Zalfa Feghali

Crossing borders and queering citizenship

Civic reading practice in contemporary American and Canadian writing

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Produktbeschreibung

Can reading make us better citizens? Fusing queer theory, citizenship studies, and border studies in its exploration of seven U.S., Canadian, and Indigenous authors, poets, and performance artists, Crossing borders and queering citizenship theorises how reading can work as a empowering tool in contemporary civic struggles in the North America. -- .

Produktdetails

• Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781784993092
• ISBN-10: 1784993093
• Artikelnr.: 54896168

Autorenporträt

Zalfa Feghali is a Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Leicester.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: why queer(y) citizenship? 1. Reading: an act of queering
citizenship 2. Autobiographical acts of reading and the work of Gloria
Anzaldúa and Dorothy Allison 3. Métis and two-spirit vernaculars and the
writing of Gregory Scofield 4. Performing the border and queer rasquachismo
in Guillermo Gómez-Peña's performance art 5. The antianaesthetic and 'a
community of readers' in Erín Moure's O Cidadán 6. Reading for hemispheric
citizenship in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Conclusion: Yann Martel's lonely book club Bibliography