Christl Verduyn

Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography

Herausgeber: Ty, Eleanor

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Produktbeschreibung

Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography explores some of the latest developments in the literary and cultural practices of Canadians of Asian heritage. While earlier work by ethnic, multicultural, or minority writers in Canada was often concerned with immigration, the moment of arrival, issues of assimilation, and conflicts between generations, literary and cultural production in the new millennium no longer focuses solely on the conflict between the Old World and the New or the clashes between culture of origin and adopted culture. No longer are minority authors identifying simply with their ethnic or racial cultural background in opposition to dominant culture. The essays in this collection explore ways in which Asian Canadian authors (such as Larissa Lai, Shani Mootoo, Fred Wah, Hiromi Goto, Suniti Namjoshi, and Ying Chen) and artists (such as Ken Lum, Paul Wong, and Laiwan) have gone beyond what Françoise Lionnet calls autoethnography, or ethnographic autobiography. They demonstrate the ways representations of race and ethnicity, particularly in works by Asian Canadians in the last decade, have changed have become more playful, untraditional, aesthetically and ideologically transgressive, and exciting.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9781554580231
• ISBN-10: 1554580234
• Artikelnr.: 26271375

Autorenporträt

Christl Verduyn is a professor of English and Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University, where she holds the Davidson Chair in Canadian Studies and is the director of the Centre for Canadian Studies. Most recent publications include Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography, co-edited with Eleanor Ty (WLU Press, 2008), Archival Narratives for Canada: Re-Telling Stories in a Changing Landscape, co-edited with Kathleen Garay (2011), and Canadian Studies: Past, Present, Praxis, co-edited with Jane Koustas (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography, edited
by Eleanor Ty and Christl Verduyn
Introduction
I. Theoretical Challenges and Praxis
The Politics of the Beyond: 43 Theses on Autoethnography and Complicity
Smaro Kamboureli
Autoethnography Otherwise: Challenging Poetics and Re-Meaning Race in Fred
Wah's Creative Critical Writing Paul Lai
Tides of Belonging: Reconfiguring the Autoethnographic Paradigm in Shani
Mootoo's He Drown She in the Sea Kristina Kyser
II. Generic Transformations
Strategizing the Body of History: Anxious Writing, Absent Subjects, and
Marketing the Nation Larissa Lai
The Politics of Gender and Genre in Asian Canadian Women's Speculative
Fiction: Hiromi Goto and Larissa Lai Pilar Cuder-Domínguez
"auto-hyphen-ethno-hyphen-graphy": Fred Wah's Creative-Critical Writing
Joanne Saul
III. Artistic/Textual/Bodily Politics
Troubling the Mosaic: Larissa Lai's When Fox Is a Thousand, Shani Mootoo's
Cereus Blooms at Night, and Representations of Social Differences
Christine Kim
Ken Lum, Paul Wong, and the Aesthetics of Multiculturalism Ming Tiampo
Potent Textuality: Laiwan's Cyborg Poetics Tara Lee
IV. Global Affiliations
"Do not exploit me again and again": Queering Autoethnography in Suniti
Namjoshi's Goja: An Autobiographical Myth Eva C. Karpinski
An Ethnos of Difference, a Praxis of Inclusion: The Ethics of Global
Citizenship in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night Miriam Pirbhai
Ying Chen's "Poetic Rebellion": Relocating the Dialogue, In Search of
Narrative Renewal Christine Lorre
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Contributors' Bios
Pilar Cuder-Domínguez is Associate Professor of English at the University
of Huelva (Spain), where she teaches British and English-Canadian
Literature. Her research interests are the intersections of gender, genre,
nation, and race. She is the author of Margaret Atwood: A Beginner's Guide
(2003), and the (co)-editor of five collections of essays (La mujer del
texto al contexto, 1996; Exilios femeninos, 2000; Sederi XI, 2002; Espacios
de Género, 2005; and The Female Wits, 2006). She has been visiting scholar
at universities in Canada and the United States: McGill (1997), Dalhousie
(1999), Northwestern (2002), and Toronto (2004). Her current research deals
with Canadian women's transnational poetics.
Smaro Kamboureli is Canada Research Chair in Critical Studies in Canadian
Literature at the University of Guelph and the Director of the TransCanada
Institute. Her publications include Scandalous Bodies: Diasporic Literature
in English Canada and a new edition of Making a Difference: Multicultural
Literatures in English.
Eva C. Karpinski teaches women's life writing, cultural studies, and
feminist theory in the School of Womens Studies at York University in
Toronto. Her research interests include postmodernist fiction, immigrant
autobiography, translation studies, and feminist ethics. She has published
articles on John Barth, Thomas Pynchon, Raymond Federman, and Eva Hoffman.
She is the editor of Pens of Many Colours, an anthology of Canadian
multicultural writing. Her article on Angela Carter won the best essay
award from Utopian Studies in 2001.
Christine Kim is Assistant Professor of English at Simon Fraser University.
Her teaching and research focus on contemporary Canadian literature,
feminist theory, print culture and publishing, and diasporic writing. She
