LEADER 04430nam 2200685 450 001 9910455505003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-99552-5 010 $a9786611995522 010 $a1-4426-7710-4 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442677104 035 $a(DE-B1597)464642 035 $a(OCoLC)944177754 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442677104 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255089 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671712 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671712 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257412 035 $a(OCoLC)958558833 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004186 100 $a20160921h19981998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt $2rdacontent 182 $cc $2 rdamedia 183 $acr $2 rdacarrier 200 10$aMasculine migrations $ereading the postcolonial male in 'New Canadian' narratives /$fDaniel Coleman 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1998. 210 4$d©1998 215 $a1 online resource (220 pages) 225 1 $aTheory / Culture 300 $aOriginally presented as the author's thesis (PhD)--University of Alberta, 1995. 311 $a0-8020-8102-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tSources and Permissions -- $tIntroduction: Reading Masculine Migrations -- $t1. 'Playin' 'mas', Hustling Respect: Multicultural Masculinities in Two Stories by Austin Clarke -- $t2. How to Make Love to a Discursive Genealogy: Dany Laferriere's Metaparody of Racialized Sexuality -- $t3. Resisting Heroics: Male Disidentification in Neil Bissoondath's A Casual Brutality -- $t4. Michael Ondaatje's Family Romance: Orientalism, Masculine Severance, and Interrelationship -- $t5. The Law of the Father under the Pen of the Son: Rohinton Mistry, Ven Begamudre, and the Romance of Family Progress -- $tAfterword: Masculine Innovations and Cross-Cultural Refraction -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aThis book examines the representation of masculinities in the fictions and autobiographies of some of Canada's most exciting writers, including Austin Clarke, Dany Laferrière, Neil Bissoondath, Michael Ondaatje, Ven Begamudré, and Rohinton Mistry, to show how cross-cultural migration disrupts assumed codes for masculine behaviour and practice. It is the first book-length study of masculinities in Canadian literature and also the first to discuss these prominent postcolonial writers in relation to one another. Coleman founds his study on the belief that literary endeavour is socially productive, reflecting but also participating in the production of social practices and identities, and therefore it is a work of cultural commentary as well as literary criticism. The book contends that we can produce alternative masculinities by reading masculinities that challenge our current assumptions, by reading masculinities that are themselves composed of contradictory segments rather than monolithic wholes, and by reading alternatively to elaborate a plethora of masculinities. By including fragments of the author/critic's own autobiography in the text, it also dispenses with the illusion of the all-knowing, unbiased reader.Masculine Migrations is cutting-edge scholarship and an eminently readable book, which will challenge, provoke discussion, and encourage cross-disciplinary dialogue. 410 0$aTheory/culture series. 606 $aCanadian literature$xMale authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNarration (Rhetoric)$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPostcolonialism in literature 606 $aMasculinity in literature 606 $aPostcolonialism$zCanada 606 $aMen in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCanadian literature$xMale authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNarration (Rhetoric)$xHistory 615 0$aPostcolonialism in literature. 615 0$aMasculinity in literature. 615 0$aPostcolonialism 615 0$aMen in literature. 676 $a813/.5409353 700 $aColeman$b Daniel$f1961-$01032835 712 02$aAssociation of Canadian University Presses. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455505003321 996 $aMasculine migrations$92467510 997 $aUNINA