04430nam 2200685 450 991045550500332120200520144314.01-281-99552-597866119955221-4426-7710-410.3138/9781442677104(DE-B1597)464642(OCoLC)944177754(DE-B1597)9781442677104(MiAaPQ)EBC3255089(MiAaPQ)EBC4671712(Au-PeEL)EBL4671712(CaPaEBR)ebr11257412(OCoLC)958558833(EXLCZ)99242000000000418620160921h19981998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txt $2rdacontentc $2 rdamediacr $2 rdacarrierMasculine migrations reading the postcolonial male in 'New Canadian' narratives /Daniel ColemanToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,1998.©19981 online resource (220 pages)Theory / CultureOriginally presented as the author's thesis (PhD)--University of Alberta, 1995.0-8020-8102-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Sources and Permissions -- Introduction: Reading Masculine Migrations -- 1. 'Playin' 'mas', Hustling Respect: Multicultural Masculinities in Two Stories by Austin Clarke -- 2. How to Make Love to a Discursive Genealogy: Dany Laferriere's Metaparody of Racialized Sexuality -- 3. Resisting Heroics: Male Disidentification in Neil Bissoondath's A Casual Brutality -- 4. Michael Ondaatje's Family Romance: Orientalism, Masculine Severance, and Interrelationship -- 5. The Law of the Father under the Pen of the Son: Rohinton Mistry, Ven Begamudre, and the Romance of Family Progress -- Afterword: Masculine Innovations and Cross-Cultural Refraction -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index This book examines the representation of masculinities in the fictions and autobiographies of some of Canada's most exciting writers, including Austin Clarke, Dany Laferrière, Neil Bissoondath, Michael Ondaatje, Ven Begamudré, and Rohinton Mistry, to show how cross-cultural migration disrupts assumed codes for masculine behaviour and practice. It is the first book-length study of masculinities in Canadian literature and also the first to discuss these prominent postcolonial writers in relation to one another. Coleman founds his study on the belief that literary endeavour is socially productive, reflecting but also participating in the production of social practices and identities, and therefore it is a work of cultural commentary as well as literary criticism. The book contends that we can produce alternative masculinities by reading masculinities that challenge our current assumptions, by reading masculinities that are themselves composed of contradictory segments rather than monolithic wholes, and by reading alternatively to elaborate a plethora of masculinities. By including fragments of the author/critic's own autobiography in the text, it also dispenses with the illusion of the all-knowing, unbiased reader.Masculine Migrations is cutting-edge scholarship and an eminently readable book, which will challenge, provoke discussion, and encourage cross-disciplinary dialogue.Theory/culture series.Canadian literatureMale authorsHistory and criticismNarration (Rhetoric)History20th centuryPostcolonialism in literatureMasculinity in literaturePostcolonialismCanadaMen in literatureElectronic books.Canadian literatureMale authorsHistory and criticism.Narration (Rhetoric)HistoryPostcolonialism in literature.Masculinity in literature.PostcolonialismMen in literature.813/.5409353Coleman Daniel1961-1032835Association of Canadian University Presses.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455505003321Masculine migrations2467510UNINA00975nam0 22002531i 450 UON0032971820231205104215.68020090902d1960 |0itac50 barumRO|||| 1||||Pagini din CoreeaVeronica PorumbacuBucurestiEditura de Stat pentru Literatura si Arta1960119 p.tav.16 cm.ROBucureştiUONL000071859Letteratura romena e letterature ladine21PORUMBACUVeronicaUONV185764700044Editura de Stat Pentru Literatura si ArtaUONV275432650ITSOL20240220RICASIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEOUONSIUON00329718SIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEOSI FONDO ONCIULESCU A 0721 SI MR 72183 5 0721 Pagini din Coreea1367156UNIOR