has published articles in Mosaic, Open Letter, and Studies in Canadian
Literature and has an essay forthcoming in Essays on Canadian Writing.
Kristina Kyser is an instructor of Canadian literature at the University of
Toronto, where she completed her doctorate in 2004. Her research and
teaching interests include literature and ethics and postcolonial theory.
She is also interested in interdisciplinary approaches to Canadian
literature from the perspectives of philosophy, religious studies, and
political science. She has published or presented papers on Michael
Ondaatje, Thomas King, Rohinton Mistry, and Yann Martel. She is currently
revising her book-length study, Swallowed by the Whale: Bible and Nation in
English-Canadian Writing, for publication.
Larissa Lai is Assistant Professor of English at the University of British
Columbia. She is the author of two novels, When Fox Is a Thousand and Salt
Fish Girl. Her research interests include race, memory, subjectivity,
globalization, sexuality, labour, cyborgs, strategy, and borders.
Paul Lai teaches Asian American literature at the University of St. Thomas
in Minnesota. He is researching a project on sound and Asian American
cultures. His work considers Asian American Studies as a pedagogical
practice, an institutional presence, and a theoretical space for addressing
social issues. His work explores how things like anthologies, music
websites, and comedy routines link screams, cries, melodies, accents, and
other sounds to Asian American identities and politics.
Tara Lee holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Simon Fraser University.
Her teaching interests are in Canadian literature and ethnic minority
writing. She has published articles on Asian Canadian literature and
identity in journals such as West Coast Line, Dandelion, and Cultural
Studies Review.
Christine Lorre is an Assistant Professor of English at Université Paris
III--Sorbonne Nouvelle. Her teaching interests are in American studies,
literature in English, and translation. She has published articles in
journals edited in France (Etudes canadiennes / Canadian Studies,
Commonwealth, Journal of the Short Story in English / Cahiers de la
nouvelle, Lisa) and as chapters in books published in France (Lectures
d'une oeuvre: The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood, Editions du Temps; Les
Amériques et le Pacifique, Université Rennes 2) and in Canada (Vision /
Division dans l'oeuvre de Nancy Huston, Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa).
Mariam Pirbhai is an Assistant Professorin the Department of English and
Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, where she
teaches Post-Colonial Literatures and Theory. Her publications
includearticles on Indo-Caribbean Literature,Post-Colonial
Theory,Multicultural Writing in Canada, and onliteraryfigures such as
Salman Rushdie. She is presently working on a book-length study of the
theoretical and socio-historical intersections between indentured labourand
slavery in Caribbean writing.
Joanne Saul teaches English and Canadian Studies at the University of
Toronto. She is author of Writing the Roaming Subject: The Biotext in
Canadian Literature (University of Toronto Press, 2006). She is also
co-owner of the independent bookstore TYPE Books in Toronto.
Ming Tiampo is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Carleton University
in Ottawa. Her research examines questions of cultural translation and
transmission in an international context, concentrating on Japan's
relations with the West as well as pluralism in Canada. Her current
projects include an exhibition on pluralism in Canada, as well as a book
that considers the Japanese avant-garde art movement Gutai in a
transnational context. She has published and given papers in Japan, Europe,
the United States, and Canada, and in 2004-5 was the curator of the
award-winning exhibition "Electrifying Art: Atsuko Tanaka 1954-1968" at the
Grey Art Gallery in New York and at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
in Vancouver. She is a founding member of the Centre for Transnational
Cultural Analysis (CTCA) at Carleton.
Eleanor Ty is Professor and Chair of English & Film Studies at Wilfrid
Laurier University. Author of The Politics of the Visible in Asian North
American Narratives (University of Toronto Press, 2004), Empowering the
Feminine: The Narratives of Mary Robinson, Jane West, and Amelia Opie,
1796&0150;1812 (University of Toronto Press, 1998), and Unsex'd
Revolutionaries: Five Women Novelists of the 1790s (University of Toronto
Press, 1993), she has edited Memoirs of Emma Courtney (Oxford 1996) and The
Victim of Prejudice (Broadview 1994) by Mary Hays and has co-edited with
Donald Goellnicht a collection of essays, Asian North American Identities
Beyond the Hyphen (Indiana University Press, 2004). She has published
essays on Michael Ondaatje, on Joy Kogawa, on Jamaica Kincaid, on reading
romances, on Exotica, and on Miss Saigon.
Christl Verduyn is Professor of Canadian Studies and Canadian literature at
Mount Allison University. She publishes on Canadian and Québécois women's
writing and criticism, multiculturalism and minority writing, life writing,
and interdisciplinary approaches to literature. Recent books include
Identity, Community, Nation: Essays on Canadian Writing (with D. Schaub,
2002), Marian Engel: Life in Letters (with K. Garay, 2004), and Must Write:
Edna Staebler's Diaries (2005). Her 1995 study Lifelines: Marian Engel's
Writings received the Gabrielle Roy Book Prize.