LEADER 04332oam 22006974a 450 001 9910154965303321 005 20210209203145.0 010 $a1-77112-042-8 024 7 $a10.51644/9781771120425 035 $a(CKB)2550000001341334 035 $a(EBL)3294513 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001355395 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11746387 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001355395 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11348187 035 $a(PQKB)10583016 035 $a(CEL)448589 035 $a(OCoLC)890934526 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00234940 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3294513 035 $a(OCoLC)874205872 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35601 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4978648 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4978648 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL633957 035 $a(PPN)249695227 035 $a(DE-B1597)667229 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781771120425 035 $a(FR-PaCSA)88899326 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001341334 100 $a20140313d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSlanting I, Imagining We $eAsian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s /$fLarissa Lai 210 1$aWaterloo, Ontario :$cWilfrid Laurier University Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 210 2$aBeaconsfield, Quebec :$cCanadian Electronic Library,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (255 p.) 225 0 $aTransCanada 311 $a1-77112-041-X 311 $a1-77112-043-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 237-245) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Asian Canadian Ruptures, Contemporary Scandals -- Strategizing the Body of History: Anxious Writing, Absent Subjects, and Marketing the Nation -- The Time Has Come: Self and Community Articulations in "Colour: An Issue and Awakening Thunder" -- Romancing the Anthology: Supplement, Relation, and Community Production -- Future Orientations, Non-Dialectical Monsters: Storytelling Queer Utopias in Hiromi Goto's "Chorus of Mushrooms" and "The Kappa Child" -- Ethnic Ethics, Translational Excess: The Poetics of jam ismail and Rita Wong -- The Cameras of the World: Race, Subjectivity, and the Spiritual, Collective Other in Margaret Atwood's "Oryx and Crake" and Dionne Brand's "What We All Long For" -- Conclusion: Community Action, Global Spillage: Writing the Race of Capital. 330 $aThe 1980s and 1990s are a historically crucial period in the development of Asian Canadian literature. Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s contextualizes and reanimates the urgency of that period, illustrates its historical specificities, and shows how the concerns of that moment-from cultural appropriation to race essentialism to shifting models of the state-continue to resonate for contemporary discussions of race and literature in Canada. Larissa Lai takes up the term "Asian Canadian" as a term of emergence, in the sense that it is constantly produced differently, and always in relation to other terms-often "whiteness" but also Indigeneity, queerness, feminism, African Canadian, and Asian American. In the 1980s and 1990s, "Asian Canadian" erupted in conjunction with the post-structural recognition of the instability of the subject. But paradoxically it also came into being through activist work, and so is dependent on an imagined ontological stability. Slanting I, Imagining We interrogates this fraught tension and the relational nature of the term through a range of texts and events, including the Gold Mountain Blues scandal, the conference Writing Thru Race, and the self-writings of Evelyn Lau and Wayson Choy. 410 0$aTransCanada series. 606 $aCanadian literature (English)$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCanadian literature (English)$xAsian Canadian authors$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 5$aCanadian literature (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 5$aCanadian literature (English)$xAsian Canadian authors$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a810.9895071 700 $aLai$b Larissa$f1967-,$0893076 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154965303321 996 $aSlanting I, Imagining We$92178396 997 $aUNINA