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=See also: Literary Reference Center & Canadian Literary Centre= =FIRST NATIONS/INDIGENOUS/ABORIGINAL PEOPLES REPRESENTATIONS= __**POETRY**__ - //Witness, I am// (Scofield); //North End love songs// (Vermette); //The Pemmican Eaters// (Dumont); //The Crooked Good// (Halfe); //Islands of Decolonial Love// (Simpson); //Poems of Rita Joe// (Joe); //The Rez Sisters & Dry Lips Outta Move to Kapuskasing// (Highway); //Songs of the Great Land// (Colombo__**/Inuit**__) __**PLAYS**__ //Misty Lake// (Lakevold/Racine); //God and the Indian: a play// & //Dead White Writer on the Floor// (Taylor); //Tombs of the Vanishing Indians// & //The Unnatural and Accidental Women// (Clements); //Where the Blood Mixes// (Loring) __**ESSAYS**__ - //Masculindians : conversations about indigenous manhood// (McKegney) __**NOVELS/SHORT STORIES**__ - //Northern Voices: __**Inuit**__ Writing in English// (897.108); //Wenjack// (Boyden); //Indian Horse// (Wagamese); //Traplines// (Robinson); //Kiss of the Fur Queen// (Highway); //Just Pretending// (Bird-Wilson); //Monkey Beach// (Robinson); //Green Grass; Running Water// (King); //The Lesser Blessed// (VanCamp); //Sanaaq: an Inuit Novel// (Naapaaluk); //An Inuk Boy Becomes a Hunter// (Igloliorte); Unikkaaqtuat: an introduction to Inuit Myths and Legends (Christopher, et.al./ **Inuit)** __**GRAPHIC NOVELS**__ - //Moonshot : the indigenous comics collection. Volume 1// (Hope__**/Inuit**__); //Secret Path// (Downie & Lemire); //Sugar Falls: a Residential School Story// (Robertson); Will I See? (Iskwe & Leslie); Fatty Legs __**(Inuit**__) __**MEMOIR**__ - //The education of Augie Merasty : a residential school memoir// (Merasty__**/Inuit**__); They Called Me Number One (Sellars); __**MEDIA**__ - Unikkausivut - Sharing Our Stories (NFB documentaries/ __**Inuit**__); //Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (__**Inuit**__); Top Ten Indigenous Films of All Time (CBC)//
 * NON-FICTION** - //Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family// (Briggs); //In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History// (Harper)

=MENTAL-ILLNESS REPRESENTATIONS= __**FILM**__ - //Ordinary People// (Guest/depression & suicide); //Silver Linings Playbook (//Quick); //Next to Normal// (musical); Girl, Interrupted; //The Fisher King;// //What's Eating Gilbert Grape//; //A Beautiful Mind//; //Melancholia//; //'Night Mother// __PODCAST__ - 4 Helpful Podcasts that Deal With Mental Health (CBC Playlist) MEDIA - Interesting Psychopaths in Fiction
 * __POETRY__ -** "Wanting to Die" in //The Complete Poems// (Sexton/**depression & suicide**); "Maud" (Tennyson); Keats; //Ariel//(Plath);
 * __PLAYS -__** //August Osage County// (812 LET); //The Valley// (MacLeod); //Antigone// (Sophocles); //Hamlet// (Shakespeare); //Ivanov// (Chekov); //Blue/Orange// (Penhall/ **race & psychiatric ward)**; //The effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds// (812 Zindel); 'Night, Mother (Norman/ **suicide**)
 * __ESSAYS -__** //The Empathy Exams// (Jamison); //Eight Stories Up; Same Time Next Week//; //How to Talk to Crazy People//
 * __NOVELS/SHORT STORIES__** - //Ordinary People// (Guest/depression & suicide); //Silver Linings Playbook// (Quick); //One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest// (Kesey); //Tender is the Night// (Fitzgerald); //The Bell Jar// (Plath/ depression); //Mrs. Dalloway// (Woolf); //She's Come Undone// (Lamb); //The Hours// (Cunningham); //It's Kind of a Funny Story// (Vizzini); //Hold Stil//l (Lacour); //Will Grayson, Will Grayson// (Green); //Challenger Deep; Lowboy// (Wray/Schizophrenia); "Yellow Wallpaper" (Gilman/ short story); "Diary of a Madman" (Gogol/ short story); "A Tell Tale Heart "(Poe/ short story); //Fifteen Seconds of Normal// ( Marestaing/ Tourette's) Short Stories about mental illness; //Norwegian Wood// (Murakami)
 * __GRAPHIC NOVELS -__** //Swallow me Whole//; //Hyperbole and a Half// (Levitt); //Better Medicine//; //Marbles//;
 * __MEMOIR__ -** //Girl, Interrupted//; //Prozac Nation//; //Running with Scissors//; //Boy Meets Depression//; //Well Enough Alone//; //Wish I Could be There//; The Time in Between (Tucker/**eating disorders);** Monkey Mind (Smith/ **anxiety)**

=AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL PEOPLES REPRESENTATIONS= NON-FICTION - Bringing them Home: The "Stolen Children" Report POETRY - "The Poetry of Politics: Australian Aboriginal Verse"; Indigenous Australian Poetry; //Love Poems and Death Threats// (Watson); //Sunset// ; Australian Poetry Library: Oodgeroo Noonuccal; (Walsh); Eelahroo (Fogarty); //Comfort Food// (van Neerven); Mullumbimby (Lucashenko) PLAYS - Australianplays.org: BlakStage: Contemporary Indigenous Plays & Indigenous Playwrights; Stolen (Jane Harrison/ teacher resource) ESSAYS - //Global Masculinities and Manhood// (Jackson & Balaji); NOVELS/SHORT STORIES - //The Secret River// (Grenville); //Once Were Warriors (//Duff); //The Rainbow Serpent// (Folktale); ; //Jasper Jones// (Silvy); Some Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines GRAPHIC NOVELS - The Wombat to Kaptn Koori; NEOMAD Interactive Comic for iPad MEMOIR - //Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence// (Pilkington); //Too Afraid to Cry// (Ali Cobby Ackerman); //The Longlines// (Chatwin); Indigenous Australian memoir & biography (readings.com) MEDIA - AustLit/BlackWords //Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Writers and Storytellers; Articles on Aboriginal Reconciliation //(Theconversation.com) AnzLitLovers.com / Indigenous Literature Reading List FILM - The First Australians: Ten Great Films about Indigenous Australia; //Once Were Warriors; Rabbit Proof Fence// MUSIC - "Beds are Burning" (Midnight Oil)

=LGBTTIQQ2S REPRESENTATIONS= (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transgendered, Intersexual, Queer, Questioning, 2-Spirited) __**POETRY**__ - //Leaves of Grass// (Whitman); //Prelude to Bruise// (Jones / __**Intersectional: black male**__) ); //Pansy// (Gibson); //Bodymap// (Peipzna-Samarasinha / __**Intersectional:** **East-Asian disability**__); MxT (Queyras); //Where the Words End and my Body Begins (Dawn)//; //The Dream of a Common Language// (Rich); I //Must Be Living Twice// (Eileen Myles) 10 Queer Spoken Word Artists for You to Get Obsessed With (AutoStraddle) __**PLAYS**__ - //Out Plays: Landmark Gay and Lesbian Plays of the Twentieth Century; Angels in America (//Kushner); //The Laramie Project// (Kaufman); //St. Francis of Hillbrook// (Gilbert); //Age of Minority: 3 Solo Plays// (Tannahill); //Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde// (Kaufman); //Outspoken// (Cole) __**ESSAYS**__ - //Hear Me Out// (Planned Parenthood); //When you are Engulfed in Flames// (Sedaris); //Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation// (Bernstein & Bergman); //How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity//; //Gender Failure// (Coyote & Spoon); //Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Muslims// **__(Intersectional: Muslim)__** __**NOVELS/SHORT STORIES**__ - //Under the Udala Trees// (Okparanta/ __**Intersectional black female**__); //Zami: A New Spelling of My Name// (Lorde/ __**Intersectional: black female**__); //Giovanni's Room// (Baldwin/ __**Intersectional: black male**__); A Single Man (Isherwood); //A Safe Girl to Love// (Plett); "Brokeback Mountain" in //Close Range// (Proulx); Juliet Takes a Breath **(Intersectional: "Puerto Rican lesbian"**) __**GRAPHIC NOVELS**__ - //Awkward & Definition// (Schrag); //Wandering Son// (Takako); //Blue is the Warmest Color//; //What did you Eat Yesterday?// (Yoshinaga) __**MEMOIR**__ - //The Other Side of Paradise// (Chin/__**Intersectional: black female**__); //Redefining Realness// (Mock/ __**Intersectional: black trans-female**__); //Man Alive// (McBee); //Intolerable// (Al-Solaylee/ __**Intersectional: Middle-Eastern male**__); //An Underground Life// (Beck)

=SOUTH-EAST ASIAN REPRESENTATIONS= POETRY Article, "Exploring Identity Through South Asian Poetry" and "Many Languages of South Asian Poetry" (Harvard University South Asian Institute); //Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond (//Handal & Shankar, Eds.); //Body map// & //Love Cake: poems// (Peipzna-Samarasinha / __**Intersectional:** **East-Asian disability**__ ) PLAYS - //Love, Loss and Longing: South Asian Canadian plays// (Singh) ESSAYS - " The Future of South Asian and the Role of the United States" (Wajahat Ali) NOVELS/SHORT STORIES - //A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain// (Butler) GRAPHIC NOVELS - //The Best We Could Do// (Cambodia/Vietnam)

