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7 produkter
7 produkter
Tracing the Lines
Reflections on Contemporary Poetics and Cultural Politics in Honour of Roy Miki
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
237 kr
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307 kr
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228 kr
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205 kr
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251 kr
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Slanting I, Imagining We
Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
560 kr
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The 1980s and 1990s are a historically crucial period in the development of Asian Canadian literature. Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s contextualizes and reanimates the urgency of that period, illustrates its historical specificities, and shows how the concerns of that moment - from cultural appropriation to race essentialism to shifting models of the state - continue to resonate for contemporary discussions of race and literature in Canada. Larissa Lai takes up the term ""Asian Canadian"" as a term of emergence, in the sense that it is constantly produced differently, and always in relation to other terms - often ""whiteness"" but also Indigeneity, queerness, feminism, African Canadian, and Asian American. In the 1980s and 1990s, ""Asian Canadian"" erupted in conjunction with the post-structural recognition of the instability of the subject. But paradoxically it also came into being through activist work, and so depended on an imagined stability that never fully materialized. Slanting I, Imagining We interrogates this fraught tension and the relational nature of the term through a range of texts and events, including the Gold Mountain Blues scandal, the conference Writing Thru Race, and the self-writings of Evelyn Lau and Wayson Choy.
537 kr
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Primary audience is Canadian literature scholarsContributes directly to current conversations in both contemporary Canadian media and academic circles around the relationship between bodies and land. For instance, Jordan Abel's piece addresses the possibilities and difficulties of reclaiming Nishga/Nisga'a identity in the aftermath of the residential school experience. Karina Vernon's essay addresses how Black subjects might respond in a moment when they learn that the home they've been longing for is already inhabited. Dina Al-Kassim's essay addresses kinships of dispossession. This book is an effort to steer Canadian literatures out of controversy for controversy's sake, and into a flow of productive, relation-building discussion. It does this by addressing the substance of Canadian and Turtle Island writing, particularly writing by Indigenous, Black and Asian writers. While it avoids empty controversy, it embraces rigorous argument. Addresses issues related to Indigenous and diaspora literatures, settler culture, Black studies, Asian Canadian studies, decolonization, critical race studies, multiculturalism, land issuesParticularly for those interested in the concepts of intersectionality, solidarity, and relationality