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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155222703321

Autore

Kamboureli Smaro

Titolo

Scandalous bodies [[electronic resource] ] : diasporic literature in English Canada / / Smaro Kamboureli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-55458-717-4

9786612534423

1-282-53442-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

TransCanada series

Disciplina

810.9

810.98

810.9920691

Soggetti

Canadian literature - Minority authors - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-260) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Critical Correspondences: The Diasporic Critic's (Self-)Location -- Realism and the History of Reality: F.P. Grove's Settlers of the Marsh -- Sedative Politics: Media, Law, Philosophy -- Ethnic Anthologies: From Designated Margins to Postmodern Multiculturalism -- The Body in Joy Kogawa's Obasan: Race, Gender, Sexuality.

Sommario/riassunto

Scandalous Bodies is an impassioned scholarly study both of literature by diasporic writers and of the contexts within which it is produced. It explores topics ranging from the Canadian government's multiculturalism policy to media representations of so-called minority groups, from the relationship between realist fiction and history to postmodern constructions of ethnicity, from the multicultural theory of the philosopher Charles Taylor to the cultural responsibilities of diasporic critics such as Kamboureli herself.     Smaro Kamboureli proposes no neat or comforting solution