Research Catalog

Title

Transnational poetics : Asian Canadian women's fiction of the 1990s / by Pilar Cuder-Domínguez, Belén Martín-Lucas, Sonia Villegas-López.

Author

Cuder Domínguez, Pilar

Publication

Toronto : TSAR Publications, 2011.

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Additional Authors

• Martín Lucas, María Belén
• Villegas López, Sonia

Description

xvi, 167 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

This substantial book examines the fiction of Asian Canadian women writers -Indian, Chinese, and Japanese - of the 1990s, specifically how their work reveals their self-perception as members of minority subcultures. By close readings of the fiction and related texts, the authors consider to what extent and in what manner these authors - Evelyn Lau, Larissa Lai, Joy Kogawa, Shauna Singh Baldwin, Anita Rau Badami, and others - feel at ease or at odds in the cultural climate of Canada. A variety of subjects are covered: feminist anti-racism, resistance to Indo-Chic, feminist fictions, the racialization of bodies, the trauma of Canadian Japanese internment, etc. -- back cover.

Subject

• Canadian fiction (English) > 20th century > History and criticism
• Canadian fiction (English) > History and criticism
• Ethnicity in literature
• Geschichte 1990-2000
• Identity (Psychology) in literature
• Minority women in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 158-167).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: I.Indo-Canadian Women's Fiction In English: Feminist Anti-Racist Politics And Poetics That Resist Indo-Chic -- Indo-Canadian Fiction in English and the Larger World -- Transnational Feminist Fictions: Diasporic Trails -- The Many Violences of Racism -- Conclusion -- II.Racialized Bodies: Chinese Canadian Women's Fiction -- Introduction -- Femininity and Its Discontents -- Sex and the Body -- Addressing Race, Reading Ethnicity: New Assessments of Exoticism and Hybridity -- Exploring Genre and Aesthetics: Autobiography, History, Fantasy -- Conclusion -- III.Beyond Redress: Japanese Canadian Women's Fiction -- Introduction -- In the Shadow of Obasan: The Trauma of Internment -- An Absent Community: Dispersal, Isolation, and Assimilation -- A Conspiracy of Silence -- Alternative Communities: (Female) Body Politics and the Challenge to Heteronormativity -- Enemy Aliens: Japanese Canadian Masculinities -- Japan, or the Attempt to Fix Identity
• Note continued: Politics and Poetics: Innovations in Genre and Aesthetics -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9781894770682
• 1894770684

OCLC

659173697

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library