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Hannah Marije Altorf

    The Making of the FIFA World Cup
    The End of the Church?
    Lawrencia's Last Parang
    • 2023

      A multi-layered memoir tackling issues of race, identity, and loss LAWRENCIA'S LAST PARANG: A MEMOIR ON LOSS AND BELONGING AS BLACK IN CANADA is a snapshot of the author's life immediately after the passing of her grandmother Lawrencia, the woman who raised her. Written in the style of patchwork quilt that takes the reader back and forth between the present and the past, she examines her grief from the perspective of a Canadian-born Black woman of Caribbean descent, and she begins to question her identity and what it means to be a Black Canadian in new ways. This means exploring her childhood in Trinidad and her adult life in Kingston, Ontario, a predominantly white city, her experience of raising a mixed-raced child, and the meaning of her interracial marriage. Simultaneously a memoir and a eulogy, the book offers an insightful exploration of race in Canada, one that complicates these issues through the lens of identity and loss, but also through a prism of privilege. Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies.

      Lawrencia's Last Parang
    • 2022

      These 14 essays by scholars who have worked with David Jasper in both church and academy develop original discussions of themes emerging from his writings on literature, theology and hermeneutics. The arts, institutions, literature and liturgy are among the subject areas they cover.

      The End of the Church?
    • 2022

      The Making of the FIFA World Cup takes you on the ultimate journey through World Cup history. Telling the stories of 75 of the competition's most memorable and shocking moments, you'll be left in no doubt why the World Cup is sport's most-watched event. The Making of... brings you the pure, unfiltered excitement of the World Cup - in book form.

      The Making of the FIFA World Cup