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Reading with My Grandmother
Chinese Canadian Literature, History, and Family
Verlag:
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: Z388QDR
EAN: 9781771127288
Auf Lager:
2
Zustellung: Mo, 16.11.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 55.50
Beschreibung
Reading With My Grandmother. is an analysis of a range of Chinese Canadian literature that deepens the scholarly engagement by using elements of the author’s family’s story-her grandmother’s letters and and photographs. This engagement allows the author to simultaneously illustrate and participate in the varied ways Chinese Canadian literature has been imagined and produced in Canada in the last thirty-five years, examining texts such as Fred Wah’s poetry collection Diamond Grill (1996), Judy Fong Bates’ memoir The Year of Finding Memory. (2010), and Paul Yee’s novel A Superior Man. (2015). In keeping with recent calls within Asian Canadian studies for innovative creative-critical methods, the author establishes a scholarly style that embraces subjectivity and demonstrates a dynamic method of revealing linkages and discontinuities between past and present Chinese Canadian writing. Drawing on literary works and inherited stories, the author considers how family narratives give voice to otherwise muted and traumatized experiences, and how they require readers to question dominant versions of Canada’s past to make room for more perspectives. The author also examines the ways such stories can be restricted by readerly expectations for narrative completeness. In navigating these concerns, she explores concerns of connection, community, and identity that have national, gendered, and racialized implications.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Lindsay Diehl
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 152