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Transnational Poetics:
Asian Canadian Women's Fiction of the 1990s
Pilar
Cuder-Domínguez, Belén Martín-Lucas, Sonia Villegas-López |
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Criticism
ISBN: 9781894770682
$28.95
Paperback
192 pages
Publication Date:
September 2011 |
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Transnational
Poetics—September 2011
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.
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Pilar Cuder-Domínguez
is Associate Professor at the University of Huelva (Spain),
where she teaches British and English-Canadian Literature and
Feminist Theory. 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, the US, and the UK. Her latest publications have
discussed the works of writers of Black and Asian ancestry in
the UK and Canada.
Belén Martín-Lucas is Associate Professor at the
University of Vigo (Spain) where she teaches Postcolonial
Literatures in English and Diasporic Film and Literatures. Her
publications focus on the politics of resistance in contemporary
postcolonial feminist fiction, looking at the diverse strategies
employed in literary works, such as tropes and genres. She has
co-edited the volumes Global Neo-imperialism and National
Resistance: Approaches from Postcolonial Studies (2004),
Challenging Cultural Practices in Contemporary Post-Colonial
Societies (2001), and Reading Multiculturalism:
Contemporary Postcolonial Literatures (2000), published by
the U. of Vigo P, and a Special Issue of The Atlantic
Literary Review on National Literatures in English and the
Global Market (New Delhi 2001).
Sonia Villegas-López is Associate Professor of English
Literature at the University of Huelva, Spain. She has done
research on gender studies and contemporary British and Canadian
fiction, and has published essays and articles on Asian North
American women’s writing (2003, 2004). She is the author of a
monograph on anglophone women’s fiction of the late 20th century
(Mujer y religión en la narrativa anglófona contemporánea,
1999), and of an introduction to Feminist Theology (El sexo
olvidado, 2005). She has presented papers on postcolonial
literature both in national and international conferences about
writers such as Amy Tan, Larissa Lai, Arlene Chai, or Evelyn Lau.
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