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Reena Virk : critical perspectives on a Canadian murder / edited by Mythili Rajiva and Sheila Batacharya.
- Title
- Reena Virk : critical perspectives on a Canadian murder / edited by Mythili Rajiva and Sheila Batacharya.
- Publication
- Toronto : CSPI, c2010.
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- Description
- 345 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "The murder of British Columbia teen Reena Virk shocked Canadians and provoked an outpouring of media commentary, academic explanation, plays, and novels. But while much attention was paid to the problem of violence and "girl bullying," race and related issues hardly figured in mainstream conversation. This collection aims to refocus the conversation about Reena Virk by considering how racism, colonialism, and hierarchies of gender, class, age, and sexuality figure in this crime and our understanding of it. The ten thoughtful chapters by both prominent and emerging scholars force us to grapple with the difficult and at times ugly implications of Reena Virk's murder for Canadian national identity."--Publisher's description.
- Subject
- Virk, Reena, 1983-1997
- Virk, Reena, 1983-1997
- Murder > Victoria
- Teenage girls > Crimes against > Victoria
- Teenage girls > Canada > Social conditions
- Racism > Canada
- Meurtre > Victoria
- Adolescentes, Crimes contre les > Victoria
- Adolescentes > Canada > Conditions sociales
- Racisme > Canada
- Canada > Race relations
- Canada > Relations raciales
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Excerpt from Tell / Soraya Peerbaye -- Introduction : Collectively remembering and reframing the murder of Reena Virk / Mythili Rajiva and Sheila Batacharya -- Race and the Construction of Hegemonic Femininity. Hootchies and ladies : race, gender, sexuality and "girl violence" in a colonial white settler society / Sheila Batacharya -- Erasing race : the story of Reena Virk / Yasmin Jiwani -- Deconstructing an invisible identity : the Reena Virk case / Jennifer M. Kilty and Sheryl C. Fabian -- Between Fiction and Truth : Textuality and Authorship. Reckless eyeballing: being Reena in Canada / Tess Chakkalakal -- Under whose bridge? "race," class and gender in Rebecca Godfrey's Under the Bridge / Tara Atluri -- Putting on Reena Virk : celebrity, authorship, and identity / Michele Byers -- Moral Panics around Youth, Gender, and Sexuality. "Born" freaks, "made" freaks, and media circuses: Systemic management of race and gender in the Reena Virk case / Nicole Pietsch -- Moral panic and the nasty girl / Christie Barron and Dany Lacombe -- The killing season? Interrogating adolescence in the murder of Reena Virk / Mythili Rajiva.
- ISBN
- 9780889614802
- 0889614806
- LCCN
- ^^2010674351
- OCLC
- 637437957
- SCSB-11162258
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library