=**JAPANESE REPRESENTATIONS (folktales, fables & mythology)**= PLAYS - //Five Modern No Plays// (895.625 MIS); //The Japanese theatre : from shamanistic ritual to contemporary plural...(// 792.0952 ORT) POETRY - //Classic haiku : the greatest Japanese poetry from Bashåo, Buson, Isaa.//..(895.61 CLA) NON-FICTION -//Deities and //  //demons of the Far East// ( 291.13 KAT); //Yurei attack! : the Japanese ghost survival guide (//133.10952 YOD); //The art and culture of Japan// (952 DEL); //A geek in Japan : discovering the land of manga, anime, Zen...//(915.204 GAR); //Japanese art & culture// (709.52 KHA);//Japanese mythology// ( 299.56 PIG) ESSAYS - //Japan// (Granta 808.8 JAP) NOVELS/SHORT STORIES - The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories (Goossen) GRAPHIC NOVELS - //Kitaro// (Mizuki/folktales); //Fairytale// (Mashima) MEDIA - "The Bamboo Woodcutter and the Moon-Child" (Lit2Go) //& The Tale of the Princess Kaguya //(Netflix/animation film)

=MIXED RACE/BIRACIAL REPRESENTATIONS= POETRY - "Cross" and "Mulatto" (read by Langston Hughes); PLAYS - In //The Collected Works of Langston Hughes//, "Mulatto" (Langston Hughes) ESSAYS - //It's Not all Black and White: Multiracial Youth Speak Out; Thirteen Ways to Look at a Black Man (//Gates, Jr.); //White Girls// (Als) NOVELS/SHORT STORIES - //Mixed: an Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience//; //Half-Blood Blues// (Edygyan); //The Girl who Fell From the Sky// (Durrow); //Loving Day// (Johnson); //The Ways of White Folks// "Father and Son" and "African Morning" (Hughes); //Oreo// (Ross) GRAPHIC NOVELS - //Skim// (Tamaki & Tamaki); Miles Morales: //Ultimate Spider-Man Collection Book 1// (Bendis); Lumberjanes/Gotham Academy (Clugston-Flores); Multiversity(Morrison, et. al.); BIO/MEMOIR - //The Color of Water: a Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother// (McBride); //Black Berry, Sweet Juice: on Being Black and White in Canada// (Hill); //Dreams of My Father: a Story of Race and Inheritance// (Obama); //Trevor Noah: African American (//Noah) MEDIA - //The Loving Story// (HBO Documentary); //Rabbit Proof Fence// (Film); Code Switch: race and identity remixed episode (NPR Podcast) Mixed in Canada.com (website); mixedracestudies.org (website) Between: Living in the Hyphen (NFB documentary) "Crayon Box" (poet, S.C. Says)

=MIDDLE EASTERN REPRESENTATIONS= POETRY - //Songs of Exile//; //Unfortunately, It Was paradise// & //Why Did you Leave the Horse Alone?// (Darkish); //Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond (//Handal & Shankar, Eds.) PLAYS - //Scorched// (Mouawad); //Reading Hebron// (Sherman); //Disgraced// (Ahktar); //Adventures of Ali & Ali and the Axes of Evil// (Youssef, Verdecchia & Chai); //Masked// (Hatsor) ESSAYS //- Being Arab (//Kassir); //Both Right and Left-Handed: Arab Women Talk about Their Lives// (Shaaban) ; //Arab & Arab American Feminism: Gender, Violence & Belonging// (Abdulhadi, Alsultany, and Naber, Eds.) ; //Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile// (Alla) NOVELS/SHORT STORIES - //The Road to Chilfa// (Marineau); //The Best Place on Earth// (Tsabari); //Khirbet Khirzeh// (Yizhar); Are you Listening? Stories from the Middle East (Harvard University); //Mornings in Jenin// (Abulhawa); GRAPHIC NOVELS - //The Attack// (Chapron); //The Arab of the Future// (Riaf); //Palestine// (Sacco); //How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less//; //Rolling Blackouts// (Gliddon) //Jerusalem// (Delisle); //The Photographer//; //Waltz With Bashir// (Folman) BIO/MEMOIR - //I Shall Not Hate// (Dr. Abuelaish); //Prisoner of Tehran// (Nemat); //The Terrorist's Son// (Ebrahim) See TED Talk; //Son of Hamas// (Youssef)

=DIFFERENTLY-ABLED REPRESENTATIONS= POETRY - //Beauty is a Verb:The New Poetry of Disability// (Black); //Listen to the Silence: Poems about Life with a Physical Disability// (Ismail) PLAYS - Richard III (Shakespeare); The Miracle Worker (Gibson); //The Elephant Man// (Pomerance); //Toronto, Mississippi// (MacLeod); NON-FICTION/ESSAYS - "Variations" by Sean Mahoney (Wordgathering.com); //Far From the Tree// (Andrew Solomon) NOVELS - //Animal's People// (Sinha); //Johnny Got His Gun// (Trumbo); //The Sweet Hereafter// (Banks); //Wonder// (Palacio) SHORT STORIES - "//Dancing After Hours"// (Dubus); "Basic Skills" (Finger); "Good Country People" (O'Connor); //Human Oddities// (Jablonski); Call Me Ahab (Finger) GRAPHIC NOVELS - //El Deafo// (Bell); //Real// (Inoue) BIO/MEMOIR - //The Diving Bell & The Butterfly// (Baby); //Autobiography of a Face //(Grealy); //Traveling to Infinity: The True Story Behind the Theory of Everything// (Hawking)

Media Resources
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