{"product_id":"asian-canadian-writing-beyond-autoethnography-9781554580231","title":"Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eAsian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The essay collection is noteworthy in its comprehensive analysis of a diverse range of literary texts, and analysis that involves a critical examination of autoethnographic writing in its complicity with and departures from representations of otherness.\" -- Ranbir K. Banwait -- Canadian Literature 204, 201007\u003cbr\u003e\"Beyond Autoethnography offers an impressive set of critical interventions that illustrate the range of scholarship in Asian Canadian literary studies and will be of great interest to scholars and students of contemporary Asian Canadian culture.\" -- Christopher Lee, University of British Columbia -- Pacific Affairs, Volume 82, no. 2, Summer 2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eAsian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Eleanor Ty and Christl Verduyn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI. Theoretical Challenges and Praxis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Politics of the Beyond: 43 Theses on Autoethnography and Complicity  Smaro Kamboureli\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAutoethnography Otherwise: Challenging Poetics and Re-Meaning Race in Fred Wah's Creative Critical Writing  Paul Lai\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTides of Belonging: Reconfiguring the Autoethnographic Paradigm in Shani Mootoo's \u003ci\u003eHe Drown She in the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e  Kristina Kyser\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eII. Generic Transformations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStrategizing the Body of History: Anxious Writing, Absent Subjects, and Marketing the Nation  Larissa Lai\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Politics of Gender and Genre in Asian Canadian Women's Speculative Fiction: Hiromi Goto and Larissa Lai  Pilar Cuder-Domínguez\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"\"auto-hyphen-ethno-hyphen-graphy\"\": Fred Wah's Creative-Critical Writing  Joanne Saul\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIII. Artistic\/Textual\/Bodily Politics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTroubling the Mosaic: Larissa Lai's \u003ci\u003eWhen Fox Is a Thousand\u003c\/i\u003e, Shani Mootoo's \u003ci\u003eCereus Blooms at Night\u003c\/i\u003e, and Representations of Social Differences  Christine Kim\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKen Lum, Paul Wong, and the Aesthetics of Multiculturalism  Ming Tiampo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePotent Textuality: Laiwan's Cyborg Poetics  Tara Lee\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIV. Global Affiliations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"\"Do not exploit me again and again\"\": Queering Autoethnography in Suniti Namjoshi's \u003ci\u003eGoja: An Autobiographical Myth\u003c\/i\u003e  Eva C. Karpinski\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn \u003ci\u003eEthnos\u003c\/i\u003e of Difference, a Praxis of Inclusion: The Ethics of Global Citizenship in Shani Mootoo's \u003ci\u003eCereus Blooms at Night\u003c\/i\u003e  Miriam Pirbhai\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYing Chen's \"\"Poetic Rebellion\"\": Relocating the Dialogue, In Search of Narrative Renewal  Christine Lorre\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContributors' Bios\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePilar 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 \u003ci\u003eMargaret Atwood: A Beginner's Guide\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), and the (co)-editor of five collections of essays (\u003ci\u003eLa mujer del texto al contexto\u003c\/i\u003e, 1996; \u003ci\u003eExilios femeninos\u003c\/i\u003e, 2000; \u003ci\u003eSederi XI\u003c\/i\u003e, 2002; \u003ci\u003eEspacios de Género\u003c\/i\u003e, 2005; and \u003ci\u003eThe Female Wits\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSmaro 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 \u003ci\u003eScandalous Bodies: Diasporic Literature in English Canada\u003c\/i\u003e and a new edition of \u003ci\u003eMaking a Difference: Multicultural Literatures in English\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEva 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 \u003ci\u003ePens of Many Colours\u003c\/i\u003e, an anthology of Canadian multicultural writing. Her article on Angela Carter won the best essay award from \u003ci\u003eUtopian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e in 2001.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChristine 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 \u003ci\u003eMosaic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOpen Letter\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eStudies in Canadian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e and has an essay forthcoming in \u003ci\u003eEssays on Canadian Writing\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKristina 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, \u003ci\u003eSwallowed by the Whale: Bible and Nation in English-Canadian Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, for publication.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLarissa Lai is Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of two novels, \u003ci\u003eWhen Fox Is a Thousand\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSalt Fish Girl\u003c\/i\u003e. Her research interests include race, memory, subjectivity, globalization, sexuality, labour, cyborgs, strategy, and borders.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaul 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTara 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 \u003ci\u003eWest Coast Line\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDandelion\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCultural Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChristine 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 (\u003ci\u003eEtudes canadiennes \/ Canadian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCommonwealth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Short Story in English \/ Cahiers de la nouvelle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLisa\u003c\/i\u003e) and as chapters in books published in France (\u003ci\u003eLectures d'une œuvre:\u003c\/i\u003e The Handmaid's Tale, \u003ci\u003eMargaret Atwood\u003c\/i\u003e, Editions du Temps; \u003ci\u003eLes Amériques et le Pacifique\u003c\/i\u003e, Université Rennes 2) and in Canada (\u003ci\u003eVision \/ Division dans l'œuvre de Nancy Huston\u003c\/i\u003e, Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMariam 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJoanne Saul teaches English and Canadian Studies at the University of Toronto. She is author of \u003ci\u003eWriting the Roaming Subject: The Biotext in Canadian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Toronto Press, 2006). She is also co-owner of the independent bookstore TYPE Books in Toronto.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMing 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEleanor Ty is Professor and Chair of English \u0026amp; Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. Author of \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Toronto Press, 2004), \u003ci\u003eEmpowering the Feminine: The Narratives of Mary Robinson, Jane West, and Amelia Opie, 1796\u0026amp;0150;1812\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Toronto Press, 1998), and \u003ci\u003eUnsex'd Revolutionaries: Five Women Novelists of the 1790s\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Toronto Press, 1993), she has edited \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of Emma Courtney\u003c\/i\u003e (Oxford 1996) and \u003ci\u003eThe Victim of Prejudice\u003c\/i\u003e (Broadview 1994) by Mary Hays and has co-edited with Donald Goellnicht a collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eAsian North American Identities Beyond the Hyphen\u003c\/i\u003e (Indiana University Press, 2004). She has published essays on Michael Ondaatje, on Joy Kogawa, on Jamaica Kincaid, on reading romances, on \u003ci\u003eExotica\u003c\/i\u003e, and on \u003ci\u003eMiss Saigon\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChristl 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 \u003ci\u003eIdentity, Community, Nation: Essays on Canadian Writing\u003c\/i\u003e (with D. Schaub, 2002), \u003ci\u003eMarian Engel: Life in Letters\u003c\/i\u003e (with K. Garay, 2004), and \u003ci\u003eMust Write: Edna Staebler's Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e (2005). Her 1995 study \u003ci\u003eLifelines: Marian Engel's Writings\u003c\/i\u003e received the Gabrielle Roy Book Prize.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188662362455,"sku":"9781554580231","price":37.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/asian-canadian-writing-beyond-autoethnography-9781554580231","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}