the terrible stories and the suffering that characterizes the human condition in the absence of such kindness and consideration.” – Rosalia Scalia of Sikhchic.com
Advance Praise:
“A beautiful, powerful book of essays and speeches that traverse continents and decades to examine the complicated experience of being a South Asian woman who belongs to many tribes, some of which are in conflict with others. Intelligent, informed, and unafraid of asking tough questions, this book is sure to delight intelligent readers of all backgrounds.” -Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Author of Oleander Girl and Before We Visit the Goddess
“In this highly personal, lucid, intellectually stimulating, beckoning yet always challenging volume, Shauna Singh Baldwin moves seamlessly from her already proven mastery of fiction to this collection of meticulously researched essays. Exploring tensions in and through the power of language and naming, histories of colonialism and privilege, relations between women and between women and men, she intuitively grants her readers space for pause and reflection. Her varied fictional characters, who have become for many of her readers beloved and familiar friends, are creatively interwoven into her narrative, beacons of wisdom or critique. Baldwin shines a light on hallowed institutions, inviting her readers to question preconceived notions of ‘the way things are’, to name, take responsibility and resist injustice through acts, big or small, of reluctant rebellions.” – Doris R. Jakobsh, Department of Religious Studies, University of Waterloo
“A wonderfully illuminating and personal exploration of cultural, racial, religious and gender perspectives… [Shauna Singh Baldwin] has an intimate knowledge of multiple worlds, which she describes with insight and sympathy. The essays and addresses in this book, by extending and amplifying her earlier writing, make invaluable and enlightening companions to her fiction.” – Hugh Johnston, Simon Fraser University
Rights Sold: University of the Fraser Valley, World English