Transgressive transcripts
Subtitle: gender and sexuality in contemporary Chinese Canadian women's writing
By: Bennett Yu-Hsiang Fu
Series: Cross/Cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English -- 150; Cross/cultures -- 150.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9789042035683
Subjects: Canadian literature; Chinese; Canadian Women authors; Intellectual life; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Chinese authors
Description: This book examines the construction of women's subjectivity and the textual production of Canadian female voices orchestrated in history, culture, ethnicity, and sexuality. The book, stressing the dissemination and re-inscription of femaleness and femininity in Chinese Canadian history, employs critical models that defy the sexual/textual imaginary of the Canadian literary scene. Four fields of study are conjoined: feminist theories of the body, gender and sexuality studies, women's writing, and Asian North American studies. Analysing four writers, SKY Lee, Larissa Lai, Lydia Kwa, and Evelyn Lau, the book anchors its thematic and theoretical concern with female sexuality in the context of Chinese Canadian writing. Feminist narratives and gender politics in contemporary Asian North American literature are highlighted via the trope of 'transgression'.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-166) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Spatial transcript: SKY Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe; title: Morphological transcript: Larissa Lai's When fox is a thousand; title: Genealogical transcript: Lydia Kwa's This place called absence; title: Hypersexual transcript: Evelyn Lau's Runaway : diary of a street kid and Inside out : reflections on a life so far; title: Epilogue.